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Post by Deleted on Oct 21, 2011 3:33:39 GMT -6
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Post by ChileFarmer on Oct 21, 2011 6:47:06 GMT -6
And protect us from whats ahead. CF  |
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Post by jerseycub on Oct 21, 2011 12:19:23 GMT -6
Ralph: You have a way of making a mans heart open up to see the wonderful things in life, Like sitting on my back deck one night......you know what I'm talkin bout bro. Things you never forget. Love ya Bro!!!
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Post by jack on Oct 22, 2011 1:58:42 GMT -6
Gidday
What a dinky little tractor and a truely great bit of video.
But here is another story about boys and tractors. I wrote this a few years ago and it is as close to what happened as I could remember, and sure as hell things like this are hard to forget.
Unbelievable.
The year was about 1967 and the place, a small farm in the small district of Honikiwi in New Zealand.
It was a small 2-stand woolshed on a rough country sheep farm that was only partly developed out of bush and scrub. We had started shearing there the day before and were already half way through shearing the small flock.
The farmer was a tall lean joker with a young family and like all men of his age, in that area, he was a great family man as well, despite the fact that he had to work so hard at developing the farm. This meant that he never had as much time with his two sons, one who had just started school and the other just a toddler, as he would have liked to.
The woolshed, made from untreated radiata pine and painted with creosote, was situated on a slope, which ran down into a broad depression at the head of a ruggedly steep gully. Mud rock outcrops framed both sides of the gully. Which was typical of most of the farms in the area.
The farmhouse was on the other side of the depression and the area in between, made up the main holding paddock for the farm and also contained the other farm buildings.
Because of the rough nature of the farm and the fact that it was only partly developed, the only tractor on the property was a small crawler tractor. The tractor did not have a very good battery, so the farmer had parked it on the slope, just above a steeper part of the paddock below the house. Which was a couple of hundred yards out in front of the woolshed.
We had just finished the first run after our lunch break and had stopped shearing for our afternoon smoko (break). Because it was such a beautiful sunny, early summer day we were sitting on the loading bay, where the wool bales get loaded onto a truck, having our cups of tea and bit to eat. The farmer was still in the shed pressing the wool.
I was sitting there looking across the grassy paddock to the house, thinking what an idyllic setting this was, the farmers two boys out playing on the green grass and us all soaking up the warmth of the sunshine. I watch as the eldest boy climbed up onto the tractor’s seat and was happily pretending to be driving it. Then the younger one climbed up onto the tracks of the tractor.
Suddenly the peace and quiet was shattered by a cry of, “Holy Shit!” from the farmer behind us, as he then ran straight over us, off the loading bay, which was about 5 foot high and streaked across the grassy paddock towards his tractor.
We then watched in horror, as the boy on the tractors seat must have pushed the starter and the tractor burst into life. His little brother was still on the tractor’s tracks and as it started to move forward down the hill the little boy was moving forward with the track.
Words just fail me do try to describe fully how the scene had changed, as the farmer was racing across the paddock towards the tractor and as his youngest son went down onto the ground directly in front of the tractor’s track and it rolled forward over him. Nobody could do anything to stop what looked like a tragedy that was slowly unfolding before us.
The boy in the seat must have done something to stop the tractor, but not until it had gone right over his brother and about 20 feet beyond him.
As we raced across the paddock, well behind the farmer. We saw him fall onto the ground over his little boy, then scoop him up in his arms and collapse again in tears. As we reach them, we could not see any obvious injuries on the boy and he wasn’t even crying, unlike his father.
Apparently what had happened, was the little boy had fallen into a slight hollow and because the tractor was a crawler, it’s tracks had passed right over him, without even giving him a scratch from it’s grousers, whereas a wheeled tractor would have surely killed him.
Like I said, unbelievable, but true. And I saw it all happened in before of my own eyes.
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Post by Pharmer Phil on Oct 22, 2011 5:22:38 GMT -6
Cavey, that's just so cool, makes me think back to ridin with Pa... Bro..Everyone...We can post Youtube videos right here...  keeps phamily members safe too from Youtube beasties  Bro..Everyone...We can post Youtube videos right herebelow is da How -to for those of Us that don't (had to phigure it my own self) since VIEWING youtube videos is just now possible for Us since we got hi-speed To do this, in your post: 1. Copy YouTube url and paste in your post; as Cavey has done 2. High-lite the Youtube Url... with your cursor  3. Next; above the text box; click the TUBE button shown here  and you got it!! [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PmRWbu5m14&feature=related [/youtube] |
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Post by Pharmer Phil on Oct 22, 2011 5:25:27 GMT -6
That's a great story Jack...had to be horrifying to watch...what a relief the boy was OK, I thought it was going to be a bad ending...WHEW
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Post by Rita on Oct 22, 2011 6:26:49 GMT -6
Ohh I couldn't imagine watching that Jack  thank goodness all was well in the end! Boy was that child lucky! |
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Post by Rita on Oct 22, 2011 6:30:15 GMT -6
Awe thats a cute video Cavey!! little one looked like he's in training to take over next year |
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Post by jack on Oct 25, 2011 1:16:03 GMT -6
Gidday below is da How -to for those of Us that don't (had to phigure it my own self) since VIEWING youtube videos is just now possible for Us since we got hi-speed To do this, in your post: 1. Copy YouTube url and paste in your post; as Cavey has done 2. High-lite the Youtube Url... with your cursor 3. Next; above the text box; click the TUBE button shown here and you got it!! [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PmRWbu5m14&feature=related [/youtube] Hey Fill, is it possible to do the same sorta thing when the video is not on utube but on, say a news site for example? |
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Post by Pharmer Phil on Oct 26, 2011 3:11:19 GMT -6
Sorry Jack wasn't able to get here to reply yesterday... The short answer is .. the TUBE button Will not work for any videos other than YoutubeHowever, I always say.... Where there's a Phil0ops....Will ...there's a way send me the link to an example news video and I'll try to figure it out ... |
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Post by jack on Oct 27, 2011 4:00:24 GMT -6
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Post by Pharmer Phil on Oct 27, 2011 4:21:27 GMT -6
Jack, on this video, on the top right, there is a Youtube link directly above the video...so, this is a youtube video, and we won't get to test the "other video" thing...however, here is the video...interesting theory |
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