Posted by NE IA on February 01, 2008 at 13:34:55 from (12.227.201.200):
This time of year with all the cold and snow I have to much time on my hands and to lazy to do anything to as well. A bunch of us were talking about close calls and I will list a few and certianly wish everyone could help us.
I have a WD Allis that has had alot of birthdays and the pin that goes through the steering shaft just above the knuckle wore out or dropped out.
A friend had a WD 45 Allis that his father was plowing with and when he raised the plow over a waterway and dropped it into the sod the bottom snap coupler let loose and the lift latches kept pulling thus it pushed the snap coupler mounted plows top half forward pinning him against the steering wheel, no broken bones
This is odd and for OLD probably more than most on this form. I have a W AC like olds grader. Alot of them slipped a chunk of pipe over the hand brake to extend it upwards so while the driver was standing up it was eazy to grab the brake. Mine has these pipes, and once while i was loading down hill on a trailer the pipe got caught behind a bolt on the grader. It would have been very simple to just push sideways, but I instead tried to keep pulling harder in a panic.
Another time I was loading a AR JD with steel wheels on to a trailer. I had 3" x 12" white oak planks to drive up on. I had used the same plank for three years probably, but one snapped at a knot and when the steel wheel got to the trailer bed it grabed the bumper and had a positive grip. This brought the front end up and then it spun sideways. The other hind wheel was on top of the trailer--thus the tractor was sideways on the trailer / ground. The three kids thought it was kool, almost brushed the side of them.
My dad had a 60 JD and was driving down a new highway not open for trafic yet in road gear with a 4 row cultivator on. The snap ring behind the flywheel broke and locked the engine up and tossed dad over the side of the steering wheel onto the pavment / cultivator skidding both hind wheels on the new concrete.
A brother fueled the VAC Case tractor up at the fuel barrel and when he backed away the hose caught the cultivator. The tractor was pretty hot and the barrel came and landed on top of the tractor. Must not have been any sparks.
At a parade a good older friend thosed butter scotch candy from his CC Case by the handfuls. On piece dropped on to the hind tire and proced to drop it in front of the left hind wheel. As soon as it hit the ground a young boy got it and the tractor hind wheel ran over his hand. The boy just wiped his had off and went for more candy. When a fellow fireman told my tractor driving friend to be sure to get the candy away from the tractor he cussed and swore at him. He was so mad at our town that he refused to ever bring his tractor to our parade again. He has since died and I never told him about running over a boys hand.
As young boys my brothers were as stupid as me and while jacking around riding on a Ford 8N, standing on the clutch side in front of the fender my brother fell off. The hind rubber was the old chicken track tread and left tire imprints across the small of his back. We determined that a couple of small gopher mounds were in the right place as he quit crying in about five munites. So we turned the tractor around and started raking hay.
A friend had his brothers on the Ford 8N and they were driving down the gravel road while beating on each other. One boy fell off in front of the hind wheel and the boy driving hit the brakes as it rolled his brother in front of the hind wheel till the tractor stoped.
Once us boys were using a JD 60 with a loader and snow bucket picking apples from a tree. Two brother in the bucket and me on the tractor seat. I'm sure it had to be my brothers that started the argument, that lead to them throwing some rotten ones at me. I had little protection, I never liked loosing let alone from my younger brothers. So I won when I tripped the bucket.
My brother was walking behind a JD 290 planter as there was no safe place on the tractor. He got tired and decided to plop down between the fertilizer boxes. As the shaft slowley turned it wrapped his pants up so tight his legs turned blue. Dads old pocket knife was not as sharp as it could have been cutting the pants off the brother.
We had a Ford 8N with a loader, on the lift arms was a bracket restrickting the upward movment of the 3 point. This would then supply oil to the loader. My brother was sitting on the fender and got his toe between the lift and bracket. His toe is a little goofy yet after fifty years.
As a kid our old sheep buck was to lazy to bunt anyone so my brothers and I decided to train him. They always wasted so much hay we got on our knees and pushed him backward with our heads. After a few week ends of this a neighbor kid was taking his turn with his eyes closed and the old buck came at him and just popped his head. The neighbor kid just laid there for a few moments while us boys decided how to lie to our parents about how he died. The kid got up and stumbled a few times and he went on to play. A few days later he got my dad in the rear end, and dad gave the old buck a hard lesson with a 2 x 4.
When we were boys we went to the pond with a 22 rifel. We would catch frogs and take a small hollow weed and stick it up their rear end and inflate them. Then we would toss them in the pond and watch them try to dive under. It was then decided to shoot the frogs to scare them once they gave up. We had never heard or crossed our minds the 22 would skip a bullet into the cows drinking on the other side. We thought once when the cows went wild something was odd. That night milking one cow had blood dripping from her hind leg, nothing serious and dad never did find out. Any other time one of us could have been over there as well.
I guess it's warm enough to get outside and do something so I will stop thinking about how us kids tried to avoid old age. I origanaly started to post thinking of tractor dangers, just got carried away. Sorry, and add to this if you can.
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