Bizarre accident in Oregon

[CPTKILLER]

He is lucky. The previous owner of my property left piles of fence wire and barb wire around my 27 acre property. In the tall grass, it is near impossible to see.

 

[JohnBuffaloMN]

He is lucky. The previous owner of my property left piles of fence wire and barb wire around my 27 acre property. In the tall grass, it is near impossible to see.

I'm dealing with that nasty )%#$# myself - and it's unruly to wrangle into a manageable ball. I'm planning on adding it all to my brush piles and letting it burn/rust itself away to not. I've got enough brush every year into perpetuity so why not let nature take its course?

 

[cqaigy2]

I hate tangling up in wire.

 

[JohnBuffaloMN]

Read this thread if you are dealing with old barbed wire fence removal: https://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/rural-living/66446-old-barbed-wired-fence-removal.html

 

[goeduck]

There is one area of my property that I will not mow. Previous generation let the barb wire fence fall over and it is now grown over by the grass. Some day I intended to pull it out by hand or the tractor, then start mowing it. Looks like I should have a bullet proof vest on.

 

[LD48750]

If I'm getting off the tractor and the PTO is running I'm throwing the PTO lever off, no ifs ands or buts about it. I've already clutched in to stop and it takes a split second to do.

If I'm doing anything around the attachment, I'll go the extra step to shut down the whole machine.


Working around a live flail mower isn't a mistake, it's straight up negligence.

Be interesting to see how long it takes you to chip up a pile of brush with the PTO off while you feed the chipper.

 

[vvanders]

Be interesting to see how long it takes you to chip up a pile of brush with the PTO off while you feed the chipper.

Har har.

Obviously there's attachments meant to be run stationary, PTO generators, log splitters, wood chippers and the like. All the rest of it though? Better safe than sorry.

 

[rd_macgregor]

There is one area of my property that I will not mow. Previous generation let the barb wire fence fall over and it is now grown over by the grass. Some day I intended to pull it out by hand or the tractor, then start mowing it. Looks like I should have a bullet proof vest on.

I've tried pulling up old, downed fence. Sometimes it works, but more often than not, the fence is rusty and brittle and breaks frequently...leaving pieces of varying sizes in the fields. Mostly, these remaining pieces are too small to get tangled in equipment, but they could conceivably be a projectile hazard when mowing. More likely, they'd be a livestock hazard, either hoof injury in the field or via feed contamination (ie, in harvested forage).