Farmer killed by hay bale

Richard G. · Mar 3, 2013

http://www.independentmail.com/news/2013/mar/03/farm-accident-kills-knight/

rabbit-1 · Mar 3, 2013

Where is that at?
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scotc · Mar 3, 2013

I am going to guess somewhere near Anderson, SC.

Richard G. · Mar 3, 2013

Just outside of Anderson, SC.

pete black · Mar 3, 2013

i recall an article in reader's digest about 25 years ago about the same thing. the round roll literally fell in his lap, busted him up good but did not kill him.

Don-Wi · Mar 3, 2013

I always just wonder, why don't these guys stab them in the end with a spear? It can't roll down the arms if it's stuck through the center. I know some guys have grapples on their loaders and that's also a safe way to do it.

I've just never been around a round bale small enough to fit in a bucket, and I don't think the idea would really seem too appealing to me to do it that way. I have picked up large squares in the bucket though, but those ain't just gonna roll down the arms. They wedge inside the bucket very nicely. That said, it would still be possible if I would lift it high and not level the bucket out some while raising.

Donovan from Wisconsin

Huskers86 · Mar 3, 2013

It happens every few years to someone. They lift way to high and they roll back toward the operator. I've heard of grapples breaking and the bale rolls back also but it shouldn't be there anyway.

730 virgil · Mar 3, 2013

my brothers f-i-l had loader to high in air a bale rounded down loader frame busted him up bad he was layed up a long time and never completely recovered

ben there · Mar 3, 2013

I've heard of spears breaking before.I think about it sometimes when raising a bale high enough to get bale to tip back.As big a PIA that ROPS is,I been considering building a loop off the loader brackets and brace it off the ROPS just in case.

bison · Mar 4, 2013

One can only dodge a bullet for only so long before it finds you.

Moving round bales on a frontend loadertractor without a cab or ROP is asking for an accident.

John M · Mar 4, 2013

Did you know David?

Tx Jim · Mar 4, 2013

I had a neighbor that had a rd bale roll down the loader on him a break his spine. He rode around in a wheelchair after that. I only raise bales that high to load/unload a big truck trailer and then one couldn't drive a knitting needle in my hiney with a 10 # sledge :lol:

Geo-TH,In · Mar 4, 2013

I was a kid, I flipped a farmall H with front loader. Was trying to put a log on truck. A high center of gravity and a tricycle front end is a deadly combination. I was lucky the back wheel of tractor landed on a another log or tractor would have been on top of me.

Should always keep loader close to ground when moving.

Ken Macfarlane · Mar 4, 2013

Our secretary at work, her dad was killed moving round bales when
she was little. I'm not sure what happened.

I haven't figured out how people pickup the bale to have this
accident, just scoop it with manure tines on the bucket?

My larger tractor, the previous owner damaged the plastic roof but
it was with a large square straw bale. They had them double
stacked and were piling, top one slid back down the arms onto the
front of cab.

PJH · Mar 4, 2013

I have a friend who rolled a round bale down the arms of a loader on a Ford 5000. He was distracted by something, felt an odd movement and looked up to see it nearly in his face. He's built like a fire plug, and quick, and he rolled off the left side of the tractor in front of the rear wheel. The bale wrecked his steering wheel, seat, loader valve bracket, and both rear fenders. He was unhurt. He's wild as a March hare, and has probably 20 other similar stories about dangerous situations that he's survived. A real nice guy, but one to keep an eye on. . .

keh · Mar 4, 2013

Happened about 40 miles from me. Local paper says "He was moving the hay with an old tractor that resembled a forklift." Don't know exactly what he had, but the bale rolled back on him.

KEH

W_B · Mar 4, 2013

(quoted from post at 04:16:37 03/04/13) I always just wonder, why don't these guys stab them in the end with a spear? It can't roll down the arms if it's stuck through the center. Donovan from Wisconsin

Maybe too cheap to get a spear and it probably has worked for them for years... until it doesn't. Sad to go out that way. God bless and keep him.

495man · Mar 4, 2013

Because they are usually too cheap to buy a $350 bale spear and do stupid stuff like use manure tines or roll the bale over a chain and chain the bale in the bucket then lift the bale high in the air to "hold it in place"

I NEVER lift a bale all the way up on loader with the bucket curled all the way back...even with the spear...because the spear could break...

Rollie NE PA · Mar 4, 2013

A farmer not to far from me was killed over the weeA Pennsylvania man died over the weekend in an accident at a farm near Ransom Township, Pa.

According to a report by the Times-Tribune, 62-year-old Carl Noakes was killed while trying to unload hay bales from a skid-steer at a Lackawanna County, Pa., farm.

Coroner Tim Rowland told reporters that the bucket dropped for “unknown reasons,” pinning Noakes against the machine.

State officials continue to investigate the incident.

Read more here.
kend while unloading hay.

Weldon K · Mar 4, 2013

Having a cab on the tractor might not save you either. Woman was killed near here a few years ago moving round bale with cab tractor . Bale rolled down loader arms , wedged on tractor hood in front of cab. Door of JD tractor cab could not be opened and hay caught fire from heat of exhaust pipe . Tractor burned with her in cab.

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