Safety tips for first time tractor owner...

oliver28472 · Aug 11, 2005

You might want to wear a hard hat. Even with the chain saw, those dead limbs are dangerous.

Jstpssng · Aug 11, 2005

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I can't imagine cutting ANY tree without a hard hat; also hearing protection, safety chaps, boots...

Varmintmist · Aug 12, 2005

Best advice:

Slow down

You have run equipment before so you know the feeling when it is becoming second nature. There is where the trouble lies. Until that thing is a outgrowth of your brain, slow down.

Speed up after 200 hours or so /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

If you have the 12x12 tranny, coming off the Farmall, you will be going in the wrong direction in the wrong gear 75% of the time till you hit 20 or so hours anyway. Been der, done dat /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

At 225 I still am looking back and going forward if I get in a hurry to hook up to something /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

OverlyRun · Aug 17, 2005

Another vote for "slow down" as the best safety advice. All of my close calls have come from going over or under something unexpected that could have been avoided if I had gone even slower. Because the engine is running and because the machine can do it there is a tendency to push through, over any obstacle....esp if time is short Don't. The soft package in the driver's seat is not as indestructable as the rest of the machine.
Chas

mjcountrybumpkin · Mar 4, 2012

Only thing worries me is the trees. If you want to push them over cut them off at about ten feet up with a saw first. Then no worries of getting killed by a falling branch

seymojo536 · Mar 5, 2012

mjcountrybumpkin said:
Only thing worries me is the trees. If you want to push them over cut them off at about ten feet up with a saw first. Then no worries of getting killed by a falling branch

Really??, and just how long a bar should he use/