tjkadar
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- Joined
- Apr 18, 2005
- Messages
- 712
- Location
- Sumter, SC
- Tractor
- Massey Ferguson 5609, Kubota GS1800, eXmark LazerZ XP
In my experience, when things go bad, they go bad fast. Too fast to react quick enough to do much of anything. Mowing while holding a kid on one knee... not too bright. Operating your FEL while holding a kid in one hand, trying to steer and work the FEL with another, while going uphill on a dirt pile... not too bright.
I knew a girl that lost her leg below the knee because of a mowing situation exactly like in this video.
Riding a child around on a tractor is one thing. Trying to accomplish some work while precariously balancing a child on a knee is another.
I've been operating tractors for 30 years. Our rules are: Never, ever, ever step over a rotating PTO shaft. Never ever mess with a rotary mower while the PTO is engaged, preferably only when the motor is off. Never ever rely on hydraulics to keep any equipment from falling and squishing you. Don't ride two up if your tractor has any implement on it (we would sometime ride with on person standing on bar that connect the lower two points of a three point hitch).
It is simply too easy for bad things to happen while performing the actions shown in the video. To me, it is tempting fate. YMMV and that is completely within your rights. I wont tell you what you can and cannot do with your child, but, if asked, I'll give you my opinion.
I knew a girl that lost her leg below the knee because of a mowing situation exactly like in this video.
Riding a child around on a tractor is one thing. Trying to accomplish some work while precariously balancing a child on a knee is another.
I've been operating tractors for 30 years. Our rules are: Never, ever, ever step over a rotating PTO shaft. Never ever mess with a rotary mower while the PTO is engaged, preferably only when the motor is off. Never ever rely on hydraulics to keep any equipment from falling and squishing you. Don't ride two up if your tractor has any implement on it (we would sometime ride with on person standing on bar that connect the lower two points of a three point hitch).
It is simply too easy for bad things to happen while performing the actions shown in the video. To me, it is tempting fate. YMMV and that is completely within your rights. I wont tell you what you can and cannot do with your child, but, if asked, I'll give you my opinion.
