Farm Safety

Adam- WI · Sep 23, 2009

Just a reminder to everyone on here to be careful. I had to respond to this accident yesterday. I am a firefighter. Pto shafts are deadly if not respected. Please be careful guys. The article incorrectly states he was caught in a pto shaft on a chopper. He was actually caught in the pto shaft on a self unloading chopper box. He was filling silo.
Man Involved in farm accident

stevejd4000 · Sep 23, 2009

Ouch.. I always put safety first. yeah I know those pto shifts.. and algers..

landlord7012 · Sep 23, 2009

I heard that call on County Fire (I'm near Manitowoc). Good job to all of you especially for what you had to work with.

Years back I worked with a guy from TR who crossed over an ungaurded turning PTO shaft (shouldn't cross it even when gaurded) and it wound up his leg right to the knee. He lost the leg from the knee down and part of his childhood in the process.

Safety never hurts!
Bill

Anonymous-0 · Sep 24, 2009

Sorry to hear about it.I see the man passed away.Been there and done that too as a volunteer firefighter and first responder.We do our jobs people do their jobs. I agree been wat to many farm accidents latley in this state. take care

dieseldoc · Sep 24, 2009

I had a friend die the same way.Standing ten feet from me when it happened.still remember look on his wifes face when I told her what happened.He left 3 kids and a wife.Sure made me alot more carefull around equipment.

Don-Wi · Sep 24, 2009

Sad to hear. It's not time for us to start filling our silo yet, but we hope to be started in another 2 weeks. With any luck we'll get the engine back for our 1855 in the next week so I can work on putting that back in, and then we can get going on corn.

We borrow the neighbor's chopper boxes almost every year when chopping so we have 4 to fill instead of 2. We've replaced more than 1 sheild on their wagons over the years. What gets me, is how are these wagons missing their sheilds in the 1st place? We have had older wagons that still have perfectly fine metal sheilds, and they've always had their originals.

I always try to make sure that things like that have working sheilds.

Donovan from Wisconsin

TimMiller · Sep 24, 2009

I almost got caught once, scared me pretty good. I was hooking up a disk, and didnt know the pto was running and I felt it hit my leg i pulled it straight back and luckally i didnt get hurt. From then on i have shut off the tractor or double and triple check that the pto is off and the 3pt lever is all the way down (same tractor, girl friends grandad almost got caught up in the 3 point when it decided to lift up on its own). I think this tractor has a death wish for everyone. Horse got killed when he somehow got his leg caught up on the side, and ended up cutting an artery. We were at church, tractor was parked, we showed up and i went out to start working on the tractor, and i found her horse dead beside the tractor, and blood everywhere. That was not easy to tell her. Moral of the story, better shutting off equipment (yes its not always easy) before hooking up implements, and make sure all the safety guards are in place. Yes safety takes extra time, but its much easier than taking a trip to the hospital, or even spending a few days in pain.

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