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Bob Kerr

05-25-2007 05:54:31




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I just wanted to let everyone know that although a lot of us trust our little ones to drive a tractor around it is not a good idea. A 13 year old girl will be buried today near Lewis, Indiana. Last weekend she was driving a tractor down a Clay County road and wasn't looking where she was going and went off the road into a deep creek ditch and the tractor landed on top of her. Someone told me she was going way too fast when it happened. I always hate to hear stuff like this, so everyone be careful out there!

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dave guest

05-29-2007 21:06:15




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 Re: Sad accident in reply to Bob Kerr, 05-25-2007 05:54:31  
Hope never need it but on my cub I put a unplug type normally closed switch and cable similar to what is used on some ATV's. This attaches to kid's belt and unplugs if he falls off and shuts down tractor. Do all you can to be safe.



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dave guest

05-29-2007 21:06:06




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 Re: Sad accident in reply to Bob Kerr, 05-25-2007 05:54:31  
Hope never need it but on my cub I put a unplug type normally closed switch and cable similar to what is used on some ATV's. This attaches to kid's belt and unplugs if he falls off and shuts down tractor. Do all you can to be safe.



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Dan in Ore

05-26-2007 01:57:50




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 Re: Sad accident in reply to Bob Kerr, 05-25-2007 05:54:31  
I lost 2 cousins that way in 1963. They were 13 and 14 at the time. One was driving and the other one was riding. John Deere 70 flipped over in the canal and trapped them under it. Not sure if they were killed outright or if they drowned (didn't seem real important at the time).

Sorry to hear about these things any time they happen.

Dan



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Mark JF

05-25-2007 12:55:46




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 Re: Sad accident in reply to Bob Kerr, 05-25-2007 05:54:31  
Our neighbor's wife was pulling out fence post when the Old John Deere flipped back on her. Her last words were "get this thing off of me".



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Al L. in Wisc.

05-25-2007 06:01:13




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 Re: Sad accident in reply to Bob Kerr, 05-25-2007 05:54:31  
That is very sad. Here in Wisconsin, youth operating tractors off the farm are required to take a tractor safety operating class. The county extension/4-H staff/local ag instructors operate this in Vernon County and have offered it for decades. The classes start after the school season ends, you know, a few months after road construction season in Wisc. begins.



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Bob Kerr

05-25-2007 07:20:23




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 Re: Sad accident in reply to Al L. in Wisc., 05-25-2007 06:01:13  
I don't think they have classes like that around here, kind of a poor area and not much money for school programs. way back when when I was a kid about 12-13, Dad and Grandpa had me running a TD6 bulldozer, a 50s model Case backhoe, and a 51 Ferguson TO20 but slow and easy was the rule!!. Break the rule and off the machine.High gear was out of the question. Grandpa had me drive his 404 International combine and cut beans but since I was probly 5 or 6 (I wasn't even in preschool then)I had to sit on his lap so he could work the pedals but I steered and raised the cutter on the turnarounds. I remember that day like it was yesterday. the combine didn't have a cab and the dust would fly! Grandma always made Grandpa wear a bandana and me too that day! She also would broom him off outside when he came in for dinner. Most of my experiance was on the TO 20 and have logged tons of hours bushhogging and hauling fence post length logs on forks up the hill backwards to where we cut them down for firewood.

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