Re: Tractor drivers w/ kids on tractors

Posted by Trevor on September 29, 2003 at 07:11:37 from (198.208.6.35):

In Reply to: Tractor drivers w/ kids on tractors posted by CT on September 26, 2003 at 22:51:33:

Well a lot of you guy would have shot my father and his family! I have drove tractors since the age of 4! Now don't get me wrong I was VERY supervised while younge until I proved that I could handle things by my self and then I was given jobs of less risk. Not to mention the countless hours I have spent riding on tractors.

I started off "pickin rocks". This was using a small industrial MF with a loader. My father or uncle or cousin would get it in low gear and a small amount of throttle and then get me on the seat and let me go. There would be 2 men (my father one of them) walking along picking up rocks with dung forks and putting them into the bucket. The tractor would be going so slow that they would have to wait for me to catch up. But it was great learning on how to drive a tractor.

Now with all that said, I was never allowed to even be near the tractor when the brush hog was being used.

As many of the guys have said below, you have to choose when it is approriate for a child to be around tractors. But I think that it is VERY important that children are around equipment at a younge age. When they are around it and shown the dangers and how to be safe around it they are much less likely to have an accident.

I totally disagree with people who put and age limit on being around equipment. I have seen some people do this and say "you can't help on the farm til you are 15." Then the kid turns 15 and they have to learn everything in a matter of months and are given tasks that they don't understand. This is how kids get hurt.

I was always with my dad, ecept when the task was to dangerous. And even then dad would show me the dangers and discuss with me the proper way to use this equipment. He would then give me a safe and simple task to do while he did the dangerous one and then include me in his chore once the dangerouse part was complete. This meant that I felt apart of what was going on and learnt valuable safety lessons without being put in harms way.

Farm safety is a big topic but I think it has to start younge and contiue for a life time.

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