Tx Jim
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My neighbor had to take a care flight helecopter ride this AM after rd bale rolled back on him. Y'ALL BE CAREFUL out there.
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Nebraska Cowman
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I guess bale spears have their place but NOT on a front end loader. I hope your friend recovers.
ShadetreeRet
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Not good! Any word on the extent of his injuries? We will be thinking of him, and hoping gets along OK.
fixerupper
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I hope he comes out of it OK.
We"ve all had close calls that
ended just short of trajedy. Jim
We"ve all had close calls that
ended just short of trajedy. Jim
Hope your friend is not hurt too bad.
Vertical mixers are pretty tall. You need a tractor/loader that has plenty of lift height. It looks like he could just barely reach over the side of the mixer. The hay bale looks coarse and loose. I bet he had speared the bale real low so he could reach a little higher. Then the bale came apart. That allowed the top part of the bale to roll back on him. Then when he was hurt/knocked off the tractor clutch the Ford ran into the side of the TMR wagon and rolled it.
It just goes to show you that the weight of a round bale is something you need to really watch.
As far as Nebraska Cowman's comment. Spears on a tractor loader are a heck of a lot safer than a skid steer lifting very high. This fellow's main mistake is spearing the bale too low.
Vertical mixers are pretty tall. You need a tractor/loader that has plenty of lift height. It looks like he could just barely reach over the side of the mixer. The hay bale looks coarse and loose. I bet he had speared the bale real low so he could reach a little higher. Then the bale came apart. That allowed the top part of the bale to roll back on him. Then when he was hurt/knocked off the tractor clutch the Ford ran into the side of the TMR wagon and rolled it.
It just goes to show you that the weight of a round bale is something you need to really watch.
As far as Nebraska Cowman's comment. Spears on a tractor loader are a heck of a lot safer than a skid steer lifting very high. This fellow's main mistake is spearing the bale too low.
Hopefully the bale was soft enough and rolled slow enough that he
is OK.....not nice to see this happen.
On the subject of keeping safe....maybe we CAN learn a lesson
from this. Most farmers over here use a grab to lift bales for
feeding but it is faster when loading them in the field to use
spears...To keep safe we weld two uprights of something like 3"
angle iron up about 4 foot above the frame of the spears. It doesn't
have to be elaborate as long as it works.
Something to think about.....Sam
is OK.....not nice to see this happen.
On the subject of keeping safe....maybe we CAN learn a lesson
from this. Most farmers over here use a grab to lift bales for
feeding but it is faster when loading them in the field to use
spears...To keep safe we weld two uprights of something like 3"
angle iron up about 4 foot above the frame of the spears. It doesn't
have to be elaborate as long as it works.
Something to think about.....Sam
retired farmer
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From the way the tractor is setting, looks like the mixer got knocked over first and then the bale came off the forks. Neighbor, a couple of years ago, was in the same situation, small JD tractor with loader like that, trying to move midsize square bales. I built him a set of forks to attach to the bucket, but I put a five foot headache rack on it to prevent a bale rolling off backwards. Hope your friend is alright.
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Tx Jim
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Information I have is neighbor was found between seat & fender. He has some broken ribs but the good news is he has feeling in his extremities.
There's a reason that my neighbor(dairyman) was using the Ford to try to put a rd bale in the mixer wagon. His newer,taller tractor that he normally puts rd bales in the wagon is at the dealership waiting in line to be repaired. His disabled tractor at dealership just stopped moving but loader would operate with no error codes.. After 2 dealer tech service calls the tractor was hauled in.
We as farmers,equipment operators & cattle people can never be to careful. An accident can happen in a split second.
I thank everyone who expressed concern and please pray for his recovery.
There's a reason that my neighbor(dairyman) was using the Ford to try to put a rd bale in the mixer wagon. His newer,taller tractor that he normally puts rd bales in the wagon is at the dealership waiting in line to be repaired. His disabled tractor at dealership just stopped moving but loader would operate with no error codes.. After 2 dealer tech service calls the tractor was hauled in.
We as farmers,equipment operators & cattle people can never be to careful. An accident can happen in a split second.
I thank everyone who expressed concern and please pray for his recovery.
exactly right to have something to keep items from rolling back!
I have 2 forks that bolt onto my ford bucket for loading logs on the dump trucks.
After a 14 inch by 10 ft log rolled over the bucket and came right at me and smashed my hood and steering wheel i welded 2 rebar uprights on the bucket and it functioned great numerous times already
I have 2 forks that bolt onto my ford bucket for loading logs on the dump trucks.
After a 14 inch by 10 ft log rolled over the bucket and came right at me and smashed my hood and steering wheel i welded 2 rebar uprights on the bucket and it functioned great numerous times already
Yes, hope for a good recovery. I just went and looked at my MF loader. There's a big 'WARNING" label right on the side, right where you step up, showing a big round bale rolling rbackwards onto the driver.., not that I pay any attention to all those warnings, but I guess we should.
Anonymous-0
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Hope he heals quik with no lastin pain ,,. it is always a multiple of failures that causes accidents such as this ,,,its a wonder we aint all dead. ..with all the improvising a fella gets pushed into
T in NE
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Those are spears, not forks.
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Tx Jim
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Update:
Neighbor came home from hospital yesterday afternoon. He sustained several broken ribs and collarbone. IMHOl he's still very LUCKY.
fixerupper
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It's good to hear he's home, though he's still hurt and probably still scared. A neighbor of mine was killed in a tractor rollover last spring. He was township fire district clerk and I was a trustee so I took over his job. Right now I'm filling out an annual report he would have done if he was still alive. Every time I see his signature on one of the papers I'm reminded of his accident. Jim
That was my first thought when I saw the pictures was the tractor was too small for the job. Just cause you've done it 100 times doesn't mean you can get away with it 101 times.
We had a guy near here about 15 years ago or so that killed himself rolling a round bale down his loader arms. He was trapping the bales against each other and rolling the bucket back and just using a bucket to move them. Don't know if he was just too cheap to buy forks or if too lazy to mount them.
Rick
We had a guy near here about 15 years ago or so that killed himself rolling a round bale down his loader arms. He was trapping the bales against each other and rolling the bucket back and just using a bucket to move them. Don't know if he was just too cheap to buy forks or if too lazy to mount them.
Rick
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Tx Jim
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As I stated the normally used loader tractor is at dealers waiting for repair. Here's a photo taken shortly after accident by someone else that's on Facebook.
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