Re: Could have been bad.

Posted by K Effective on March 22, 2020 at 10:22:01 from (99.184.108.123):

In Reply to: Could have been bad. posted by 37 chief on March 21, 2020 at 14:05:13:

We had a cousin visit from Germany back in the early 1990's, he loved to help out on the farm. He was pulling a three section drag on a plowed and side field with our JD 40. Grandpa knew he wold be low on fuel, and brought out a five gallon can, and likely a cold barley pop- they both liked those, too. Somehow they managed to add some of that gas to the radiator before the day was over. Still not quite sure how that happened.

Worst day of my life- we were harvesting corn and I was using our old JD MI to pull empty gravity wagons back to the field. Both my little boys were riding along, and on the return empty trip, were standing on the drawbar. My younger son was four at the time, started to fall off the drawbar, but rather than drop off a foot to the soft grass, he swung around trying to hang on. His coat caught the right rear tire tread and the tire pulled him through between the fender and the inside of the tire, throwing him down right in front of the rear wheel. I still do not know how I stopped the tractor without running over him. When he went by, his legs whipped over and he hit his shin on an angle iron step we had built for Grandpa to climb on. It busted his leg halfway between knee and ankle- more of a dent than a snap.

I cannot retell the story without tearing up. He was fine after the leg healed, no reduced abilities, and became a strong, fast athlete in school. But the call I had to make to my wife to explain why we were heading to the ER, I hope never again.

That Christmas, we were in AZ by my In-Laws. While watching the kid run around the pool with his swim cast on, an older fellow in the hot tub asked about his leg. Turns out he had run his son over and killed him with a loader tractor. What a terrible connection we had.

Sorry, that fits into a category of it was bad, but could have been worse.

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