Always a sad day when something like that happens, but your subject heading reminded me of a story I was told as a young lad for a safety lesson. A farmer was going to attend a funeral for a friend, but he had a lot of work to do. He decided to wear his new coveralls to the field so he wouldn't have to change before going to the funeral. He had used a nail in place of a cotter pin in the pto drive line. Something went wrong and he got off of the tractor to work on it without shutting it down, because he was in a hurry. The nail caught his new overalls and wound him around the pto shaft. The tractor was still running with what was left of him wrapped around the pto shaft when his family came out to see what was taking him so long. Instead of saving time to make his friends funeral, he made a reservation for his own. This story was told to me as fact. I was probably six or seven years old at the time and obviously it made a lasting impression.
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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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