July 31, 2003
Late Afternoon revelations
Here is a bit of farm wisdom from yesterday's chores after market -- be careful operating heavy machinery, particularly tractors. I don't want to go into much more detail for fear of some close questioning from someone else around here at Old Shaw Farm, but suffice it to say that if you are on the tractor at a dead stop, but the thing is in gear with your foot on the clutch, and you reach around behind your seat to adjust the implement you are carrying, it is possible for your foot to slip off the clutch, and to have the whole thing lurch forward quite abruptly, which could result in startling you a bit. Not that anything like that happened. I am just speaking hypothetically here.
Posted by peter at July 31, 2003 05:34 AMWhat???!!!
Posted by: maryel at July 31, 2003 08:42 AMhi, found you thro' empusa ... odd coincidence to have found you on the day you posted this entirely hypothetical tractor event, as it echoes a real yet unreal tractor event from my youth.
went to school with a pleasant and industrious fellow who managed one saturday morning to tangle himself up sufficiently in clutch and gear as to take himself and tractor unexpectedly straight out the open barn door. all the more disconcerting as the door opened out on the "second floor" side of a barn built into hill. he and tractor had quite a drop.
great source of amusement only because no harm done to man, tractor, or beast.
like your site.
Posted by: bunnywatson at July 31, 2003 03:58 PM