When I was about 10, dad had his 7' sickle bar on his 674. He was putting new sections on it and had parked it in the barn. I knew it needed to be hooked up to the drill so we could plant with it the next day. Dad told me, "Do not mess with it!" But I wanted to help, and he was at work while I was home for summer break at school. So I backed the tractor out to where the sickle mower was parked, and flipped the cutter bar up and put the little threaded rod into the bar and screwed the nut on it to hold the cutter bar up. As I reached down to pull the PTO shaft off, I noticed I no longer had about half of my LH index finger. When I had flipped the bar up my finger was apparently between the new sections and the bar slid down in the guards when I flipped it up. I never felt it until I saw it, those new sections had not been used and were soo sharp. Went right through the middle joint on my LH index finger. Doctor said it was easy to sew back on because it was such a clean cut. I still have the scar, and it still moves, stiffly, so I prefer to use my middle finger for grasping stuff, where most would use their index finger. Cutting trees at work today, didn't see a widow maker about 60' above me. Dropped an ash and took a step back to watch it fall. A co-worker yelled as I stepped back, a chunk of maple about 8" in diameter and 12' long landed about 2' to my left. Whew, close call. Oh yeah, got a really good butt chewing by dad after he got home, mom had called him at work after it happened, so he had all day to stew lol.
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