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Tractor death passenger on fender

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buickanddeere

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Condensed version here but victim had been riding on the fender.
Yup, perfectly safe. Been riding there for 30yrs. Don"t need no durn fool to tell me what isn"t safe.

http://blackburnnews.com/midwestern-ontario/midwestern-ontario-news/2013/09/30/wellington-county-man-dead-after-tractor-rolled/
 
You are so right! No fender rides may be a temporary disapointment, forgot after a while, but someone"s death is permanent.
 
Yep similar thing happened here last week fellow was riding in the passenger side of a car driver had a wreck and killed him,guess we all need to walk out in a field of course.
 
When I was a kid, my dad impressed on me the rule that the total capacity of a tractor was based upon the number of seats it had. One seat = one person.

That was over 50 years ago, and that's still a good rule.
 
Don't say WHY it left the road. My Dad always told me that there is no rule that is better applied than "common sense"
 
I Probly spent as many hours riding on the fender of an Oliver 77 as I did in the seat. If Dad was in the field with the 77 and my brother and I didn't have other chores to do we were riding with Dad on the tractor. Of course back then we didn't have the internet with people telling other people what was safe and what wasn't.
Most unsafe thing you can do is drive 55 on a two lane road meeting other people driving 55 slipping by with in a foot and a half in the rain or fog and you have no idea the skill of the person your meeting.
 
Did the fender ride thing all the time as a careless kid . Realize now as an adult that is real dangerous. Fifty years ago we were just starting to get cars with seat belts, lived on unpaved lightly traveled roads, and had a whole lot more respect for others. Those days are gone and safety is your own responsibility .
 
Lots of us old timers grew up riding on tractor fenders and survived because our Dads had some common sense....How else could we have learned to drive a tractor..
 
that was the reason my granddaddy bought olivers that big ol fender was a great place for the grandkids, heck my dad even built me a seat on the 1850, I don't know how I made it to 45 but the tractor riding sure didn't hurt me.
 
How many of you remember riding in the car before seatbelts did your dad automaticaly put his arm out to hold you back when he had to stop.I even did that with my kids I had one of those roll back moments a few yrs ago and did that to my wife we were both in seat belts. We both laughed.My wife learned to drive on a 2n and before that she would ride on toolbox on the fender with her dad.
 

Just to keep t hings in perspective, the US kills upward of 50,000 people per year on t he highways. Many of them innocent ride-alongs. Some are not wearing seatbelts but many are and they are still dead. Freedom is expensive and a few pay the price. But the alternative is to be afraid to do anything and lead plain pablum lives doing only what is goverment approved. People die getting out of bed, so the heck with it and live a little, ride on the fender (but be careful who is driving), J-walk across the street (but watch the traffic), swipe a cookie from the kitchen (this may be the most dangerous of all). In other words, take a risk but be sure you know what the odds are. Common sense should be applied at all times.

Life should be fun and when it isn't it is not worth living.

Dr. ED
 
I read that 2 times. Only said make of tractor, not model or year. Was this an old tractor, open station or newer with a cab? Said nothing about " riding on fender" or why/ how tractor left the road? Was it run off by another car/truck/tractor?
When I first read the topic re: passenger on fender, what passed through my mind was someone run over by an implement towed by the same tractor. Just not enough info.

just my 2 cents joe
 
Let's pass a bunch of laws forbidding this.
Maybe send up some drones to spy on people and catch them in the act.
If we could save one child...
 
Ah back in the good 'ole days cars had running boards. Lots of fun standing on them with the window down and hanging on! Might be two one on each side! Another way to ride a car was to hang on to the back bumper, crouch down and slide over the snowy road. H*ll we all lived to grow up.
 
Lots of us my age rode in the back of pick up trucks, and yes sitting on the tailgate with legs hanging down. Seemed safe then. Wouldn't consider it that safe now though. Lots more traffic.
 
You safety nazis are all alike. Want to take away our GOD-GIVEN right to kill and maim our next of kin. Next thing you know, you'll be wanting us to wear seat belts and motorcycle helmets.
 
Oops! Spent a lot of hours sitting on the tool box on the fender of the WD. Took a small butt to fit on that tool box. When got old enough to drive, didn't have to ask dad how to disk stalks or lay out a land to plow. That was one on one training.
 
Well, all it says it Case IH. Since Case IH is a realitively new tractor, then I would assume it had a cab. No mention of riding on the fender.

If you are a passenger in a cab tractor, and have no seatbelt, then a rollover is not going to end well.

at least on an open station tractor you might be thrown clear.

Gene ( who wore a thin spot in a 706 fender)
 
First thing I noticed is that there's snow in the picture. If you so desperately need a passenger, use the drawbar. Much safer than the fender for obvious reasons, though I have heard of a case where a person got ran over by the same tractor they were on while riding on the drawbar. I assume you want laws enacted to prevent this. After McGuinty's dictatorship, the last thing we need is more laws.
I don't know how the passenger got killed and the driver wasn't injured at all. Must have fallen off.
I really do wish more people would use common sense, instead of waiting for crap to happen, or being the one to make it happen.
One thing that is really scaring me is implement brakes. I'm just dreading the day some idiot kills a van load of people because he's going 50km/h with a 200hp tractor with 80,000lbs and can't stop. Going to start looking like Europe real quick.
 
A guy I knew, was riding with his grand daughter on a 730 JD he had restored. Somehow he fell off and the tractor ran over him. He made it to the Hospital and his last words were to his granddaughter. It wasn't your fault! He was about 70 yrs old. This just happened a couple of weeks ago, in south eastern Illinois.
 
Just cause you always did it doesn't make it safe. And that's all the OP was doing was pointing out that it isn't safest thing to do. And sure we've all done it. But just cause we did still doesn't rank it up there with the best ideas in the world. Heck I know guys missing body parts from sticking said body parts into a moving piece of equipment. They all say the same thing, "been doing that way for years". When that accident bites "been doing it that way for years" thing isn't going to make you any less dead or grow back body parts. Instead of trying to defend what you have been doing why not just let the post be. The guy in the news story is still dead. Not one comment on here changes that fact. Plus the guy driving that tractor can conceivably be charge with negligent homicide and or sued for wrongful death. Heck of a price to pay cause you been doing it for years.

Rick
 
The mennonites/amish in that area(Brubacher) are of the cab-less variety. Newer tractors you've only ever seen with a cab will show up without a cab down there, so it likely happened with no cab. This suggests that the driver was buckled up with the ROPS up. Even with a cab, I can't see the driver faring that well with a guy flying loosely around in the cab.
 
UD, are you saying we should discourage such practices? Regardless, we're already paying for it. Unfortunately natural selection is not always 100 percent effective, so when these dummies set out to kill themselves and their loved ones, they and their victims are often left paraplegic or brain-damaged. Who gets to pay to keep them alive for the next 30-40 years? You and me.
 
Yeah, but with all the laws and safety Nazis running around drilling "it's not SAFE" into everyone's head, natural selection has ZERO chance of being effective.

So now instead of paying for one dummy vegetable, we're paying for GENERATIONS of walking, talking dummies whose only marketable skill is procreation.

It's sad but our well-meaning crusades to spare people the pain and anguish of losing a loved one has had an unintended, negative effect on our society.
 
Not to argue for riding on fenders, but I'll bet everyone of us does something every day that would be considered "unsafe". Sometimes it's only luck that keeps us from being a statistic. Ever stand on a stepladder above the recommended "last step"? Ever operate any power tool without safety glasses with side shields? Ever run with scissors? Or an open knife? Ever jack up a car and look underneath without blocking the wheels or putting jack stands under it? Ever reach above your head on a shelf for something where an object could fall on you? Do you wear a hard hat EVERY DAY, ALL DAY?

Just saying that obviously unsafe behavior should be discouraged but at some point we must realize living life is a risk. Period.
 
I remember spending time on a WD/WD45 fender too box. THe WD had an old umbrella from to hang onto and the 45 had a bracket of some sort.

Dad never let us ride while he was using equipment other than pulling wagons or the manure spreader. I did spend alot of time on the side watching him.

we did some dumb things. riding on drawbar on D17 while pulling logs thru the woods. hate to think about the chain breaking. or a log rolling down the loader arms of the old WC. Never had issues and dad was careful but you never know.

Dad talked about riding on a horse drawn mower while my grand-dad drove the F20. Mower hit a rock and thru dad up on a rear tractor tire. no injury but.. he also said he was so little (5??) when he had to start the F20 if it quit on him he had to climb/lay on the crank to get it to start. He said it would have busted him in 2 if it backfired. that would have been 1945ish.

Dad worked for DuPont for 22 years. Has always been hyper-safe since.
 
When the government spends far more than it takes in taxes and borrows on our grandkids credit card to pay for generational welfare rats and tens of thousands of govt. employees to spy on citizens,

Who pays for that???
 
What am I?

Some would say that I am a bike-ridin' hick from Minnesota that used to ride on the fender of my fathers' tractor com plantin' time.


Sorry that I didn't specifically address the poor fellow who fell off of the tractor but there is a lot more going on that will affect our children and grandchildren.

Say hi to granny n' Jethro down by the cement pond!

Brad
 
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