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First let me say that it is an honor to get the chance to moderate this forum. All of us love our tractors and equipment or we would not be here,but I know that mistakes are made. It only takes a momentary lapse to get injured or killed.
Just so you know where I am coming from ,let me tell you about a mistake I made last Thanksgiving. My one GMC dump had an Exhaust leak that was bothering me,so I decided to braze up the torn mounting bracket. I consider myself a safety concious fellow,so I jacked the truck up in my shop. The shop was a little cluttered at the time and I pulled about half way in .Just to be out of the weather.
I have a Plow frame on the truck ,and I used hardwood blocking under it as a safety precaution. The first mistake was that I did not let the truck all the way down on the blocking.The second mistake I made ,I ran the Engine to find my leak. Went under the truck with the creeper and found the problem . Came out and shut the truck off.Third mistake I never applied the parking brake ,nor did I put the truck in gear,thinking I am on blocks,all is safe.
The dual rear wheels were at the garage door opening. I got under the truck with my brazing torch and started to work. The apron to the garage was one half inch lower then the floor and my hydraulic jack was drifting ever so slowly down.The truck made contact with my blocking,it tipped and the rear wheels rolled off the lip of the floor.
The frame of the truck bounced on me. even with all of the wheels on the truck, it hit me hard enough to break my creeper in half. I was one sore son of a gun for quite some time. But I am a whole lot wiser.
The message here for me is :
Take time for safety and think about what can happen if you don,t.
Share your mistakes with the forum I know I will. Maybe just maybe you will save someone else from making the same error and keep a member from getting hurt.
Slipshod
First let me say that it is an honor to get the chance to moderate this forum. All of us love our tractors and equipment or we would not be here,but I know that mistakes are made. It only takes a momentary lapse to get injured or killed.
Just so you know where I am coming from ,let me tell you about a mistake I made last Thanksgiving. My one GMC dump had an Exhaust leak that was bothering me,so I decided to braze up the torn mounting bracket. I consider myself a safety concious fellow,so I jacked the truck up in my shop. The shop was a little cluttered at the time and I pulled about half way in .Just to be out of the weather.
I have a Plow frame on the truck ,and I used hardwood blocking under it as a safety precaution. The first mistake was that I did not let the truck all the way down on the blocking.The second mistake I made ,I ran the Engine to find my leak. Went under the truck with the creeper and found the problem . Came out and shut the truck off.Third mistake I never applied the parking brake ,nor did I put the truck in gear,thinking I am on blocks,all is safe.
The dual rear wheels were at the garage door opening. I got under the truck with my brazing torch and started to work. The apron to the garage was one half inch lower then the floor and my hydraulic jack was drifting ever so slowly down.The truck made contact with my blocking,it tipped and the rear wheels rolled off the lip of the floor.
The frame of the truck bounced on me. even with all of the wheels on the truck, it hit me hard enough to break my creeper in half. I was one sore son of a gun for quite some time. But I am a whole lot wiser.
The message here for me is :
Take time for safety and think about what can happen if you don,t.
Share your mistakes with the forum I know I will. Maybe just maybe you will save someone else from making the same error and keep a member from getting hurt.
Slipshod