we lost a good man in the county when the 7ft trench they were digging to drainpipe a sunk dry pond over to another sink hole,. the ground had a water vein about 5ft down and it allowed the earth to slide over and crush him,.
my 2nd cousin phillip in the early spring of 1973 was killed in a similar fashion ,. he was putting in another septic system this time for himself and his futurewife ,. he was actually digging the septic tank hole and was all but done . when he must have got down off the backhoe to check his grade, then the bank gave way bringing the tractor down on him too..sadly he was alone and there was clear evidence he tried to free himself,This happened a couple weeks before he was to be married,. he was not found til the next very cold morning when a passer by noticed the tractor idling away in a precarious angle..,and walked over to find phillip nearly frozen stiff .his jacket draped across the new Ford pickup door with the radio still playing loud in the truck . his parents suspected he chose to spend the nite at his future girlfriends parents house and chose not to pry when he did not come home ,his daddy was there earlier and went back to the farm to help my aunt finish the milking .. the girlfriend knew he was working hard and had brought him supper over and figured he went home to bathe and rest and she too chose not to bother him . all were within 2 miles of the site .and to this day still kik themselves forv not double chekin on him ,.. but phillip was the kind of self made 21 yr old guy that always helped others and rarely need help himself .... Phillip had helped his daddy put in septic systems and was proficient at running all sorts of equipment since he was 12 yrs old ,family folklore claims that he could load a backhoe into a coalcar and that is what inspired the you tube video ,. but maybe someone is just building up a good young man that was fataly taken away from us..but I do recall he could handle a piece of equipment like he had been born on it,.. very sad ..
another sad backhoe story , happened about 1985,. a neighbors Ford Backhoe that I had used serveral times to put in a half dozen septic systems killed its owner ,. he was 67 ,,again it was a very cold day he was wearing heavy clothing and was unloading a 4 bottom plow from a flat bed,.and had accomplished his task , bUT , he made the fatal mistake of working the levers from the ground ..the rotating boom lever got tangled into the ragged sleeve of his shirt or jacket ,. while he struggled with freeing his sleeve the delicate lever rotated the boom rite into his back,pinning him between the tire and the boom squashing the life out of him,.there is only about 4 inches of clearance..apparently the squeeze was so quik and intense he could not have the stable mind to reverse the lever ..
YES ,.We must avoid rushing at critical dangerous times ,. AND BE MINDFUL OF DAnGER ALWAYS,. but sometimes accidents happen in the strangest ways,. and when it is Gods time to Harvest Us ,. we have little choice, but to fall into his loving arms ,. just pray EACH DAY that he chooses to keep US and give us heaven , if that does indeed sadly happen
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Today's Featured Article - An Old-Time Tractor Demonstration - by Kim Pratt. Sam was born in rural Kansas in 1926. His dad was a hard-working farmer and the children worked hard everyday to help ends meet. In the rural area he grew up in, the highlight of the week was Saturday when many people took a break from their work to go to town. It was on one such Saturday in the early 1940's when Sam was 16 years old that he ended up in Dennison, Kansas to watch a demonstration of a new tractor being put on by a local dealer. It was an Allis-Chalmers tractor dealership,
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