Wife feeling a bit pinched Painful picture attached

[AlanB]

OK, so the title is bad humor.

SWMBO was helping me fill in my ditch for the power to my barn, She was running the Dingo and grabbing some 3/4 washed stone from a pile we had on the edge of the park area and bringing it too me in the ditch.

I had taken the large 32" bucket off from Lil, our backhoe and left it there in the parking area.

My much better half lost SA (Situational awareness) for a moment, and was concentrating on the front bucket of the Dingo for a second as some gravel was coming out and she was backing up, she backed her leg into the backhoe bucket, then pinched it with the Dingo.

As one of my freinds said, that was so bad I felt like cussing for her.

Scary to think how quick these things happen, hopefully no long term problems, the Doctor said it was "just scraped" (I remember why I changed from him, but he was the one available at the moment)

Dont look if you are squeamish.

Yeah, that one is hurting her, and will take a while.

 

[beenthere]

I'd gladly say Ouch for her.

I didn't follow the explanation so some pics might be good of how/what happened, so we can all learn from it.
Guess the mystery to me might lie in finding out what a "Dingo" is.

 

[beenthere]

Okay
I found out. Dangerous beast.
Another "disaster" with one here.
http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/hydraulics/156240-my-disaster.html

 

[AlanB]

Dingo is the same, but I do not have the ride on platform on ours. While all our machines are somewhat dangerous, this incident is more a case of loosing SA and doing something wrong then anything else.

My experience with a Dingo (or similar machines) is that they are so capable that folks get them in over the operators heads too easy, this is not something a manufacturer can control.

As to the other "disaster" above, there are loads of problems I see in his pictures, and from his own description a relatively new and inexperienced operator that led to that accident that somehow several folks want to point to as a machine problem. While I hate that any accident happens, I don't think we should jump to the conclusion that the machines are at fault, usually (not always certainly) they are doing what we asked of them.

Sorry the description was not better, will go get some pictures and see if I can improve it, but really the "lesson" is be aware of your surroundings (particularly behind you when backing) when operating equipment, or it can hurt.

 

[beenthere]

Lots of bad things can happen while backing up equipment and walking along while doing it. Operator needs to be too close to operating the controls, and I'm surprised the mfg of this equipment risks their liability and even makes one without a ride platform (with a protective bar).

Hope your wife is feeling better.

 

[Thomas]

Speedy recovery wishies to Mrs.

One can be so saftey minded but sooner later we all get nick or bump around equipment.

 

[Bedlam]

I know what SWMBO means Is it a common acronym? Only heard it one time before. Anyways glad shes ''ok''

 

[jimmyj]

I've heard SWMBO quite a few times. Glad she will be OK, that could have been much worse!

 

[AlanB]

Thanks for the well wishes, it is slowly fading but I think it will take quite a while before it is all re-absorbed.

Honestly just glad it was not worse, had she fallen backwards when she hit, or been pinched and fallen and been here alone all of which are all to real possibilities it would have been a lot worse.

Thanks for the well wishes.

 

[EddieWalker]

Alan,

Just came across this thread and wanted to wish Hanna a speedy recovery. That looks really bad, but I bet it's even worse looking today. Bruises always seem to take a few days to get to their worse in apperance, then they take forever to go away. That one look like it has the potential to look really bad.

Is that the back of her thigh? It looks like she just squshed her leg in there and really put allot of pressure on it.

Glad that it's not any worse then a bad bruise and temporary pain. Sometimes you get lucky and I think this is one of those times.

Eddie

 

[AlanB]

Hi Eddie, yes, that is the back of her left thigh. Hate that it happened but as you said, sometimes we are just lucky it was not worse.

Sidenote, one day we have to visit.

Another side note, I now have power to my new barn. Yeee-Haaaa

 

[TBDonnelly]

I hope she did not look at that picture. OUCH!

Hopes she is doing better now.

I always wondered why those mini loaders were called Dingo's. When they ding you, they ding you good.

Don

 

[thendricks]

Glad she is ok. Make sure that you keep an eye out for blood clots in her leg. A injury like that could produce a clot for sure.

T.

 

[sandman2234]

Really could have been worse, but thankfully it wasn't. From the picture, I would guess she won't be wearing mini skirts anytime soon. Hopefully the cut won't leave a scar and the memory of the pain won't keep her from helping in the future.
David from jax

 

[Taylortractornut]

A friend of mine was using a similar machine a Finn at the lake on a bluff. He had been using a ripper tooth I made him pulling down chunks of gravel and rock from a bank. Then he'd go put the bucket on and move it around the edge of the bluff filling ina new retaining wallthey built to make the yard biggerfor a patio. He had a narrow access ramp going up to the front of the house to the drive way, he had to go up and over to get out to the front yard to get some topsoil I had delivered the day before. He had called me that morning to get me to come see how good his ripper was doing. When I got t here I heard the machine running and him hollering for help. He was going up the ramp and had a few chunky rocks he couldnt backfill or landscape with and was taking them out using the ramp. The gravel on the ramp was a little dry and had a loose layer pea gravel on top. the ramp had a curve that followed the contour of the hill in almost a 90 degree turn. In the turn he had earlier that he had placed a large landscaping boulder and a flower box. WhenI got there he had his ankle pinned betwwen the platform and the boulder. He had been comming up the ramp with the rocks and his loader had slipped a bit and shook a rock out of t he bucketand he hit it with a wheel causing the machineto buck. he panicked when he was falling off and he grabbed the drive levers wit h a death grip. The machine ran backwards with him dragging his foot on the ground till it hit the boulder. He apparently held the controls because it spun the wheels after it hit and left 4 wheel marks. He had his cell phone on the machine in a clip but the angle he was in and being pinned couldnt reach it. He told me me he was glad I had decided to come by be cause his wife was out shopping a few towns over and the house owners were gone for the weekend. He had a broken ankle, and a huge scrape and a bruise. I got t he loader pulled up and shut off we went to the hospital.
Any machine like this can be dangerous, I worked for a company as a mechanic an operator. I was back filling 24 inc pipe and we had a walk behind trench compactor a Rammax. I was running the excavator dropping in new fill and spreading it and the laborer was running the Rammax. he didnt like the remote control because he was having to stand up on the trench side. He opted for the manul walkbehind mode and got into the trench with it and was rolling There was a concrete pipe support in the trench behind him. He had to walk back to it and stop. for some reason he wasnt paying attention and walking backwards holding the travel levers he fell over the top of the pipe support. He instinctivly grabbed for something and got the 2 stub levers you drive it with. It pulled up to him but thankfully when he didnt let go a safety bar touched his arm and that put the safety on. This machines size and slow speed fooled him badly. Nothing more than bruised pride though.

 

[dmccarty]

I have a DR Mower. This thing will pull you around all day long and work you HARD and put you up wet. Going forward is not bad. Going backwards is dangerous. It does have a dead man switch but when it goes backwards it goes backwards. You had better go backwards too. I could see going backwards, tripping and hanging on to the handles to steady oneself. Course the DR would keep moving backwards. Thankfully the mower deck is well forward but I could someone getting really hurt using the DR in reverse.

An officer in one of the rural areas of NC was just killed. By his own patrol car. Its not clear exactly what happened but he ran off a gravel road and got stuck. He somehow got pinned between the front of the car and a tree. Can't quite figure out how he got killed. I could see, sorta, if he put a maglight on the go pedal and put the car in reverse and then tried to push the car from the front. But supposedly the car was in drive.

I don't now WHY he just did not call out on the radio. I can guess but don't know why.

Later,
Dan