How tough are you

[jon f mn]

Came across this again today. I saw it a few years back and it's from about 6 years ago, but this impresses me.

 

[Absent Minded Farmer]

I've heard a few too many of those stories through the years.

The thought of those helped keep my appendages out of the chopper this fall.

Mike

 

[Mark Poss]

I guess no one knows that answer until they are faced with a terrible situation like that! I just hope I am never have to find out

 

[Bob Bancroft]

Came across this again today. I saw it a few years back and it's from about 6 years ago, but this impresses me.

I don't have the stomach to watch it. I stupidly got my left hand caught up in the underside of the husking rolls on a NI 323 picker. The slip clutch slipped and about wore itself out before my father got there and shut it down. I had a bar in my right hand. I remember reaching in there with that hand and bar trying to pry or do anything I could. Then I thought about the possibility of the rolls starting to turn if I managed to effect something with both hands in there. So I kept the right hand out. At one point I decided to pull as hard as I could, not knowing what would happen. Nothing. My favorite radio talk show host of all time was G Gordon Liddy. He used to interview veterans and when he heard their war stories he would say "you've got no business walking around alive". I have no business walking around with a perfectly good left hand/arm.

 

[EFV]

The most important lesson from the movie "127 Hours ", always make sure the knife you
are carrying is sharp.

 

[trackrat]

A farmer near Seagoville Texas was square baling hay when he was re baling broken bales his right foot got caught in wire it pulled him into the baler cut off his right leg. He pulled himself out of baler drove tractor to his truck drove his truck to the road opened the gate drove out went back closed the gate drove himself to hospital hopped in, one of the nurses passed out when she saw him. Three months later he was back on his tractor

 

[Keith True]

When I worked for the JD dealer we had a customer in Brockton Mass,about 50 miles from us.He was operating an Oliver open platform chopper,and kicked the head out of gear and jumped down to unplug something.While he was kicking he didn't think about the bar he was holding onto.It was the lever to kick the head into gear.The gathering chains sucked him in,but he managed to reverse the lever,and spit himself back out.He said that he felt lucky to only get one foot chopped off.He got on the machine and drove himself to get help,about a mile away.No cell phones in 1978.I have no idea what kind of first aid he performed to himself just to get to someplace to call for help.

 

[Centerplate]

I had my leg amputated three years ago and could not see myself cutting it off with a pocket knife. In the original video the gentleman was caught in an auger, so that is nothing like my amputation.

 

[Mcrafty1]

Always good to remember when ever you're operating or working around equipment of any kind, never get too cocky and think 'I got this' because it can get you in the blink of an eye. I have several pieces of earthwork equipment, and the 4020 with mowing equipment. I'm most generally working by my self in areas where there is nobody around. It is unnerving at times but I always try and remember my own advice, but in the end it largely comes down to the wrong place at the wrong time. So far so good.

 

[ss55]

The most important lesson from the movie "127 Hours ", always make sure the knife you
are carrying is sharp.

... and a tourniquet to stay alive. For me carrying those two things would be a good incentive to think twice and stay safe.

 

[stevieb49829]

Maybe neuropathy has some advantages? Hope I never have to find out. My pocket knife is "sometimes sharp", unless I'm hunting.

 

[Keith True]

With a few exceptions,I've pretty much always worked alone.Because I don't like the idea of being stuck under heavy truck parts or falling off of roofs I learned to be careful.There was always somebody in the shop when I worked for the JD dealer,and the last few years I climbed with a solar installer there was always somebody there with me.Five years ago my house burned,and I spent the next few years building another one by myself.It is a 20X66 log home.I built some guides to aim the logs in,and my wife would steer them into the guides when I placed them with a pole on the Bobcat.Then I would jump down and place them where I wanted them.Same thing with the roof trusses.She would hold them with a string to keep them from spinning.while setting them.Then I'd jump off the machine to tie them down.My closest calls have been while working with other people.

 

[Non-farmer]

The most important lesson from the movie "127 Hours ", always make sure the knife you
are carrying is sharp.

As soon as I saw the thread title, that's the incident that came to mind.

But another lesson is just as important - never hike in the back-country alone.

 

[37 chief]

I hope I never have to face something like that. As I get older, I realize how things can go bad real fast, if I'm not careful. There is always the small cuts, and scrapes working around machines. I always work by my self. At 83 all I need is a few more safe years, then I win. Stan

 

[Ray,IN]

It's surprising what a person will do to save their life. I knew a man, he was very big at 6'3" and 330lbs. He was baling hay one time and violated safety rules.. He got off the tractor and left the PTO running so he could kick hay into the pickup. His bib overalls got caught by the PTO, he put both hands on the tractor and baler, braced himself and the PTO stripped off his overalls. He drove his tractor home wearing his skivvies.
He was the type man who never went to a Dr. He doctored himself using drugs etc. from a veterinary Dr.

 

[Texasmark]

I haven't heard many stories like this and all came from this site but one thing I can assure you: I heed the precautions and sometimes I'm tempted to leave equipment running when having to do something but I keep remembering these tales and shut off the machine first....and no hopping over the PTO shafts, and no trying to unplug the baler with it running and on and on.

 

[Keith True]

I use my Bobcat for everything.When I use it to put things in buildings I strap them to a pallet,pick them up to reach over steps,up to a storage trailer level,pickup bed level,etc.I never have anybody to slide the stuff off the pallets,appliances,stoves,couches,beds,furnaces,etc.When the bucket is in the air,I climb out the front,up on the roof,and slither down over the side and onto the tires,then to the ground.When I get done what I need to do,I climb back up and slither down to the seat again.As tempting as it is,I won't jump out under the arms.Exceptions to that are if I have the forks over the deck of a truck or trailer,somewhere that the arms couldn't get me if they dropped.In the last couple of years that climbing up and down is getting kind of wearing.

 

[SkipperII]

Those that learn, from others mistakes are very wise. I have two friends that have been caught in the augers of their combines. One that had his truck driver cut him out with a torch, lost his arm below the elbow. The other cut himself out, instructed his hired man, how to set and light the torch. He saved his arm. I have been involved in extricating two separate individuals from the pto shafts, on a manure pump. Same farm, just a couple years apart, both got wrapped completely around the shaft, They weren't pretty sights. Also cut a gentleman out of a transfer auger, that he tried kicking, when it stalled. He kicked it, it started, and he slipped, fortunately the belts started slipping. It was down in a pit, grain dust everywhere, and here I am using a torch, to get him out. Wasn't much fun getting him onto a backboard, and lifted up out of there.

 

[john in la]

Maybe neuropathy has some advantages? Hope I never have to find out. My pocket knife is "sometimes sharp", unless I'm hunting.

Neuropathy is a weird thing.
I can feel if you touch my foot or lower leg.
I can even feel if I cut it or stick a needle in it.

What I can not feel is how hot or cold the water is if I stick my foot in a bath tub. I can also not feel the vibration of a tuning fork placed against my leg.

 

[47fivewindow]

I am an example of so soon to old, so long to smart. I survived on luck mostly. Now I teach OSHA classes and beg the apprentices not to act as I did. I was never badly hurt but I could have been. Turn it off. lock it down.