[AT] re:Woman dies in fall from antique tractor

[Chris Britton]

Wow... tragic.

M is a big machine.. must have been unlucky circumstances, and she was 
thrown forward.

Soundguy


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> Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 09:00:56 -0400
> From: Mike Sloane <mikesloane at verizon.net>
> Subject: [AT] Woman dies in fall from antique tractor
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> [Although I didn't know Bennett, she lived in the next town over. As it
> happens, I have a virtually identical tractor to the one that she was
> operating. Let's be very careful with those old machines! MS]
>
> Woman dies in fall from antique tractor
> She enjoyed taking vehicle out for rides
> Tuesday, August 15, 2006
> BY JOE MOSZCZYNSKI
> Newark (NJ)Star-Ledger Staff
>
> A 46-year-old Frelinghuysen Township woman who mowed lawns for a living
> and who enjoyed driving an antique tractor around her family's farm on
> Route 94 was killed after being thrown from the vehicle, State Police 
> said.
>
> Sheryl Bennett was killed about 6 p.m. Friday after she was ejected from
> the seat of her tractor when it struck a gully or ravine at the Ben nett
> farm. She then fell under one of the tractor's large rear wheels, said
> Detective Tom Preston of the State Police barracks in Hope.
>
> "She used to ride the tractor around for fun ... for recreational
> rides," said Preston. "Talking to other people during the investiga
> tion, it wasn't unusual for her to just take the tractor out for a ride."
>
> Preston described the tractor as a 1952 Farm All-Super M that was red
> with some gray primer patches. The two front wheels are about the size
> of motorcycle tires and the two rear wheels are about 4 feet high, he 
> said.
>
> Bennett, who had worked as a landscaper at William Ahlers Landscaping
> Co. in Hardwick for about a dozen years, was not mowing grass at the
> time of the accident and there were no attachments on the tractor.
>
> The cause of death was head trauma. Police are awaiting a toxicology
> report, said Preston.
>
> Her employer, William Ahlers, said he found it "very unusual" when he
> learned about Bennett's interest in riding tractors for recreational use
> because she refused to drive a tractor on the job.
>
> "She drove the lawn tractors -- walk behinds and riders, but Cheryl
> never even wanted to sit on a tractor. She had a fear of the bigger
> equipment," said Ahlers.
>
> He also said that Bennett, a graduate of North Warren Regional High
> School, had a very strong work ethic.
>
> "She did it all. She was a great worker and was like my right-hand man,"
> said Ahlers. "I don't think I could replace her in 100 years."
>
> In addition to her husband, Thomas, who has participated in tractor
> pulls at the Warren County Farmers' Fair, Bennett is survived by a
> stepdaughter, Amanda Lee Bennett of Blairstown; her mother, Mildred King
> of Syndersville, Pa,; a sister and three brothers.
> -- 
> Mike Sloane
> Allamuchy NJ
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