I believe we all want to protect ourselves and others from injury and possible death. But in the obsession is it protecting our safety or against being sued? I believe the latter! I agree the modern safety features are just more dumbing down our society. Many safeguards prevent the use of equipment as originally designed. Many users circumvent the safeties to maximize it's efficiency. There are many good safety features some of which are on our old tractors. All equipment old and new can fail even the safeties and like you stated they can bite you.
Nothing can replace experience and understanding. Like Traditional Farmer stated "being careful is a learned thing mostly from parents,relatives etc and so is being careless.".
My experiences came from both sides of that spectrum. So I witnessed good and bad, thankfully the good has been my guide.
If I'm being honest about this I take many more risks on my newest tractor because it's more dependable, safer with 4 wheel drive put it places it should't go. Try to overload it, pick and push stuff that it shouldn't. Lesson there is I respect the 65-70 year old tractors limits more than I do the 10 year old one. If I let my best safety feature fail (common sense) then I will get bit.
I've always tried to teach others to know your and your equipment's limits and don't push it.
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