An Accident Waiting To Happen?

[bluebell]

For my sins i like watching farm videos on youtube, one thread is the WT Farm Girl Did, follows the young lady and family on their small farm in america, one of the latest threads only the other day shows her and her young son rebaling hay, with the tractor and baler standing still and roaring away and the both of them feeding in the loose hay ? it takes some looking at and she should be told of the possible danger and risks? others can go on youtube, watch and comment please?

 

[Kiwi Pete]

I think she did a reasonable job of minimising the risks, TBH.
Maybe a different story doing the same task all by yourself, in a boilersuit with the arms tied around your waist.
But about the only safer way would be to not do the job at all, and watch the barn burn down -- IMHO, of course.
She had another 2 adults present (although her partner was running a fair risk napping while she worked) but the cameraperson would have soon shut the PTO off in event of a mishap.
Agree it's probably not the best with a child present, but I have BTDT and probably learned more about 'keeping myself safe' by doing these sorts of riskier tasks, than by not doing them?

Will be interesting to see what the concensus is, on here.

 

[marcot]

I could barely bring myself to watch it ....bloody crazy...shes had a lot of stick in her comments over it but remains unrepentant.
As a few commented she should have cut the bales open in a row outside ...allowed them to dry as long as the weather allowed ..
Then rebaled from the safety of the tractor seat

 

[Jon]

Goodness me, I stopped watching when her young lad was involved.

I think he was a little young to be near that reel, even if there was someone present in the cab.

 

[David.]

Farm Girl vids will not do you any good at all.

 

[TripleSix]

I thought this was gonna be a thread about me when I saw the title...

 

[Badshot]

That is quite honestly the daftest thing I've watched for a long time.
Unguarded PTO flywheel just beside her.
Shaking it out by hand in the pickup, oh dear me, even I've not been daft enough to do that.
Young boy right in there, Darwin's theory will get them eventually.

 

[Richard III]

Wow that video is scary!

Many years ago we tried feeding straw into a precision chop for inclusion into the cows complete diet, however the risk of someone getting string around their leg and dragged in made me stop doing it. Next year we tried picking up straw swaths with the forager direct to solve this, but the forager and field went up in flames.

Fortunately Keenan then brought out a diet feeder that could chop straw, so we bought one of them.

 

[Henarar]

anyone got a link ?

 

[deleted user 837354]

We should, and I mean all of us, collectively, recognise a daft/unsafe activity or situation when we see it and simply refuse to do it. It's not worth it. We all know of someone whose life has been irreversibly changed by an injury on farm, nothing in the world is worth that.

 

[ColinV6]

Mental! I was cringing watching it.

Did Anyone else find I ironic as well that she had dust mask and earmuffs on, yet her son had neither

 

[8100]

anyone got a link ?

 

[Tomr10]

Much safer that way than kicking it under

 

[Zippy768]

Mental! I was cringing watching it.

Did Anyone else find I ironic as well that she had dust mask and earmuffs on, yet her son had neither

I did notice the ear muff thing

 

[Werzle]

Health and safety has gone too far in this country and stopped many people learning commonsense but it does look dangerous watching the child throw hay into the pickup reel even if he has had it drummed into him to be careful. Is it anymore dangerous than letting a kid of his age walk on the pavement without holding hands knowing he could trip and fall into the road?

 

[kiwi pom]

People always say “it’s all about common sense” well if your common sense tells you that’s ok there’s really no helping you.
Crack on hopefully you’ll be ok but don’t teach sh*t like that to your kids.

 

[Landy Nick]

At least use a bloody pitchfork..

 

[JohnBoy]

Health and safety has gone too far in this country and stopped many people learning commonsense but it does look dangerous watching the child throw hay into the pickup reel even if he has had it drummed into him to be careful. Is it anymore dangerous than letting a kid of his age walk on the pavement without holding hands knowing he could trip and fall into the road?

if the child trips and falls into the road there are still drivers in the passing vehicles (if one is passing at that precise moment) so the chances are still much lower of death or serious injury than if they trip and fall onto the pickup of a machine designed explicitly to pickup, chop and pack material.

That's leaving aside the poorly guarded flywheel and PTO shafts to the side.

There's health and safety has gone mad, and there's stupidity. that's stupidity.

 

[Exfarmer]

A pto shaft turns at 9 revs a second. There is no way a person sitting in the seat can stop the PTO before extremely serious injury or death has occurred if you are caught

 

[milkloss]

Have seen her videos before and felt that something isn’t right about them. Not particularly genuine perhaps, staged?

Viewing numbers wouldn’t have anything to do with the well fitted jeans would it?