Tractor Baler Accident

[Doofy]

When I was a kid you always new who the old time farmers were, they were missing fingers or a hand from old two row corn pickers.

Maybe they lived near Ed Gein but managed to get away.

 

[oosik]

Very best wishes for a speedy, complete recovery. Only accidents I've personally witnessed with a baler - mice & the occasional bull snake. But even then, unless damaged in the baling process - I'd guess they eventually find their way out of the bale. Maybe not.........

 

[lman]

When I was a kid a Doctor down the road helped my dad pick corn. One day the Doctor put his index finger where it didn't belong while cleaning some stalks from the picker. We found his finger while he was at the hospital and my dad put it in a jar with formaldehyde. Dad died last year and the finger was still on a shelf in his house.

 

[bunyip]

SWMBO has a habit of grabbing the auger to locate it when we are putting in fences, I tell her I can move it when it touches down and it will grab her, I refuse to start it until she is standing in front of me now, she also gets upset when I shout at her but I figure that is less painful than the auger having its way with her.

 

[bunyip]

When I was a kid a Doctor down the road helped my dad pick corn. One day the Doctor put his index finger where it didn't belong while cleaning some stalks from the picker. We found his finger while he was at the hospital and my dad put it in a jar with formaldehyde. Dad died last year and the finger was still on a shelf in his house.

Friend of mine got caught with his fingers where they shouldn't have been, cost him his house and a large cash settlement from his new ex wife.

 

[Jstpssng]

When my father used to put up firewood, my mother and brother would pick up a piece and he'd cut it with the chainsaw. My brother got POed at me because I wouldn't do it. Put the wood on the ground and I'll cut it any length you want, but not when somebody is holding on to it.

 

[Doofy]

Friend of mine got caught with his fingers where they shouldn't have been, cost him his house and a large cash settlement from his new ex wife.

Ouch! Stupidity Hurts!

 

[2LaneCruzer]

My Dad was missing a thumb, and I have a cousin who was sitting on a full grain bin of wheat, and ended up running his hand up into the auger. Severed a nerve, and nearly lost his arm. My Grand Dad got his hand caught in a corn sheller; messed it up, but he retained most of the use of it, but fingers were a bit crooked. Another cousin got kicked in the face by a horse. Of course when I was a kid, there were a lot of three legged dogs around the farms; the consequence of running in front of the old sickle bar mowers.

 

[Hay Dude]

Was just thinking how lucky I’ve been all these years and no accidents to speak of. I did get out of my tractor a few times to brush off the hood air inlets with PTO on. I need to be careful on the roads, too.

 

[ruffdog]

I sure hope he has a good recovery.

I remember this 18yo that got caught in a pto and lost his arms. He got up, walked to the house, called on the phone using a pencil in his teeth, and sat in the bathtub so blood wouldn't get on the new carpet.

'The kid in the bathtub': Twenty years later | State & Regional | bismarcktribune.com

 

[WoodChuckDad]

Maybe they lived near Ed Gein but managed to get away.

Because of you, I had to look him up. Have to admit, i was wide eyed and appalled until I read he was from Madison and then it all seemed to make sense.

 

[WoodChuckDad]

SWMBO has a habit of grabbing the auger to locate it when we are putting in fences, I tell her I can move it when it touches down and it will grab her, I refuse to start it until she is standing in front of me now, she also gets upset when I shout at her but I figure that is less painful than the auger having its way with her.

I have had some huge arguments with my wife about farm safety. She never thinks anything bad will ever happen

 

[WoodChuckDad]

I hope your cousin recovers quickly and fully.

I’m either buying a shield or a whole new pto for my chipper. Its it already made me uncomfortable. But now it has to go.

 

[radios1]

While my cousin was baling hay he started to pull the trip rope to kick the bale out.
He remembers the trip rope being close to the pto shaft and starting to push the clutch in to stop and reposition it.
His next memory is coming to on the ground, being unable to move, watching his tractor and baler going across the field.
A couple of young boys saw the tractor and baler, sans operator, going across the field and ran to tell their dad who found my cousin and called the ambulance. Tractor crashed into a tree.
He was airlifted to the hospital to find his hip was shattered, vertebrae cracked and ribs broke. They put screws and pins in his hip to hold it together and he has to wear, as he calls it, a turtle shell brace.
I went and looked at the tractor and baler today. Surprised it didn稚 happen sooner.

Unshielded pto shaft.
No seat belt.
No support to keep the trip rope from the
pto shaft.

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going by the first picture, I hope they can fix his face too!.:shocked:

 

[riptides]

Hope for a pain tolerable speedy recovery. Those screws will remind him for years to come. He is lucky to be alive.

 

[ovrszd]

SWMBO has a habit of grabbing the auger to locate it when we are putting in fences, I tell her I can move it when it touches down and it will grab her, I refuse to start it until she is standing in front of me now, she also gets upset when I shout at her but I figure that is less painful than the auger having its way with her.

Several years ago a friend of mine was augering post holes. His 20 year old daughter came out to help. He had a long bolt stuck in the auger for a shear pin. She, not thinking kicked some dirt on top of the auger as it was turning. That bolt grabbed her. She didn't lose her leg but is a cripple today. He wishes he would have yelled at her and made her upset so she would stay away before that happened.

 

[ovrszd]

I sure hope he has a good recovery.

I remember this 18yo that got caught in a pto and lost his arms. He got up, walked to the house, called on the phone using a pencil in his teeth, and sat in the bathtub so blood wouldn't get on the new carpet.

'The kid in the bathtub': Twenty years later | State & Regional | bismarcktribune.com

Yes, I remember that!!!! Saw a story on the Des Moines Iowa news plus read the article in the Des Moines Register. Apologized to his Mom for messing up the house.... I've never forgotten that story and have used it in conversation several times. My heart ached for that boy. This is the first I've heard of him since the accident. My heartache is renewed....

 

[2LaneCruzer]

Several years ago a friend of mine was augering post holes. His 20 year old daughter came out to help. He had a long bolt stuck in the auger for a shear pin. She, not thinking kicked some dirt on top of the auger as it was turning. That bolt grabbed her. She didn't lose her leg but is a cripple today. He wishes he would have yelled at her and made her upset so she would stay away before that happened.

Here's one I never thought of. Young man who I worked with was born and raised on a farm in the panhandle. He said his Dad had hired some "seasonal workers" to help on the farm; they were digging post holes with an auger on a tractor. One of the workers was killed; he was standing close to the auger when it picked up some buried fence wire and proceeded to wrap him up and pulled him into the auger.

 

[ovrszd]

Here's one I never thought of. Young man who I worked with was born and raised on a farm in the panhandle. He said his Dad had hired some "seasonal workers" to help on the farm; they were digging post holes with an auger on a tractor. One of the workers was killed; he was standing close to the auger when it picked up some buried fence wire and proceeded to wrap him up and pulled him into the auger.

bunyip is correct to be rough on his woman. post hole augers are very dangerous!!!

 

[5030]

My guess would be that it is the rope to move the twine arm on a round baler that doesn't have a hydraulically or electrically controlled twine arm.

Aaron Z

Never heard of that. Even the ancient metal bar NH round balers had a crank to move the twine arms.