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Posted on 4/11/13 at 12:47 pm to AlxTgr
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AlxTgr
Mowers can be dangerous
Don't read this.
I woulda ate a bullet if I'd been her father and she hadn't of made it. I'd never been able to leave with myself. Heck I don't see how he lives with it now
Posted on 4/11/13 at 12:51 pm to Fishhead
yep. know a guy who was riding with his mom years ago. fell off. lost a leg
Posted on 4/11/13 at 1:04 pm to jimbeam
One of my wife's family members was killed in one of the freakiest accidents I've ever heard of. He was a locomotive engineer and was riding in the engine passing through a rural area when he was struck in the temple by a railroad spike that was thrown by a lawnmower as he passed by. Killed him instantly.
Posted on 4/11/13 at 1:12 pm to Chad504boy
I ride my girls (sometimes two at a time) in my lap mowing. They've been conditioned to wait on the porch until I tell them it's ok to come down when to keep from running up under me when the blades are engaged. I make them go inside when I'm cutting around trees and close to the house, but out cutting the front in the wide arse open I let them ride with me. I'm sure articles like these are the reason the old ladies stop and stare when they pass by.
Posted on 4/11/13 at 4:05 pm to DownshiftAndFloorIt
Kid is in stable condition. They are looking at ways to restructure his heel/do some skin grafts.
Posted on 4/11/13 at 4:32 pm to Chad504boy
quote:
I sometimes will drink a beer or two on the mower...a little one ride on the mower on your lap...one arm around their waste locked and other arm to drive.
One hand on the kid, one hand on the wheel and another hand on the beer...
...what could go wrong?
Posted on 4/11/13 at 5:52 pm to Fishhead
One of my students little sister was killed last year by a piece of metal slung from a lawn mower. Her grandfather was cutting grass in a lot adjacent to the yard the girl was playing in. The debris hit her in the neck, I believe.
Sad, sad, sad.
Sad, sad, sad.
Posted on 4/11/13 at 6:04 pm to Fishhead
There was a story here locally a couple of years ago where a father was riding his 2 year old on a zero turn mower with him (and if I recall right, had been drinking at least some).
I don't remember the exact sequence, but he made some move and it threw the kid off the front of the mower and he ran over him and killed him.
Sad stuff, and dangerous.
I don't remember the exact sequence, but he made some move and it threw the kid off the front of the mower and he ran over him and killed him.
Sad stuff, and dangerous.
Posted on 4/11/13 at 6:13 pm to AlxTgr
If thats the double amputation article, I already read it and my heart still hurts for that family. I will never ride my kid on the mower ever again.
Posted on 4/11/13 at 6:38 pm to 4X4DEMON
Its a sad sad day when somthing like this happens to an innocent child, while the pieces of shite of the world live long happy lives. Breaks my heart anytime i hear about a child being injured or having an sever illness it just aint right.
This post was edited on 4/11/13 at 6:42 pm
Posted on 4/11/13 at 6:40 pm to rsbd
quote:
Its a sad sad day when somthing like this happens to an innocent child, while the pieces of shite of the world live long happy lives. Breaks my heart anytime i hear about a child being injured or having an sever illness it just aunt right.
Amen brother.
Posted on 4/11/13 at 7:02 pm to AlxTgr
quote:
Don't read this.
Made me sick to my stomach. When it rains it pours I guess. Lot of stories out about mowers lately.
Posted on 4/11/13 at 7:32 pm to Five0
Little guy is in surgery #2 for the day right now with the plastic surgeons. I'll update when I find out more...
Posted on 4/11/13 at 8:01 pm to Fishhead
This reply is not directed to the OP, but to whoever cares to read it.
Please, Please, PLEASE do not operate your lawn mower with your kids in the yard or especially riding along. The situation the OP described happens needlessly several times a year. It is not worth it.
Also, PLEASE NEVER DEFEAT A SAFETY DEVICE ON YOUR LAWNMOWERS!!!
Now, the reason why I am so adamant about lawnmower safety.
Way back when I was 11 years old, I had a horrific lawnmower accident of my own. It was a pushmower, but at the time there was no safety kill switch on the handles of pushmowers.
Anyway, I was mowing in a ditch in my cousin's front yard. Well, little did I know, city workers had came by and dug some of the sand out of the pipe under his driveway and piled it in the ditch. The tall grass hid the little pile of sand. Just enough sand that when I went down and through the bottom, the front of the lawnmower caught on the pile and flipped over.
I tripped and fell on top of the lawnmower and chopped both legs pretty good at thigh level.
I had over 1200 stitches in each leg. One cut was less than 1/2" from my femoral artery.
I am lucky to be here to tell the tale.
I ended up staying in the hospital about a week. The second day, a kid a year or two younger than me came in with his foot chopped off from a lawnmower. It happened just like the story from the OP.
So to sum it up, take lawnmower safety seriously and don't be fricking stupid and ride your kids around or mow with them in the yard.
And for goodness sake, don't tie down the safety bar on push mower handles. It is there for a reason. I wish the one I was using that day would have had one...
BTW, if I see one more dumbass post on here about riding their kids on the mower with the blades engaged, I will post pics of my scars and make you all
Please, Please, PLEASE do not operate your lawn mower with your kids in the yard or especially riding along. The situation the OP described happens needlessly several times a year. It is not worth it.
Also, PLEASE NEVER DEFEAT A SAFETY DEVICE ON YOUR LAWNMOWERS!!!
Now, the reason why I am so adamant about lawnmower safety.
Way back when I was 11 years old, I had a horrific lawnmower accident of my own. It was a pushmower, but at the time there was no safety kill switch on the handles of pushmowers.
Anyway, I was mowing in a ditch in my cousin's front yard. Well, little did I know, city workers had came by and dug some of the sand out of the pipe under his driveway and piled it in the ditch. The tall grass hid the little pile of sand. Just enough sand that when I went down and through the bottom, the front of the lawnmower caught on the pile and flipped over.
I tripped and fell on top of the lawnmower and chopped both legs pretty good at thigh level.
I had over 1200 stitches in each leg. One cut was less than 1/2" from my femoral artery.
I am lucky to be here to tell the tale.
I ended up staying in the hospital about a week. The second day, a kid a year or two younger than me came in with his foot chopped off from a lawnmower. It happened just like the story from the OP.
So to sum it up, take lawnmower safety seriously and don't be fricking stupid and ride your kids around or mow with them in the yard.
And for goodness sake, don't tie down the safety bar on push mower handles. It is there for a reason. I wish the one I was using that day would have had one...
BTW, if I see one more dumbass post on here about riding their kids on the mower with the blades engaged, I will post pics of my scars and make you all
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