Need help with farm rescue class

[InlineDieselFan]

Years ago at work there was a video series 'American Heat' (these might be the ones from Oklahoma State U.)they had lots of fires and amazingly enough lots of tractor rescue scenarios. We brow beat the training officers into not making us watch these as we are a city department and never see tractors.

steve

 

[InlineDieselFan]

Years ago at work there was a video series 'American Heat' (these might be the ones from Oklahoma State U.)they had lots of fires and amazingly enough lots of tractor rescue scenarios. We brow beat the training officers into not making us watch these as we are a city department and never see tractors.

steve

 

[FaC]

Tim,

One thing that you might want to include is a section on loading trailers.

When I was in school I worked for a custom wheat cutter. He had bobtail grain trucks that also pulled combine trailers to move from state to state. These trailers had about a 15' tongue so that when a header was loaded lengthways in the truck bed the combine could pivot behind the header.

The first thing that he told us when we were loading up was that the guy driving (i.e. me) the combine was responsible for making sure that nobody was under the truck bed fooling with the hitch, electrical or air lines while the combine was actually being loaded.

The issue was that the combine would drive up ramps on the back of the trailer and if the pintle hitch was not latched correctly or it failed the tongue of the trailer would slam against the bottom of the bed. If somebody was between the tongue and the truck bed they were going to get hurt bad or or more likely get killed. He knew of at least 2 people that died this way.

In short, stay away from the hitch while driving equipment on a trailer...

I would also watch out for things like the ramps on trailers. It is very easy to lose fingers if somebody moves or drops a ramp at the wrong time.

FWIW - FaC

 

[FaC]

Tim,

One thing that you might want to include is a section on loading trailers.

When I was in school I worked for a custom wheat cutter. He had bobtail grain trucks that also pulled combine trailers to move from state to state. These trailers had about a 15' tongue so that when a header was loaded lengthways in the truck bed the combine could pivot behind the header.

The first thing that he told us when we were loading up was that the guy driving (i.e. me) the combine was responsible for making sure that nobody was under the truck bed fooling with the hitch, electrical or air lines while the combine was actually being loaded.

The issue was that the combine would drive up ramps on the back of the trailer and if the pintle hitch was not latched correctly or it failed the tongue of the trailer would slam against the bottom of the bed. If somebody was between the tongue and the truck bed they were going to get hurt bad or or more likely get killed. He knew of at least 2 people that died this way.

In short, stay away from the hitch while driving equipment on a trailer...

I would also watch out for things like the ramps on trailers. It is very easy to lose fingers if somebody moves or drops a ramp at the wrong time.

FWIW - FaC

 

[Hardwoodsgreen]

FaC, Good point on loading trailors. I had a guy a couple of weeks ago loading a 9N on to a tall and narrow trailor that went off one side, rolling the tractor over on him. He is broke up pretty bad, but will make a full recovery. He was on pretty soft ground, we were able to crib up the tractor and dig him out rather that risk lifting the tractor.

Thanks for everyones post!

Tim

 

[Hardwoodsgreen]

FaC, Good point on loading trailors. I had a guy a couple of weeks ago loading a 9N on to a tall and narrow trailor that went off one side, rolling the tractor over on him. He is broke up pretty bad, but will make a full recovery. He was on pretty soft ground, we were able to crib up the tractor and dig him out rather that risk lifting the tractor.

Thanks for everyones post!

Tim

 

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[DannyD]

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[DannyD]

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