Sad day in our neighborhood

[3rd Base]

Sorry for your neighbor's Incident. These kinds of stories scare the **** out of me. There is a video on YouTube using a straw-filled dummy that gets too close to a revolving PTO shaft. Not pretty!!!

After using my (infrequently used) bushhog last week I made a mental note to replace the damaged/missing PTO shaft guard. In fact, I'm going to TSC right now to buy new guard even though I won't see or use the tractor for several months.

 

[kebo]

Sorry for your neighbor's Incident. These kinds of stories scare the **** out of me. There is a video on YouTube using a straw-filled dummy that gets too close to a revolving PTO shaft. Not pretty!!!

After using my (infrequently used) bushhog last week I made a mental note to replace the damaged/missing PTO shaft guard. In fact, I'm going to TSC right now to buy new guard even though I won't see or use the tractor for several months.

Better to be safe, and out a few dollars, than sorry!

Terrible story about the poor guy that lost a body part, but at least he survived it. Most folks that get wrapped up in a spinning shaft don't.

 

[rd_macgregor]

Many shields rotate because the little plastic tabs on the shield that holds the chain rips out very easily. On the few implements where this hasn't happened, I'm happy to hook up the chains, but I just let the shield rotate on the others...they are still functional, but it isn't visually obvious that they are doing their job/not bound up or something.

 

[Industrial Toys]

Sad story! Not sure if more details were revealed throughout this thread.

We all do stupid things. I know I do.

But some people should not be around machinery and others who get too old should not be either.

I won't even go within tripping distance of anything rotating. I won't touch a PTO with a tractor running in case something malfunctions and it starts.

Those two precautions arn't hard to live by.

And BTW, I have no use for those plastic shields. If for some reason, I had to be near a rotating PTO, different story, but I don't.

 

[downsizingnow48]

Agree with Industrial Toys. I do exactly the same.

 

[Luke'sScreenName]

Sad story! Not sure if more details were revealed throughout this thread.

We all do stupid things. I know I do.

But some people should not be around machinery and others who get too old should not be either.

I won't even go within tripping distance of anything rotating. I won't touch a PTO with a tractor running in case something malfunctions and it starts.

Those two precautions arn't hard to live by.

And BTW, I have no use for those plastic shields. If for some reason, I had to be near a rotating PTO, different story, but I don't.

X3...

 

[Industrial Toys]

I've been out cutting grass thinking about this. I can't for the life of me understand how a pant leg can get near a bush hog PTO in the first place. And what were they, bell bottoms, like Elvis might have worn? Unbelievable! Still, terrible and sad.

 

[cat fever]

I've been out cutting grass thinking about this. I can't for the life of me understand how a pant leg can get near a bush hog PTO in the first place. And what were they, bell bottoms, like Elvis might have worn? Unbelievable! Still, terrible and sad.

I have been thinking the same thing about his pants. I do know he wears the pant with bigger bell bottoms. I have not talked to him so until I do there is no way of knowing the whole story here.

 

[downsizingnow48]

I've been thinking about this too a really bad accident. But why should pants matter. Why get close enough to the PTO it can grab you.

 

[k0ua]

I've been thinking about this too a really bad accident. But why should pants matter. Why get close enough to the PTO it can grab you.

My guess is he did several things to cause this accident.

One thing he did is he did not have a PTO shaft shield, with the chains to prevent spinning. My guess is he lost the shield long long ago. The second thing he did was not turning off the PTO before the dismount. There was no reason to do this on a rotary mower ever. The next cause was he got near the PTO shaft. Why did he do that? I suspect he kicked at something the mower was hung up on. Why the he77 he did that I don't know but it made sense to him at the time. Of course the Kick probably brought him into contact with the rotating shaft and the rest happened in a few milliseconds.