Farm Accidents Horrible Tragedy! This may Save Your Life or a Loved One!

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

Folks!! This is not POLITICS! This is Safety with a little Light Humor I thought it would be cute to put a funny mask on this plain test dummy! I respect your freedom to make your own political choices.....This is humor and entertainment...NOT POLITICS AND HATRED! Thank you...please enjoy the content! I hope you'll all have the maturity to enjoy without reservation and or taking offence to making this serious video a little bit silly!

[@chadcarrico5562]

What kind of rubber farm boots do you wear? I wear size 15 it's hard to find a boot in my size.

[@farmboy422]

This is a very real thing and farmers as well as anyone else get complacent and get closer to running equipment than they should! I agree the shields are safer but they can also fail and if one ever starts to come apart replace it. When i was about 5 yrs old my father and i went to a local saw mill for sawdust like we did every couple weeks to find the neighbors son wrapped in the main pto shaft for the mill i will never forget the sight of what i saw that day and dad never did either. It took seceral minutes of us frantically looking for the switch to shut down the mill even though we knew he was gone. Back then pto shafts had steel guards and his were in place but it happened to be a chilly morning and he had worn a long sleeve flannel that he had either forgotten to tuck in or was loose enough that it had caught in the guard and drug him in. The human body can take alot of abuse but the dismemberment and wrapping of what these machines will do there isnt many survivors. Also shutting the pto off is not best practice if your near the equipent clearing a plug or anything of that sort shut the tractor off in college my friend home on break took the manure out one night for his father had a wrap of hay in the beater of the spreader shut the pto off to clear the jam and the pto engaged while he was working on it and spread him in the field.

[@garymixson687]

Best i seen Joe look in the last 4 years. Oh well, what else you gonna do with a pile of $#[?😂😅😊​@farmboy422

[@connieguillot6999]

Very good safety video !! Great 👍🏼👊🏻

[@ieatglue7268]

Joe looked so life-like and vibrant in this video.

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

I agree...and thank you for being able to take this as humor....and not politics, I'm really catching some horrible comments

[@rabidbeagle]

​@@StoneyRidgeFarmerSo sad that people have lost their sense of humor.

[@vidaudink3044]

Comments and replies like these prove this IS political though...

[@ieatglue7268]

@@vidaudink3044 Calm down- it's an obvious joke regarding the contents of the video. Enjoy the content.

[@vidaudink3044]

@@ieatglue7268 I get the comedy... But he does something political then insists it's not political? I love this channel and he works too hard for people to get all butt hurt about a joke and leave (not me). If he had used Trump's mask, the FBI and Trump's lawyers probably would be on his doorstep in an instant, claiming he made threats, so Biden was the safer choice I suppose... But I really hope he doesn't lose viewers for something so silly.

[@tlb84gaming5]

My cousin lost his life in 1982 by a pto. Loading grain into a bin. Unfortunately to open the grain door on the grain truck placed your body way too close to the pto. His carhart jacket just brushed the pto. My other cousin couldn’t turn off the pto fast enough even with his hand on the pto switch. Took less than one second to wrap his carhart so tight that it forced all the blood in his torso back to his heart causing it to rupture. The equipment must be respected, because if not. Well there is a reason why every farmer knows someone who is no longer with us because of this industry.

[@justmyopinion80]

My father taught me at a very young age that machines have no feelings and feel no pain, especially your yours. Be smart and careful.

[@dereksmith1803]

Wow, I never even thought about the top of the mower deck being rusted out to the point that you could put your foot through the top of it. Good video

[@kathrynbraun2073]

God bless you for your concern for others.

[@barbp7042]

My dad was hooking up his manure spreader on a cold morning and was wearing a glove with a loose string on it. The PTO caught the string and twisted his thumb off. The doctors tried to re-attach the thumb but failed. He ended up with a stump for a thumb for the rest of his life.

[@onthefritzfarm]

I grew up on a cotton farm in Southeast Missouri. Dad farmed about 1400 acres at the time. My 6 year old sister died from an accident on our property. I was 10 at the time. It had nothing to do with our machinery. My dad and his hired hand had torn down an old barn that had a corn crib in it. He brought the corn crib to behind our house for us to play in. He told us to not climb on it. Just to play in it. She climbed on the outside and fell and hit her head on a log on the ground. It was devastating. That was 52 years ago. RIP Melinda Elise Fritz

[@yvonnejohnson1557]

Josh Good very safety poor Joe LOL from Gary

[@johnsadler8637]

So sorry that happened- I can’t imagine how awful everyone felt about such a tragedy. Your first two sentences could describe my wife’s childhood. We’re about 10 years older than you and were not impacted by such a tragedy, but cotton, farm size, SEMO, corn cribs and barns all fit. She’s from S of Sikeston, NW of New Madrid. Where down there is the Fritz Farm?

[@WilliamHollinger2019]

@@onthefritzfarm I feel sorry for your lost at least she home in heaven playing along with Grandma.

[@onthefritzfarm]

@@johnsadler8637 Senath, about 60 miles south of Sikeston. 15 miles east of Paragould Arkansas.

[@johnsadler8637]

@@onthefritzfarm I knew some people from there. Last name Hoggard. Was big in the Portageville research center committee. I was in Catron until Saturday morning.

[@1geisterfahrer]

My uncle was hooking up a brush hog to his tractor, with his daughter assisting in the tractor seat. She dropped the deck when she should have raised it, and my uncle ended up with a broken leg. I also met two people who lost digits to a rotary lawnmower - one lost toes, the other fingers. Any power equipment can be dangerous.

[@miraclefarm1927]

Tomorrow is homeschool day for my little boys. We have already done PTO safety, but we didn't have Joe. That was a good comparison with the covered and uncovered. Will share with them tomorrow. Blessings

[@andrewcriswell6865]

I only have a little John Deere 1 series. It's just a little baby tractor. But in some ways I think it's more dangerous because it's size isn't as intimidating as a full size tractor. But it'll still tear you up just as fast as a big one. I also installed a rear view mirror so I can see if someone is coming up behind me while I'm using it. I don't like anybody within 100ft of the back while I'm running a cutter. With the mirror I have a better chance of seeing somebody approaching behind me and hit the kill switch to reduce risk of injury.

[@brendasimpson8563]

My dad was bush hoging the field and made the mistake of turning his around and looking baçk, when he turned around around a tree limb smacked him in the face. He almost fell off the tractor. If he did the bush hog would have killed him. He learned a very valuble lesson that day. Thank you for this video, people watch what you are doing,

[@hickory40cattlecompany96]

Dadgum!!! That was effective! Thanks for sharing!

[@BibleBikerChurch]

Hey friends, Pastor Fred here in Rockwood TN. I really appreciate the safety tips sir. I may not ever have a tractor again (I hope to), but this knowledge is good to have. My tractor story is not as intense, but could still have caused injury or death. My father was cutting down a large oak tree on the top of a little hill. It had to fall down the hill or hit a house. He put me on the 8N Ford and told me to keep in low gear and when he was cutting, to move forward. The tree pulled against me, the tractor started to raise up so I jumped off. Tractor stalled, my dads chain saw was crushed. No injuries other than my hide and my pride as dad thought I did it on purpose (I think I was 12). Another chain saw and someone else on the tractor, tree taken down no issue.

[@genedieball]

Thank you for your time and videos. When I lived in Wichita KS and worked county EMS and Sheriff’s Department. The farm bureau insurance company. Put on a full day of training like this. Class room, and hands on training. It was great,being a farm kid. You sit there and think how am I still alive. But we also great training for the city slickers. Again thanks.

[@paulferguson7432]

😂😂 your killing me Josh . That dummy was spot on . And thanks for the laughs . I was an EMT for like 11 yrs . Seen a lot of stuff . From what I learned my great grand father was a farmer and lost his left arm . From a farm accident.

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

hopefully folks can watch with enough maturity to find this helpful...with a little silliness

[@paulferguson7432]

@@StoneyRidgeFarmer hope so too .

[@leer-winnobbeefarms2131]

Josh, 20 years ago a neighbor over here got sucked into a silage wagon. It didn't kill him, but he had holes down both his front-side and his backside and tore part of his scalp loose. It can happen is a mire tenth of a second. Great video and advise! Thanks! Lee

[@williamgaines9784]

The way Joe rolled up was similar to a fellow getting his sleeve caught up in his post hole auger. Was literally beat to pieces and the auger was still running with his remains spinning for however long it was before somebody went to look for him. The machine has no mind, if one sets it to go, it goes. My brush hog takes a long minute to spin down, it has a good gearbox and heavy blades that can cut 3 inch material, you do not want to be within its reach while they are moving AT ALL.

[@jackassholler]

A buddy of mines grandpa who had farmed his entire life. Rolled his tractor on top of him while trying to load round bales on a slight incline. He passed.

[@andreasherzog2222]

Greg once told a story about his tractor tipping over and kinda burying him. He could hardly get out (but finally managed to :) ). My comment was: If you are working alone, always keep your phone on your *body*, NOT in the tractor or the pickup! He answered: "A very valuable advice".

[@wayneott5990]

I had a few but the worst was when mowing a pasture with a 3 pt sickle bar mower on a hill. I was 10 and mowing with my dad's Massey Harris 20, the brakes were shot on the tractor. Mowing uphill the tractor kicked out of gear. I went backwards about 100 feet and through a fence onto the dirt road. The mower tractor ended up tight at the hitch with the front of the tractor five feet off the ground. I was thrown off the tractor onto the road. I cleared the tractor but I was a mess. I had small stones coming out of my back for weeks. My Amish great aunt lived near the field. Walked to my parents farm house and had the operator call my mother at work. I was lucky and the tractor had new brakes two days later!

[@daleraines220]

Way to take one for the team Joe. I had a great uncle that fell off tractor on to his cutter. It chewed his leg up so bad they had to amputate his right leg. He survived WW2 went into Japan a couple days after the bomb but died a year or so after his accident.

[@jacquieboger6879]

Thank you so much for this ! When I was living on the east side of Mount Hood ranch Country in Oregon , the neighboring ranchers wife tipped the tractor, and beheaded herself. That rancher drank himself to death within a few years. Absolutely scary and anyone that owns one should be using logic and common sense and physics!

[@electrohacker]

It wasn't on the farm, but one time I had my truck jacked up and the rear leaf hangers rotted out and I was cutting them off with a cutoff wheel with no gloves and no safety guard and I dropped the grinder on my left hand and it cut into my fingers slightly. I got real lucky but I still had to go get stitches up. What I learned os sometimes you need to assess the situation and find a better safer way to do it. And you need to have a guard on your grinder.

[@scottbehr5690]

when I was a kid, it seemed like a season didn't go by without a farmer losing a hand, foot or fingers to a piece of machinery...combines were the worst. And the older the tractor, the more dangerous it is

[@denniscleveland669]

Loose clothing, is the worst thing around rotating equipment. Long hair, is another hazard.

[@denniscleveland669]

@@lance_r72 I said that!

[@lance_r72]

@@denniscleveland669 sorry

[@Telluridepilot]

Back in the late 80s my cousin was working for the NC Highway Dept. The information is not completely clear but he was trying to dislodge something from a mower deck while mowing the highways with a crew. Someone turned the deck and or tractor on while he was under it. He suffered a large cut in the forehead and skull. He was in a coma for several days before passing away. He was only 23.

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

thank you for sharing this story!

[@davidmack8813]

Joe got a little wrapped up in his work. My little brother played ugada boogada man, with a manure pitch fork tossing it through my hand it pinning my hand to my uncle's barn's beam then my hand swelled like a catchers mit, throwing it like Tarzan

[@dash1bravo24]

I've seen an industrial lathe accident, similar to pto shaft. Both spinning shafts at high speed. Absolutely BRUTAL. Nothing left that was recognizable.

[@rexoliver7780]

In a building I used to work in-they used a 700hp centrifical chiller in the air conditioning system. There are two shafts involved in this machine-1800 rpm on the 700hp motor and another that spins at 10,000 rpm off a transmission to the compressor. Stayed AWAY from these while it was running. It means stay clear of ANY rotating drive!!

[@jayroser9876]

I saw many old farmers who had lost arms and hands cleaning the weeds out of plugged combines. People who got in PTOs usually did nt make it .

[@ShainCaldwell]

My cousin was killed many years ago in a farm accident. They were bucking bales onto a hay wagon. On the way to the barn he was sitting on the rear tractor fender. The tractor hit a bump and he was thrown backwards off the tractor. The fully loaded hay wagon rolled first over his chest, crushing it. Then his head was crushed by the rear tire of the wagon. Uncle Jim never really recovered from it.

[@missulu]

I bet in health care you had plenty of opportunity to see these results first hand. I still have all my fingers and toes, but God only knows how!lol! Great video!

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

yes...the worst is letting a child accidentally fall off a tractor fender and get killed!

[@denniscleveland669]

All it takes, is a loose thread. The thread is pulled in and if it’s connected to a shirt/pant cuff, that’s pulled into the danger area and once that’s grabbed, it’s over.

[@rg1599]

Never thought about the cutter deck giving way. Mine is old and sits in the weather. I’ll be aware of that now. Thanks

[@smithfamilypastures]

I think we need more safety videos from you. Everyone should give their request on what they’d like to see. What happens if………

[@terrybriscoe5271]

Thank you. Outstanding show. Safe First 😊

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@williamfenner9915]

I think that you should get a PTO shield from the local Tractor Shop.

[@billydeesullivan537]

Also, "back in the day" people had enough common since to stay away from spinning pto shafts.

[@johnsadler8637]

Not all of them, unfortunately.

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

I think most who run equipment like this have common sense, however we tend to get complacent around our equipment...I'm guilty of it too!

[@MrRBnGA]

Good safety tips. A good follow up video would be how to replace a pto safety shield. The one I tried was a cluster to replace. 👍👍

[@CliffordHenley]

And showing people what an over riding clutch is for on a tractor with no live power pushing joe through a fence or off in a ditch

[@mikemiraglia7469]

Funny but serious Josh!! Be safe People !!

[@blueridgehomestead566]

My Papaw was getting on his 140, he slipped and grabbed the gear shift to catch himself resulting in the tractor rolling down a hill into a tree. His leg was pinned between the tire and the fender and he was ran over and drug down the hill with the tractor. My uncle found him. Last words he said were the tractor ran over me. He spent 7 days in CCU before passing away. Worst day of my life.

[@arg6193]

Much appreciated! Thank you!

[@bcgrittner]

Several years ago a marathoner here in Minnesota slipped on any icy surface and got his leg caught on a rotating PTO shaft. Surgeons were able to re-construct his leg, I don’t think he ever ran another marathon. I recall the name Dick Beardsley. And, I always emphasized to my kids, when we visited threshing shows, to stay clear of shafts, belts, flywheels, etc. They came home safe every time.

[@smithfamilypastures]

Great demonstration! It was very nice of you to include Joe. People say he has not done much. This was his big moment folks. He made an impact.

[@markarca6360]

I have remembered an episode of 9-1-1, where a farmer was stuck in a combine harvester.

[@DavidWhitson-l5y]

Thanks for hhis one Josh! Visual reminded me of a safety fair at the hospital I work for. Took my family there years ago. They had a truck cab mounted on a spinner. Put “safety Joe” in the seat with and without seatbelt on. Amazing how fast he was half way out of the cab smacking on the ground without a seatbelt. Centrifugal force. The image was burned in my mind. Very helpful!

[@patricksmith3316]

Josh, I was watching the video from about 7-8 mos ago. You the know the one. I hope you're still happy, my Friend. God bless.

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

thank you!

[@ronevans3663]

My captain has a small farm he did exactly the same but he had a glove on he right hand when to do something right at the pro. That grab that glove and took 3 of his fingers off. It will happen if you’re careless.

[@christopherlong7604]

My grandpa was bushogg in a dove field and was about to 30 yards behind him and he hit a piece of wood that got left out there from some one and he hit I am surprised to be a live it hit and came so close to me never again did I chase around grandpa while bushhogging

[@joeh4295]

I grew in rural VA, now work as a paramedic in semi-rural ro rural central PA. I respond to many farm accidents yearly. 99% of them were completely preventable.

[@TyMoore95503]

Well it's not a farm story, but a logging story. I Respect Steel under tension. I was well off near the edge of a log landing when the site boss was dragging a log with a D7 Hightracker up the landing. Instead of hauling the log high and tight (near the fairhead), he had it low. The cat made it up over the lip of the landing, but the log caught a stump...and snapped a 1-5/8" cable like it was nothing. The cable snapped over the top of the cab, slashed the 1/4" steel plate across the engine cover and took off the headlight on the right side. It sounded like a cannon shot. I saw the shackle head up over the top of the landing...bright yellow against grey overcast...and it must have landed in the woods next ridge over---2500 feet away. Steel under tension is no joke! Respect for all machinery and those who operate safely!

[@billydeesullivan537]

I knew a man who was killed by a pto shaft behind that very same model tractor

[@TheTriangle4]

Nice Ford, it will be around working long after that computer controlled TYM. That being said the TYM has some cool features my friend.

[@toddpacheco4748]

Josh,excellent advice for those who think that they know it all 👍😮😊❤

[@allenburns3177]

I started in the elevator industry in 1973. Hard hats, gloves and work boots were all we had back then. Walking into an open elevator shaft on a 4" I beam 100 feet in the air was just part of the job. In 40 years I managed to never get more than a few minor scrapes and cuts. I also never had anyone get seriously hurt while working under me. Being aware of potential dangers and utilizing safe procedures to lessen the risk. Having your head in the game, paying attention, taking the time to stop potential risk . These apply to everyone, be it at home and also the job sites. The machines are undefeated against mans body!

[@beetleridley299]

I’m a retired firefighter. I see the guy get drug by a tractor with a bush hog. Running also seen a guy go through a hay baler

[@deborahcornell5304]

Thank you so very much.

[@jimmysmith9957]

Excellent points. Especially about not standing on the brush hog while the parts are moving. The manure spreader may now be in the next Batman or James Bond movie.

[@karlrovey]

Maybe we need a sequel for Klaus the forklift operator.

[@karlrovey]

With safety Joe getting wrapped around the PTO, all of a sudden the animated safety videos of real accidents seem a bit more realistic.

[@ElletteElliottJackson]

Josh, I actually have 2 stories for you. I used to be an EMS Director in a county in southwest Georgia years ago. One of my crews was called out to a farm where the owner was operating a bulldozer clearing land. It was a fairly new John Deere with an open cab. Meaning it had a roof and sides but no doors or glass. He was not wearing his seatbelt. As he pushed dirt creating a cliff of sorts about 7 feet or so he drove over it. As you know, bulldozers do not have suspension. The front went down and pretty quickly and violently it through the rear of the bulldozer into the air. This motion through him out of the right side of the cab. He land on his back and the bulldozer ran over him from right mid shaft lower leg to left upper chest. His brother hear the man yell just before the bulldozer ran over him and ran over to find him on the ground and called 911. That one little simple step of fastening the seatbelt would have changed the outcome for the better. Unfortunately that was not the case. The second one was in the same county. A county worker was on a zero turn cutting along the side of a little side road without the roller up. He was wearing his seatbelt. There was a ditch way that was concreted that was about 100 feet long. As he crossed over the culvert there, there was a wash that he could not see because the grass had grown over it. When his right tire went into it, it flipped the zero turn causing it to tumble. He tumbled about 75 feet down the ditch way. He was found sometime later by his coworkers upside down deceased. The gasoline had ran out all over him changing the color of his skin from chemical burns. I always try to caution people about putting up those roll bars. Some listen and some don't. We use seatbelts and roll bars here on my farm religiously because of my previous experiences. They are just good practice to get in the habit of. You bought them so you might as well use them. The "that can't or won't happen to me mentality will get you when you least expect it. I hope that these 2 stories help someone be a little safer.

[@tony8354586]

Joe has done more in this video than 4 yrs in office!

[@alanharrison2804]

And it was something positive!

[@countrylifewitherin]

Nathan had to help our old neighbor across the road get a guy free that got caught up in one of his implements...he was lucky that we were home and that it wasn't worse than a broken ankle!

[@stephenreese5921]

Joe’s on vacation! He’s at the beach!

[@davidsinclair4138]

Brother in law lost 4 toes helping a young man hook up a disk

[@davisphillips7792]

My grandmother when my dad was only 6 was trying to pull one tractor out with another. And had the chain looped around the lift arms because the spare tractors draw bar was being repaired in town by grandpa at the time. No cab on the tractor and it flipped over on her. Years later my sister and I were in our teens and were doing chores with the skid steer. Our old barn had a very low head height so we couldn’t use the cage on it. My sister had her hand on the ignition box and while letting down the arms and one of the pin bosses ripped her little finger off. Safety things are there for a reason. Usually a bad one.

[@ClickinChicken]

I have the Ford 1910, Ford's largest garden tractor at the time (80's). The PTO shaft has the sleeves on implements I have. I used to keep cabin keys on a yellow shoe string around my neck. Not a good idea around equipment. I couldn't bear to watch. Wooo!!!

[@stephenmartin1480]

Now that's a good tractor ! No electronics !😅 All this new stuff is junk !

[@karlnitz1126]

Farmer Joe gives safety advise...

[@bencarter2807]

I just thought for you to ask your vet if glucosomine/chondrotin would help your doggie with his hips . It helps me with artheritis knees!

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

I'm giving him some supplements but he's just getting older

[@bencarter2807]

@@StoneyRidgeFarmer Get him a puppy to raise and train before he passes.

[@bay9876]

Wouldn't want to clean up the mess left behind if this actually happened. The image of a farmer running across his field chased by an angry bull is no joke. This is a regular event in Spain's running of the bulls. That cycle mower is deadly if you left your dog outside. Playing in a hay loft and falling inside stacks of hay to sufficate is also a no-no - or children playing around hungry pigs. Bouncing across a field and sitting on a not well secure spot on tractor fender and one big bounce and then. If it's Just little us up agianst big farm machinery, we end up the loser.

[@bohammarberg4072]

Good afternoon !! 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

[@nathanmcbrayer6755]

I love watching your videos so much l love tractor 🚜

[@scottsmith6846]

Hey Josh thank you for making this video to show people when they don't pay attention what could happen and it's best just like you said if you're going to walk around the machinery make sure it's off woo

[@lindaevr]

Tractor flipped over on my daddy when he was pulling a log tree that had cut down and he didn’t hook it up right or he didn’t have enough ballast on front end . 1948 Ford 8Ntractor. He died.

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

ouch!

[@troyjones6587]

Also, the post wasn't related to me...just a tragic event concerning dangerous equipment.

[@ronthacker211]

Your Joe is no Mo.... cracked me up... LMAO

[@charlesperry1051]

I have a subcompact tractor and the only PTO attachment I have is a tiller. So there is NO reason for me to get off my tractor with the PTO engaged. That plastic sleeve is a pain in the a$$ when trying to attach the PTO to the tractor. With a subcompact, everything is very close together. BUT I understand the need for the sleeve. Someday I want a PTO driven chipper/shredder and then PTO safety will much more of an issue since I will be off the tractor with PTO engaged. Love that old Ford.

[@gordonwilloughby8793]

Safety Joe littered the environment. The metal bracing around the pto shaft on the ford looks like it could be used as a frame to connect a guard over and around the pto shaft.

[@millerbification]

I would give some money to buy a ford 3910 with power steering I got a 1957 ford 800 tractor I’m using to bush hog some spots can be tricky with out power steering so blessed to have you a tractor like that I just never got lucky to have a tractor with power steering but looks fun for sure

[@WilliamHollinger2019]

Please do more safety farming

[@Sgtkode]

A couple ideas for you. The first is the Ford mowers PTO shaft could be made safer with PVC pipe with a little creativity. You work alone like I do even though I carry my phone in my pocket I fell and my phone went flying. Now I have a pendant I wear you should have one too! Be safe!

[@StoneyRidgeFarmer]

by brotha....you come up with some fun ideas! You're a creative fella!

[@Sgtkode]

@@StoneyRidgeFarmer Thanks! My Dad was a good ole from Alabama but he could come up with some great ideas and I like to think I take after him.

[@jamesharper5506]

I have almost tipped my tractor over just by being on the edge of drit . And by trying to pick up a log at a Very small angle. It can happen.

[@babybluesfarm8595]

I went to school with a guy that had his nuts ripped up in the pto shaft, he went by the nickname scarnuts

[@angryroostercreations5194]

about 20 years ago, a man in my community lost both arms to a pto auger. he was in his early 30s, and was the primary bread winner with a wife and kids. I don't know exactly what lead up to the accident, I was a kid at the time, i just remember the fundraiser they held for him and his family. I do construction work with my dad, One of the flooring guys the contractor uses lost a leg in a grain elevator auger as a kid ( i know it isn't tractor related, but still a farm accident).

[@aidenschwartz]

On the subject of two different generations of tractor safety. I just saw on marketplace a 1968 ford 4000, low tractor, with 4x4. The drive shaft for the front comes out the clutch side under the foot rest. In my opinion that’s scary.

[@chriswertz7434]

Good advice. Novices fear it. Old schoolers take that chance even though they know it. Square baler is my fear...

[@RidgeLife]

Great video Josh! Don't be a sleepy Joe!

[@shannons1301]

Great video, even if people know what to do, always good. 2. Have a reminder

[@bossman2246]

The lesson is to Keep Joe B . away from Gov and tractors

[@patricksmith3316]

I do believe it ripped the stuffing out of Joe.

[@aidenschwartz]

When my grandpa first got his 4000 ford with his brush hog, he had his pants ripped off of him. The pants got caught on the bolt on the pto shaft and ripped his pants off.

[@royreynolds108]

He is one lucky guy, at least fortunate.

[@clintonconger4665]

Great video and I thought it was funny using that dummy personally. But, I cant believe you had a good pair of truewerks pants on him! lol

[@royreynolds108]

According to statistics, farming is the most dangerous occupation.

[@MarkWilliams-lf5tc]

Very informative video.

[@brucerushing2363]

Good one !

[@rookiefarmer702]

All equipment is dangerous. My buddy was checking a hydraulic line and it had a hole in it that he couldn't find. The next thing he knew he had lost two fingers. Just be careful around any piece of equipment.

[@stevesundberg5956]

Great video!

[@MegaBolens]

The old one as fine. You have now business around the shaft while it’s in operation anyway

[@ShaneZettelmier]

Other than spraying myself in the face with chemicals and hot oil and gas the worst I can remember was on a riding mower. I took the guard off of the mowing deck and just drove it that way for while because it was broken and I didn’t want to fix it and I figured it’s a little riding mower what can it do. So I was out mowing in the back And hit a stomp with the mower deck which stopped the mower but I didn’t stop. I flew forward and rolled off the steering wheel and put my foot right through the open hole where the guard is supposed to be and thank God I was wearing thick leather shoes and it didn’t shred my foot, but the blade hit it and kicked it out pretty hard and it was black and blue for a good three or four months, if I was wearing anything other than a thick leather shoe, I would’ve been shredded. It was stupid because John Deere has a little metal flap over the top of that and that would’ve kept my foot from going in there at all but the bolt had fallen out so I just took it off figuring I would never be dumb enough to put my foot in there😂