Re: Re: Whats your close call on a tractor?

Posted by Definately True! on December 07, 1999 at 23:26:43 from (128.173.54.57):

In Reply to: Re: Whats your close call on a tractor? posted by The Red on December 07, 1999 at 13:46:53:

I can't believe the stuff my dad let me do as a kid, it is a wonder I made it to adulthood.

I used to ride on the fender of the open tractors when he was disking. If I had fallen off I would surely have been cut to pieces before he could have stopped the tractor.

I remember driving tractors when I was so short I had to slide off the seat to push the clutch in. These were not little tractors either. One of them was my dad's almost brand new JD 4440. The man dad bought it from was nearly killed when his girlfriend who was not familiar with the controls on the brand new tractor ran over him with it.

I could not imagine turning a ten year old kid loose by themselves with a machine like that and a 20 foot folding disk but my dad let me drive it, and sitting up there in that air conditioned cab listening to the radio I thought I was king of the world.

Surprisingly the only damage I ever did with it was snagging the corner of the the chickenhouse on a neighbor lady's farm that we rented with the disk. Needless to say the 130 hp pulled the rotten structure down before I even realized that I had hit it.

It did not hurt the disk and the neighbor lady said she had wanted it torn down anyway. The old lady lied and told told dad that the chicken house fell down on its own. I never told dad what happened until years later after he had traded the disk.

At 27, I still have a scar above my right eyebrow where as a four year old kid I slipped and fell into the header of my dad's Oliver 525 combine while playing on it. It was parked in the barnyard in plain view of the shop where my dad was working. I busted my head open pretty good and screamed bloody murder. My mama came running out of the house to see what was wrong. She gave him what for, for not keeping and eyen on me. I still can't believe that my dad let me play on that machine. I guess he was too busy to even worry about it.

Kids and farm machinery are a recipe for disaster. Farm machinery are not toys. As a fertilizer salesman, I can't count the times I have been to farms and seen little kids playing all over farm machinery including gravity wagons. These are especially dangerous because a kid can become trapped inside and smothered by the grain if the door is opened. Children should not be allowed to drive machinery until they are big enough and knowledgeable to do it safely.

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