No Serious Injuries

[TripleR]

Yesterday my daughter in law was mowing when a dead limb fell after she bumped it with the ROPS. She received scrapes, bumps etc, but nothing serious. Be careful out there.

 

[RoyJackson]

How did she get off so quickly the branch missed her? Or, did you lay the branch across the seat for the pictures?

 

[Sawdust Farmer]

Wow, her guardian angel was working overtime on that one.

sf

 

[brin]

Yesterday my daughter in law was mowing when a dead limb fell after she bumped it with the ROPS. She received scrapes, bumps etc, but nothing serious. Be careful out there.

I was driving my 3020 JD through the woods one day and my Father in law was walking a distance behind...We were going to load the FEL with firewood we had already cut up for his fireplace...When I got to the spot we were to load and dismounted , my Father in Law came running up and said .." You almost got killed...did you not hear that tree drop behind you ? " and I said No ! He said , " Your bush hog bumped a dead tree just as you passed and it just missed hitting you " *I had apparently been going just fast enough to outrun the falling tree...all the while oblivious to what was coming toward me..Sometimes we just get lucky..

 

[Egon]

Hmm; maybe we should do something about the ROP's. They are dangerous.

 

[Gale Hawkins]

I really have to say I am impressed with the 4 corner one with a heavy plate top on the 1983 JD 310B backhoe. The 4 corner protection seems more common in other parts of the world for regular farm tractors.

Some of the older backhoes have none but I wanted it and a seat belt.

Lot trees have dead tops that are dangerous when bumped.

 

[TripleR]

How did she get off so quickly the branch missed her? Or, did you lay the branch across the seat for the pictures?

I honestly don't know how she avoided serious injury. For anyone who has experienced something like this, often the memory is not really very reliable.

She is scraped up, bruised and VERY sore. I would be guessing as to how she managed it, but I must assume that the ROPS took most of the force and it slid down onto the seat as the hazard flasher is broken off.

Definitely not staged as she was home alone with my son at work and I got there shortly after it happened.

We had a very bad ice storm here about fourteen months ago and stuff is still falling out of trees. I will not go up into our woods when it is windy unless I am in a cabbed tractor or my Rhino.

 

[MarkV]

From what I see that is one lucky girl, it looks as if it could have been real serious. I am often glad in the woods that both of my tractors have a 4 point FOPS systems.

MarkV

 

[RoyJackson]

I honestly don't know how she avoided serious injury. For anyone who has experienced something like this, often the memory is not really very reliable.

She is scraped up, bruised and VERY sore. I would be guessing as to how she managed it, but I must assume that the ROPS took most of the force and it slid down onto the seat as the hazard flasher is broken off.

Definitely not staged as she was home alone with my son at work and I got there shortly after it happened.

We had a very bad ice storm here about fourteen months ago and stuff is still falling out of trees. I will not go up into our woods when it is windy unless I am in a cabbed tractor or my Rhino.

She's a very very lucky lady!!
She must have heard the branch and dove off that tractor just in time. If she had been in that seat when the branch hit it, she'd likely have suffered broken bones (at least).

 

[TripleR]

From what I see that is one lucky girl, it looks as if it could have been real serious. I am often glad in the woods that both of my tractors have a 4 point FOPS systems.

MarkV

I may see if my son can fabricate something for mine.

This is the reason I put a hard top on my Rhino as I bumped a tree up in the woods one day when I had my cloth top on and a limb fell on the bed, just behind the ROPS.

The other two tractors we have up there have protection as one is cabbed and the other has a metal roof, but none of our mowers have anything but a ROPS.

 

[TripleR]

She's a very very lucky lady!!
She must have heard the branch an dove off that tractor just in time. If she had been in that seat when the branch hit it, she'd likely have suffered broken bones (at least).

Roy, I may be over analyzing this, but in looking at the pictures, it looks like the tree may have gotten in a bind between the tree next to it, the ROPS and the other end and that may have slowed it down enough for her to get out as she was traveling. She doesn't know much about the mechanics of a mower as she was concerned that it died when she jumped off, so there was a brief period of time that she was off the seat before the tree hit it which triggered the operator presence switch.

She truly is a lucky girl as she had major back surgery a couple of years ago. Of course she is a country girl and she is pretty tough.

 

[Thomas]

Whew,glad your daughter okay..by the looks steering wheel needs tlc??

 

[TripleR]

Whew,glad your daughter okay..by the looks steering wheel needs tlc??

My son will be off work tomorrow and make a list of parts needed. He said when he got the steering wheel out of the bind, it looked OK, but it has not been driven more than a few feet to get it out of the way.

 

[Gale Hawkins]

Roy, I may be over analyzing this, but in looking at the pictures, it looks like the tree may have gotten in a bind between the tree next to it, the ROPS and the other end and that may have slowed it down enough for her to get out as she was traveling. She doesn't know much about the mechanics of a mower as she was concerned that it died when she jumped off, so there was a brief period of time that she was off the seat before the tree hit it which triggered the operator presence switch.

She truly is a lucky girl as she had major back surgery a couple of years ago. Of course she is a country girl and she is pretty tough.

Sounds like the pain in the butt switch actually is a good thing.

 

[Coyote machine]

Glad to hear your D_I_Law is ok. All else is irrelevant. BTW, at minimum that's a limb, it could be a leader from the looks of it; and had it hit her directly she'd likely be dead. She's extremely lucky- take it from a former professional tree surgeon.
I'd have a pro come out and visit her yard and access any potential damage that could still be problematic from the ice storm you mentioned. This is a good time of year to do assessment of leftover storm damage because the leaves are off the trees and splits and breaks are easier to spot.
Good luck to her in a full recovery from her injuries.

 

[TripleR]

Glad to hear your D_I_Law is ok. All else is irrelevant. BTW, at minimum that's a limb, it could be a leader from the looks of it; and had it hit her directly she'd likely be dead. She's extremely lucky- take it from a former professional tree surgeon.
I'd have a pro come out and visit her yard and access any potential damage that could still be problematic from the ice storm you mentioned. This is a good time of year to do assessment of leftover storm damage because the leaves are off the trees and splits and breaks are easier to spot.
Good luck to her in a full recovery from her injuries.

Good idea, we have removed some of the trees and may have to do more. My sons like to do this type of work, but we have had a couple that required a professional. The limb was out of a Maple, but most are pecans and we sure hated to lose them.

 

[TripleR]

Sounds like the pain in the butt switch actually is a good thing.

Yep, no telling what could have happened without it.

 

[Coyote machine]

Glad to hear you are going to bring out a pro to access things - usually no charge for an estimate, but that may have changed since the '60's, (that's 1960s, not 1860s):laughing:
One close call is usually more than enough to make folks not want to chance another one. And as a rule of thumb, if you think you might want the help or opinion of a pro then you need to follow the instinct, IMHO.
Personal experience: was working with a Vietnam Vet who was several years older than me. When he pulled the saw away from the tree I was helping to push on to try to make sure it went in a certain direction the chain cut through my jeans just above my knee, but did not catch any skin- fortunately. Needless to say I was pissed and refused to work anywhere near him from then on. BTW, he was not a bad guy, just too careless for me to work around for my own sense of self preservation.:confused2:

 

[TripleR]

Glad to hear you are going to bring out a pro to access things - usually no charge for an estimate, but that may have changed since the '60's, (that's 1960s, not 1860s):laughing:
One close call is usually more than enough to make folks not want to chance another one. And as a rule of thumb, if you think you might want the help or opinion of a pro then you need to follow the instinct, IMHO.
Personal experience: was working with a Vietnam Vet who was several years older than me. When he pulled the saw away from the tree I was helping to push on to try to make sure it went in a certain direction the chain cut through my jeans just above my knee, but did not catch any skin- fortunately. Needless to say I was pissed and refused to work anywhere near him from then on. BTW, he was not a bad guy, just too careless for me to work around for my own sense of self preservation.:confused2:

I raised my sons working in the woods, but only started using logger helmets and protective leg chaps; already saved one's leg. I bought sets for everyone. Like many however, there will be times someone myself included won't gear up because, "I'm just gonna..."

As a matter of fact, I have a tree down in my back yard I would have done the same thing today, but now that I have reminded myself.