Brush hog accident(s)

[scootr]

I've run over a lot of hidden stuff with a brush hog. Just this year I ran over a HD 4ft T post securely in the ground in 5-6ft weeds.
Made one heck of a racket. Luckily I was riding with one hand on the draft lever and damage to the machine was minimal.
The reason I'm bringin this up is a news story I just read here > California homeless woman killed in gruesome lawnmower mishap, family demands answers

 

[masseyrider]

On the farm I grew up on there was a stream valley were we had a plum orchard. It didn't happen in other areas of the farm but for some reason I would almost always manage to hit a cottontail in this area.
We had a dog and he never paid attention when I was mowing elsewhere. When I got close to the plums he would start following and was usually rewarded with fresh tenderized bunny meat.
I've hit my share of forgotten T posts and other items.
Rocks, oh the number of rocks. The rear axel had many a stone chip.
Closest it got to me was the back of the seat. A rock fragment came flying out the front of the machine. Fortunately the suspension seat had a high back and it left a good size dent about dead center. Would have hit me in the spine just below the base of the lungs.
It's remarkable how much stuff a mower can pickup and shoot out at high velocity even when you are being careful.

 

[YanmarFever]

Massey, it sounds like your brush hog needs safety chains to stop the rocks.
I took one in the chest one time from the guy across the street mowing with a brush hog without chains, it hit me like a golf ball.
I had a huge welt and hurt like the dickens for a while.

 

[scootr]

My buddy broke a big glass window out of his house from 50 yards away

 

[Thomas]

Safety chains.
2-2"x2"x1/4" 2' long sure attention getter rumbling under the deck.

 

[Eagle1]

My buddy broke a big glass window out of his house from 50 yards away

I know a golf ball will clear a 150' of lake when it leaves my MMM at full speed. Have broken my share of things with rocks. Hard to avoid them, since we have interesting geology around here and people are always dragging rocks into park, only to throw them in the grass some place.

 

[bmg88201]

I've run over a lot of hidden stuff with a brush hog. Just this year I ran over a HD 4ft T post securely in the ground in 5-6ft weeds.
Made one heck of a racket. Luckily I was riding with one hand on the draft lever and damage to the machine was minimal.
The reason I'm bringin this up is a news story I just read here > California homeless woman killed in gruesome lawnmower mishap, family demands answers

If her sister was so distraught and upset, why in the hell was the woman homeless. How come the sister didn’t give her a place to stay. yeah right, family demands answers, the family was not there for the homeless woman. The family is wanting a paycheck and that’s all.

 

[Jstpssng]

I have two dents in my pickup where somebody's lawn mower picked up a rock and threw it... from about 75 yards away.

They are nothing major, but he's lucky that there wasn't a pedestrian walking past.

 

[Yander]

Boy, what a way to go out. That guy on the tractor had to be a wreck. Can't imagine picking up pieces of my kid.

 

[scootr]

Another thing about this. So person is sleeping in the weeds and brush comes by maybe 2-3 ft away on the pass before it eats you alive! How in the hell do you not wake up, jump up, and get the hell outta there?
This person had to be in an unconscious drunken stupor, in a drug comma, or already dead. INMHO

 

[Midniteoyl]

If her sister was so distraught and upset, why in the hell was the woman homeless. How come the sister didn’t give her a place to stay. yeah right, family demands answers, the family was not there for the homeless woman. The family is wanting a paycheck and that’s all.

She left behind a 9y/o daughter she didnt see as well.. so, drugs. The picture shown obviously wasnt a recent one.

 

[Gator6x4]

I've run over a lot of hidden stuff with a brush hog. Just this year I ran over a HD 4ft T post securely in the ground in 5-6ft weeds.
Made one heck of a racket. Luckily I was riding with one hand on the draft lever and damage to the machine was minimal.
The reason I'm bringin this up is a news story I just read here > California homeless woman killed in gruesome lawnmower mishap, family demands answers

Farmers run over deer all the time when rotary cutting high grass.

 

[Jstpssng]

Farmers run over deer all the time when rotary cutting high grass.

Also cats, birds on their nests, et.al.

When I was a kid some of my siblings and I were in the back of my uncle's IH Scout sitting on hay bales which wouldn't fit on the trailer. He was talking about things he's found in the bales... when he said "Snakes" every one of us jumped up.

 

[mjonesnh]

Farmers run over deer all the time when rotary cutting high grass.


Unfortunately I had this happen to me 2 years ago, Very upset with myself. Didn't even see it. That nasty thud from mower was the giveaway

 

[Rdrcr]

I've broken one window on my home and put a pretty serious dent in the tailgate of my previous truck. Plus, I've also sucked in a rubber floor mat I accidentally left on the ground near my rear deck. Fun, fun.

Mike

 

[Jstpssng]

We always tried to mow in June, before the weeds went to seed. The field will likely become a subdivision when my mother is done so I've changed my philosophy. I've done the critical parts already but most of the field is still waiting until after nesting season to be mowed. If I get it done by the end of August that will be soon enough.

I also have been mowing around some of the milkweed, which is enough to bring any real farmer out with pitchforks, tar and feathers. Yet there is nobody left to farm down there, what was farmland and forest as I was growing up is now residential.

 

[masseyrider]

I was cutting the lawn about 50+ feet from the barn with a push mower. One of us had lost a piece of steel about 5" long bent to a 90 degree. About as thick as my thumb. Something that would easily fit in the palm of your hand.
The blade sent it shooting across the yard about 3-4 feet off the ground. And wouldn't you know it, right through the middle of a 1 foot square window in the man door. 100 feet of barn, 16 foot high walls and one window.
Right through the middle. I watched it in slow motion from the initial clang to the crash of broken glass.
SOB!

 

[big bubba]

homeowner accidents like this are common.... sometimes i wonder about flung objects when i pass the state hwy utility corridor mower crews as they mow (wouldn't have their job for nothing)

on the same subject, i fear those homeowners who incessantly mow their highway frontage feet from the traffic slipstream @ 55...i don't fear for my own safety, but theirs when i pass them

 

[WranglerX]

There is somethin not being told about the whole incident....I find it really hard to believe she was just asleep.... Maybe drugged out unconscious...

 

[big bubba]

Farmers run over deer all the time when rotary cutting high grass.


Unfortunately I had this happen to me 2 years ago, Very upset with myself. Didn't even see it. That nasty thud from mower was the giveaway

mostly happens to fawns hidden by mama does, happened to me once while mowing. i won't forget the faint scream as i passed over