farmall cub sickle bar. I was lowering the bar to work on something and didn't realize I had 2 of my fingers in the guard between the knife and the guard. when I lowered it, the knife pinched my fingers between the guard to the point that they turned blue and had cut to the bone.
The question is...
Do you lift the cutter bar not knowing if the cam had slipped over center, because it was pinching harder and made bone breaking sounds, or do you continue to lower and again, the bones made breaking sounds. I took a long time to realize the fate of my two fingers. I lifted the bar while kicking hard on the pitman until I broke teh top of my shoe off. screaming and crying, thinking that was teh last I would see my fingers...
I was 13 years old.
I got it to snap back over center and didn't have my fingers cut off, but, never again will I ever lower that bar without remembering that day. I still get chills thinking about it. It took me 3 days to get out of bed after that, because it shook me so bad. I was sure I'd never touch another tractor again.
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