I knew young farm kids who were killed or injured including a cousin and a close friend who were both killed as teens. Seems like most everyone I knew had some kind of close call and learned from that.
What, exactly, can one learn from such an experience? That one should have become a librarian instead - because it is less dangerous?
Regards,
Corn picker - cousin jumped off the tractor to pull something out while the picker was still running and of course got snagged. Lucky, only mangled his hand and arm up to the elbow but he got it out.
Cost him a few months hospital and rehab.
Those big openings in the hayloft have gotten more than one city kid playing.
My wife’s uncle was killed by his own tractor.
He apparently hit a bump and was thrown off and then run over.
He was way out in a field far from the house, and the only clue the family had was when the driverless tractor busted through a fence and went into their swimming pool.
Then they went out looking and found battered his body.
I always wondered if that was why his kids were messed up and not well adjusted. Turns out no, it was just the icing on that dysfunctional family cake.
This occurred in Wise County, north of Fort Worth.