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Kids + Machinery + Shattered Combine Window

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Brent in IA

10-30-2006 10:33:41




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A good friend of mine had spent a day last week combining in his dad"s new JD combine (9650?) and had 2 of his boys along in the cab, one in the buddy seat strapped in and the other sitting by his leg looking out the front window (bad idea in hindsight). I see plenty of kids (and adults) in a combine leaning against the front window watching the crop feed into the header, and have done it myself in fact. Well, here"s where it gets downright scary. The next day his father is out (alone thank God) combining and the window suddenly shatters into 1,000,000 little pieces of safety glass, falling into the cab and into the header as well. Could you imagine what grandpa, or dad, or anyone would have felt if one of the kids would have been in the cab and fallen out? They will never allow a rider again unless strapped in the "buddy" seat and are very thankful they didn"t have this happen the day prior. I get the chills just thinking about it. The JD dealer is stil trying to figure out why the window shattered, if it was a mfg defect or the cab twisted or what. Anyway---everyone please keep safe and follow the mfg rules on riders.

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IA Roy

10-30-2006 19:11:18




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 Re: Kids + Machinery + Shattered Combine Window in reply to Brent in IA, 10-30-2006 10:33:41  
Some years ago, I was sitting in the van with the boys in a parking lot waiting for the wife and heard a strange noise. I looked around and saw that the rear window out of a vehicle parked next to us had the window shattered. The lady who owned it came out and was flabbergasted and I told her I heard something, but no one else was around. I also heard that my wife's grandmothers Citation had the same thing happen a hear or so before that.

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nw_bearcat

10-30-2006 12:27:18




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 Re: Kids + Machinery + Shattered Combine Window in reply to Brent in IA, 10-30-2006 10:33:41  
We had a cab window in a 4430JD bust once while sitting in a barn...naturally i got the blame for shooting BB's in the barn at sparrows, but this time it really wasn't me.

I have heard of issues surrounding combine windows getting busted...used to work as a fert. salesman near a popcorn plant. At a visit to build good will w/ the popcorn plant people, we got to talking a bit and apparently not long ago, they had a grower bust a window out of a combine similar to how you described but didn't tell anyone. then when bagging the popcorn for retail, the plant caught some in a screening process, turns out that 1 grower messed up 60K bu of popcorn w/ that one instance...glass is not tolerated in the food channel

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Sean Wetgen

10-30-2006 10:49:15




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 Re: Kids + Machinery + Shattered Combine Window in reply to Brent in IA, 10-30-2006 10:33:41  
Oh man, that is creepy. Thats strange to why it broke, but there is something that caused it. Thank goodness no one was leaning up against it. We have a caseih 2388 and there is little room towards the bottom of the floor and we always put some crap there. And I always wonder if thats a good idea or not. Now this will seal the deal of keeping the hell away from the window. Hell of a story, thank god no one was hurt or killed.

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