Danger Game

Howard H. · Jun 5, 2010

I play a game with my young teenage son while he's out helping me at the farm where I randomly pop him a question "What's dangerous here??" and make him examine a situation and tell me what to watch out for...

Might be something jacked up that could fall, arc welder eye burn, possiblity of shorting a 12v connection, something flammable, or whatever...

Today working under a sweep plow, I was getting out from under it, intent on going to get a wrench, when I thought I glimpsed a coiled up rattlesnake... It was just a split second image burned in my mind, so I looked and looked but couldn't find one anywhere under it, so almost went on to the pickup - but couldn't shake that image, so I went back to look carefully again...

Finally just about decided I was just going crazy or hallucinating, when I saw him again... He was about a 3 1/2 footer coiled up in the depression under an implement wheel right where we were working...

Anyway, I made my son try to figure out what was dangerous and finally had to point the rattler out to him, too, so I guess it wasn't purely my aging eyesight!! ha...

Howard

Plane Bart · Jun 5, 2010

I would have already had him skinned out and turning him into a hat band, and would grill up the rest of him tonight on the grill.
glad you and your son did not get bit.
Teaching Safety never ends and is always a good practice, I had a bad year back in 2000 lost a finger, shattered an elbow, and cut a tennon on one of my index fingers, looking back now they all could have been prevented if I just took that extra minute to inspect my work area, Great practice Keep it up.

GeneMO · Jun 5, 2010

A while back I bought a Tarus "Judge"

Shoots .45 colt, or .410 shotgun shells.

That sounds like the tool you needed.

Good game, and good you spotted him.

Gene

agpilot · Jun 5, 2010

Hi Howard: That's good that you use a game method to teach safety. My father used the degrading method. If I got hurt he would ask if it hurts. I learned early on not to talk to him because he would carry on the degrading game about how stupid I was and laugh saying I deserved to get hurt. Dealing with his reaction taught me to be extra careful before doing something so that he could NOT laugh at me and make sadistic remarks. Later on this payed off many times while learning to fly and later how to do aerial spraying as safely as possible but yet get the most work done as fast as possible without getting hurt... Sorta a mental game in always being aware of danger and yet looking for the safest way get the job done even though it is riskey... ag

IOWA NORTHEAST · Jun 5, 2010

At the first sign, I would have unpolitly showed my son by rear end and elbows as I went over the hill. ME NO HERO

Flurette Farm · Jun 5, 2010

I've never had that experience and hope I never do. I've never seen a rattle snake on my place even though they are in the area.
I have however been bitten twice by copperheads when working in hay. They are a nasty snake and can make you sick if its a large one in the spring. Dr. just gives an antibiotic the same as the vet does the dogs. My dogs manage to get bitten a least once a year it seems.

John S-B · Jun 5, 2010

My oldest daughter will start driving next year, and that's one of the methods I'll use. There's also the "What if" scenarios.

John Harmon · Jun 5, 2010

Heres what happened to this Poisonous Snake who come around our place. 4' Diamonback,9-7-'07. Thanks to a Colt SA .22 magnum and a SIL who is a Taxidermist.JH

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