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11-03-2015, 10:31 PM
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Just a reminder to be safe out there...
So harvest is near an end and as such I made what I thought to be one final journey to the farm for the year to turn in my hours and collect my $$$. I hop into the combine with the bossman and we start talking. Turns out I just missed an accident at the shop by about an hour. Here is what happened:
The guy who usually runs the ripper had a flat so he returned to the shop to remove the tire and repair the flat. Being a little muddy as it is, he was having a hard time getting the tire off and onto his truck to take in for repair. So he got the skid loader out to help remove/move the tire. He gets it off, loaded into his truck, and goes to park the skid loader. It's at this point that I'm told (this many, many year veteran) had never run this particular skid loader. So he calls the cart operator to ask how to shut it down. Cart guy tells him "below your left knee there is a knob; pull it out and it'll shut down". Somehow (and we haven't figured this out yet, still haven't heard back from the ER visit) he winds up behind the skid loader with the engine bay open. He's on the phone with the cart operator at this point and next thing he knows he hears over the phone "Oh #(*$ my thumb!". A few minutes later the guy pulls into the field in his truck holding his right hand/thumb wrapped in a bloody rag. Checks in with the guys in the field and off to the ER he goes. Turns out he couldn't find the shut down in the cab so he was doing it "the old fashioned way". He must have slipped or...something...and the cooling fan caught his thumb. Supposedly cut through his skin and bone and was barely hanging on by a piece of skin. Here's keeping this guy in our thoughts but this just goes to show you no matter how many years you operate, work on, or are around this equipment, accidents can happen. I know our Cubs are a sight smaller but things can still happen so be safe out there guys!  (On the plus side, the ripper operator seat is now open  )
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-Ryan
 
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