I caused my old Ford 800 to run over both of my upper legs about a week ago and I am now out of the hospital. I thought I would let you what I did. The first thing I did wrong was bypass the shifting mechanism's safety mechanism that would not let the starter run if it was not in natural. The second thing I did, as an 82 year old, was sit on the ground with legs flat on the ground in front of rear wheel and push the starter button. The tractor started immediately and slowly, it was in first gear, ran over both of my legs. The good thing that happened was that it went a ways further until a strong front axle caught on a good fitting and strong tree that held it in place where it ran spinning it rear wheels until it ran out of gas. The next bad thing I did was forget to take my cell phone with me so I had to drag myself by hand over a hundred yards back to the house and up the porch steps to get my wife to hear me and get us on the road to the hospital.
It turns out that for my age, my bones were quite strong I only have a slight crack in the lower leg bone on my right leg, the first one ran over, so I don't even need a cast. The second thing is not so bad, when they checked me out they found I have very high white blood cell count and had to be in the hospital four days on an IV to get that fixed. In reality, I am lucky as hell, the leg damage was not so bad, the tractor catching on a tree and running out of gas, and they discovered a serious problem when it put me in the hospital. But don't undo the safety mechanism on your tractor hoping for the same kind of good results. I still have tractor tread bruises on my right thigh.
