Re: basic tractor safety-your thoughts

Posted by JK-NY on January 05, 2022 at 08:57:29 from (174.197.208.124):

In Reply to: basic tractor safety-your thoughts posted by rockwind1 on January 05, 2022 at 06:57:35:

Safety is usually an afterthought to younger people and when one has a number of years of operating machinery and their share of
close calls/lessons learned the hard way they will take things more seriously. Some things I would relay along with the story of a
person I know who had the corresponding accident - do not get near a pto shaft when pto is engaged or you could get tangled up
(happened to a friend who was entangled and ended up with a broken hip and several other injuries), do not get hands,feet etc near
any machinery that is in gear or you could be injured (neighbor got hand bit by corn picker, friend of my dad got both legs into a
silage blower kicking at bridged silage in a wagon) , Be careful on slopes (my grandfather tipped over a tractor) , do not start
tractor by jumping starter while on the ground , or try to slightly move a hand clutch tractor while on the ground ( neighbor ran
himself over jumping starter , aquaintance ran himself over and was killed while trying to move a hand clutch JD to hook something
up.). And several more , I agree just lecturing a young person will not be real effective. I would also add that newer tractors
with more safety features can be compared to older tractors without them and that is another way to explain safety practices. All
of the examples I mention were operators of 55 years old or older.

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