I wasn't wearing my seatbelt!

[boggen]

i hope ya foot/leg heal with nothing major going on with it.

for myself i always hated seat belts when a kid. and into teens, then after an accident, it took about a month before it just became automatic without thinking for seat belt in a vehicle.

tractor on other hand. a little bit more of a chore. the lap belt handle worn out and likes to stick a little bit. and afraid if i don't have a screw driver in reach, i may be stuck in the tractor if i ever did get into something. and needed to release the belt. even with that, still wear it.

4 wheeler / atv / dum buggy with a full roll cage on it. roll'ed that baby, G forces alone pulled my white nuckle fist and arms of the steering wheel and put one hand under the roll cage smashing it, when i was a young. if it was not for the 5 point harness it had. most likely been a lot worse!

 

[Garandman]

I didn't used to wear seat belts, until I went through the police academy, they convinced me. Then I became a certified fatal accident investigator. It makes you ill to send somebody to the morgue, who would have had minor scratches IF! The old figure used to be that 2% of fatalities would have been better off without a belt, good odds to wear one.

On 1975 I started offering $100 to anyone that could produce an accident report demonstrating that someone was uninjured in an accident because they were not wearing a seat belt. No one has ever collected.

if someone doesn't want to wear a seatbelt because they're too fat or too lazy, go to it. But for some reason they always have some BS story about how someone they know would have been killed if they were wearing a seatbelt.

 

[aczlan]

tractor on other hand. a little bit more of a chore. the lap belt handle worn out and likes to stick a little bit. and afraid if i don't have a screw driver in reach, i may be stuck in the tractor if i ever did get into something. and needed to release the belt. even with that, still wear it.

You might try spraying the latch with some kind of lubricant (I like garage door lubricant) to let it move easier. That helps on our Kubotas when the latches get sticky

Aaron Z

 

[Utopia Texas]

i hope ya foot/leg heal with nothing major going on with it.

for myself i always hated seat belts when a kid. and into teens, then after an accident, it took about a month before it just became automatic without thinking for seat belt in a vehicle.

tractor on other hand. a little bit more of a chore. the lap belt handle worn out and likes to stick a little bit. and afraid if i don't have a screw driver in reach, i may be stuck in the tractor if i ever did get into something. and needed to release the belt. even with that, still wear it.

4 wheeler / atv / dum buggy with a full roll cage on it. roll'ed that baby, G forces alone pulled my white nuckle fist and arms of the steering wheel and put one hand under the roll cage smashing it, when i was a young. if it was not for the 5 point harness it had. most likely been a lot worse!

Considering the importance of a good working seat belt you might want to give yourself a early Christmas present and replace the defective latch.

 

[Turbys_1700]

I wear my seat belt all the time whether I am on the tractor or in the truck or car. In 1963 my grandmother was involved in wreck. She was a passenger in her 57 Chevy. A drunk driver crossed the yellow line and totaled her car. Her head hit the windshield and she had over 150 stitches in her face. It was a miracle that she lived. She was able to recover from that horrible accident and lived another 20 years before her heart gave out. The old car sat in the shed for years and I always looked at that busted windshield knowing that it was my grandmother's face that did it.

 

[Gcorron]

Garandman,
Don't think for one minute I'm excusing not wearing seatbelts, nope, BIG believer. But I sure could have used the hundred bucks back then.

T bone situation, IF the person hadn't been locked into the crushed space, they MAY have survived, but could not because they were locked in place and couldn't get away, and the space was destroyed. I did several of those. My statistics were way less than 2% personally. I did one or two where someone's vitals were crushed by the force against the seatbelt, the coroner would not say the person would have died with, or without, the seatbelt, so they were killed by the seatbelt. One of these that sticks, unfortunately, in the memory was a pretty big boy in a 25 ton tandem truck that came to an abrupt stop. The truck was relatively intact and the coroner could not say he would have been killed by being thrown into the wheel/dash area, but he sure could say the seatbelt that dug into him was the cause of death.

Wanna talk back seatbelts that used to be lap belts only? The NHTSF had a lot of evidence that they caused a lot of damage, broken backs, etc.. That's why they changed them.

I won't go out with of the driveway without a seatbelt, so that tells you where I fall in the issue, but I cannot say that in EVERY circumstance you are better off with a seatbelt.

M1A guy myself!

George

 

[Bill Guenthner]

I take the owners manual instructions pretty seriously, if the ROPS is up, the seatbelt is on, if the ROPS is down, leave it off and pray you can clear!
George

Why would there ever be a reason to put the ROPS down while using the tractor? I don't think I've ever had the ROPS folded down in the 4 years I've had my tractor.

 

[murphy1244]

Why would there ever be a reason to put the ROPS down while using the tractor? I don't think I've ever had the ROPS folded down in the 4 years I've had my tractor.

Getting it thru a garage door.

 

[hunt4570]

And I remind fellow motorcyclists, "You are never wearing a seat belt.

So... Take a class, it can (has) save your (my) life... If you are going to ride, know what you are doing!!

IF YOU THINK LOUD PIPES SAVES LIVES, IMAGINE WHAT LEARNING TO RIDE THAT THING COULD DO!!

Sorry, its the motorcycle instructor in me!

 

[Bill Guenthner]

Getting it thru a garage door.

If you roll it going through the garage door you need a new garage