Posted on 04/10/2013 6:12:46 PM PDT by Pan_Yan
Jeff Smith was pulling a stump from his garden near McDowell Creek Park on Monday, but his mud-caked boot slipped off the tractor’s clutch. The machine flipped upside down and on top of him.
The steering wheel pinned the 36-year-old to the dirt, pressing into his chest.
He yelled for help. “I was losing more and more breath every time I screamed,” he said.
His daughters, just home from school, were walking the family’s dogs.
“We heard, ‘Save me. Help me, God,’” said 14-year-old Haylee Smith, an eighth-grader at Hamilton Creek School.
She and her sister Hannah Smith, a 16-year-old sophomore at Lebanon High School, raced to their dad and called 911.
And then they lifted the 3,000 pound tractor enough so their father could wriggle and get the machine off his torso.
“It was almost instantaneous relief,” Smith said.
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Wow, amaizing story.
Good looking bunch, too.
Psalms 50:15 …call upon me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you shall glorify me.
Okay, how did those girls get that tractor to even budge? Maybe God answered the father (through his daughters) when he screamed for help. Is an amazing story indeed.
God wants you to have the hitch point below the centerline of the rear axle.
Great story.
One of my sons in law has been working for a project in Vermont that has been raising funds to help farmers install roll bars on their tractors. Tractor roll overs are a leading cause of serious farm accidents. I hope this guy gets a roll bar, because next time he might not be so lucky.
Adrenalin-fueled emergency strength. There are many accounts of ordinary people lifting vehicles and saving lives.
Thank God how this turned out. Maybe He gave them saving strength, too.
Yep, killed my great uncle and a couple of other shirt tail cousins.
Tractors are dangerous things.
Still can happen, though much less likely. Depending on how far below centerline you are. All newer tractors are way below. But for sure that’s first and most important.....
ROPS and seatbelt are next......
those girls lifted what they could lift, and God lifted the rest.
A good friend was killed some years ago,he flipped a John Deere 4020 over.The seat was about 10 inches off the ground and he was still in it.Left behind a wife and 3 kids under the age of 10.
i really like that.
Had to look up ROPS... thanks for the tip :)
Tractor rollovers are the single deadliest type of injury incident on farms in the United States. The latest figures from the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) suggest there are approximately 250 tractor rollover fatalities per year. NIOSH estimates that there are approximately 4.7 million tractors in use on U.S. farms; one-half of them are without rollover protection for the operator. This fact sheet will closely examine tractor rollover protection issues.
What are ROPS?
Rollover Protection Structures (ROPS) are roll bars or roll cages designed for wheel- and track-type agricultural tractors. ROPS are designed to create a protective zone around the operator when a rollover occurs. When used with a seat belt, the ROPS will prevent the operator from being thrown from the protective zone and crushed from an overturning tractor or from equipment mounted or hooked to the tractor (see Figure 1).
http://www.nasdonline.org/document/113/d001656/rollover-protection-for-farm-tractor-operators.html
It’s a take on God doesn’t expect us to do what we can’t do on our own, just what we can do. Man does only what man can do, God will do what only God can do.
Hmmm...
Inner city black kids playing the knockout game on 65 year old white people.
Hard working young rural ladies saving their father’s life.
Which culture would I want for America.
Hmmm... Like I really have to think about that.
It is amazing how quickly God comes to our aid when we need it. Hats off to the children who saved their father. That is not a light load for 2 young ladies to lift. I don’t know if it was adrenaline alone or Divine intervention, but congrats to the ladies for saving Dad and to Dad for raising 2 such fine young ladies.
Nice picture...looks like a lot of horsepower.
It’s only 45, plenty for my needs. Same tractor can come up to 75HP. General thought is a 4WD can do equivalent work of a tractor of twice the HP. Not always, but often. Love my 5045E.
But then, loved my old 1990 (year, not model) Ford 4WD too.
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