We don't hear much about farmers falling off their tractor and being plowed under today because of cabs, but I remember hearing about it years ago. I sometimes get an uneasy feeling about the seat springs on some of the old tractors I have driven. Those springs have been flexing away for 60 to 80 years by now.
In the forties my dad was mowing hay with a team of horses and the seat spring broke on the mower. He wasn't hurt when he hit the ground, but the spring made a bang which spooked the horses, so they ran away with the mower and stopped up against a fence. When he told the farmer he was working for what happened the farmer said "WHY DIDN'T YOU HANG ONTO THE REINS". Dad told the farmer he didn't plan on having the world drop out from under him just then. Jim
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