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<blockquote data-quote="BTS" data-source="post: 4214194" data-attributes="member: 74654"><p>I am sorry for the families loss.</p><p></p><p>I knew of someone (friend of a friend of a friend) that was killed by a baler when he was trying to unplug it when it pulled him in. </p><p></p><p>I watched (horrified) at work cleaning pens (work at a dog kennel) when the grandson of the boss had a real old IH small square baler hooked up to a JD 4020, he was trying to bale straw for his chickens, he ran several round bales through a grinder and made rows that were approx 3' tall. That old baler was never meant to run in that high of a windrow, the grandson running it is probably in his late 20's early 30's at most. He had his 2 kids out there (maybe 2 1/2 and 4 years old) the kids were around 20' away from the baler, the baler kept plugging due to the high windrow, the guy kept getting off the tractor and adjusting the baler while the PTO was running. Finally the boss (grandfather) came out on his utility vehicle and pickup the little kids. The old baler has no shields, big flywheel on the side with no covers at all, I knew I was going to witness a horrible accident and I didn't want to be apart of any of it.</p><p></p><p>A few years ago there was also a kid (probably 16 or 18 years old). He was sowing wheat when the drill got a build up of straw in front of it, the kid climbed out of the tractor, walked the tongue to the front of the drill while the tractor was still driving down the field. While trying to pull the straw out he fell off, his grandfather was just driving up in his pickup and saw the whole thing happen. The grandfather drove ahead and jumped in the tractor. The kid was killed by the time the tractor was stopped. </p><p></p><p>A lot of these accidents can be prevented if people would take the time but everyone seems to be in a hurry now days....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BTS, post: 4214194, member: 74654"] I am sorry for the families loss. I knew of someone (friend of a friend of a friend) that was killed by a baler when he was trying to unplug it when it pulled him in. I watched (horrified) at work cleaning pens (work at a dog kennel) when the grandson of the boss had a real old IH small square baler hooked up to a JD 4020, he was trying to bale straw for his chickens, he ran several round bales through a grinder and made rows that were approx 3' tall. That old baler was never meant to run in that high of a windrow, the grandson running it is probably in his late 20's early 30's at most. He had his 2 kids out there (maybe 2 1/2 and 4 years old) the kids were around 20' away from the baler, the baler kept plugging due to the high windrow, the guy kept getting off the tractor and adjusting the baler while the PTO was running. Finally the boss (grandfather) came out on his utility vehicle and pickup the little kids. The old baler has no shields, big flywheel on the side with no covers at all, I knew I was going to witness a horrible accident and I didn't want to be apart of any of it. A few years ago there was also a kid (probably 16 or 18 years old). He was sowing wheat when the drill got a build up of straw in front of it, the kid climbed out of the tractor, walked the tongue to the front of the drill while the tractor was still driving down the field. While trying to pull the straw out he fell off, his grandfather was just driving up in his pickup and saw the whole thing happen. The grandfather drove ahead and jumped in the tractor. The kid was killed by the time the tractor was stopped. A lot of these accidents can be prevented if people would take the time but everyone seems to be in a hurry now days.... [/QUOTE]
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