Guys I think I must have hit a sore subject for all the replies bashing me for saying older equipment is more dangerous. I am not saying to go buy all new stuff. I am saying to try and not use the old stuff if you have some thing better for a dangerous job. Just do not take unneeded risks.
I have a 80 year old neighbor that just LOVES JD two cylinders. HE goes and gets one of them to mow his pasture every year. The "flat" ground in his pasture is a 7% slope with the steep stuff getting to where the cows walk around it not up the hills. HE has a SHED FULL of newer equipment that have roll guards and cabs with seat belts. HE insists on using OLD tractors to do this job. He can barely walk on level ground so him "jumping" off a flipping tractor is never going to happen either.
Another one just happened early this summer. Fellow decided to use his 8N Ford with a rear dump scraper to clean out a dirt filled pond. He worked on it for two weeks. Bragging about it in the coffee shop. How he was reliving his youth growing up on that 8N Ford. He got it almost done and was shaping the banks. Flipped the tractor over backwards, Killed instantly. Now the bad and stupid parts. His 14 year old grand son found him. That is a great thing to "gift" your grand child with. That's the sad part. Now the stupid part. His main business was dirt excavation. HE owned several Cat crawlers, plus 2-3 tracked excavators. Him wanting to "relive" his youth killed him at 58 years old.
Someone talked about how we talk about farm tractor accidents but not car deaths. Well there are a lot more car deaths than tractors one BUTTTTT There are millions of more car drivers than farmers. If you look at the death per thousands of miles driven the death rate has dropped to record low levels. This is due to increased seat belt use, air bags, vehicles that collapse to absorb the impacts and etc. I have been in two car wrecks in my life that I would have been killed in if they did not have seat belts and air bags.
So even a ten or 20 year old car is still way safer than a 1950-60s one. Guess what!!!! A 10-20 year old tractor is safer than a 50 year old one too.
Another radical idea!!! Hire something done if you really do not have the equipment to do safely. A few hundred or thousand dollars is cheap when compared to your life or serious injuries.
Guys I am not bashing old tractors. I own them too. I love running them too. I just am saying think safety!!!! Also think of the reality of our aging bodies. ME running from a cow is not much of a foot race anymore. LOL
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