Hydraulic Failure

oldballs · Jan 24, 2011

I tried to get the particulars after hearing it on the radio, but never got more details. Apparently a farmer was killed a few days ago, when a round bale on the 3 point spear fell on him. The reporter said they think that the hydraulics failed when he was under it. Bad luck can kill one. May he RIP.

beenthere · Jan 24, 2011

One can only imagine why/how a person would/could get under a bale on a 3 ph. If it was a 3 pointed spear on the FEL, then maybe easier to for some reason get under it.

Like normal, the real story that happened may have been lost with the farmer. Reporter speculations can run the gambit of creations of minds that sometimes don't have a clue what they are talking about.

Bottom line, a farmer was killed. And that is sad.

lakeside · Jan 24, 2011

One of the earliest lessons I ever learned was to never get under a suspended load. We'll get away with time and time again until "IT" happens.

jimmysisson · Jan 24, 2011

lakeside said:
One of the earliest lessons I ever learned was to never get under a suspended load. We'll get away with time and time again until "IT" happens.

I posted this a couple years ago but here's again. In around 1971 I was putting up a timber frame with a crew. I had my 1956(?) Massey Harris TLB inside the foundation, with a 20 foot 4x4 on the bucket. We lifted three full 36' long bents of the frame on the second floor, guys crawling all over it to brace and pin, etc. Next day a farmer friend borrowed it to do a little neighborly gravel moving. His third or fourth bucket lift popped a loader lift cylinder hose, bucket crashed to ground 18" down.
Never tried anything like that again, 40 years and counting.
Don't know what happened in the news story but I will try to keep it from happening to anyone I know. Sad.
Jim

Mace Canute · Jan 24, 2011

Was this it?

Northeast Kansas man killed when large round bale of hay falls on him

Soundguy · Jan 25, 2011

oldballs said:
I tried to get the particulars after hearing it on the radio, but never got more details. Apparently a farmer was killed a few days ago, when a round bale on the 3 point spear fell on him. The reporter said they think that the hydraulics failed when he was under it. Bad luck can kill one. May he RIP.

as rule I never get under stuff supported SOLELY by hyds.

I have lifted a mower with hyds, then placed cribbing and stands as safety's.. but nevcer hyds alone.

sad..

soundguy

oliver28472 · Jan 25, 2011

I knew a man who was crushed while removing wire from under a bush hog. Everything was off. The tractor tire blew out just sitting there and the bh went down just enough to keep him from breathing.

oldballs · Jan 25, 2011

Mace Canute said:
Was this it?

Northeast Kansas man killed when large round bale of hay falls on him

That's it Mace. You are more savy with communications than I am. Thanks....this safety thing can get any one of us. Head Up All.

Taylortractornut · Jan 25, 2011

A few years ago a friend of mine bought a 2030 JD and loader. He was helping move hay bales for another friend. We had told hem several times not to walk under a suspended load. He knew it all owning the tractor for 2 weeks. I have been around them most of my life and that was the biggest thing dad preached. Well one day we got a call from his brother. He had picked up a hay bale and left it lifted up and was cutting strings off the bale. He was under it towards the front of the tractor and the tilt hose blew. It dumped the bale off on him and broke 3 vertibrae in his back and his right femur.

At the hospital he didnt know what had hit him He thought a car hit him. It he had been more under it it would have flattened him.