Tractors aren't toys'

The neighbor kid was at his friends house. They were riding on a tractor. One kid in the seat one kid in the bucket going for rides. This other kid jumps on the tractor, and hits the dump lever by accident, and dumps the kid in the bucket on the ground, and the tractor runs over him. He is paralyzed from the neck down. The kid was 14 years old. I don't know the family personally, but this is a terrible thing to happen to a family. This family could use a few prayers. stan

prayers sent

THATS SAD... prayers from this area sent ,,

Where were the parents? I bet they aren't going to be friends much longer. That is very sad. I used to watch one of my neighbors bomb around quite fast on their new zero turn mower with about 4 year old on her lap. I felt like going over and slapping her. I read a report that said riding mower accidents are the number one cause of injuries to kids involving machines. If a machine was made for more than one person, it would have more than one seat. Prayers sent. Dave

Buckets ain't for carrying or lifting people!!! Several years ago, a neighbor was working on a roof, and wanted me to lift him on a steep roof with my skidsteer. I refused, and made him climb a ladder.. I did use the loader to keep the bucket at the edge of the roof below where he was working. If he had slid, the bucket would have stopped him.

We'll say a prayer here for the family.

There is a local farm boy and when he was 20 he went swimming and jumped into a river and his head hit a rock and he too is paralyzed. It can happen any where any time.

Yes years ago my older brother and I along with our dad decided that we wouldn't have any riders on the tractors, if we couldn't walk the 100-400 feet between the buildings we shouldn't be out there in the first place. We had an IH - A,H,M, 460 & 560. None of them had fenders. The 460 had a loader but we never used it for a personnel lift. It had a narrow front and nor did we flip it over.

I bought a planter from an old farmer several years back and he had an IH - H tractor with a loader and narrow front, he built an extension on his loader about 12 longer off the end of the loader and put a man bucket on it then ran ropes back to the tractor to the hydraulic controls so he could lift & lower himself up to and down from roof tops of his buildings. There was no one on the tractor at those times either.

I hate to say it but people like this person I just described is why we have osha today. Machines may change but the way people think doesn't always change.

Last summer a 79 year old man from my neighborhood went off the back of a loader bucket while the loader was raised all the way up. Scrambled his eggs a bit for the rest of the day but the next day he was up and around again, although a little stiff and sore. He actually was dumped off the back of the bucket when the tractor operator, who was unfamiliar with the levers, tipped the bucket back when he really meant to lower the loader.

Later on, when someone made the comment "why was an old man like that up there anyway" my reply was "he was changing a light bulb", which was the real reason he was up there. Jim

Praying for tractor accident victims. Dave

Praying for tractor accident victims. Dave