Another accident

[Braveheart]

I'm a proponent of the 10,000 hour rule, meaning to be proficient at something you need 10,000 hours of experience/practice. That means young people planning to farm need to start young. With that MUST be safety, not just for the protection of everyone but as part of the training.

The worst thing the Alberta Government can do is react the wrong way. Banning kids under a certain age from being around farm machinery will ultimately have the opposite effect from a safe environment.

[TOM4CWB]

Agree Braveheart.

Another comment:

WalksLikeADuck
This happened to someone I know, His toddler son was playing in the grain on the truck, while it was unloading through the belly-dump. He saw him disappear under the grain, and he had the battle of his life to pull him out against the massive suction. By the time he got him out he had turned blue, but thankfully he made a full recovery. Close call.

1 hour ago 3 Likes

Accidents from backing over little ones happen daily in town more than on the farm. Sadly this is NOT about regulations. This is about a state of mind... that determines risk second by second... which education as Braveheart states well saves lives. In city Traffic. Driving vehicles. Bikes, Horses, ATV's Snowmobiles. Making new regulations will help? I doubt it.

Laws seldom save lives... just ask the live birth baby that got cut up for body parts.

[cottonpicken]

I pound safety into my kids skulls like a hammer. My nine and eleven year olds made their first passes alone in the combine this year i jumped off and said your on your own just like what happened to me and every other farm kid. Almost made me want to try farming again. City people just dont get it. Some of the comments i seen made me angry like mr Hyde angry.

[foragefarmer]

Tom4cwb

Three young, loved daughters have died tragically and you bring in politics using your favorite line LEFTY.

You have proved your a classless person without a doubt!!!!!

[Braveheart]

Forage, you could have just let it go, but you added to it with another of your nitpicking comments.

[vvalk]

Don't agree very often with forage or ever until now. Braveheart pretty brutal bringing abortion into a discussion about a terrible farm accident. More then brutal, it's disgusting. Tom. You should know better

[riders2010]

What a terrible thing. Thoughts and prayers to the families. Don't want to sound like lecturing but sometimes you don't get a second chance to be safe.

Be careful all farm families please !!!

[sawfly]

unbearable for the family's

just weeks ago explaining to my 11 yr. old grandson
about the last tragedy. the importance of staying out of grain. period. what can happen.
now sadly again
the other one i pound in, is stay in the
combine truck what ever, unless it is on fire, otherwise you shut it off and sit .
and wait for assistance
no walking around, no approaching other machines.

he did great , day lite , and only certain fields for now.

i ran them at 11-12 and we did way more dangerous things than i would ever allow now, like stick belt dressing on moving belts,shoveling in the top of old square bins, with auger running .
just plain stupid

they all have to learn to see the danger themselves.
that takes experience

i always think about the poor guy killed at his first day of work in saskatoon.
rolled over by a roll of steel.
i bet he was not a farm kid.

[Braveheart]

Vvalk, I didn't endorse Tom's comments re abortion. I do understand the point he was making though.

There's just too much back and forth on points that don't mean much.

[cottonpicken]

Jesus now i just want to beat up a few cbc reporters ****in clueless pricks.

[TOM4CWB]

Vvalk
Was with my daughter and one month old granddaughter on weekend.
I cannot believe the absolute innocence and helpless of these little ones.

Being involved in the Death of little helpless infants. Detestable objectionable murder.
Supreme Court justices of both the U.S. And Canada included.

Moslem extremists are right.
We are infidels.
Anyone who says nothing and does nothing to stop the slaughterhouses of innocent infants...
Is guilty as well.

[alwayshasbeen]

Tom, do us all a favor and go and spend some time with your daughter and granddaughter and take a break from the internet.

[pourfarmer]

For lord sake Tom, just shut up already.

[TOM4CWB]

Another good comment:

We talked for an hour around the dinner table about this... cause we had little people out on the weekend as well. Manuals all now say no riders or children around the equipment being used. Anyone who over rides Equipment manual instructions by manufacturers... is Legally liable to be held responsible. OHS and WCB rules.

Here is the comment:Bluesnowball
To the people posting how preventable this was, it is called an accident for a reason, it happened, hindsight is always 20/20, had you been there it would have happened just the same, no one made a mistake. Farms are dangerous places, I got kicked by a horse once, it could have killed me had it gotten me in the temple, but it got my elbow instead thankfully, but it was an accident, there was NO blame.

3 hours ago
3 Likes

I was trail riding... horse spooked at ditch garbage..and drug me under belly for a quarter mile as boot went through stirrup when bucked off. Unconscious for 5 minutes.

Accidents happen. If someone had been hurt on the weekend on our farm... I would have been responsible because I said they could come for a ride on the combine.

There is no room for error... We are hypocrites... makes very sad.

[pourfarmer]

This is the picture I wanted to post, the other one was for testing in the practice section, I obviously screwed something up. May they rest in peace and the family find some hope.