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Posted by Tim Malin on February 17, 2004 at 12:58:46 from (207.190.66.214):
In Reply to: Tractor accidents posted by Joe on February 10, 2004 at 10:24:05:
My great-grandfather was out making fence one day with a Farmall Super C. Slowly moving along, checking the fence, he stopped to work on a weak spot. After making the repair, he went to the front of the tractor to crank start it. Being warm, it popped right off, running over his foot with the front wheel, knocking him down with the grill, and running him over with the rear wheel. He managed to walk about 700 yards to the neighbor's house, and they rushed his bruised, battered body to the hospital. Had bruised internal organs and broken ribs, puncturing a lung twice. The Legend goes... "Frank turned the crank..."
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