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- Ceredigion
So easy to forget these things over our heads when rushing to get the harvest in
Please stay safe
Please stay safe
Dangers in farming
- Thread starter Derrick Hughes
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Dead Rabbits
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- 'Merica
Don’t forget about motorized death machines. AKA chainsaws. This one ended with permanent brain damage.
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- East Essexshire
I'm normally very gung-ho about stuff, but last autumn a gust of wind at the wrong time while my hand was in the wrong place, and I was playing 'hunt the finger'.
It's stuck back on, but lacks a joint now, and is always going to hurt in cold weather.
It was bad luck, as most accidents are. Wrong place at the wrong time, and could have happened anywhere, or might never happen at all.
But it has added to my catalogue of experiences which now make me eye up most things with a 'Will it kill me?' pause before I pile in like I used to.
It's stuck back on, but lacks a joint now, and is always going to hurt in cold weather.
It was bad luck, as most accidents are. Wrong place at the wrong time, and could have happened anywhere, or might never happen at all.
But it has added to my catalogue of experiences which now make me eye up most things with a 'Will it kill me?' pause before I pile in like I used to.
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- south norfolk
I don’t know about everyone else but as I get older I’m paranoid about getting hurt and lots of stuff I no longer do.im now 58 and I work alone 99.9% of the time and no one about either.when I broke an ankle racing motorbikes in the early 90s I never thought I’d walk again.i also worry continually about things and recently altering tractor wheel widths I was having kittens thinking what might happen.im sure I’m not alone with my fear and worries.the days of jumping out of tractor cabs and off machines has long gone.
Nick...
Nick...
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- sw scotland
I have not done a chainsaw course but I cannot see evidence of a face cut which on a leaning tree is asking for trouble. Tough lesson.
Don’t forget about motorized death machines. AKA chainsaws. This one ended with permanent brain damage.
holywell farmer
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- holywell, north wales
And health too,Stay safe everyone
deleted user 837354
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I think as you get older and count the little scars and bruises and think about 'the time I did that' you become wiser to hurting yourself.
glasshouse
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- lothians
What happened?
Chae1
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- Aberdeenshire
Probably safer than cycling on a public road.
suffolksmallholder
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- Suffolk
What's called a 'Barbers chair.' The first cut, not where the saw is in the pic, sprang open hence the bare timber. This then hit the operator full in the face.......Result fatal!
Looks like the piece on the floor to the left of the standing tree.
- Location
- East Essexshire
Blowing the rad out on the combine, and a gust of wind was stronger than a 35 year old strut holding the engine cover up. And I'd grabbed the wrong place to brace myself against the wind.
glasshouse
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- Location
- lothians
Ouch
I lifted a sheep gate about 15 yr ago
It had a small gate within it which wasnt latched
It swung open and nipped off the last inch of my index finger in the hinged end
It wasnt right off, but needed day trip to a & e
Confined spaces
www.hse.gov.uk
Confined spaces: A brief guide to working safely
The leaflet is aimed at employers and the self-employed who carry out work in confined spaces, but will also be useful to anyone involved in carrying out work in confined spaces.
Dead Rabbits
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- 'Merica
Yes sir, that’s exactly what happened. He had jammed the saw in the picture and was cutting it from the backside with the top of the bar of another saw. Leaving his head directly behind the tree trunk. The piece to the left I actually cut off him. I knew what happened as soon as I ran up. Another tree he had cut was leaning on the one he was cutting on.
It was very much an amateur mistake and totally unnecessary as there was both a bulldozer and a loader tractor within 100 yards that he could have used.
I would put up some pictures of what it did to him but it’s not my place to. He will never function as a normal person again. And all at 19 years old. Seeing this will hopefully make anyone operating machines pause and think things through more carefully.
Hopefully nobody has to repeat his mistake but it wasn’t the first person I’ve seen die or nearly die on a farm. I hope it’s my last.
suffolksmallholder
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- Suffolk
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- Scottish Highlands
The one thing that makes me wince is when I see guards removed from hay making equipment so they are narrower to get into the shed. It is very very common but I never see it mentioned. Yes, they are missing on mine too but I have a healthy respect and stay away if they are moving.
Simple things like throwing a broken small bale back into the baler. I got a string caught around my ankle and was not so slowly being dragged in. Can't remember how I got free but it gave me a scare. Nothing wrong with a bit of cowardice. Just stay aware out there and keep yourself and others away from danger.
Simple things like throwing a broken small bale back into the baler. I got a string caught around my ankle and was not so slowly being dragged in. Can't remember how I got free but it gave me a scare. Nothing wrong with a bit of cowardice. Just stay aware out there and keep yourself and others away from danger.
deleted user 837354
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I can't bear to look at PTO shafts with missing or dodgy guards, makes me cringe. If I was the HSE or farm assurance man I'd angle grind up any shafts I saw like that on the spot.