Brush hog accident(s)

[milkman636]

You are absolutely the most ignorant person to post !

It’s pretty rare for me to be singled out as the highest achiever, so thanks.

 

[Eagle1]

It’s pretty rare for me to be singled out as the highest achiever, so thanks.

I don't get Kevin, but kill em with kindness.

 

[IndyJay]

Another point which somebody has raised in the past. When people blow grass into the road it can be a hazard for motorcyclists, as it’s like hitting a patch of ice.

I put a mulching kit on my mower to keep the grass under the deck, mostly for that reason.

 

[Yander]

My guess would be already unconscious or dead too. I couldn’t imagine being the unfortunate operator that was probably just sipping his morning coffee and rolling through some familiar tall brown weeds that he mows every year, and seeing that pop out from under the mower. That would shake a feller up.

"hold my beer"....

Probably caused him to spill his coffee too! Darn shame!

 

[whitehair]

If her sister was so distraught and upset, why in the hell was the woman homeless. How come the sister didn’t give her a place to stay. yeah right, family demands answers, the family was not there for the homeless woman. The family is wanting a paycheck and that’s all.

Yup, well said

 

[Doz]

So one day I was driving down the road and this lady was brush hogging a Feild with a small subcompact tractor and she had 4 little kids riding in the bucket I turned the truck around and told the lady she would never forgive her self when she hit a bump and knocked one or all of them out of the bucket and ran over them with the mower she sent them to the house 3 weeks later I drove by and there she was doing the same thing it mad me sick to my stomach should of can the Child protective services

 

[whitehair]

You are absolutely the most ignorant person to post !

And who or what are you discussing here, I musta missed a line or 2

 

[masseyrider]

So one day I was driving down the road and this lady was brush hogging a Feild with a small subcompact tractor and she had 4 little kids riding in the bucket I turned the truck around and told the lady she would never forgive her self when she hit a bump and knocked one or all of them out of the bucket and ran over them with the mower she sent them to the house 3 weeks later I drove by and there she was doing the same thing it mad me sick to my stomach should of can the Child protectiion

Once stupid, always stupid. You just can't unteach that.

 

[dreamcatcvherdb]

IME the safest "brush hog" is a flail mower.

 

[rocco611]

Wow a lot of eye opening mowing stories. I feel lucky that in all the years of mowing my property, I have never hit anything substantial with a mower.
Working the night shift as an RN, Driving home , my wife hit and killed a homeless man that was drunk walking in the roadway. It was dark, street lamps weren't working, he was wearing all black clothing. He had just been released from the ER at the hospital where she worked. Local PD had brought him in to the hospital because he was having trouble breathing, turns out he was just really drunk , so they just released him out the door in that condition. Six months later the same thing happened to another homeless person, hit by one of my wife's coworkers on the same street. PD wont keep homeless drunks in custody, shelters won't take them if they are drunk or on drugs, the hospital ER doesn't have room for them.
I have a friend that I grew up with that ended up homeless. He had mental health issues and was a drug addict. He chose to be homeless not because his family wouldn't take care of him but because, he wanted to use drugs, be left alone and hang out with people that did the same. If I saw him in town. I would visit with him and buy him a meal. I gave up trying to help him years ago, he didn't respond well to people telling him what to do. It made me sad to see him like that, but I tried to provide him some comfort.

 

[4Liberty]

Adjoining my moms farm was a row of single homes full of people that had no regard for private property. Some were ok and asked permission to throw grass/shrub clippings into the field and I had no problem with that. Others weren’t so decent had one eguy plant a 20x40 garden in our plowed field and then come out to fight after we planted over it and sprayed. Most memorable things with the brush hog were a car radio and a softball. Those things and all the other garbage got pretty much launched back to source. You would not believe how fast a softball flies, hit the corner of the house about 50yds away, flew straight up another 100 feet or so and cleaned the driver side mirror off the car sitting there. Owner came out to fight and went away when I asked him if he thought it grew in our field. He knew who’s it was.

 

[DEVdd]

There was a similar incident a few years ago as well:

ODOT mower cutting grass along Hwy 42 hits and kills man sleeping in grass

ROSEBURG, Ore. - An Oregon Department of Transportation employee mowing grass along the shoulder of Highway 42 hit and killed a man who was sleeping in the grass, Oregon State Police said. The man died at the scene. His identity won't be released until state police can confirm that his family...

kpic.com

 

[JBacon52]

"Homeowners, my problem with them is 90% of them have the discharge chute pointed toward the road. When I mow I ALWAYS point it toward the ditch so that odd rock or whatever that was not there last week does not have a chance of hitting anything."

It's also illegal to blow debris into the roadway in many states. I ride motorsickles, and hitting mown grass in a corner can be a disaster or deadly to us on bikes!
All they have to do, is point the other way for the first few passes, to keep us and others safe.....

 

[janixon]

I've run over a lot of hidden stuff with a brush hog. Just this year I ran over a HD 4ft T post securely in the ground in 5-6ft weeds.
Made one heck of a racket. Luckily I was riding with one hand on the draft lever and damage to the machine was minimal.
The reason I'm bringin this up is a news story I just read here > California homeless woman killed in gruesome lawnmower mishap, family demands answers

the news made it seem like it was a residential lawn mower even showing a picture of a small ride on. these mowers they use are pulled by a tractor and are 8 to 12 ft wide. someone else stated how can you sleep thru a mower coming thru a field, unless you are high , drunk, or already dead. this happened 20 miles from us. also seems that every couple of years some one is injested in a corn chopper it’s very ugly.

 

[Jstpssng]

It's also illegal to blow debris into the roadway in many states. I ride motorsickles, and hitting mown grass in a corner can be a disaster or deadly to us on bikes!
All they have to do, is point the other way for the first few passes, to keep us and others safe.....

That includes snow, although many people don't seem to realize it. A while back I was driving along a few days after a snowstorm. The roads were bare and clear so I was doing about 50 when I topped a slight rise and discovered somebody had just gotten done snowblowing their driveway out into the street; there was about 12 inches of snow, and he was standing with his blower right next to the road. I gripped the wheel tightly and managed to keep the truck going in a straight line.
One thing nice about a small town; I mentioned it to somebody who mentioned it to the town clerk who mentioned to them that it's illegal to blow snow out into the roadway. That's one accident I did NOT want to have.

 

[tacticalturnip]

So one day I was driving down the road and this lady was brush hogging a Feild with a small subcompact tractor and she had 4 little kids riding in the bucket I turned the truck around and told the lady she would never forgive her self when she hit a bump and knocked one or all of them out of the bucket and ran over them with the mower she sent them to the house 3 weeks later I drove by and there she was doing the same thing it mad me sick to my stomach should of can the Child protective services

That's a deadly, sickening level of willful ignorance on her part.

 

[alaarp]

Bush hogging 6’ fall weeds in a remote 6 acre fallowed hay field down by the pond. Started early morning so the dew would help quell the dust and heat. Working from the outside in. Made about five passes when two camouflaged poaches stood up. Never know what you might find.

Unsure what a poach is?

 

[1Mech]

If her sister was so distraught and upset, why in the hell was the woman homeless. How come the sister didn’t give her a place to stay. yeah right, family demands answers, the family was not there for the homeless woman. The family is wanting a paycheck and that’s all.

I was thinking the same thing! It is an unfortunate accident and accidents happen.
But if they are so distraught, one would think they would have been in closer contact with her, like maybe letting her stay with family members.
Of course many of the homeless have some mental health problems and don't want to live indoors.
She was a big girl, able to decide for herself where she wants to live.
Still, it was unfortunate, I can't imagine how the operator must feel! I would feel bad running over and killing a dog and I don't even really care for dogs.

 

[alpha&omega]

My buddy broke a big glass window out of his house from 50 yards away

My old man broke the back side window out of my blazer with a zero turn. He didn’t want to admit it, but it was either that or he threw the rock. But we both knew damn well his aim wasn’t that good.

While doing a favor for the 92 year old lady across the street from me, I sheared a PTO shaft when I backed over an overgrown garden that was lined with volleyball sized rocks. That ruined my day real quick.

 

[mcfarmall]

Unsure what a poach is?

Poacher=person who hunts or fishes outside of the legal season for game.