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[Mumbleypeg]

Internet photo. Not me, not my tractor

For those of us who spend time on a farm tractor, a sobering reminder from the November 2017 issue of The Progressive Farmer magazine:

- Agricultural occupational fatality rate rose to 25.3 per 100,000 workers (for comparison the rate for all occupational workers is 3.3 deaths per 100,000).

- One in 10 operators will overturn a tractor in his or her lifetime

- Eighty percent of deaths caused by tractor overturns involve experienced operators

- One in seven farmers involved in a tractor overturn is permanently disabled

- Seven of 10 farms will go out of business within 5 years after a tractor-related fatality

Please take a couple minutes to review the safety section of your equipment owners manual, or go on-line, "Google" tractor overturns, find the safety stuff and read it. You probably know it all already but it's good to refresh and re-think. Safety First!

Ken

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[jerryd6818]

Tractor flipped over backwards on my Great Uncle & killed him. I was just a tyke when it happened. Vaguely remember him. Don't remember the funeral.

He's the bigg'un second from the right.

[zed6309]

Some of my favourite work tools

[jmh58]

Opus 40..

[bestgear]

That's quarry load of bluestone, holy cow!

[jmh58]

Tom.. One man did all that stone work.. If ya google Opus 40 you will get better pics and a history.. Was fun to explore this place.. John

[bestgear]

John - I watch this show called Aerial America and I think in the show on Pennsylvania I saw this, incredible, now on my must see list.

[jmh58]

Tom.. This was in Saugerties, NY.. John

[americanedgetech]

Saugerties, Mohonk mountain, New Paltz... This is my favorite region of New York. There is some amazing history up there, and it is actually just a couple hours from NYC.

Mohonk is where I broke my neck, and shoulder (the first time) climbing the trails. The second picture is from the labyrinth trail called "Lemon Squeeze". Once you get to the top there is a 1500 foot sheer wall of granite.
It is a beautiful area.
The third image is called "The Goat Trail" That is near where I slid.

[jmh58]

Ken.. We got to the gate of that resort.. We could only drive up to it if we had a reservation.. 1500.00-2500.00 a night.. They wanted 25.00 per person to hike the trails.. We passed.. Yep.. that is a nice area.. John

[americanedgetech]

Dratttt!
The resort used to be open to the public for breakfast, and lunch while the trails were free. You had to pay to climb the face but you also signed a certificate that stated YOU were responsible to have your body removed. I laughed at that one cause whom are they going to sue?

Well they can't stop the abandoned Granite mines in Rosendale. Those go on for miles inside the mountain, and the flooded pools are crystal clear. In fact they stay just about 45*f all year round.

They can't keep people out because for every entrance they seal up a new ceiling collapse opens a new one miles away.
I spent a fair part of my younger life climbing in those areas.
Today??? Stairs kill me. I don't get it!

[bighomer]

Beautiful photos fellers, my brother - in- law lived just outside of New Paltz back in the 80's a beautiful area, as Ken said rich in some wonderful history.

[jerryd6818]

Several years ago, we were on Mackinac Island and were shocked to find they charged $10 each to just walk into the Grand Hotel. They didn't get my saw-buck. Linnea's neither.

[jmh58]

Ignore the wife but check out the foot bridge.. This was about 2 miles from the trail head.. Some serious grunt work went into building this.. And its cool that a single log was used.. John

[RobesonsRme.com]

I suspect The Grand Hotel on Mackinack Island has experienced an influx of lookee-lous since the movie Somewhere In Time was made there, starring Christopher Reeves and Jane Seymour.

I've wanted to see the hotel ever since I saw the movie.

Charlie

[mrwatch]

Back around 1984-85 my wife and I rode my new Gold Wing to Canada and a way's west along Lake Superior. Went to the Grand Hotel. It is well worth the $10. We chose to buy the lunch which gave us the free admission. Huge dinning room with Porta Ricans doin the serving and a lady playing the harp. I have heard that Somewhere in Time affected the flow of people. We have friends that make a annual trip to the hotel and they have a strict rule that in the evening men wear suites and the ladies wear their finest.

[Unk]

A shot from my recent pheasant hunt in Kansas.

[RobesonsRme.com]

As to incidents with tractors.....

Had a cousin over in St. Clair County, East of Birmingham, was working one of his fields years ago, 1960's.

He failed to return for dinner (the noon meal down here).

When they went to check on him, he had fallen off the tractor and had been run over by the Bush Hog.

There was never an explanation as to why or how that happened. Speculation, but no explanation.

Charlie Noyes

[americanedgetech]

My youngest brother was about 12-13 when he ran himself over with his own quad runner.
He hit a root while in a slide, flew off the side, the quad hit the tree, did a 180, and came back over him like a ricocheting bullet.
That was the only time in 58 years I have seen anyone run their self over.

In a different brush hog accident I know a fella that lost his leg.
They were cutting trails for hog hunting, One fella was on the ground watching when one of the 30"x4"x1/2" blade pins sheared. That blade shot thru the shroud, and took his leg below the shin in a split second.

Machinery looks friendly, and it is easy to get complacent but it is like an animal waiting to pounce you dead.

[zzyzzogeton]

No pictures due to HIPPA and the gruesomeness of the accident,,,

We recently had a farmer get run over with a disc harrow due to multiple mistakes.

The farmer was underneath the tractor checking on a hydraulic leak that had been repaired earlier in the day. He had crawled under the tractor without telling anyone he was going to do so. His best friend crawled up in the cab, put her in gear and took off.

The farmer realized what was about to happen when the transmission clunked into gear, so he reached up and grabbed the tractor undercarriage, but couldn't hold on for long.

The tractor driver thought he heard something "weird" (the farmer yelling probably), so he stopped. When he leaned out the cab door, he heard yelling.

The farmer ended up with a punctured lung, several broken ribs and other long bones and had a calf muscle cut off and chewed up. He's still alive, has had several surgeries already, but is expected to live.

The mistakes made were::
- crawling under a running tractor without notifying all involved,
- failing to identify the location of all in the vicinity before moving a major piece of equipment
and
- starting to drive a tractor without doing a walk-around before getting in.

Had any one of the 3 mistakes been eliminated, the accident would not have happened.

[Quick Steel]

[mrwatch]

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that's nice but now the IRS say's if you do not include your Obama Care information on your tax form this year it will be invalid. or something like that

[Just Plain Dave]

I don't have Obama care or any other kind of health care. I suppose that could make things difficult.

[americanedgetech]

Find, and keep the pennies from your avatar buddy. You're gonna need them.

In fact I would take that down all together... It is taxable!

[peanut740]

Sunrise a couple days ago.