When i injure myself, i always think of a hundred ways i could have avoided it. I wear many scars to prove i am a do-it yourself, forgetful, human. Plus I always look to see if anyone saw me…Hello,
Hope all is well with everyone. Wanted to share a misshap I recently had with my tractor.
Took the tractor out of storage last week. Had it in the shed with a trickle charger and the ROPS up. To get it out I had to fold the ROPS but I dropped one of the pins behind the BH and couldn't find it.
Drove it around the property a little and then parked it in the garage for maintenance.
My wife's son and I looked for the pin in the yard and found it, he wanted to know what it's fore so I put the ROPS up and just inserted the pin just to show him.
Two days later I started up the tractor and went behind it to raise the stabilizer arms. While the arm was going up thats when the pin fell out and hit me on the head.
Saw stars and heard ringing on top of the extreme pain on my head for a couple minutes. A week later it's still discolored and sore.
My lesson is always put locking pins even if your just showing it to someone.
This could have killed me, the ROPS is heavy as heck.