same here too ,really sad when someone gets maimed for life or kilt, It could be the tractor rolled forward and pined the kid , and killed him ,that can happen so easily .. , when I was a teenager ,HONESTLY, the only death I can recall in our county from farming was a 80 yr. old granpa, unloading silage and got mangled in the powershaft,that was a grisly fatal run for the fire dept. . I can name 15 or 20 or more kids that got killed because of car vses train , motorcycle and car hi speed wrecks of stupidity that we all were guilty of but threu the grace of GOD survived ,.we used to ride the jd 30 combine , our feet was planted on the gearbox shield and we held on to the grain bin and watched the grain fill the bin , I recall one time the beagles jumped a rabbit and the poor rabbit jumped into the runnin combine,, it was n't long fur came out onto the soybeans in the bin,. LOL ,. DAd and Mom and all of Us would scold one another if we got to close to any moving belt chain or moving part .my brothers and I were hefting bales at age 13, before that , at around age 4 goin on 5 , Dad Cuzin ARch , Told me one day , that he needed a tractor driver to help pikup hay ,and asked me if I wanted to drive ,, I lokt at him and dad , and I said " do you think I can? " .. Arch , jovially grabbed me by the waist and placed me on the seat at thre same time, Saying "why hale yes , I know you can drive, just watch us and do what we tell ya" it was a sc case, that was a real sweetheart,. we were in a near level field along the ohio river, I wuld hit the kill switch and my cusin gary would hit the starter button when we needed to stop or go ..I gotta take back what I said about young lives dying ,. a couple yrs later the o -higher and higher (OHIO)would floodthe very bottomland plain we were in, a hired hand Chris with 4 daughters and a sweet wife,vincentmy cusin whowas getting married in may , and my cusin Gary were all drowned while using a motorboat to go back and forth to care for the cattle on the hill , the prop hung up in the top strand of barb wire fence, as they struggled to get it free in the windy choppy waterthey must have caused the boat to take on water , because of weight distribution , they were 1000 ft from land in water no more than 6ft,but the temps was n the 20s , hyperthermia got them, Arch , was on thebackporch,when he saw it happen, he had pneumonia, all he could do was call, the sheriff and summon a boat, by the time helparrived it was pitch dark, and no one could be found, the current carried Vincent some 15 miles when he was found 3 weeks after all the other funerals were over.
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