Be careful out there!

[idiotwithasaw]

One of my best friends lost his thumb today in a farm accident. They were able to reattach most of it, they had to fuse it and he no longer has a knuckle.

So to all of you be careful, watch what you are doing and when able take precautions. None of us know how long we get on this earth, but we sure can give ourselves every opportunity to stay a little longer.

 

[sefh3]

Sorry about your friends accident. Looks like they can save some of his thumb. That's better than losing it all.

 

[Canadian farm boy]

Sorry to hear about this. Loosing a finger sucks, no doubt but loosing a thumb....

When I was a kid one of the old farmers in the area lost his thumb. The doctors couldn't save it. The doctors eventually removed one of his toes and attached it in place of his missing thumb. His hand looked kinda funny and he walked with a limp but at least he could pick up a fork again.

 

[exSW]

When I was a kid, you go to a farm auction amputees in the crowd were common.
They weren't Veterans for the most part. They were farmers that got a little to close.

 

[jakethesnake]

Pto accidents scare me

 

[exSW]

Pto accidents scare me

Barn clothes. Scrap that,they get raggedy,they get burnt.

 

[jakethesnake]

Yes sir

 

[Duce]

Pto accidents scare me

Seen that many times and combine accidents. Shut machine off before leaving seat. Neighbor had to cut his own arm off in the field, hard to believe he lived through that.

 

[jakethesnake]

Shew I think ima leave this thread. Old man down the street had both legs torn off w a corn head he bailed off during a combine fire. Straddled a corn snout. Ima guess you can figure out the rest

 

[exSW]

Yeah,I know a few that will give you chills.

 

[redoakneck]

Old man bush hogging welded seat back on, weld failed, fell off right in front of bush hog while running....

 

[t4driller]

It's no fun not having a working thumb. I cut most of mine off with a miter saw. They reattached it but I have no movement. Just be careful out there, it happens very fast.

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[Czed]

One of the best timber cutters I know had a limb snap back it was hidden in undergrowth it ripped his scalp from above his eyebrows to the top of his head he is fine now 30 years experience and it still can happen.

 

[Duane(Pa)]

I shudder to think of the times I could have been killed by farm machinery, but for the grace of god.

 

[idiotwithasaw]

Had a neighbor down the rd lose his legs I'm a chopper accident. The stalks were bunched up and he got out to kick them in and didn't shut the head off first. Got one leg caught, tried to use the other to get himself free and in the panic got the other hung.

Another guy down the rd lost both arms to a hay baler.

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[P.M.P.]

There was a guy not to far growing up that got his shirt cought it ran him through the bailer.

 

[MustangMike]

Be as careful as you can and keep you fingers crossed. I think we have all flirted with danger and are lucky if we don't get caught.

Using, and fixing farm equipment is especially dangerous, as is logging.

A cousin of mine got crushed when the skidder flipped and the seat belt did not hold. He had repaired a lot of that skidder, but likely never though of replacing that belt.

 

[TJ the Chainsaw Mechanic]

Know a couple guys with missing fingers. Not a fun experience. Hope he gets better soon.

 

[Al Smith]

I had a Wisconsin hay baler engine snatch a raggedy flannel shirt off me faster that it took to type this .Fired it up with the air shroud off .

 

[dave53223]

A friend form work got his pant leg caught in the drive belt with the engine running.