Ten Deadliest Tractors ever Built

[petertay]

We don’t know who put these accusations together, and the photos are unrelated to what is being said. I put it on here because it should generate some interesting discussion.

 

[stdsch40]

I dont know how a 12vdc can shock a person, it is simply not possible, cant even feel it. Seems a lot of hype and fear in that video.

 

[joeysmith]

I dont know how a 12vdc can shock a person, it is simply not possible, cant even feel it. Seems a lot of hype and fear in that video.

Its possible btdt
Get between the line an load it can bite pretty hard

 

[stdsch40]

Its possible btdt
Get between the line an load it can bite pretty hard

Unpossible. 12vdc wont do a thing. And no such thing as 'line' in DC system only positive and negative.

 

[Hoofer B]

I watch a lot of tractor videos. When the narrator says John Deere four zero two zero, I move on to another video as I won’t learn too much.

 

[joeysmith]

Unpossible. 12vdc wont do a thing. And no such thing as 'line' in DC system only positive and negative.

You get in the load path it can an will shock you
Been gotten several times
It doesn't hurt as much as makes you jump from not expecting it
But you can an will feel it

 

[Tgrasher]

A correlation probably could be made between number of tractors sold verse number of accidents on any particular model. The better the sales the more accidents.would happen. Stupid is as stupid always does. Sounds like hyped up facts to make a video.

 

[Phil in Pa]

We don’t know who put these accusations together, and the photos are unrelated to what is being said. I put it on here because it should generate some interesting discussion.

I've been watching some of these, there's a rash of them out now.
There's some interesting stuff but some of it is flat out preposterous.
The AI narration is usually pretty ridiculous sounding.

 

[stdsch40]

You get in the load path it can an will shock you
Been gotten several times
It doesn't hurt as much as makes you jump from not expecting it
But you can an will feel it

If you are speaking about an ignition wire on a gas engine, yes you will get a shock but then its 10,000 to 30,000 volts DC, not 12.
If you personally can feel 12 volts DC, then I would say you are an atypical human being. Go and touch the positive and negative posts on a 12 v battery, nothing will happen to you. I will say no more on the subject.

 

[Charlie M]

Most of the old tractors were deadly when the operator was stupid.

 

[joeysmith]

If you are speaking about an ignition wire on a gas engine, yes you will get a shock but then its 10,000 to 30,000 volts DC, not 12.
If you personally can feel 12 volts DC, then I would say you are an atypical human being. Go and touch the positive and negative posts on a 12 v battery, nothing will happen to you. I will say no more on the subject.

I am not talking about the ignition system
An yes grabbing both post will not shock you
But if you get in line with a relay you can get bit
Especially with sweaty hands

I guess I am special because I have felt it many times through the years

 

[olddavid]

While there may be some truth in the video it looks like a witch hunt to me. I've driven Allis Chalmers C, WC, WD a WD45, a couple of Ford models, Fergusons TO-35, Edit: TE-20 (not TO) and the Massey Harris 50 and I'm still here. Any tractor can be dangerous. Electrocuted by 12 volts? I don't think so. I believe the higher numbers recorded are numbers that are reflected by the number of units sold.

 

[olddavid]

I am not talking about the ignition system
An yes grabbing both post will not shock you
But if you get in line with a relay you can get bit
Especially with sweaty hands

Yes, a relay coil can supply kickback voltage by breaking the power source connection much like that of an ignition coil and yes, I found that out the hard way. I don't think it could be lethal unless there was a heart condition or a pacemaker involved. Can you saddle particular tractor brands with that possibility? I don't know how.

 

[joeysmith]

Yes, a relay coil can supply kickback voltage by breaking the power source connection much like that of an ignition coil and yes, I found that out the hard way. I don't think it could be lethal unless there was a heart condition or a pacemaker involved. Can you saddle particular tractor brands with that possibility? I don't know how.

Yea im not trying to say its deadly

Thats an AI video so its just a bunch of random facts jammed together

 

[Non-farmer]

Youtube is a prodigious source of clickbait. Accuracy is not a staple there.

 

[BarnyardEngineering]

No mention of the Pinto tractor, or the Corvair tractor, or the GM 73-87 CK series tractor....

 

[GChief]

All death traps!

 

[scootergmc]

Thats an AI video so its just a bunch of random facts jammed together

Correct and incorrect, it's AI but a bunch of crap jammed together.

 

[Texasmark]

I dont know how a 12vdc can shock a person, it is simply not possible, cant even feel it. Seems a lot of hype and fear in that video.

Yes it can! Anything is possible. Was going to launch my boat one day, in salt water and was in a line waiting my turn. In the waist deep water, a guy was trying to get his engine started and pulled the battery. He went to his truck and removed that battery and put it in his boat. He was waist deep in salt water. He connected the ground terminal first (an automatic no-no) and then grasped the lead end of the positive (that is an item, not a position) connector on the + wire. As soon as he slid the + terminal over the battery he started jumping around. This was the first and only time I saw a battery shock someone.

 

[kencombs]

Yes it can! Anything is possible. Was going to launch my boat one day, in salt water and was in a line waiting my turn. In the waist deep water, a guy was trying to get his engine started and pulled the battery. He went to his truck and removed that battery and put it in his boat. He was waist deep in salt water. He connected the ground terminal first (an automatic no-no) and then grasped the lead end of the positive (that is an item, not a position) connector on the + wire. As soon as he slid the + terminal over the battery he started jumping around. This was the first and only time I saw a battery shock someone.

I think I've related this before, but here it is again. Back in the 60s I was working on a car, early 50s, 12v with the long skinny battery. I was working on the starter and leaning across the battery. Hot, sweaty, bare upper arm pressed firmly against the neg post. Same arm held the box end wrench that got applied to the positive cable on the starter solenoid. It didn't feel like a high voltage shock, no burn, arc, popping sound, or typical stuff. But my arm cramped until I thought the muscle would snap. And hurt like heck when the current stopped flowing.

If anybody had high school biology and had a frog leg on the table and probed with a battery to watch it jerk, that's what I felt like.