It's easy to skip that step when you're in a hurry, and you're right - it could be fatal.
Glad you weren't hurt.
We had a local guy who used a screwdriver to jump the starter solenoid on a big John Deere. It started immediately, was in gear and got on his foot before he could move. It threw him to the ground and started up his leg. He tried to squirm to the side to no avail. He was face down and could hear and feel the ribs popping as it came up his back. He thought it would crush his heart, and also his head. It popped one eye out, and shot his head out from under the back tire like a watermelon seed, pulling the skin and meat off of the side of his face. It had a five bottom plow on it, but it was raised, and the tail wheel missed him. It hung up momentarily on the edge of an old chicken house, but it slid free and started out across the neighborhood. Went through several fences and finally bottomed out as it went over a pond levee.
He survived.
It would have killed a skinny guy like me.
After he got out of the hospital, I heard him tell his story in the local restaurant.
You could have heard a pin drop.
He said it happened quick, but in his mind it seemed like it took forever for it to get off of him.
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