Brush hog accident(s)

[Hay Dude]

Farmers run over deer all the time when rotary cutting high grass.


Unfortunately I had this happen to me 2 years ago, Very upset with myself. Didn't even see it. That nasty thud from mower was the giveaway

Yes, we do. It’s an unfortunate part of the job.

I hit 1 to 3 per year. One guy told me another local farmer killed 6 in one 75 acre field.

 

[John0829]

homeowner accidents like this are common.... sometimes i wonder about flung objects when i pass the state hwy utility corridor mower crews as they mow (wouldn't have their job for nothing)

on the same subject, i fear those homeowners who incessantly mow their highway frontage feet from the traffic slipstream @ 55...i don't fear for my own safety, but theirs when i pass them

Those mowing the highway shoulders worry the crap out of me, seeing all the different kinds of junk thrown up on the road in areas they have already cut. If I can I will go out of my way to avoid mowing zones for that reason.

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.

 

[masseyrider]

Massey, it sounds like your brush hog needs safety chains to stop the rocks.
I took one in the chest one time from the guy across the street mowing with a brush hog without chains, it hit me like a golf ball.
I had a huge welt and hurt like the dickens for a while.

I have safety chains. Wouldn't cut without them. Tractor still gets hit once in a while.

 

[Gem99ultra]

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 agree, there's a lot of untold facts about that accident. The woman/lady had been sleeping during the day and that going on for 3 or 4 years?
I can see someone mowing, especially in high grass, not seeing someone lying asleep in the grass, and then running over her. That happens a lot with animals, even as large as deer.
As far as I can see, there's no basis for liability on the operator's side.

 

[Slowpoke Slim]

A sad ending to an already sad story about the young woman. I'm sure the whole thing will settle out of court, which is what the "family" is after (if you can call that a family). If it was a pull behind mower, that means she was driven over first. In my mind, she must have been unconscious already. Drug addicts live a tough life that often doesn't end well.

I've hit plenty of things in the tall grass. I usually find them with the bucket on my front end loader first. But every once in a while something will get under the bucket and I'll find it with the mower. Its usually fence wire, steel cable or angle iron or T-posts laying flat on the ground (so the bucket misses them). I haven't hit a deer yet, but I'm sure it's a matter of time...

When I'm mowing along a roadway, I always mow against the flow of traffic (I'm mowing on the "oncoming" lane side). At least then my tractor is acting as somewhat of a shield to protect the oncoming cars. The FEL and bucket can act as a kind of "catcher's mit", and hopefully block anything from getting past, if it does manage to come forward under the tractor. If I see a motorcycle coming, I try to throttle down before they get to me as an added precaution.

 

[big bubba]

Those mowing the highway shoulders worry the crap out of me, seeing all the different kinds of junk thrown up on the road in areas they have already cut. If I can I will go out of my way to avoid mowing zones for that reason.

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.

good point, yeah, i see a lot of homeowners discharging mowed grass in copious amounts on hwy. to me that's a hazard in itself for passing traffic esp in wet cond.

 

[scootr]

good point, yeah, i see a lot of homeowners discharging mowed grass in copious amounts on hwy. to me that's a hazard in in itself for passing traffic esp in wet cond.

My neighbor does this

 

[IndyJay]

About the woman's family, sometimes you do what you can for someone who has made poor choices and that "help" can actually prevent them from getting the real help they need. I have seen where family members had to resort to tough love and say "no more, don't come around my home or my kids until you figure it out". Between stealing to support their habit, coming home plastered at all hours (with children in the home), cursing out those who are trying to help... it is often the only choice that can be made. The addict has to make the choice to turn their life around. Some people can't make that life saving decision until they hit absolute rock bottom. Sounds like she was there, she just hadn't made that next step. Sad story for all involved.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

I broke back glass out of truck with lawn mower hitting a stone.

 

[Mtsoxfan]

Deer? Around here, I look out the window and they run. Same with ground hogs...

 

[Jstpssng]

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.

 

[Gator6x4]

Most States have laws against littering the highway. Grass clippings on a roadway are as others have stated a traffic hazard, a hazard that could be deadly to a motorcyclist.

 

[Yander]

A few years ago my dad told me that he popped the clutch on his 8n with a bushhog on the back and fell backwards out of the seat and rolled back on top the bushhog. I don't know that it was running.

He said he didn't get hurt, not sure how. But he hadn't told me about that until after I talked him into selling it. He was still climbing that monkey bar of a tractor with a loader at 75 and with bad legs/feet. The way his loader fit on it you had to climb on the tractor from behind. I talked him into selling it and getting a little BX2200, which he loved and used for everything.

 

[Smokeydog]

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.

 

[Jstpssng]

A few years ago my dad told me that he popped the clutch on his 8n with a bushhog on the back and fell backwards out of the seat and rolled back on top the bushhog. I don't know that it was running.

He said he didn't get hurt, not sure how. But he hadn't told me about that until after I talked him into selling it. He was still climbing that monkey bar of a tractor with a loader at 75 and with bad legs/feet. The way his loader fit on it you had to climb on the tractor from behind. I talked him into selling it and getting a little BX2200, which he loved and used for everything.

You are a good son.

When I was a kid, my parents came back from a motorcycle ride one night and told about seeing somebody out mowing their field… with two kids riding on the deck of the bush hog.

 

[Yander]

You are a good son.

When I was a kid, my parents came back from a motorcycle ride one night and told about seeing somebody out mowing their field… with two kids riding on the deck of the bush hog.

Oh, my, that's a special kind of stupid. I saw a guy driving a couple of kids around in the front bucket of his tractor. I'm sorry but that is just a recipe for disaster.

 

[scootr]

I know a guy who as a small child was riding on the fender of Dads tractor while he disced a field.
Yeah ~ you guessed it. He was seriously disfigured by the Discs when he fell off and they both lived the rest of their lives with that

 

[milkman636]

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

I mowed my yard one summer with a 6’ rear discharge finish mower behind my tractor. After shattering our full-window storm door from about 25 yards away I started shopping for a proper lawn mower again.

I was circling around a big maple in our yard and I’m not even sure what threw. I heard the hit and the whole window was blown into what seemed like a million little bits of glass on and around the front porch.

Just to the left of that door is a 10’ wide window. I count it fortunate that whatever it was it hit a $300 storm door instead.

 

[milkman636]

Another thing about this. So person is sleeping in the weeds and brush comes by maybe 2-3 ft away on the pass before it eats you alive! How in the hell do you not wake up, jump up, and get the hell outta there?
This person had to be in an unconscious drunken stupor, in a drug comma, or already dead. INMHO

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.

 

[Midniteoyl]

You are absolutely the most ignorant person to post !

Wut?