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If I didn't know it was true
oldrider
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I don't think I cold believe this story.
Friend of my son in laws family went out just before dark to work on his tractor. Couldn't start it, used a screwdriver to arc across something, tractor started, in gear, ran over is leg, and stopped on it.
His wife, used to him going to mess with things about this time, went to bed. He laid there all night with the tractor parked on his leg.
They amputated it today.
Friend of my son in laws family went out just before dark to work on his tractor. Couldn't start it, used a screwdriver to arc across something, tractor started, in gear, ran over is leg, and stopped on it.
His wife, used to him going to mess with things about this time, went to bed. He laid there all night with the tractor parked on his leg.
They amputated it today.
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obvious could have been worse than a broke leg
I hope he has a fast recovery .
a friend Of minds dad had a tractor run over him in a similar way he was standing beside it started and ran himself over lucky if you can call it that it was a older MF like a 8n ford size messed him up but recovered .
Friend of mine was in an airplane hanger with a tug tractor having just moved an airplane.
Somehow he fell off the tractor and it ran over him and really screwed him up - so bad he just had to lie there.
Steering wheel was turned on the tug and it was going in a circle.
It came around the circle and ran over him - again - and again.
Three circles - three times run over by the same tug until he was able to pull himself out of the path.
True story. It screwed him up pretty bad and he had to be in the hospital for a fair amount of time before he was moved to assisted care for an even greater amount of time.
The tree was on my right leg right at the knee.
Thank God another guy was with me. He wasn't much good with a chain saw or he would have cut me out.
However he called 911 and got fire/rescue to come out and cut that tree off my leg.
I was pinned beneath the tree for 35 minutes and it seemed like 10 hours! Good Lord I feel so sorry for someone pinned like that, all night long. What a living hell.
My thigh bone was broken in the knee and I had to have emergency surgery. Doc said that, another half hour pinned beneath that tree and my leg would have been amputated.
We used to walk out on the nacelles on the plane to put on plugs and covers. An FE had done it a thousand times. This time he fell off and cracked his head on the tarmac. It was an hour before anyone went looking for him. Walking out on the nacelles was stopped and Little Giant ladders were issued to each plane.
Cops really screwed up going one to a car. Always have a back up with you.
One was a good friend of my older brother back in Jr. High school.
He was just a kid who's family owned a big cherry orchard in the rolling hill country.
One day it died on him in traffic. So he jumps out, raises the hood, sticks his arm down the side of the engine, and shorted the starter solenoid. Car started right up. Unfortunately, he had forgotten to put the car in Park when it stalled. Was pretty funny watching him run down the street chasing his car.
Luckily he got in pretty quickly before the car made an 'impact' on traffic.
Later Saturday night, the gas jockey slipped the shifter in gear as he was leaving after cleaning up. The next morning "Tony" my friend goes to work a couple hours early to fire is car up. He finishes connecting this and that, hooks a remote starter to the solenoid and tries to bump the engine over. The car jumped forward, pinning him against a work bench with the front bumper shattering both knees. He was there almost an hour until a customer came in wanting gas.
He missed about a half year of school, but luckily everything healed up alright.
Too bad him and his wife don't have better lines of communication.
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
A one term senator from Chicago was elected president of the US. Twice!
Amazing, but not equal to a person with NO POLITICAL credentials being elected as president of the U.S. Twice!
Lost lot's of neighbors, school mates, etc to tractor accidents, silage choppers, hay mowers and dairy bulls.
Only by the grace of God did most of us live to adulthood.
Prayers for your SILs friend.
They had hooked the chain to lift point, not draw points.
quote:Originally posted by Mr. Perfect
A one term senator from Chicago was elected president of the US. Twice!
Amazing, but not equal to a person with NO POLITICAL credentials being elected as president of the U.S. Twice!
But was the result this sad?
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
Never came home. Just tractor sitting in the field by the stump.
The Mrs figured he had just run off.
Reality was he hooked up the stump, pulled it mostly.
Then jumped into the hole to cut some roots.
Chain broke.
Several days later, they figured out what happened.
Only one hand was visible under the stump.
Best wishes for your friend's recovery.