Originally Posted by theodore/teddy

Thats a great place for this guys PPE. he'll know right where to find it when he needs it.

Originally Posted by bobj49f2

Going slightly off topic but what the heck, that's never stopped up before.

I live on a farm, I don't farm, I married a farmer's daughter. When they got old enough I sent both of my sons to tractor safety school before I'd leave them do any work with the machinery. I spent $40 apiece and accompanied both, two years apart, every Saturday for an eight hour class for eight weeks. I come home some time later to find my oldest kid helping my nimrod father-in-law, an old time, never do anything wrong, farmer greasing up an implement on the back of the tractor, up in the air with no blocking. The first lesson they teach the kids is never, ever trust the hydraulic system and never, ever get under a piece of equipment without blocking it up. I tell my kid to get out from under the implement and block it up or go into the house. My nimrod F-I-L starts b*tching about the implement won't go anywhere. I tell him, and my kid, it's either my way or no way. It's hard to instill safety into a kid when you have that kind of retarded mentality to fight against but you have to.

Originally Posted by jmadsen

and going even more off topic, speaking of hydraulics.
I have been working on a pipeline project where I am required to set grade and alignment for pipe and standing on top of the pipe right next to the bucket end of a 385 trackoe makes me a bit nervous because one slip of the controls and I'm smashed. that and the equipment the contractor is using has been breaking down a lot.