Re: Re: Re: Re: Safety Issues??

Posted by Bill in Ontario on April 04, 2002 at 06:09:31 from (216.209.175.112):

In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: Safety Issues?? posted by Jon D on April 03, 2002 at 18:15:53:

Hi Jon: Sorry, I sure didn't want to create bad feelings here (my desire was actually the opposite.)

I think you're right; common sense is really important. Like your corn picker example, I believe I've shown some common sense over the years by not getting my hand into a turning automotive fan. (Although I must say that some of those older 40's and 50's models actually seemed to be designed to get a young kid working in a service station to lose a digit or two!)

Now I'm sort of an ex-yuppie transitioning into a market gardening (small scale farming) kind of career for my (down the road) retirement. I don't have a lifetime of farm experience, and I find that there are some situations where I just don't have the experience and background to make common sense decisions. (I've never even seen a corn picking machine, but I like to think I'm smart enough not to stick my hand into moving blades of any sort.) I was thinking more of the sort of example like Pete's post: I have also seen many rotary mowers with chain top links. You might argue that it's just common sense not to use one. But I found Pete's story interesting, because my life hasn't given me the experience to learn the lesson of poor design that can kill you when it comes to that specific, technical point. I'm in the market for a bush hog type mower and I appreciate Pete's (or I guess it's Pete's Dad's)advice on that level too.
You might argue that if I'm foolish enough to buy such an implement, and it fails, and hurts me or kills me, then I deserve what I got because I didn't have any common sense. You'd be entitled to your opinion. (Just like I'd be entitled to disagree with you. Unless of course I was dead, in which case you win the arguement by default.)

I'm not (personally) interested in the cruder (liability type) safety issues so much as I'm interested in more hidden and subtle points. (I know not to run my gas tractor in the garage with the doors closed, but I was at a friends house a few months back and noticed that his bathroom and stove top vent fans were ducted into his garage only. So, theoretically, he could have started the car on a cold winter's day, in the garage with the garage door open, proceeded to shovel snow for 15 minutes, and gassed his sleeping family. Is it common sense, experience, building regulations or what should have told him to vent those fans outside of the garage?

Anyway, gotta run. Thanks for your input.

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