I converted a Ferguson to 12 volts maybe 30 years ago - for a customer. It had no neutral safety switch. With the new 12 volt system it cranked and started much faster then before. So, when he came to pick up the tractor I explained to him the new potential danger. Then? To demonstrate I hit the key, the thing started instantly, was IN 1st gear, and ran me over and broke my neck and half my ribs.
Moral of the story? We screw up sometimes - and when we do - it's nobody's fault but our own. No safety switch is going to fix human nature. I was tired, half-loaded, and I paid for it.
I grew up in a rural area that got hit with the "population bomb" when I was a kid. They actually drained or filled in all the ponds where we used to swim and fish - so kids couldn't drown. Yeah, great idea. Many became teen drug addicts instead. Much better hobby!
I have many tractors and still no safety switches. In fact, I just removed the clutch pedal safety switch from our Kia Sportage. I also refuse to wear seat belts, have the ABS unhooked in all our cars, along with the pass-side airbags (for the few that have them). I still curse many of my power tools because of the many safety "idiot" switches I have to bypass to use them. I even recently got a new chainsaw and it had an "anti-plunge" guard at the end of the bar. I quickly removed it. Give me a break! We need Darwin's "natural selection" to work more freely. Next time I see an adult wearing a bicycle helmet, I think I'm going to puke. Just don't make me wear one.
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Today's Featured Article - Grain Threshing in the Early 40's - by Jerry D. Coleman. How many of you can sit there and say that you have plowed with a mule? Well I would say not many, but maybe a few. This story is about the day my Grandfather Brown (true name) decided along with my parents to purchase a new Ford tractor. It wasn't really new except to us. The year was about 1967 and my father found a good used Ford 601 tractor to use on the farm instead of "Bob", our old mule. Now my grandfather had had this mule since the mid 40's and he was getting some age on him. S
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