Close one today

[czechsonofagun]

I was cutting grass this evening, just to finish it before I hit the shower and kick back watching movie with the kids. There is an oak that recently fell down and somehow I got too close to the branches and next thing I know, the tractor is pushing me into a big branch and the end of the branch is right on my solar plexus.
Everything happened so fast, I was not buckled, I think that was a good luck, because the branch lifted me from the seat and started to push me up the ROPS. Tractor kept going forward and right when I got to the most important thought "OH S............T!!!!" the branch broke and I was able to stop the tractor.
Minor scratches on left shin, banged my head good on the ROPS, but my chest looks like somebody tried to gut me with a blunt object
Gotta hide this one from the missy

 

[Rara Avis]

I was cutting grass this evening, just to finish it before I hit the shower and kick back watching movie with the kids. There is an oak that recently fell down and somehow I got too close to the branches and next thing I know, the tractor is pushing me into a big branch and the end of the branch is right on my solar plexus.
Everything happened so fast, I was not buckled, I think that was a good luck, because the branch lifted me from the seat and started to push me up the ROPS. Tractor kept going forward and right when I got to the most important thought "OH S............T!!!!" the branch broke and I was able to stop the tractor.
Minor scratches on left shin, banged my head good on the ROPS, but my chest looks like somebody tried to gut me with a blunt object
Gotta hide this one from the missy

A better argument for HYDROSTATIC TRANSMISSION...As you were being pushed back your foot would have stopped pushing on the GO-PEDAL...

Glad you did not require a trip to the ER...

Time to tell SWMBO, that you need a NEW WOOD CHIPPER to deal with all of the branches you are about to cut...

 

[SkyPup]

I had the exact same thing happen to me while bushhogging except that an overhead vine I had not noticed caught my chin and suddenly lifted me up and back against the ROPS, fortunately, the seat kill switch was intact and saved my neck!

 

[shane]

A better argument for HYDROSTATIC TRANSMISSION...As you were being pushed back your foot would have stopped pushing on the GO-PEDAL...

Um, not if you got the cruise set like I usually do.