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TimNearFortWorth 
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Posted: 19 Dec 2010 at 5:17am |
A family member lost his life yesterday afternoon in central NY due to a farming accident (near Ritchfield Springs). Details are still being investigated, but we do know it involved the PTO on a manure spreader.
Please be careful around rotating equipment.
Early thirties and leaves behind three little girls; 6 months, 3 and 5 years old.
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farmer_rob
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Posted: 19 Dec 2010 at 5:24am |
so sorry to hear about your lost. it can happen so quickly! about 5yrs ago i had a friend who was hleping set up an auger on someone esle farm. he was adjusting the base of the auger to line up with the wagon when the back of his coat caught a bolt on the pto. luckily the tractor was running just above idle but he went around 5 or 6 times before stalling the tractor out.. he only had a broken arm and badly bruised up but no longer wants to get in there to help out.
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Posted: 19 Dec 2010 at 5:49am |
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sorry about your lost. A friend of mine about 20 years ago was caught in a pto . He was lucky he got a broken arm and leg. the only thing that save him was it tore off all his clothes the only thing he had on was the ring around his neck from his t-shirt
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Posted: 19 Dec 2010 at 6:07am |
It's a very,very sad reminder to all of us to be extra careful around our equipment when operating them or while repairing them(especially moving tires !).
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Posted: 19 Dec 2010 at 6:54am |
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Prayer for the family and yes please be careful around equipment
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Posted: 19 Dec 2010 at 8:49am |
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Sorry to hear. We get so comfortable around our equipment, we forget how fast stuff can happen. Ya'll be careful out there, ya hear?
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Posted: 19 Dec 2010 at 8:54am |
Tim
I will be praying for your friend and your family. This brings a tear to myself as I have 1 and 5 year old boy.
Take care, Darryl
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Posted: 19 Dec 2010 at 9:13am |
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I stepped over a tumbling rod(shaft drive from the speed jack which changed the belt to a pto) for our corn elevator when I was about 13-14. Good thing I had on an old pair of overalls, because it took one leg of the pants off before I could react! Folks evidently were scared because we put tunnels from the corn crib over it every time after that. Later we had a White 8600 combine and on both sides of the corn head was a decal that said " This machine is faster than you are" Always thought back to the tumbling rod when I noticed it. It's the little things that we don't think about that kills us.
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Posted: 19 Dec 2010 at 9:18am |
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Prayers to your families. Sorry to hear that,as it brings back memories , Years ago my cousin was unloading a wagon load of corn and he was (playing) running his hand on the PTO shaft and it grabbed him and wrapped his arm around it and pulled his neck into shaft. Lucky they just had small Kubota running the auger, it killed tractor and he survived. We can never be to CAREFUL around machinery!
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Posted: 19 Dec 2010 at 11:16am |
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A young lady at the livestock auction lost her arm to a PTO accident. Be careful and think twice when you are working around machinery.
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Posted: 19 Dec 2010 at 11:22am |
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This is a good reminder for everyone, and applies to ALL rotating equipment, including our drill presses, table saws, chop saws, etc. As I move into the category of Old Buzzard, I find I'm more and more careful in this regard. So soon old and so late smart.
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Posted: 19 Dec 2010 at 11:22am |
Mom was cleaning up corn around elevator after unloading a load back in the mid 60s. bolt had broken in shaft where pto attached to elevator. only one dad had was about 2 inches to long but it worked.Moms sweatshirt got snagged by the long bolt. Broke her arm and hand. stayed in hospital 2 days. was lucky not to be injured worse. < id="gwProxy" ="">< ="jsCall;" id="jsProxy" ="">
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Posted: 19 Dec 2010 at 11:46am |
When we were kids, my mom would send us to tell our father that lunch was ready between loads of corn sileage he would be unloading into the silo. My father never allowed us near rotating equipment and when he would see us come around the barn, he would throw small rocks at us if we came within 50' of the blower while unloading.
My parents sold the farm in their early forties, not just because of the lack of parity on making milk, but also because my father was nearly worn out from doing all field work on our dairy exclusively. We kids learned how to "sign" that lunch was ready and my father gave us some interesting "signs" back when he needed fuel, baling twine, grease gun, drinks, etc.
I was nearly ten years old when I discovered that our uncle with one arm had lost same in an A-C left hand delivery chopper in the late 50's; my father's older brother.
This brother (Bob Stack) started an A-C dealership in Rome, NY; Stack Equipment.
I talked to my father this morning as he is just out of the hospital himself from knee replacement surgery. He always thought the world of this young man, the father of three small girls with my fathers first grandchild (my niece) and our thoughts and prayers go out to this young man's family in this time of need.
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Posted: 19 Dec 2010 at 12:17pm |
Tim: Assume Bob Stack was the same that had the Industrial Contract - Stack Equipment?
Did they have a branch in Syracuse?
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Posted: 19 Dec 2010 at 12:49pm |
Damn what a shame! So sorry about your loss...
Thats why I had these made up to put on an all-crop:
If I could I would give them away free...
The old style guards are often missing or cant hook up.
Everyone please be careful....
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Posted: 19 Dec 2010 at 12:55pm |
Orangeman,
Bob had the A-C dealership originally across from the State Hospital in Rome.
When we would visit, he would let us kids loose on the state land across the road with A-C mini bikes, Terra Tigers, etc. while dad and he would check out new A-C equipment on the lot or view his laying hen operation during the early 1970's; Bob never did get my dad to take one of the 190s or let him order in a D21, let alone any of the White brand tractors as he also picked up that line.
Stack Equipment and Supply was the oldest brother Joe and that construction equipment shop was in Liverpool, NY. Joe later opened a place in Florida before he passed and I believe the Liverpool operation was taken over by his shop foreman.
I guess the A-C name stuck with all the brothers as my dad tells of my grandfather having four or five WD45's during the late 1950's and these were used to run two farms in Middleville and Newport, NY.
My dad also tells of shipping one -two ton milk/day during that period, in cans.
Plenty of A-C on the farm back then and I own a D19D that was purchased from the same dealership my grandfather used; URGOS in Frankfort, NY.
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Posted: 19 Dec 2010 at 1:18pm |
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I am very sorry to hear of the death in your family.It brings back memories of my Uncle Al that was cleaning a self unloading forage wagon while the wagon was operating.My Dad went to see him in the Hospital as I was to young for something like that.Years later Dad told me Al looked like a piece of ground meat laying in the Hospital bed.He lost one leg and almost the other and one testicle.His chest was tore open so that you could see his heart beating.The local Undertaker got him out of the wagon because the Rescue Squad thought he was dead.I always made sure my kids new if it was turning stay away from it!And Uncle Al is the reason I have all of my appendages!I hope God helps your family with your loss.
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Posted: 19 Dec 2010 at 1:46pm |
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So sorry to hear of your loss,May god be with him and his family.
My brother must of had a gaurdian Angel.He was unloading feed out of an auger wagon and a tore frayed pair of "toughskins" got caught on PTO shaft,spun him and ripped the pantsleg off before he could react.My dad really cussed him and told him he should be dead.
In 4-H they showed us the gory bloody photos of farm accidents on a slide show.That was quite an eye opening experience for me.
If any of you have kids they should go through one of these programs,I would hope they still sponsor/provide them
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Posted: 19 Dec 2010 at 2:51pm |
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Tim,
My condolences to your and yours. There is not much one can say at a time like this. It is always too little too late. I agree with GBACBFan, we learn too late. And yet, we still do things we're not supposed to be doing. God made too many part time idiots, and I guess I am one of them. Too bad that some of us have to pay the ultimate price. If everyone would try to remember those who have paid that price, it might keep us alive a little longer. I take it that this was your Brother-In-Law. My heart goes out to you and them, especially at this time of year.
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Posted: 19 Dec 2010 at 6:46pm |
So sorry to hear about your loss.
I would recommend EVERYONE take a look at this website and if you know any firefighters/EMTs/Medics have them take it, or something like it. I have learned A LOT from the PSU guys and their classes.
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Posted: 19 Dec 2010 at 6:58pm |
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Tim: I am sorry to hear this, my Dad got his hand caught in a corn picker back in the 60's and I can remember him changing dressings on his hand at the kitchen table. I can remember how bad it looked and it made an everlasting impression on me. Dave.
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Posted: 19 Dec 2010 at 7:20pm |
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So soory to hear about things like this, ESPECIALLY this time of year!!!!
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