[AT] Tragic Tractor/Mower accident - Douglas, KS

[Danny Tabor]

So that is probably what it is. Lack of common sense
and discipline. I haven't read the --WARNING-- page of
a new tractors owners manual but I'm almost certain I
started operating tractors at a way early age compared
to todays standards. Of course I started raking hay
and moved up from there. 
     It just seems strange to me, in almost every farm
magazine I get. There is an article on farm safety or
a course offered for the same. Yet still I hear of
more and more accidents. I suppose the question is
with the number of accidents that happen on equipment
to children, especially. How many are actually farm
accidents. Whether its accidents that happen to a full
time farm family or weekend "Rambo's", for a lack of a
better description.
Danny

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--- "G.Dombaugh" <gdombaugh at 1kms.com> wrote:
> Greg:
>     That was the common sense I was talking about
> earlier...  Your Dad
> sounds a lot like mine was, and if he caught one of
> us older kids letting
> the younger ones ride in a dangerous place, our
> butts got beat.
> You didn't do that but once... :-)
> 
> Garrell
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Easley, Greg" <EasleyG at health.missouri.edu>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"
> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2004 3:07 PM
> Subject: RE: [AT] Tragic Tractor/Mower accident -
> Douglas, KS
> 
> 
> > I couldn't count the miles that I rode a fender
> with
> > Dad when I was a kid.  I'm not saying that it's
> right
> > or wrong or anything else, but I knew how finish a
> > dead furrow before I was tall enough to reach the
> pedals
> > on a 8N Ford.  Riding along was part of the
> learning
> > process and most folks didn't give it a second
> thought.
> >
> > That said, there's no way in hell he would let
> ANYONE
> > ride when he was running the bush hog.
> >
> >
> > Greg
> > http://www.geocities.com/heartland/woods/1416
> >
> >
> > <snip>
> >          or Is it that some parents are just flat
> > STUPID these days. I suppose all of the above are
> > stupid but hind sight is always 20-20 and it seems
> > very few people think of what could happen. With
> all
> > the seminars offered, What more can possibly be
> done
> > to give people common sense when it comes to the
> > dangers of equipment?
> > <end snip>
> >
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