Tractor trashing my Daisy Dukes

[Boomerang1]

I have never worn short pants on a tractor, mower or any construction equipment. Always long pants, long sleeves, work boots and hat. Even in 115 degree weather. You will stay cooler wearing light weight and light colored cotton which covers as much skin as possible.

 

[bamatoolmaker]

Thanks for enlightening me folks. I have not owned a tractor very long and getting hung had never entered my mind.I have always exited on the left side
because the step is on the left side and jumping is too hard on my knees.

 

[N80]

You will stay cooler wearing light weight and light colored cotton which covers as much skin as possible.

I don't know about staying cooler but with my fair skin I often have a floppy hat, long sleeves, long pants and gloves. If I spend more than 15 or 20 minutes in the SC summer sun with shorts on or no shirt, I burst into flames.

My B-I-L (farmer) spent most of his life on his tractor in nothing but jeans shorts and a pair of sneakers. After a few trips to the dermatologist he has pretty much gone to the same dress code as me.

 

[dieselsmoke1]

I still do cutoffs and sneekers when running on a hot day. Barefooted when not around equipment.

Difference is now the Bride chases me down and coats me up in SPF99 that feels like 90-140 gear lube. Think maybe it tastes worse.

I'v got 2 brakes, 2 HST pedals, lift lever, PTO lever and an FEL handle to the right, plus no platform step. I've only exited to the right a couple of times, and each I tell myself "never again".

 

[Dozernut]

The parking lever on the RTV has reached out and grabbed the leg of my shorts on more than one accasion. This has caused me to do some fancy footwork climbing out. Glad the wife wasn't there to see it happen and roll her eyes at me, I would then have to tell her I was practising my Kung Fu moves.

 

[Farmwithjunk]

Maybe 5 years ago, I reached this agreement with myself that I was going to quit hurting myself. At a certain point, the body just doesn't rebound from accidents like it used to. And I'm convinced the ground gets harder as I get older. Any moves I make nowdays are slow and deliberate. The "throw caution to the wind" days of my youth are long gone.

I realized this one day when I hurt myself while taking a nap................

Our dog crawled up and laid down next to me. I tried to turn over without rolling on the dog and re-injured a rib that I'd broke some years before.

I'm also EXTREMELY careful when dismounting a tractor so as to NOT do harm to my knees. (BTDT, got the tee shirt)

And lastly. It's "safer" when you do everything the same exact way every time you do something. (Familiarity) I doubt anyone will ever catch me on a tractor that I don't have on my bibs. (Standing order around my place that I'm to be buried in bibs someday)

 

[Timber]

LOL my dad when he was young always wore Bibs and a vest. I bet they weighed 60 pounds with all the tools and trinkets he carried all the time too. My dad is only 20 years older than me and my memories go back to his youth as well as my own on the farm. Something about farmers and bibs and pockets full of the most interesting things. He always said you can get pretty far away from something in the field. He use to say a pair of vice grips, screw driver a good knife, wire and a chunk of wood will get you out of anything

 

[Duke4AZ]

Agree with all the stuff dad used to carry in his bibs, but need to wrap some duct tape around the handle of that screwdriver and you are set to handle any adversity man, beast or nature can throw at you. Use the stuff here to pull cactus out of soft epidermal tissue when one steps off the right side of the tractor, catches some article of clothing on the 3PH lever and as a result meets up with some rather hostile vegatation.

Just a guess here, but tractors follow the same convention as most automobiles that are built for a left hand drive and to drive on the right (as in not left) side of the road. The driver just mounts from the left side.

 

[firemanpat2910]

jeans or shorts, steel toe work boots and a straw had is my usual tractor attire. shirts never seem to stay on for very long. my simple gear tractor dont have too many levers in the way. I did snag the hand throttle on a vine, couldnt figure out why tractor was speeding up while I was taking my foot off the fuel pedal

 

[roxynoodle]

Yanmars have very little room in the operator area. I can only get on and off from the left due to the loader control. Even then, I have to negotiate the clutch, PTO shifter, powershifter, 2wd to 4wd lever and the lever that selects low, medium and high range. Then when my right foot is over all that I have to watch for the brakes and the differential lock! Because there is so much to look for I have not gotten hung up on anything. The only way on and off is slowly and carefully. I have no choice but to watch every move I make. However, let's hope I never have to bail from this thing, I probably wouldn't make it (but ROPS will be available soon!) Maybe I'm nuts but I will wear shorts and I know at least once I wore flip flops. Didn't mean to wear them but didn't notice either til I was done mowing.

And, yes, gentlemen, I'd rather you not post pics of your Chewbacca backs!