Re: O/T great story Hugh MacKay

Posted by David Kronwall on January 13, 2006 at 03:51:27 from (64.201.78.43):

In Reply to: Re: O/T great story Hugh MacKay posted by Hugh MacKay on January 13, 2006 at 03:04:25:

Barb Dwyer...that's a good one. You guys talking about barbed wire and other farm hazards made me think about the time when I almost tangled with a PTO. I still shudder, thinking about it.

I was a young teenager and worked on several farms in our area during the summer, helping mostly with haying. At one place, we had a little Farmall C that was used to power the elevator, which was set up to carry the hay bales up into the haymow. Well, wouldn't you know, the farmer did not bother with any PTO shield. One day while unloading a wagon, a couple of bales dropped off the elevator onto the ground. So I thought I would just lift them OVER the rotating PTO shaft and place them back on the elevator. If I had been a strong, full-size adult, it might have worked. But, as a young guy, I had to struggle with the bale. But I tried it anyway. The next thing I knew, the PTO grabbed the bale and shredded it, demolished it, right before my eyes. Hay flew everywhere. In that same instant, the shaft also peeled a glove off my hand. It left my hand alone--just peeled the glove off. And that was it. It was over. I just stood there, kind of dazed, and I realized how close I might have come to getting tangled up in, and maybe killed by, that PTO. As I said, I still shudder when I think about it.

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