One armed lorry driver!

[PostHarvest]

In 2019, I sold a couple of bulls to a farm in Switzerland which is run by a man who lost one arm at the elbow and the other at the shoulder. When I visited him, he was unloading Hesston baled straw from a wagon and drag with a mini artic loader that has been adapted for him. He did it faster than I could have done with my four intact limbs. His impl ements are mounted on A frame couplers with auto connections for PTO and hydraulic pipes. He even manages to lead his bulls by wrapping the halter rope around him somehow. His farm is spotless - a real credit to him

 

[holywell farmer]

I know of a lorry driver that lost both legs above the knee, it never stopped him.

How have the controls of his lorry been adapted?

 

[Bald Rick]

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[Bald Rick]

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[Jasper]

I had a farming neighbour with a peg leg, too. He'd lost his leg in a threshing drum accident! Goodness knows what he would have achieved, had he been fully able bodied, because he did very well as it was. Bernard Heath, a true Staffordshire legend.

I had a farming neighbour with a peg leg, too. He'd lost his leg in a threshing drum accident! Goodness knows what he would have achieved, had he been fully able bodied, because he did very well as it was. Bernard Heath, a true Staffordshire legend.

 

[Jasper]

Is that Bernard heath from penkridge ?

 

[Av Gorritt]

There was a man locally , a contractor , who lost a hand in a baler accident . He'd dead now but many will remember him in the Oldham area as "the man with the hook" Being short of a hand never stopped him , and he used to wear out a DB steering wheel every 12 months . One of his stories was that a researcher was asking questions of him , and one of them was " Do you consider yourself working class or middle class ?" His reply - when I'm up to my elbows in a particularly smelly septic tank , I'm definitely working class , but when I get home and my tea is in front of me - a good steak from one of our own cattle , I'm definitely middle class ! . Another time when he went to a night school class and the lecturer was demonstrating a heat treatment oven . When the allotted time was up for that particular process , the lecturer found that he'd mislaid the tongs for removing the treated metal . He was staggered when the he simply picked the red hot metal out with his hook , and said " Is this what you wanted "

 

[borderterribles]

Is that Bernard heath from penkridge ?

Yes, one and the same!

 

[Cowabunga]

Just finished loading a lorry and noticed he didn’t have a right arm when he arrived.

Lost it on the journey to your place?

 

[Jasper]

Yes, one and the same!

 

[Jasper]

One night I came home from work on the tractor and I saw Bernard standing at the bottom of his drive he’d been drinking with his mate and his mate had come down the drive didn’t stop at the bottom and ended up in the river penk pulled him out and they gave me 50 quid . Also Bernard used to let my grandads dog bite his wooden leg we used to think this was hilarious

 

[Muddyroads]

Not farm related, but there’s a one legged cyclist who’s a keen member of one of the local cycling clubs here. Always impressive to see.

 

[Cowabunga]

Not farm related, but there’s a one legged cyclist who’s a keen member of one of the local cycling clubs here. Always impressive to see.

I imagine that to be like riding sidesaddle. An electric bike would make all the difference.

 

[borderterribles]

One night I came home from work on the tractor and I saw Bernard standing at the bottom of his drive he’d been drinking with his mate and his mate had come down the drive didn’t stop at the bottom and ended up in the river penk pulled him out and they gave me 50 quid . Also Bernard used to let my grandads dog bite his wooden leg we used to think this was hilarious

First time I met him after I moved next door was in Penkridge Market, at the store sale. " Ooh , me leg aches", he says, balancing on his peg, rubbing his good leg

 

[Muddyroads]

I imagine that to be like riding sidesaddle. An electric bike would make all the difference.

His false leg stays straight down on a modified pedal, while the good one does all the work. Never seen what happens when he has to stop!

 

[JohnGalway]

I guess it comes down to how much you would want to do the job.

Just thinking about my own situation and say lost an arm. I could carry a bag of rolled barley to cattle but opening the shed gate might be a prob unless I put the bag down. Of course bagging it in first place could be interesting.

It's not the same as losing a limb obviously but I fractured my right hand a year ago. Bags were an insurmountable problem, needed two hands to pour ration out of them. The way around it was to buy round bale hay and put out crystalyx, no ration feeding needed. Such an easy system I'm doing it again this year,