Antique tractors can be extremely dangerous pieces of equipment that were never designed with a lot of safety factors taken into consideration. At no time were they intended to accommodate adults caring for small children. Many of the people operating tractors today at our events really never lived and worked on farms. A lot just visited “Grandpa” and gained a fondness for his tractor. Which is wonderful, but as such they were never truly made aware of the many dangers of using a tractor as a work tool year after year. Any of us that have worked on a farm know right well that, “but by the grace of God” we were not killed, or serious injured, during that tenure.
About a month ago we had a Plow Day and several people had children up on the seat with them while plowing. One fellow had two children in the seat, while he stood on the axel. One child was about a Second Grader, and the other was about three years old. Having plowed with a John Deere tractor, like he was using, I know full well how many times that old plow failed to trip when it hit a rock and I was thrown against the shaft in the center of the steering wheel. That pain is vivid yet. Any such an impact would have thrown the two children off the tractor!
Fooling around with tractors can be dangerous in many ways. Why tempt fate by exposing the grandchildren we so much adore? Often times it just boils down to the old adage, No Fool Like An Old Fool.
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Today's Featured Article - Hydraulics - Cylinder Anatomy - by Curtis von Fange. Let’s make one more addition to our series on hydraulics. I’ve noticed a few questions in the comment section that could pertain to hydraulic cylinders so I thought we could take a short look at this real workhorse of the circuit. Cylinders are the reason for the hydraulic circuit. They take the fluid power delivered from the pump and magically change it into mechanical power. There are many types of cylinders that one might run across on a farm scenario. Each one could take a chapter in
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