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Topic: Safety

Posted By: HaroldOmaha
Subject: Safety
Date Posted: 30 Jul 2012 at 1:30pm

I never thought I would be a nagger, but our club members have had 2 seperate accidents and one serious saftey issue.

The first one had a rare/very desirable JD 2010 gas, beautiful restoration. Drove it out of the shed to the fuel barrel. Thinking the motor was cold, he left it running while he topped it off, just a couple of gallons. He put the gas cap on, and it exploded. Luckily he was on the opposite side from the spark plugs, so he didn't get hurt. He tryed to extinguish the flames, but the wireing was shorting reigniteing it. Had to call the fire dept. burn the tractor bad.

The second one cranked a WC with culivators without checking the shifter. Ran over him. The cultivaters toar him up pretty bad. Is in the hospital.

If you have a slow JD do not put a road gear in it. I dought this member will ever go on another tractor ride. Beautifully restored JD 530 Awesome. The JD does not have enough back pressure to control it on hills. The tractor ride was on a rolling countryside. He burned the lining off of the brakes, burned up the brake drums, and the motor and transmition now has several oil leaks. And he was pure terrorized.

Maybe if he had test drove it befor the trip he could have driven something else.

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Posted By: Ted J
Date Posted: 30 Jul 2012 at 3:26pm

It only takes a second! You get no warning nor a second chance. Just have to think!

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"Allis-Express"
19?? WC / 1941 C / 1952 CA / 1956 WD45 / 1957 WD45 / 1958 D-17

Posted By: HaroldOmaha
Date Posted: 30 Jul 2012 at 6:40pm

These guys are all older. They always warned the kids.

Posted By: 427435
Date Posted: 30 Jul 2012 at 10:19pm

That's something I hadn't heard before----------that the 2 cylinder Deere's didn't have good compression braking. Learn something every day.

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Mark

B10 Allis, 917 Allis, 7116 Simplicity, 7790 Simplicity Diesel,
GTH-L Simplicity

Ignorance is curable-----stupidity is not.

Posted By: DMiller
Date Posted: 31 Jul 2012 at 6:58am

My cousin always warned us of the dangers on tractors, such as never reaching in to start, to always get on and depress the clutch, he never trusted a brake lock or the brakes on any of our tractors to risk running them on the road with a real load at any high speeds. His cousin was not as scrutinizing, saw corn building up under a pto driving a leg and decided he could just reach in and scoop it out, got caught in the pto and lost an arm almost died. He was lucky that his wife was standing close and shut the tractor off, his boys learned that lesson the hard way watching it unfold and neither ever took up farming.

Posted By: LoggerLee
Date Posted: 31 Jul 2012 at 10:09am

LOL, farming wasn't the danger, putting his arm near a spinning PTO shaft was.

Everyone has a gravity storm sometimes...that's why I stay away from stuff that will kill me when its rotating. (PTOs in particular)

Posted By: bitburn
Date Posted: 31 Jul 2012 at 8:33pm

Always use a PTO guard shield.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLFBA6942495319F86&v=ACaB8fWkMUg&feature=player_detailpage" rel="nofollow - http://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLFBA6942495319F86&v=ACaB8fWkMUg&feature=player_detailpage

Now if someone could make a certified ROPS system for B, C, WD tractors, that would be great.

Posted By: patrickmull
Date Posted: 31 Jul 2012 at 9:35pm

My high school ag teacher preached safety every day he had trouble with the hoist on his truck he had rock on it with the bed up it would not go down he reached under to pull the cable he had his head between the bed and the frame on the truck when it came down it got the top of his head we buried him two days later you cant be to careful around equipment