[AT] skidding logs with a tractor is a dangerous business

[Len Rugen]

Things can happen too fast for operator reaction.  I try to use a "weak 
link" on these things, so if something hangs up, it will break.  You can 
drag for days over the same road and get comfortable with faster speed and 
less caution, then snag something on the next pass.

But, I think some people use the 3pt hitch to lift the log while skidding 
and I don't think that  is safe.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <farmall36 at vci.net>
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Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 12:40 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] skidding logs with a tractor is a dangerous business


Seems to me that either the chain was hooked too high on the tractor, or
driver forgot about the clutch. ( PANICED)  Anyway you are right everyone
should be careful, and careful who you put in the tractors seat.
I thought I was a careful person and look at my foot.
Dr says will hurt for ever,
Kevin
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Bruce" <davidbruce at yadtel.net>
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Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 8:08 AM
Subject: [AT] skidding logs with a tractor is a dangerous business


> Another reminder to be careful.
> David
> NW NC
>
>
>      Tractor flips over, killing Wallburg woman, 26
>
> WALLBURG - A 26-year-old woman was killed when a tractor flipped over
> Monday afternoon.
>
> Katie Bullins of 160 Katie Foltz Lane was driving a tractor and dragging
> a log about 4 p.m. Monday when the log snagged on a stump, causing the
> tractor to overturn, said Lt. Dewayne Miller of the Davidson County
> Sheriff’s Office.
>
> It was the second fatal tractor accident in Davidson County this summer.
>
> Larry Thomas Allen of Welcome was killed last month after the tractor
> that he was riding in slid down an embankment and rolled over, pinning
> him beneath it.
>
>
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