Seat safety Switch? What is the point?

[paulfun9]

No seat safety, or slow reverse here. Like most they aggravate me and get disconnected in short order.
Seat belts are something I also don稚 use in a car or tuck but will use depending on the job or more the terrain operating on when on the tractor or other equipment.

I disconnect the buzzer in my cars and trucks, our BMW had one for the passenger seat also and it too was annoying, couldn稚 set a small bag of groceries or a pizza on the passenger seat and drive home without hearing that god forsaken buzzer.
Yes a seat belt can save lives but I have been in accidents that it for sure would have ensured my demise! So I feel you and only you should be making the decision not having someone else dictate your choice to you!

Pay attention to what your doing and you will save more lives than any safety device ever could!

 

[tmcj]

All this talk of safety and protective gear just reminded me of something. Here in Pa.they did away with the mandatory helmet law for motorcycles on the road, but still enforce helmets for riding bicycles.

 

[airbiscuit]

Guess who is too young to vote?

 

[Cat_Driver]

I sure wished my sister was wearing a seat belt. It would have saved 20 years of anguish for my family, and especially my parents; she was decapitated at 19 years old when her car rolled over.

Yep I was one of those naysayers back in the 70's when seatbelts became more prevalent. There was no way I was going to wear on of those constricting things.

One day to quit down my girlfriend who always nagged me I wore it on my way home as a promise to here. You guessed it, rainy night, bald tires, slippery corner and hello telephone pole.

Totaled car but I walked away without a scratch. She never nagged me again, but she always did have a sideways smile on her face every time I buckled up after that.

 

[paulfun9]

Yep I was one of those naysayers back in the 70's when seatbelts became more prevalent. There was no way I was going to wear on of those constricting things.

One day to quit down my girlfriend who always nagged me I wore it on my way home as a promise to here. You guessed it, rainy night, bald tires, slippery corner and hello telephone pole.

Totaled car but I walked away without a scratch. She never nagged me again, but she always did have a sideways smile on her face every time I buckled up after that.

Why were you driving in the rain with bald tires! Being safe would have meant you didn’t drive an unsafe car in the rain to begin with!

I would say this supports my statement about paying attention being much better than any safety device more so than your seat belt. What if you had left the roadway and ran over some poor unsuspecting pedestrian. Would your seat belt have saved them?

 

[GeneV]

Shtuff just happens sometimes, even when you're careful, but yes very good point...a common cause of a bad day is usually some lack of precaution taken.

 

[RustyA]

I personally know three one armed farmers due to pto accidents caused by no seat switch or bypassed ones. That is the main reason for operator presence switch. Mine are not bypassed on any of my equipment.

 

[LouNY]

I personally know three one armed farmers due to pto accidents caused by no seat switch or bypassed ones. That is the main reason for operator presence switch. Mine are not bypassed on any of my equipment.

I would wonder abut the circumstances of those incidents.
There is a lot of actual farm use which requires not being in the seat while the pto is operating.

 

[Maxify55]

Most all the other safety switches being needed and welcomed.
The seat safety switch is the first one I personally hot wire.
I work on my own equipment and find it MUCH more annoying than worthy.
The runner up would be the "Brake pedal to ignition switch". {Polaris Ranger}
That one took awhile for me to find bothersome & tedious.
I care little to none at all what you do with your own persoanl equipment but for
equipment for John Q. Public being dumber than a box of hammers?
Yep, let's make you a list!

 

[Silverss427]

Should I be wearing a hard hat for falling meteorites?

Yes and line it with tinfoil just to be sure!

 

[hiddentacocatneddih]

How do farmers run PTO water pumps, hay conveyors or any other stationary pto equipment if they have to stay in the seat the whole time?.....

 

[oosik]

Tractor like my M6040 and larger may have a buzzer - like mine. I stand up - the buzzer goes off for about ten seconds. NOTHING STOPS. It is a warning not a terminator.

 

[old and tired]

How do farmers run PTO water pumps, hay conveyors or any other stationary pto equipment if they have to stay in the seat the whole time?.....

For mine, I have to tilt the seat forward within a few seconds so that I can run my Chipper. I can't tell you how many times my tractor shut down on me as I was stepping off.

 

[k0ua]

How do farmers run PTO water pumps, hay conveyors or any other stationary pto equipment if they have to stay in the seat the whole time?.....

I can tell you about how my old L3400hst worked. It had a seat switch with two sections, If you git up off of the seat with the Pto running you had about 1.5 seconds to move out of the way and continue the lift up and tilt the seat toward the steering wheel. The second section of the switch kept the tractor running as long as you tilted the seat over onto the steering wheel. If not the tractor engine died.

 

[LouNY]

A great many farm tractors have a PTO switch on the rear of the fender,
standing at the rear tire you reach up and push the button.

 

[Sonny580]

Former owners removed all of mine before I got the mower and the wires are even gone and I have no clue what goes in there.

 

[finn1]

Ever wonder why farming, mining, and logging are the three most deadly professions?

Why aren’t accounting and anesthesiologists higher on the list?

Think it has anything to do with powerful machinery and a proclivity to disable safety devices?

 

[Cougsfan]

Until I read this thread, I never even noticed or paid any attention to the fact my fairly new cabbed tractor didn't come with a seat safety switch. Is that because you can't fall out and run yourself over as easily with a cab? Or maybe I do have a switch and it is permanently stuck in the "person aboard" position? I start it all the time standing on the ground to adjust the FEL or 3 point. I have even been known to push the HST foot pedal with my hand a bit while standing on the ground with the engine running to move the tractor a few inches (don't tell anyone). Should I turn myself in to OSHA?

 

[RoyJackson]

I remember reading (years ago) about an older tractor rolled on it's own after the operator fell off (pre-seat belts, I guess). The tractor drove itself for quite a distance...more then a mile IIRC before running into a fence or tree.
Also, one occasionally reads about an operator falling from the seat and getting ran over by an implement he was operating.
So, seat switches can be a pain, but so is being injured or killed by your own tractor

 

[oosik]

Good Morning - Cougsfan. Spring is TRULEY on its way. Another morning above freezing. Almost time for that first motorcycle ride of the year. There is plenty of room around the muddy spot now.