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Well, I got one of those stories that go in this column.Yesterday I got a frantic call from my neighbors wife saying her husband,who is appox.65,was trapped on his tractor by a fallen tree.I rushed over there and found him as she said.He was trying to clear some pine trees off his property,when one or two got hung up together and woundn't fall,so he gets his tractor and tries to use his front end loader in someway I'm still not sure, to push them down,well they fall right on his tractor with him on it and a limb hit him in the back and pins him down with his face to the steering wheel.I start cutting the limbs out of the way, much help comes and we get him out with just bruises.He has got a yanmor tractor without a rollbar,good tractor,but if he had a roll bar,in this instance anyways,the trees wood have hit it and not pined him.He is lucky,those pine trees often have dead limb stubs on them and if a stub had hit him in the back like the limb did,that might have been it.He was more mad than hurt because many people saw him in this predicament.We all do stupid things from time to time,but you never know when that last stupid time might be your last time. RICHARD GAUTHIER