Dangerous Occupations "Farming"

[Soundguy]

i've done some brash things. I'll even step off the tractor, pto on mower engaged. but stepping over a running shaft? I'm not brave enough for that..


soundguy

 

[Bison]

i've done some brash things. I'll even step off the tractor, pto on mower engaged. but stepping over a running shaft? I'm not brave enough for that.. soundguy

Smart fella :thumbsup:
It has nothing to do with being brave..,but everything with using your brains

 

[Soundguy]

i shouldn't even step off with the mower powered as it could throw a blade or pick up something and throw it.. but I takes my chances sometimes. but ropen belts and shafts.. naw.. too rich for my blood. I don't stand around live steam setups either.. was at a show where a boiler exploded.. i was plenty far away and only 'heard' it.. glad I wasn't near it.

soundguy

 

[bigbull338]

i know of 2 things involing ptos running.1,a guy i know was baling hay an his baler clogged throwing hay up in front of the belts.so he got off tractor to throw the hay out of the way.an the belts caught his hand breaking his thumb before he could pull his hand out.2. another guy i know of stepped over a running pto shaft todo something,an it caught his pants leg an shatter his knee.3.then i know a girl that had real long hair.an she was digging postholes an her hair got caught in the pto thus ripping her hair out by the roots.

 

[Thames Jones]

There is no substitute for common sense.
Sadly enough common sense is most uncommon these days.

There is no cure for stupidity,no matter what job one does.
Farmers often work alone so a mistake can be fatal.
Learn and live or die trying

As it involves very hard labor work and might cause various unexpected disease, farmers surviving from chemical, large hostile forces and important thing is they can't get emergency first aid treatment if something happens.

 

[easygo]

I have a neighbor with a badly mangled thumb from a wood splitter. I also have a wood chipper that took off 2 1/2 of the previous owner's fingers. Needless to say I treat that thing with a lot of respect. The first thing I did was to make a rake that fits under the chipper as that is how he lost his fingers pulling the chips away with his gloved hand. He said it took about 1/4 of a second to get them shredded up.

 

[J_J]

Using a Bear Cat chipper, I did the same thing with a gloved hand. Just wanted to brush the chips away from the grate. Sliced my finger real good. Don't know how it happened, as the hole is smaller than my finger.

That was not as bad as me running my finger through a motorcycle chain sprocket. Was lubing the chain, and just rolled my finger up into the socket. I can tell you, it really really hurt, and then I had to unroll the sprocket. Wow, what pain.

 

[mjarrels]

Most dangerous 4.5 acres is on a aircraft carrier flight deck. Always something moving and moving FAST.

mark

 

[Soundguy]

i think farming surpassed military service at some point.. making that ACD not so bad when looking at injuries per capita reported in those fields..

soundguy

 

[easygo]

Most dangerous 4.5 acres is on a aircraft carrier flight deck. Always something moving and moving FAST.

mark

Yeah. I'm sure. I doubt however that it would take several hour or even days for someone to come to your help in case they notice you are not there. It takes a lot of willpower to drag oneself back to civilization with a broken or missing leg or bashed in rib cage.
I refer to people working by themselves out in a field or in the woods. Happened before and a many don't make it.

I have never been on or even seen an aircraft carrier but I would believe it is heck of a good place to get hurt.