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Missouri Boy

05-31-2005 19:05:32




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This morning very early i started tedding hay while the dew was heavy. I had worn an old Army fatigue jacket as it was a bit chilly. After about an hour I was warm and took it off while driving. The loose sleeve came too close to the PTO on my "B" farmall. It did not get wound into the shaft but it could have been a tragedy if one sleeve was wound onto the PTO and the other with my arm in it.




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SJ

06-01-2005 16:01:36




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 Re: Safety Reminder in reply to Missouri Boy, 05-31-2005 19:05:32  
Heres a story to think about.Trust me its true.My uncle was a farmer in north central PA.Hes passed now but when he was about 60-65 he was running some kind of implement out in the field and for whatever reason he was off the tractor with PTO running and stepped over the PTO and it caught his shirttail.pulled him down on it and then kicked him off 15 or so ft.Now during this wild ride he took both his testicles were torn off.Now every time I think about this scene if it would of been me all I can think of is me going into shock and laying there bleeding to death.But not this tough old boy,he gets up, finds his missin parts,wraps em in his hanky,drives the tractor back to the house,TAKES A SHOWER,and then drives himself to the hospital.CAN YOU IMAGINE!!!!! Now it seems to me that most tractor accidents that I read about are always with a guy thats been doing it his whole life.I just been messing with these machines a few years and man ya gotta keep your head on straight every second.
Stan

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George in Biloxi

06-01-2005 09:39:03




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 Re: Safety Reminder in reply to Missouri Boy, 05-31-2005 19:05:32  
A friend of mine that is in his 70s been restoring tractors and working with them since he was a kid, was standing and talking when his pant leg got caught in the pto and in a second, tore his pants clean off. It was funny as hell, however, this could have ended very badly. Another reason to wear old, worn out clothes.



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Pitch

06-01-2005 05:58:14




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 Re: Safety Reminder in reply to Missouri Boy, 05-31-2005 19:05:32  
Exactly the same thing happened to me a year or so ago. Was doin something it got warm so I took off my flannel spread it over the seat and sat on it. Was'nt long before that shaft grabbed a sleeve. Dang near took me off the seat when that shirt was snatched out from under me. I stopped what I was doin and had a cup of coffee and a smoke. Sure is a wake up call!



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Mark - IN.

06-01-2005 05:33:42




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 Re: Safety Reminder in reply to Missouri Boy, 05-31-2005 19:05:32  
Yep, that just about covers it. I don't know who it was that invented those sheaths for the PTO drive shafts, but could thank them plenty. Low RPM, high torque PTO's are very unforgiving.

Mark



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lucasss

06-01-2005 04:50:58




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 Re: Safety Reminder in reply to Missouri Boy, 05-31-2005 19:05:32  
when i was a kid, my grandpa had a dairy farm,bout 500 acres. there was this guy who lived in a old house on the farm that lost his arms up to the elbow in the hay baler somehow. it gave me the shivers when i thought about it and was around equipment. allways been half cautious/half scared from then on around equipment,kept all my parts in tact to today.grandpa fed and let that guy live there till he died..

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NC Wayne

05-31-2005 19:21:00




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 Re: Safety Reminder in reply to Missouri Boy, 05-31-2005 19:05:32  
The same caution goes for any kind of machinery with moving parts. Dad often likes to wear a quilted flannel shirt, not tucked in, as a light jacket. He's done it for years and never thought twice about it til winter before last. He was doing some lathe work and the tale got caught and wound up in the lead screw. It pulled him down toward the bed of the lathe til it got so tight it ripped the seams out of the shirt before he could get it shut off. When it ripped he was able to pull away so, fortunately, it didn't hurt him beyond some bruising. He's been running machine tools for years and knew all the deal about loose clothing but that day all that knowledge got driven home in just a second all because he got complacent.

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Boco

05-31-2005 19:35:08




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 Re: Safety Reminder in reply to NC Wayne, 05-31-2005 19:21:00  
Was caught in PTO shaft almost 30 years ago, pulling fertilizer buggy in fall. Someone had to be watching over me from above. I don"t want it to happen again, to no one. THINK- iron has no conchance. The life you save can be yours. Lucky to only had broken leg.

Thinking of all, Boco



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dumb farmer

06-01-2005 00:15:12




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 Re: Safety Reminder in reply to Boco, 05-31-2005 19:35:08  
I'm always real careful no broken twine wraps around my foot etc. when I'm kicking broken bales into the pickup on the baler.



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