If a mower deck can do this think what it would do to a foot

[roermo]

Had a bad and a good day, while cutting very high grass at my river camp I put the tractor in reverse and at the same time a cotter pin must of come loose on the 3 point hitch where the bracket shown in the picture came off. Because I was in reverse it went under the deck. As you can see in the picture this 3/8 piece of steel bent almost backwards.
That’s the bad news I now have to have a new part.

The good news was there was no one even near me when this happened. I got to thinking if some one was even in the area what so ever to this when and if it had broke apart and went out the shoot it could of chopped a leg off or worse killed them in a heart beat.

I have been cutting grass for years and never had any thing close to this. Just goes to show you any thing can happen, I can buy a new part for the tractor but not an eye or leg or a life.

Be careful and thankful every time things go right out there.

Roger

[Renze]

When i loose a blade of the disk mower, they usually dont go far because they are just a thin strip of metal.

However when i hit a log with the pasture topper, about 12 years ago, the heavy shredding blade (6 inch long, 2 inch wide, 3/8 to half inch thick) it nearly missed my brothers legs and struck a barn door 30 yards away.