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BBC One - Close Calls: On Camera, Series 10, Episode 6
Emergency services struggle to release a farmer impaled on a metre-long spike.
Here's the chap that got stabbed by the JCB straw grab, absolute miracle.
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Zebbedee
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wBBC One - Close Calls: On Camera, Series 10, Episode 6
Emergency services struggle to release a farmer impaled on a metre-long spike.www.bbc.co.uk
canna see it without registering but where did this happen?BBC One - Close Calls: On Camera, Series 10, Episode 6
Emergency services struggle to release a farmer impaled on a metre-long spike.
Princess Pooper
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Guyhirn near Wisbech, Lincs/Cambs border. Big dairy set up, not many out that way!
kiwi pom
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- canterbury NZ
I just cant fathom how anyone can think its OK to jump out of a machine with a spike in the air and then walk between it and another solid object. Why would you not put the hand brake on or didn't it work.
Totally preventable without the need for any risk assessments or high viz, it just needed a competent operator.
This kind of stupidity is why we have so many rules these days.
I'm very glad the chap survived, excellent work from the emergency services.
I'm sure I'll get yelled at now.
Totally preventable without the need for any risk assessments or high viz, it just needed a competent operator.
This kind of stupidity is why we have so many rules these days.
I'm very glad the chap survived, excellent work from the emergency services.
I'm sure I'll get yelled at now.
TripleSix
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Same as watching Tom Pemberton on YouTube, he goes on about safety, danger doesn't take a day off etc etc.
Yet the Manitou and loader tractor are usually left with the forks/grab raised at head height.
He was on a ladder in a slurry tank the other day too.
No gas detector, no harness ...
I've done some daft stuff no doubt but we can all do better, must try harder.
Enry
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- Shropshire
Jesus!!!!BBC One - Close Calls: On Camera, Series 10, Episode 6
Emergency services struggle to release a farmer impaled on a metre-long spike.
- Location
- sw scotland
Fair points, one thing walking into the spike, another letting the machine impale you. Any loader attachment should be left on the ground or high up when you get off. Even walking into the sharp edge of a bucket will open your scalp.
Scholsey
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- Herefordshire
It’s plonkers like that why we have all the stupid fail safes in loaders now making them ridiculously expensive and unreliable.
glasshouse
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- lothians
Driving a new jd last week, pto goes off when you leave cab
So i couldnt check seed coulters for blocks by turning seed wheel and watching seed blow through
You can instruct it to stay on when leaving the seat by pressing a touch pad on the screen.
glasshouse
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- lothians
Cant work screens
kiwi pom
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- canterbury NZ
Probably shouldn't be in it if you can't operate it, that's how accidents happen.
glasshouse
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- lothians
I didnt want to be in it
glasshouse
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- lothians
Tractors need to be simple to operate, these things need a week long operator course
ollie989898
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I can't stand to leave an implement or loader boom up in the air when getting out. Friend of mine once walked into a set of raise pallet forks which were conveniently left at head height and promptly smashed some of his teeth on them. Makes me wince to see stuff up in the air, not least because I've met more than a few telehandlers whose handbrake doesn't work so I much prefer to leave the carriage on the deck. Of course you can then trip on the fudging thing then but I consider that preferable to a smash to the face.
People climbing into slurry towers and below ground stores, freshly emptied- incredibly dangerous.
People climbing into slurry towers and below ground stores, freshly emptied- incredibly dangerous.
