Posted by Buzzman72 on November 20, 2009 at 05:31:04 from (74.129.194.33):
In Reply to: Boy killed posted by rossow (mn) on November 20, 2009 at 04:06:45:
When I was a kid, my dad had a Farmall Cub and I'd often ride with my feet on the drawbar while I held onto the seat as he mowed. If I fell, there was no implement behind to run over me, and the PTO belt guard for the Woods 42 kept hands and other appendages out of the belt and pulley system. That's the ONLY way I was ever allowed to ride on a tractor someone else was operating. Same thing with the H and M Farmalls with the horseshoe-shaped drawbars: I could only ride on the drawbar, and only with no implements of any kind behind the tractor.
Of course, even what I did was a safety violation, in the strictest sense. But I have no idea how a kid would hang on when riding on a row-crop tractor...especially since most of them in our part of the country didn't have rear fenders.
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