FEL uses

[hawkeye08]

Years ago, I came home to the farm to help out when in my early 20s and my dad wanted some help getting the irrigation pump going. He had tried by himself but needed help. He had put a wooden ladder in the bucket on the loader to reach the top of the power pole that fed the pump. He had me connect the power leads from the pump to the live wires on the pole. Wooden ladder, only touch one at a time kept running through my mind as I tightened down the connectors.

We did what we had to do and did it as safe as we could with what we had. Farmers had to be mechanics and engineers on top of everything else.

 

[grnspot110]

We still do this today, except we don't use the bucket. We use a 4' square pallet with 3' high sides, lashed onto the pallet fork with ratchet tie down straps. It is MUCH safer that using a chain saw off a ladder, or even while climbed up into the tree. We can get the pallet 8.5 feet in the air as a stable platform for using a chainsaw.

A tractor without a FEL is a mower.

Talon Dancer

My barber (sidelines as a farmer) told me he uses one of the plastic "liquid totes",the kind with the metal cage around it, with the top cut out as a "man lift". The part I'm not sure about is that he has his wife lift him with the loader! ~~ grnspot110

 

[Larry Caldwell]

ya know I have heard it time and time again---
If we did now what we did when were kids we'd all be dead...

From riding in the back of pickups, to bicycles/motocycles without helmets and kneepads, boating without lifeguard vests.. the list can go on forever....

I bet we could all think of tons of these things and a search of TBN would like yield most if not all of them!

People didn't care so much about dead kids back then. I saw one of my playmates die from riding in the back of a pickup. He was standing with his back to the tailgate when the driver popped the clutch. Flippo. One dead nine year old, with his brains spread on the pavement. Everybody said, "Hey, you kids, sit down back there!"