Posted by JD Seller on September 23, 2018 at 07:41:01 from (208.126.198.213):
While reading Davidj post below I got to thinking about how dangerous the older tractors actually are. Very few have roll guards and even fewer have seat belts if they do have a roll guard. Many have very poor brakes even when working 100% as designed. Aftermarket loaders that really can easily over load the tractors. Other attachments that are really too big for the tractors they are trying to use. Combinations of all of this make the older tractors causing serious accidents more common than newer equipment.
Then the really bad part. OLD MEN running them. LOL I know that I am one too. First off our reaction times are terrible. Second we actually take more risks than we think we do. It is all the macho/ego " I have done this a hundred times and nothing happened" thing. Third, retired fellows doing things they may not be used to doing at all. I personally know several that all had fatal accidents within months of retirement. I think it often is they might have had the tractor for years but now have time to be doing things they never did very much with them or trying to do things they should not even think about doing. They want to "save" money because they are on a "fixed" income. So you have the wrong equipment being used for many jobs.
The national numbers show that older tractors cause more deaths than newer ones. Also a disproportionate number of those killed are older men.
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