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Posted by Tim (Utah) on December 05, 1999 at 19:00:37 from (137.65.32.47):
In Reply to: Re: Whats your close call on a tractor? posted by Chuck (CA) on December 05, 1999 at 18:15:41:
Well, I witnessed a scary incident with a PTO and pants leg - luckily, my brother's. He was about 12 and I was about 8 years old. We were putting up hay in the barn with an elevator (PTO driven). My Dad had left us with the warning, "Keep away from that PTO. If you need to work by the bottom of the elevator, work on the other side. I was in the wagon pitching bales off and my brother was putting them on the elevator. I looked down and saw him standing straddle of the PTO shaft. I was just about to yell at him that he shouldn't be doing that when a set screw on the PTO shaft caught my brother's pant leg. Luckily they were old pants - it ripped the pant leg right off and it was going "whup, whup" around the PTO shaft. I jumped off the wagon and shut off the tractor. My brother just stood there with this dumb look on his face - as if to say, "What the heck just happened!" Well, my Dad didn't say much - I think he figured that we both learned a lesson. I know I certainly did and it wasn't even my pant leg! Tim
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