Ashamed ...snow blower accident

[Army grunt]

Sorry about your fingers, but you still have them, a good buddie from nam lost the tipt on 4 of his a few years ago, clearing a snow blower.
Army Grunt

 

[Treemonkey1000]

Wow. Sorry about you accident. About 20 years ago I was snowblowing our driveway with a 420 with a single stage snowblower. I was making good time and was blowing past the dog house and the golden retriever housed there was deathly afraid of the snowblower. He was at the end of his very 25' heavy chain in the opposite direction. All of a sudden the snowblower started jumping aroung and grinding and pulling the dog toward it. The dog had all four brakes on and I got the thing shut off with about 3' to spare. It took me half a day to pull that chain out. Prior to that I was a little careless with people and animals around. I learned a good lesson there and so did my dog.

I bet your dog left some skid marks in the snow and I don't think they were white

 

[Chuck Oppermann]

Ha, I thought he was plowing a rut! :ashamed::laughing:

 

[crazyal]

All of us guys with new tractors with safety switches everywhere love to complain but lets face facts, they are there for a reason. Hope the recovery goes well.

 

[wvpolekat]

Never ever use your hands unless the engine is off.:thumbsup:

And the key is in your pocket.

 

[Sumpter]

Thankfully you have the fingers to mend.
My front blower spins 2000 RPM and the tractor will not run if off the seat. I also hit idle before starting or stopping the blower. Dogs always in house, people well away and all has been good so far.
Thanks for the reminder that accidents do happen when you are not on task. Also I hope the kids were fine in the house alone up to that point.

 

[Johnbro]

Brave of you to share your mistake and the consequences. Thanks for posting and I hope you heal quickly and completely. Many of our machines and tools are dangerous and it's great when people can remind us to be careful! but it's of course very sad to hear of someone getting hurt.

 

[Dutch445]

This is the X-ray of the fingers just to drive the safety reminder home .

Wow, that was close. (to being worse)

that pic would make a very interesting avatar, i'm sure
it would bring up a lot of questions and keep your reminder
about safety in front of a lot more people.

and thanks for posting. you have to know somebody will
benefit from it, that will probably save a lot of fingers!

 

[Treemonkey1000]

Wow, that was close. (to being worse)

that pic would make a very interesting avatar, i'm sure
it would bring up a lot of questions and keep your reminder
about safety in front of a lot more people.

and thanks for posting. you have to know somebody will
benefit from it, that will probably save a lot of fingers!

Especially if the X-ray showed no fingers where they were supposed to be!

 

[Diamondpilot]

Glad you are ok. Valuable lesson.

Chris