When did the new Safety Warning show up...

[teg]

...At the bottom of the pages??? Oh, and you should have a warning in the classifieds about tractor scams... since it's back again - the one for $4,400. 62 views at first, now 109...

http://www.tractorbynet.com/classifieds/ViewItem.php?ItemNum=423784305

Safety Warning: TractorByNet.com does not review discussion forum posts for accuracy or safety. Please refer to manufacturer operator and safety manuals before operating tractors or equipment. Additionally, use caution and common sense when applying any advice you receive on TractorByNet.com, and seek professional advice before attempting professional tasks or driving over Septic tanks in gravel driveways.

 

[Tig]

I wonder if it had anything to do with the "Septic tank in the driveway thread"

 

[LBrown59]

...At the bottom of the pages??? Oh, and you should have a warning in the classifieds about tractor scams... since it's back again - the one for $4,400. 62 views at first, now 109...

TractorByNet.com Classifieds Item -

*Safety Warning: TractorByNet.com does not review discussion forum posts for accuracy or safety. Please refer to manufacturer operator and safety manuals before operating tractors or equipment. Additionally, use caution and common sense when applying any advice you receive on TractorByNet.com, and seek professional advice before attempting professional tasks or driving over Septic tanks in gravel driveways.

*I think this detracts from the creditability of all TBN members.

 

[LBrown59]

I wonder if it had anything to do with the "Septic tank in the driveway thread"

I think that thread was posted well after the warning was posted.

 

[polo1665]

...At the bottom of the pages??? Oh, and you should have a warning in the classifieds about tractor scams... since it's back again - the one for $4,400. 62 views at first, now 109...

TractorByNet.com Classifieds Item -

Safety Warning: TractorByNet.com does not review discussion forum posts for accuracy or safety. Please refer to manufacturer operator and safety manuals before operating tractors or equipment. Additionally, use caution and common sense when applying any advice you receive on TractorByNet.com, and seek professional advice before attempting professional tasks or driving over Septic tanks in gravel driveways.

CYA, very prudent, would've done the same thing myself. Mine doesn't have the gravel driveway/septic tank part though, they must have edited it out.

*I think this detracts from the creditability of all TBN members.

There probably are some TBN members that should have their credability detracted from. Present company excepted of course

 

[NuBota]

In our litigious culture, probably a necessary CYA. What a shame.....

Good thing is I doubt it is really needed here, given the TBN culture....

 

[MikePA]

*I think this detracts from the creditability of all TBN members.

How does it do this?

 

[AndyMA]

How does it do this?

I personally don't think it does. It does attempt to provide some protection to the owners of this forum if somebody foolishly follows some advice given and gets hurt. In addition to some dangerous mechanical advice given, as an engineer the thing that makes me cringe the most is the incorrrect electrical advice that is so often given,

Andy

 

[teg]

What makes me cringe is tree felling advise... too many variables including wind. Hope everyone remembers... you get what you pay for and this site is free.

 

[MikePA]

I personally don't think it does.

I don't think it does either. People's credibility, or lack thereof, is based on what they post, not on a warning statement.