B&D your advocating saftey equipment on a regular basis is fine in my books BUT the one thing you almost always fail to promote is people using common sense.............all the safety equipment in the world will not protect an individual whose brain is NOT in gear...........
My Dad taught me the most valuable lessons I have in my tool box years ago........Here are some of them:
1/ - Drive accroding to the conditions of the road or field.........if the terrain looks too steep or unstable, IT PROBABLY IS! Slow down or take another route............ROPS is a great but if you're relying on it, you're out of control..........
2/ - Shut the PTO AND ENGINE OFF before working on the equipment - Don't rely on gaurds, sheilds, inter-locks, etc. to protect you - The only thing that will protect you from being wound up in a peice of equipment is for the engine to be SHUT OFF!
3/ - Keep your eyes open - dont operate equipment when your half asleep, drunk, or hungover............That's when complacency begins and accidents happen!
Those are just a few BUT if the people we read about here on a regular basis who have succumbed to machinery related accidents would have only followed those practices, MOST would still be alive without the addition of extra safety equipment.............
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