Posted by mkirsch on October 14, 2011 at 05:43:25 from (64.80.110.75):
In Reply to: Master battery shut off posted by Stephen Newell on October 14, 2011 at 05:19:59:
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It's a safety issue.
Old tractors can easily be started by mistake if someone pushes the wrong button or pulls the wrong rod/lever. As a general rule they do not have effective parking brakes so they are left in gear.
Kids are especially notorious for doing this, because you can't watch them every second. They're sitting on the seat of "Grampa's tractor." You've told them not to touch anything, but they're swinging their legs or fiddling with the buttons the second you blink. Next thing you know you're in a fist fight with a raging 4-ton tractor, and losing badly.
With newer tractors you practically have to do the Chicken Dance to get them to start. Transmission in neutral. Parking brake set. Foot on clutch. Butt in seat. For a kid to randomly get that right just swinging their legs and randomly touching buttons would be a miracle.
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