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Apparently the disk didn't run over him but a followup article says he passed away at the hospital from the original medical condition.

http://www.iowacaucus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090410/NEWS/904109994/0/FRONTPAGE

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Officials said an eastern Iowa man suffered a medical issue and fell out of his tractor, which then kept going for miles.

The empty John Deere tractor and disc cut through fields, fences and across roads for more than 3 miles before it stopped in a ditch on Friday.

The unidentified man was found by emergency personnel in a bare field about four miles west of Cedar Rapids.

The Linn County Sheriff"s Office said the man has a life-threatening condition and was taken to a hospital.

No other details were immediately known.
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The tractor and the Disc were owned by my wifes uncle from Palo. The man driving was thier hired hand. My wifes cousin is a first responder and he was the one who found him in the field. The newspaper has their facts wrong since he was actually DOA when first responders got there. we were called early yesterday evening about it. Sad deal since he was not only the hired hand, he was a close friend to the family :cry:
 
Always sad to hear about accidents like that.
I have several relatives in the area and my brother was killed in a motorcycle accident a couple of years ago just outside Palo. Good friend of mine, one of my regular coffee buddies, was a pipe-fitter on the nuke when it was built.
Local man that I knew from my racing days was killed here in Kansas Thursday when his tractor went over backwards and crushed him. Haven't heard exactly how it happened.
 
That is a tragic reminder of just how dangerous a tractor and its implements can be. We tend to not think of the danger, but more of the job at hand when we use our old iron. I feel for his family's loss.

On the upside ( if there is one), that guy probaly died doing something he loved. I hope to be so lucky.
 
I really hate that. I remeber when I was about 9 years old, a gentleman had had a heart attck on his while bushogging. He fell off to the side and missed the bushhog. We found the tractor about 2 miles from the area he was cutting in a creek on its side.
 
He was pulling a stuck truck out with a "small" tractor, whatever that means. The newspaper didn't give any more details. Hard for me to imagine how that happened. My reflex action to that is to hit the clutch. Perhaps his foot slipped off, as he was probably in mud hooking the tractor to the truck.
 
I knew the guy. The paper said he was using a small tractor to pull out a 2 1/2 ton tractor stuck in the sand. The tractor flipped over backwards pinning him underneath.

Not sure if it was a typo on the 2 1/2 ton tractor and meant truck.

I'm not sure how it would flip over unless the chain was tied up high or if the chain snagged the tire tread and flipped over. Is that possible?

Knew a guy up by Hays a year or two ago, school superintendent, that was pulling a pickup and the chain caught the tire and somehow flipped it killing him.
 
Sometimes I think my previous hobby - stock car racing - was safer than messing with tractors.......
mike
 
While we're talking about danger: I see posts especially on YouTube showing tractors hooked to machines thru the PTO. Sometimes they don't look shielded (hard to tell in the videos). Used to be people who were killed when their clothes caught in the PTO shaft. Imagine what would happen.
And, I had an uncle, always in a hurry, who cleaned out a clogged corn picker while the thing was still running. He spent quite a few years with two or three fingers missing on his right hand.
Driving our old iron in a parade is one thing, but there are several dangers when the old boys are really in use. No cab, no roll bars, not much thought given to safety "back then." I've even heard of disk harrows getting caught on the rear wheels and flying up in a short turn. Don't know if that one's true.
I treat tractors like I treat my table saw. Great tool, waiting to bite me if I'm not careful.
 
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