Snow removal accident

[LD48750]

Me. 99.9% of the time. The rest of the time I'm an idiot.

Guess I'm just lucky.
76 years & I have NO IDEA how many thousands of hours on a tractor & I have never once even tried one on.
Cut the roll bar off the one I have now too & pitched the guard from the PTO.

75 year old 2N never had any of that stuff & it hasn't killed anyone in all these working years.

 

[ArlyA]

That will get you one with 7000 hard hours.

A new one runs $100-200k, depending on size and options.

I think you are low there Finn. The Pisten Bully 100 is there smallest machine a bit over 100,000 new. Kinda depends on the various options you need but could run you 150,000 with this and that. Here's what they look like.

 

[Jstpssng]

I use the belt while using the tractor.

When i was a youngster, there weren't any belts on tractors. I figured you just jumped off away from the thing, eazy peazy.........

There were no roll bars, either. If it went over, the last place that you wanted to be is strapped into the seat.

 

[ning]

Who here wears their seatbelt while operating there compact tractor?

Always... when even slightly sideways on a hill or carrying more than a few hundred pounds in the bucket, or going up or down steep hills.
Almost never doing most of what I use the tractor for on flat ground.

 

[etpm]

Guess I'm just lucky.
76 years & I have NO IDEA how many thousands of hours on a tractor & I have never once even tried one on.
Cut the roll bar off the one I have now too & pitched the guard from the PTO.

75 year old 2N never had any of that stuff & it hasn't killed anyone in all these working years.

NASA used you logic when it came to o rings used in Space Shuttle engines in cold temperatures. And it worked too. Until it didn't. When their luck ran out.
Good Luck,
Eric

 

[LD48750]

NASA used you logic when it came to o rings used in Space Shuttle engines in cold temperatures. And it worked too. Until it didn't. When their luck ran out.
Good Luck,
Eric

I even ride around on my tractor OUTSIDE & never have been hit by lightning.

Hard to believe I'm not Irish.

 

[5030]

On reality, all it takes is a second of inattention and bam, an accident happens.

 

[Threepoint]

Yep. And sometimes it's not even a matter of inattention. A buddy of mine has a line at the end of his posts in a woodworking forum: "Remember, in a moment's time, everything can change!"

I think of that fairly often when I'm pushing a piece of wood through a tablesaw, or over a jointer. Or making some quick cuts with a chainsaw in a tangle of deadfall without bothering to put on my chaps. Or working a tractor on a side slope or at the edge of a drop off.

 

[/pine]

And it's not always the case where lucky ducks are lined up...like when Capt. Sully...landed that plane on the Hudson...!

 

[GeneV]

The guy was just unlucky, fate.