Chris: Tractor Rollover
From: Helen Murphy-Robinson
Series: Agriculture Safety StoryCorps
Length: 02:47
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“It hit home how important safety is and how much our parents loved us. Another little reality check on being careful around everything. Life is short.”
Chris Furrer [FUR] describes to his father Scott rolling his tractor on their dairy farm, being terrified his brother was underneath it and finally crawling out thought the cab roof.
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“It hit home how important safety is and how much our parents loved us. Another little reality check on being careful around everything. Life is short.”
Chris Furrer [FUR] describes to his father Scott rolling his tractor on their dairy farm, being terrified his brother was underneath it and finally crawling out thought the cab roof.
Transcript
Scott: The farm comes of course with inherent hazards. You had your incident here a
year or two ago when you were feeding the haylage bales.
Chris: Yeah. We feed cows out behind one of our barns and we store all of the big
haylage bales, which are the ones that are wrapped in white plastic. They look
like giant marshmallows, and they weigh quite a bit, especially with all the water
content in them. And so, we use a tractor to carry them to the cows, and we cut
the plastic off and then cut the strings off and dump them in their feeders. The
tractor we use is called a Belarus and it’s pretty large. Once you cut the strings
off you have to stab it with this fork on the front of the tractor and lift it up and
drop it in, but sometimes the bales get moldy. I was being lazy—this is the first
time I’ve admitted this to Dad—but I drove off the side of the ramp so I could just
dump...
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