Take care

[Bald Rick]

Managed to put a stone from a muck spreader through a hedge and the drivers side window of a parked car (fortunately unoccupied) in the spring.

£560 autoglass repair bill but cheap when one thinks what could have happened

 

[Bury the Trash]

Managed to put a stone from a muck spreader through a hedge and the drivers side window of a parked car (fortunately unoccupied) in the spring.

£560 autoglass repair bill but cheap when one thinks what could have happened

ah yes the great insurance rip off ,that window probaly cost no more than !00 plus fitting ?
was it through the nifu?

Did a car door window witrh the strimmer (small stone) once ,local independant company came and fitted quickly for about a hundred or less iirc. was no more anyway. didnt bother claiming just paid there and then directly.

 

[Agriimark]

so how do we be more careful, dont mow within a few hundred metres of anything that could be damaged? dont use front mowers? not going to happen really is it. best we can do is make sure we have fitted parts correctly and double check. if everything is 100% including all guards etc then it is in the hands of the gods

 

[Cowpoke82]

Those circular saw blades that fit on the end of hedge trimmers frighten me . Imagine if that thing came off!

Had a disc come off a disc cutter once , took the leather off my steel toe cap an wedged itself into the side of the barn

 

[grass man]

Assuming a foreign object causes the blade to leave the machine and cause a fatality, who is liable? Farmer or contractor

 

[Bury the Trash]

Assuming a foreign object causes the blade to leave the machine and cause a fatality, who is liable? Farmer or contractor

or the householders whose garden bounds the field and who have been known to chuck bricks and stones amongst other foriegn objects like old chairs wire and rusty steel etc things out into said field? the operator /manager can only do and check so much before work commences.

 

[Speedstar]

You adjusted your excess?? Any savings in the premiums
The blade still in tact or had the hole failed??

Yes we paid a higher excess £500 I think, This saved a good bit of money
Yes blade was like new so are the blade holders we have checked them all & measured them & its all like new

 

[d williams]

Yes we paisd a higher excess £500 I think
Yes blade was like new you may find your premium May come down if you tell your insurance company to increase your excess to £2k

That’s a concern the complete blade coming away

 

[ollie989898]

Had a disc come off a disc cutter once , took the leather off my steel toe cap an wedged itself into the side of the barn

Angle grinders and disc cutters and anything in a workshop with whirly bits scare me a little. Goggles and gloves always (and hearing protection!).

 

[Boohoo]

Yes we paid a higher excess £500 I think, This saved a good bit of money
Yes blade was like new so are the blade holders we have checked them all & measured them & its all like new

If everything is like new I'd be speaking to the manufacturer because only poor design can be to blame. The manufacturer should be changing all mowers to bolts until they redesign their quick fit system.
I've lost quick fit blades off Kverneland mowers in the past but there was always evidence of damage.

 

[Neil MP]

There was that accident years ago in scotland where farmers wife brought out the tea and got a blade in the forehead.

Yeah, I remember it, it was in the Scottish farmer, think I was about 10 at the time, and warned sternly not go near the mower.

 

[sc4545]

Krone are notorious for blades flying off.

 

[puppet]

I don't like anyone near me in the field when mowing.
Once went to a grassland event and farmers were almost peering under the mowers as they sped past. Recipe for disaster

 

[czechmate]

actuall glass as a barrier to a proper projectile makes no difference whatso ever, had small a p iece of ht barb wire come through cab window from hedgetrimmer years ago went just past back of head and out the through the other window smashing both .

put in some sort bullet proof plastic after iirc trouble is that got a bit cloudy for visablity.

could write a bookl really but doubt anyone would be that interested to buy it

Michiel Berk used to do a program called 999. He had a case where a farmer got a tiny piece of metal in his heart while hedge trimming

 

[czechmate]

Michiel Berk used to do a program called 999. He had a case where a farmer got a tiny piece of metal in his heart while hedge trimming

i should add to that, he didn’t feel it at all, just started feeling very tired. Got out the tractor and sat with his back against the wheel. He was lucky, a neighbour wondered what was up, went and investigated and the hedge trimmer got flown off in the air ambulance and made a full recovery

 

[Jon Boy]

Krone quick release system is quite poor the last set of mowers we have bought were specd with bolt on blades and we are converting the rest of the sets to bolt on aswell , the big M seems to be better but still not 100% . krone actually sell a rattle gun just for changing knife bolts but we try and teach people to do them up with torque wrench or else we get trouble with over tightening of the bolts and them shearing off.

 

[Neil MP]

i should add to that, he didn’t feel it at all, just started feeling very tired. Got out the tractor and sat with his back against the wheel. He was lucky, a neighbour wondered what was up, went and investigated and the hedge trimmer got flown off in the air ambulance and made a full recovery

What about the farmer with the tiny bit of metal in his heart? ‍

 

[Speedstar]

so how do we be more careful, dont mow within a few hundred metres of anything that could be damaged? dont use front mowers? not going to happen really is it. best we can do is make sure we have fitted parts correctly and double check. if everything is 100% including all guards etc then it is in the hands of the gods

Things happen , best not go in a field with a mower going , blade came off a rear butterfly not a front mower , maybe hit a rough spot in the field or some thing you will never know.

 

[Speedstar]

Krone quick release system is quite poor the last set of mowers we have bought were specd with bolt on blades and we are converting the rest of the sets to bolt on aswell , the big M seems to be better but still not 100% . krone actually sell a rattle gun just for changing knife bolts but we try and teach people to do them up with torque wrench or else we get trouble with over tightening of the bolts and them shearing off.

Its the first one we have had come off its the same set up on our mowers as A big M , over the years we will have lost more bolt on blades off than ones on a q fit system & we have ran q fit blades on claas headers & mowers in the past & have ran Krones for a good few years now.

 

[kiwi pom]

I've had bolt ons hit a stone and break the blade but never had one completely come off.
Never used one with quick release.
Don't see the point of quick release, you don't need to change them that often.
Unless you're mowing in Canterbury