Tractors can be dangerous

[whistlepig]

No matter how safe one can try to be this is what can happen:

I was brush cutting a nice clean unfamiliar pasture. Buried beneath the tall grass was a 6" diameter tree 10' tall with a single root 18'' tall. When I ran over the covered 18" root with the rear tire it flipped the tree up like one stepping on a rake. The trunk of the tree caught me in the side of my head. It almost knocked me out. If it had I would have been knocked out I would have been brush hogged alive. This was an old tractor. No safety switches on the seat.

I was brush hogging another clean pasture. Buried beneath this tall grass was a very long strand of barbed wire. I heard a loud noise behind me. It was the barbed wire and it was tangled up in the brush hog blades. It was cutting a 20' diameter swath like a giant weed eater. If this barbed wire had of caught my neck it would have cut my head off. Some one standing close to the brush hog would have been sucked in to it.

So be very safe with the obvious. Be careful with the PTO attachments. Keep the kids and others at a safe distance. The risk of the unknown is risk enough. Please spend a few seconds checking things over before going in to the field.

 

[actionaj]

Years ago I was doing some bush hogging for my uncle I hit a 1/2" steal cable that was buried. It sucked the mower right down to the ground. Stopped the tractor dead in its tracks. The clutch didn't slip but shear pin did break. I had to dig under the mower to get to the cable to cut it. Luckily it didn't tear anything up but it took me the rest of the afternoon to get it free.

 

[Soundguy]

I hate wire... that and string can sure eat a lower seal fast on a hog.. that and having to lay under the hog for an hour out in the field with a set of pliers or a knife to cut the darned string out.. or pull the wire out.. taint' fun!

soundguy