How not to bushhog !!

[ssgp2]

It’s the ones you don’t see that can be costly. Two different times for me.

 

[mred2]

It’s the ones you don’t see that can be costly. Two different times for me. View attachment 713331View attachment 713332

I just can't like that!

 

[jezreel]

I really like this thread. Hearing these stories helps a greenhorn like me to take things a bit slower, and to give safety its due consideration.

 

[oosik]

Nothing quite so dramatic here. Story was a good laugh. I had an electric fence for a while. After installation I could not get a positive read on the fence tester tool. Grabbed the wire with my hand - nothing.

Like a blooming idiot - right shoe off - standing in the wet mud - grabbed the wire again. As you would expect - knocked me back on my a$$.

Redid the ground for the control box - all was OK then.

 

[Gee Ray]

I bet the neighborhood bully a dollar that he could not pee over the electric fence. The most entertainment I ever got for a dollar.

 

[RSKY]

I really like this thread. Hearing these stories helps a greenhorn like me to take things a bit slower, and to give safety its due consideration.

You live to your sixties by being incredibly boring, not doing anything exiting. Or you live to your sixties by being incredibly lucky, surviving all the stupid things you do.

On a side note all of the land I have been mowing is owned by my 96-year old mother. My two sisters, both in their seventies, had to bring her to the distant farm every day or she would threaten to drive there herself. THAT is a no-no. So I had an audience to every stupid thing I did this year. Well nearly every thing, they weren't there yet to see the hit to the face. Mom had mowed those fields by herself several times. But stage four cancer and dementia and worn out knees keep her off of it now. She is one TOUGH lady and may make it another year or so.

Didn't prevent her from telling me, and my sisters, everything I was doing wrong. Sheesh, when I was 13-14 years old I would have to drive the 641 Ford over there and plow, disk, or mow all day with nobody even bringing me lunch. Had a bologna sandwich in a paper sack hanging on a limb and a gallon jug of ice water. They would come and pick me up at dark so I "wouldn't wear out the tires" on the two miles of pavement. You want a long day try sitting on a tractor with a metal seat plowing fifty acres with a two bottom plow.

Those were the days.

Yeah I know, two miles to school in the snow uphill both ways.

RSKY

 

[tradosaurus]

Those bent over 2-3" trees can be deadly...tree guys call them spring poles.

Accident Report Detail | Occupational Safety and Health Administration

Someone at OSHA needs to learn how to write better accident reports. Still couldn't understand what happened.

Can't wait to see what they write for Demented Joe's mandatory vaccine requirements.

 

[tradosaurus]

When I'm out clearing or doing work in my trees I wear a forestry helmet. Saves headaches from falling branches as well as scratches from limbs on the face.

 

[9973720wb19]

I bet the neighborhood bully a dollar that he could not pee over the electric fence. The most entertainment I ever got for a dollar.

actually that would never happen because pee is not a continuous stream enough to conduct electric