What is wrong with this picture??

[LD1]

Everything we do in life is a danger. There are far more people killed in car crashes than tractors. Sometimes its the kids in the car that get killed. Wether the parents fault or not. Is the kid able to decide for himself??

The kid in the pic appears to be around 8 years old. That is old enough to understand what he is doing to some degree. He knows he must hold on. It's not like he is a 3 month old baby just sitting on the fender.

I have a nephew that is 7 years old. He is always wanting to get on the tractor whenever anyone is driving. Sometimes I even let him sit on my lap and drive. It just lights up his day whenever he gets to to do that. You just have to use common sense and be careful when having a rider. I would never consider letting him ride if I was bushhogging or the like. But moving a bucket load of junk out of the shop to and fro, or loading a bucket of firewood up, no big deal IMO.

 

[milkman]

I raised my kids safe, kept them under the bed till I realized that the bed could fall and hurt them.:confused2::confused2::confused2::confused2:

 

[Duffster]

That kid should have a helmet on and be locked in a rubber room until he is 18. Then we could start more threads about why "kids" in their early twenties are worthless these days.

 

[LD1]

That kid should have a helmet on and be locked in a rubber room until he is 18. Then we could start more threads about why "kids" in there early twenties are worthless these days.

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I couldn't agree more

 

[The Haymaker]

Foresight.

Risk acceptance/aversion.


There have been numerous posts lately of childhood tractor deaths while riding on a tractor, in FEL or otherwise.

I think we should start posting links to children killed in car crashes.

Adding "In FEL" kinda skews the data doesn't it? That's a far cry from being on the tractor when it comes to risk. Bottom line is what I have said the last 5000 times this "I'm smarter than thou" type of thread has been started: You continue giving your kids heart disease because they aren't allowed off the couch, I will continue teaching mine the skills he will use later in life.

 

[sld]

I just have to say "Big Deal"!

You can make the argument that "something" will happen to you while doing just about anything.

That kid is learning respect for equipment because he is old enough to realize that if he falls off he might get hurt.

 

[The Haymaker]

I just have to say "Big Deal"!

You can make the argument that "something" will happen to you while doing just about anything.

That kid is learning respect for equipment because he is old enough to realize that if he falls off he might get hurt.

*this*:thumbsup:

 

[LD1]

I just have to say "Big Deal"!

You can make the argument that "something" will happen to you while doing just about anything.

That kid is learning respect for equipment because he is old enough to realize that if he falls off he might get hurt.

*this*:thumbsup:

I couldn't agree more.

 

[TripleR]

A picture while interesting and apparently able to spark debate doesn't really tell you all that much. Who really knows the maturity level of either of those on the tractor or under what conditions the tractor is operated. I also grew up riding on the fender of my dad's tractor or on the seat of the planter etc as well as walking along the back rail of the wheat drill to make sure seed was flowing properly. I also had to hop off from time to time to check for proper depth then catch up with and jump back on the moving drill. I stood on a moving trailer kicking un-shelled corn down as it came out of the combine.

Like others, I drove a tractor when I had to flip the seat back and stand up to reach the pedals as my legs were too short. I felled and worked up timber with a double bit ax and cross cut saw.

This is what kids did when I was growing up and no child was injured in our extended community.

When I was farming, I did the same with my son and on the way back to the house stopped to shoot supper from time to time with a .22 pistol.

Yes, times have changed and so have I to some extent, but I am not going to preach to someone else I don't know about how to raise their children.

My grand children have not been raised around tractors in operation every day, and I am not as good as I used to be, so I won't put one on any of my tractors unless it has a cab and then only putting down the road at about one or two mph and certainly not while doing any work. I won't judge others regardless of my comfort level.

 

[The Haymaker]

That poor abused endangered child will never learn anything by riding on a tractor, school is the only place learning can occur. Before long he'll be answering stupid questions on TBN instead of asking them. MikeD74T

No he won't! Haven't you figured out that the laws of physics will change, up will become down, gravity will reverse, a sinkhole will suddenly appear and toss the poor lad into oblivion, the bucket will fail and flip rapidly up and over squashing him like a bug? A 747 will fail to dodge a high flying Canadian goose at 28,000 feet, causing it to ricochet upwards and strike Joe Kittinger''s wandering balloon, causing it to fall at a very high rate of speed and strike the poor lad on the cranium? The long lost rops will fall from the next tree, crushing him? A 1% upgrade will cause the tractor to flip backwards because the operator and his inhumanly super slow reflexes had him pushing the hst too long?

I'm out of ideas as to what could happen.... I'm going back to bed, I don't dare to go outside myself now!