ECape man killed in tractor accident

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A 56-year-old man was killed when his jacket got caught in the drive shaft of a tractor on a farm near Uitenhage, Eastern Cape police said on Friday.

Warrant Officer Gerda Swart said the man was spraying insecticide in orchards in Kirkwood on Thursday night when he noticed a problem with the spraying machine.

He stopped the tractor to see to the problem, but left the engine idling.

His jacket got hooked by the drive shaft and it pulled him in, killing him instantly, said Swart.


Source : Sapa /lk/aa/jje/jk
Date : 02 Aug 2013 11:05
 
Brutal way to die. It's like lathe deaths, lots of guts everywhere. RIP :wtf:
 
What the fsck does the spraying machine have to do with the driving shaft?
 
YingYang said:
What the fsck does the spraying machine have to do with the driving shaft?
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driveshaft.jpg
 
Beerisgood said:
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That's not a driving shaft either.

I'm sure the journo meant the PTO shaft, as that is what auxiliary farm implements attach to.

Besides, the driving shaft doesn't rotate when the tractor is stationary
 
Well ok, not a driveshaft but a shaft that drives a sprinkler.

I think we've just discovered the world's thinnest argument. :D
 
Beerisgood said:
Well ok, not a driveshaft but a shaft that drives a sprinkler.

I think we've just discovered the world's thinnest argument. :D
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LMAO!

You'll understand it if you've lived on a farm for a couple of years that this article doesn't make sense :D

The driving shaft and differential are on the belly the tractor and has nothing to do with attachments to the tractor.

The Power Take-Off, as the name suggests, is where you connect things to a tractor to. Rotary power is then transferred from the PTO to the machinery.

It looks, like so (yellow shaft):

Tractor_pto_wood_cutter.jpg
 
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YingYang said:
LMAO!

You'll understand it if you've lived on a farm for a couple of years that this article doesn't make sense :D

The driving shaft and differential are on the belly the tractor and has nothing to do with attachments to the tractor.

The Power Take-Off, as the name suggests, is where you connect things to a tractor to. Rotary power is then transferred from the PTO to the machinery.

It looks, like so (yellow shaft):
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Well never lived on a farm, but I know now what the stay the fk away from :D
 
YingYang said:
LMAO!

You'll understand it if you've lived on a farm for a couple of years that this article doesn't make sense :D

The driving shaft and differential are on the belly the tractor and has nothing to do with attachments to the tractor.

The Power Take-Off, as the name suggests, is where you connect things to a tractor to. Rotary power is then transferred from the PTO to the machinery.

It looks, like so (yellow shaft):

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Last tractor I saw with an external drive shaft was in the 1950's and then it was old. The models I know have integral motor, gearbox diff setup like front wheel drive cars but inline vs stacked.
 
This is getting a bit ridiculous now.

Didn't someone get taken out the other day in a similar manner? Scarf or something? I get that clothing could be a risk and you should be careful... but at what point do they start creating some sort of safety standard that makes this type of machinery immune to snagging clothes? Cannot be that hard surely?
 
Drove a tractor with one of those grass cutter attachments before and the thing scared the living bejesus out of me. Thing bounces around a lot and i just kept on picturing myself landing up under the wheels or the grass cutter thingy.
 
shogun said:
This is getting a bit ridiculous now.

Didn't someone get taken out the other day in a similar manner? Scarf or something? I get that clothing could be a risk and you should be careful... but at what point do they start creating some sort of safety standard that makes this type of machinery immune to snagging clothes? Cannot be that hard surely?
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probably the most famous was isadora duncan:

"" Duncan's fondness for flowing scarves was a contributing factor to her death in an automobile accident in Nice, France, when she was a passenger in an Amilcar. Her silk scarf, draped around her neck, became entangled around the open-spoked wheels and rear axle, breaking her neck. ""
 
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