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Brad MI 
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Posted: 13 Sep 2010 at 4:46am |
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My neighbor was killed in a round baler accident yesterday afternoon. I don't have all the details, but it sounds like he was cleaning it out and the rear door came down. I suspect he decided he didn't have the time to engage the safety pin/latch for just the few seconds of being in there. He was a great guy and will be missed. BE SAFE!
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Calvin Schmidt
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Posted: 13 Sep 2010 at 5:54am |
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Sorry to hear that Brad. I read about a similiar accident several weeks ago where the hydraulic hose burst and the operator became traped inside a running baler. Like you said-BE SAFE
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Posted: 13 Sep 2010 at 7:24am |
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Sorry to hear this. Take the time to be safe guys. A guy I used to work for would never latch the baler open when working inside. If he did he would forget to unlatch it and when he got in the tractor to go he got mad cause the baler was latched open. I just stood back and let him do his thing telling him I won't help unless it was latched.
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Posted: 13 Sep 2010 at 10:31am |
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So sorry to hear about the accident.
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Posted: 13 Sep 2010 at 11:11am |
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Sorry to hear of your loss.
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Bill Long
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Posted: 13 Sep 2010 at 11:18am |
You know you can never be too careful around Farm Equipment. I remember a person who got his pants caught in an uncovered PTO shaft. He said he heard the engine open up and there was a good possibility of being killed or seriously maimed. He hung onto the seat and lost his pants but saved his life.
I know there are many more safety features out there but you cannot be too careful.
Please accept my sincere sympathy for your loss.
Good Luck!
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Dave(inMA)
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Posted: 13 Sep 2010 at 12:26pm |
I hate reading about these tragedies. But too often we push the limits of what's really safe - for reasons I just don't get. Buddy of mine ran a JD 4020 with a Kuhn rotary mower. He'd crawl under that mower to change a bent blade leaving the 4020 running. Always gave me the creeps - I know that the pto was disengaged, so no power to the mower, but suppose something weird happened and the pto reengaged with him under there.......don't even want to think about that. Wouldn't have taken any extra time to shut down the tractor and restart when done with the mower. He always said he was fine doing it his way, but what if?
Why not shut the machinery all the way off and be safer?
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Brad MI
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Posted: 13 Sep 2010 at 3:24pm |
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I got more details from the first responders this morning. When they came on the seen the tractor was idling with the baler attached. The rear door was closed with the victim's head and one arm trapped inside. He had an air hose inside the baler, apparently cleaning the chaff out of the baler. It was several minutes before anyone with enough knowledge of the baler arrived and was able to open the door, although I doubt it would have made any difference after a few seconds; that door closed with hydraulic pressure would have been a tremendous amount of force to endure. If he would have taken the time to engage the safety latches it would be a non-story today- a lesson for all.
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Posted: 13 Sep 2010 at 3:57pm |
My nephew watched a woman get her hair tangled into a grain auger and it pulled her through. They couldn't get to her in time. Another local person got the strings on their 'hoodie' caught in the PTO and killed. Many people in our area now have stickers that say "loose strings kill" with his picture next to it.
We all do stupid stuff because we're in a hurry. A few seconds of safety can make a lifetime of difference to your family.
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Posted: 13 Sep 2010 at 4:00pm |
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Sorry to hear of this tragedy. I had a good friend that converted a field chopper to stationary use for chopping hay at his small feedlot. No header assembly or safety guards of any kind. He somehow went through this machine head first. His remains were spread with a partial load of feed on a nearby hilltop. I was one of the first on the scene & it still haunts me more than twenty years later. Be careful!! Kip
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Posted: 13 Sep 2010 at 4:02pm |
That's tough. I hope that people take this as an example of what can happen by not taking two minutes to let the saftey bars down.
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Posted: 13 Sep 2010 at 9:16pm |
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I feel for his family. Farm accidents are unforgiving. Just last week we had two farm accidents locally. One 47 year old man lost his life. He'd been brushhogging,apparrently drove up on a round bale,flipped over. The other man was lucky, just a broken leg. Hope everyone stays safe.
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Posted: 13 Sep 2010 at 9:32pm |
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Saw a loader boom fall on a in the prototype shop once, about a 4 yard machine just been built, one hose had a bad crimp and it went down faster than I would have thought possible.
There are no base safety valves like on a manlift. If anyone has been close they would not have had time to get away.
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Posted: 13 Sep 2010 at 9:42pm |
Very sorry to hear about your neighbor. We all catch ourselves doing things we know better than doing when we get in a hurry. Most of the time we're lucky. He was not. It could be any one of us next time. We all just need to slow down.
I had a friend who was bush-hogging. Going under some low-hanging limbs. He was apparently pushing a limb up out of the way, but it was larger than he thought, and started pushing him off the tractor. He apparently couldn't reach the clutch. Tractor was idled down when they found it. It had stalled against a tree. He was lying with his head and arms out from under the front of the bush-hog. Everything from the ribcage down was destroyed. It took over an hour for EMS to untangle him from the flails and lift the bush-hog up enough to get him out. He was air-vacced to Atlanta, but died shortly after reaching the hospital. He wasn't even 25 years old. I guess if he hadn't hit the throttle as he went off, it probably wouldn't have stalled out when it hit the tree, and would have finished him off right there. Might have been better actually. I'm sure he suffered a lot.
Remember, machines have no brain. Use your own. Advice for all of us.
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Posted: 13 Sep 2010 at 9:48pm |
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Our next door neighbor was inside his grain bin with the floor sweep auger running. I suppose he was helping the auger get the last few bushels out of the bin. He got too close to the auger and it caught his pant leg and pulled his foot into the center hole. He bear hugged the auger and was able to stop it until the belt broke on the motor outside the bin. It broke his ankle and cut him up pretty bad but he survived. He was a strong stout german and his strength was what helped him that day.
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Posted: 13 Sep 2010 at 9:56pm |
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A friend of my dad's got caught once by a pto shaft. Luckily the tractor was idled down enough and when it tossed him around he was enough resistance to kill the tractor. Spent a couple months in the hospital but he survived. Before he passed on, he told many of us the story and to be careful. I remember that story like it was yesterday. It was a loose shirt tale that pulled him in.
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Posted: 13 Sep 2010 at 11:05pm |
Same goes for working on something in the shop. If I have to jack something up, a stand goes under there too.
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Posted: 14 Sep 2010 at 9:35am |
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I ran my bushhog over a garden hose the other day and had to untangle it. I cannot imagine how gruesome untangling a mans guts from that would be!! I feel sorry for the EMT's too! It probably would have been a blessing if it had finished him quicker!!
We had a farmer around here back in the '70's who got pulled down onto an auger and it took his nuts off!! other than that he was OK (if you can call it that)!!
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Posted: 14 Sep 2010 at 9:39am |
 Rawleigh wrote:
We had a farmer around here back in the '70's who got pulled down onto an auger and it took his nuts off!! other than that he was OK (if you can call it that)!!
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Posted: 14 Sep 2010 at 10:15am |
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Farmer 5 miles from my farm was killed sunday when a small yanmar he was operating upset on him. His wife found him sunday evening. Hillside farm in wv. Bill
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Posted: 14 Sep 2010 at 10:49am |
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A few years ago, a local man was loading a dozer with no ROPS on a tall trailer, he was driving it up the trailer blade first. It rolled over backwards, pinning him under it. He died instantly.
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Posted: 14 Sep 2010 at 10:55am |
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Why is it we all find ways to ignore machinery that is running? My BIL stepped off the 180 with the bush hog running, he stepped off the back onto the BH, I chewed his butt out for two days!!
I have three damaged fingers from being stupid with a wood jointer(at 15 years old) and in my 5o's now, still hurt today as if I did it yesterday, just damned lucky I did not lose them but same stupidity got me there.
Sorry for the loss butt we need to use the safeties or make the equipment as safe as can or risk the major loss.
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Posted: 14 Sep 2010 at 11:38am |
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Local farmers dad was helping out with a bush hog and his grandson was riding the fender when they hit a hole and tossed the kid off and he ran over him with the bush hog. Very sad day.
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Posted: 14 Sep 2010 at 11:55am |
Crawled out from under a grain head years ago when helping a mechanic work on a header control. We were working on the part on the pickup truck tailgate and heard a crash. Blown hydraulic hose not 5 minutes after crawilng out from under it. COMMUNICATE, I thought he had put the safety latch down and he thought i had.
Also all my clothes except for my cap and boots were removed by a tractor pto. I was standing up on the opisite side of the pto from which I started with hands still holding on to the tractor seat. (44 MH) Beat up and scared as H&%^ but OK. Still can't figure for sure how I got over the pto still standing. Pto had a roller guard but shirt tail got into the u-joint. BE CAREFUL !!!
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Posted: 14 Sep 2010 at 7:41pm |
This is such a sad thread to me. It has been on my mind all day.
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Posted: 14 Sep 2010 at 7:44pm |
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Me too. I keep thinking about Jack. Funny how you forget that stuff, or push it out of your mind. Thinking about it makes you sad, but it does serve to remind us of how frail we all are compared to some of the things we build. We forget that we built them to do jobs we are too weak to do, and therefore they are much stronger and more powerful than we could ever be. We must try to always respect them.
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Posted: 14 Sep 2010 at 7:50pm |
I couldn't have said it better, Dream.
I think we get accustomed to those tools that we have at hand, and become forgetful of how dangerous they actually can be.
I'm sad for the men who were just working as they always have, and even sadder for their families.
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Posted: 14 Sep 2010 at 8:08pm |
clovis wrote:
I'm sad for the men who were just working as they always have, and even sadder for their families.
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Amen brother, AMEN.
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Posted: 14 Sep 2010 at 8:24pm |
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I was on the Ontario Farm Safety Association as a director for 10 years and chairman for 3 years. I attended Safety conferences throughout Canada and in Iowa, Maryland, Pennsylvania. I've heard testimonials from many at these conferences and meetings and it is very disturbing to hear of so many accidents that could have been prevented. There are an average of 100 farmers killed in Canada yearly. In the last 15 months there have been more killed in farm accidents in Canada than Canadian solders killed in Afghanistan in the last 8 years that Canada was involved in Afghanistan.
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Posted: 14 Sep 2010 at 8:31pm |
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Dream, you really put it into perspective. A local man lost his arm in a corn picker a few years ago and another man lost his life in a haybine accident recently. Both were avoidable accidents if safety rules were followed. Sometimes I catch myself doing stupid things because I'm in a hurry too. Please be careful!
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