MHarryE
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The grandfather in this item is a person who worked at the same Caterpillar plant as me prior to my retirement. He was into restoring tractors. Although I haven't heard for sure, I believe it was one of his restorations meaning an older tractor with no ROPS. I got to know a lot of the guys out in the plant over the years, a bunch of great guys many of them who like Ron wrenched on machinery during the day and then went home to work on their own machines after work. They continually came up with ideas how to improve things like hose routings knowing from experience when they saw something that was likely to give a problem. We're one of Cat's smaller plants, less than 1,000 employees. Will be a sad day when people come to work tomorrow.
A Monticello grandfather and his grandson were killed in a tractor accident Friday in Wright County, family and law enforcement said Sunday.
Ron Gustafson, 50, and Rollie Gustafson, 5, were on the tractor when it flipped and pinned them underneath in a ditch in Clearwater Township, said Roger Gustafson, Ron Gustafson's son and Rollie's uncle and the Wright County sheriff's office.
"He was always on a tractor," Roger Gustafson said of his father. "That's what we did; we restored old tractors."
Ron Gustafson, who worked at Caterpillar Paving Products in Brooklyn Park, was "the best dad I could ask for and the smartest man I knew," Roger Gustafson said.
The call came in at about 5:45 p.m. Friday at the intersection of County Road 104 and Huber Avenue Northwest in the township about 70 miles northwest of St. Paul, the sheriff's office said.
Ron Gustafson was pronounced dead at the scene and the Midwest medical examiner's office in Anoka, Minn., said he died of multiple blunt force injuries. Rollie Gustafson was taken to Children's Hospital in Minneapolis, where he died an hour later from blunt-force injuries, according to the Hennepin County medical examiner's office.
Services are scheduled for the public at 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Wednesday at Daniel Funeral Home in Clearwater.
"If I got stuck," Roger Gustafson said of his father, "he was there for me."
A Monticello grandfather and his grandson were killed in a tractor accident Friday in Wright County, family and law enforcement said Sunday.
Ron Gustafson, 50, and Rollie Gustafson, 5, were on the tractor when it flipped and pinned them underneath in a ditch in Clearwater Township, said Roger Gustafson, Ron Gustafson's son and Rollie's uncle and the Wright County sheriff's office.
"He was always on a tractor," Roger Gustafson said of his father. "That's what we did; we restored old tractors."
Ron Gustafson, who worked at Caterpillar Paving Products in Brooklyn Park, was "the best dad I could ask for and the smartest man I knew," Roger Gustafson said.
The call came in at about 5:45 p.m. Friday at the intersection of County Road 104 and Huber Avenue Northwest in the township about 70 miles northwest of St. Paul, the sheriff's office said.
Ron Gustafson was pronounced dead at the scene and the Midwest medical examiner's office in Anoka, Minn., said he died of multiple blunt force injuries. Rollie Gustafson was taken to Children's Hospital in Minneapolis, where he died an hour later from blunt-force injuries, according to the Hennepin County medical examiner's office.
Services are scheduled for the public at 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Wednesday at Daniel Funeral Home in Clearwater.
"If I got stuck," Roger Gustafson said of his father, "he was there for me."
