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<blockquote data-quote="1wlimo" data-source="post: 884856" data-attributes="member: 16646"><p>A parent has a real responsibility when a child is working for you. Teach safety from the beginning as priority #1. I was plowing with an 8N Ford at a very early age. I never felt I was in danger and I was so freaking proud. You can't take that away from kids. Yes, a few kids will get hurt and a few will die. It's tragic when that happens. Does it outweigh the ten or hundreds of thousands of kids who don't get experience working? I'll say the benefit outweighs the risk. We can't keep them in bubbles.</p><p>Since this is Cattle Today, <strong>most injuries in the cattle biz seem to be old men feeding Bulls. Does the Labor Dept need to regulate that? I call overturned tractors "old farmers disease".</strong> The old guys want every foot of that pond bank mowed, they forget the loader is still rising when hauling hay on the front end, they screw up in general. No one should have to do the dangerous work farmers commit to do, but it's going to get done and kids, when they get some experience, are better at it than old guys.</p></blockquote><p></p><p>Ok about ten years ago two young farthers close to me were killed one by a bull, and the other when the tractor sliped into a pond full of water. Guess they were old men?</p><p></p><p>I am sure that the fact that I was moving bales from the time I was nealy the same size they were really helped my back. </p><p></p><p>felt safe driving as well, but I have only let my own childern in a tractor with a cab.</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p>
[QUOTE="1wlimo, post: 884856, member: 16646"] A parent has a real responsibility when a child is working for you. Teach safety from the beginning as priority #1. I was plowing with an 8N Ford at a very early age. I never felt I was in danger and I was so freaking proud. You can't take that away from kids. Yes, a few kids will get hurt and a few will die. It's tragic when that happens. Does it outweigh the ten or hundreds of thousands of kids who don't get experience working? I'll say the benefit outweighs the risk. We can't keep them in bubbles. Since this is Cattle Today, [b]most injuries in the cattle biz seem to be old men feeding Bulls. Does the Labor Dept need to regulate that? I call overturned tractors "old farmers disease".[/b] The old guys want every foot of that pond bank mowed, they forget the loader is still rising when hauling hay on the front end, they screw up in general. No one should have to do the dangerous work farmers commit to do, but it's going to get done and kids, when they get some experience, are better at it than old guys.[/quote] Ok about ten years ago two young farthers close to me were killed one by a bull, and the other when the tractor sliped into a pond full of water. Guess they were old men? I am sure that the fact that I was moving bales from the time I was nealy the same size they were really helped my back. felt safe driving as well, but I have only let my own childern in a tractor with a cab. [/QUOTE]
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