Tragic accident

red bull

Tragic accident in Mayo, man fell into diet feeder RIP

lab man

god bless him rip

Rho b

RIP.
GOD bless his family.

kay 9

Thoughts with family. Nasty

whelan1

can very easily happen oh had a very lucky escape last year too, with the feeder, r.i.p

onyerbikepat

Take care everyone. RIP.

delaval

May The Lord have mercy and look after his family but <modsnip>

td5man

delaval wrote: »

May The Lord have mercy and look after his family but <modsnip>

That's what I was thinking, rip.

nashmach

May he rest in peace and sincere sympathy to his family.

delaval

delaval wrote: »

May The Lord have mercy and look after his family but <modsnip>

That's a really useful comment for his friends and family to read, isn't it? People are human, have lapses in concentration, feel a bit faint, have things on their mind. That's how accidents happen.

whelan1

Carlee Putrid Tinder wrote: »

That's a really useful comment for his friends and family to read, isn't it? People are human, have lapses in concentration, feel a bit faint, have things on their mind. That's how accidents happen.

yes, it was a tragic accident... no point blaming anyone rip

Rovi

RIP the man concerned, and sympathies to his family and friends.

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It's probably best to not speculate on the detailed circumstances of this tragedy; it's still very fresh and raw for the people concerned.
In due course I'm sure an inquest will be heard, and based on the published results of that, we can discuss the implications of this for our own personal safety and farming practices.

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Sharpshooter82

Rip.

delaval

Carlee Putrid Tinder wrote: »

That's a really useful comment for his friends and family to read, isn't it? People are human, have lapses in concentration, feel a bit faint, have things on their mind. That's how accidents happen.

I totally sympathise with his friends and family.
We are working in the most dangerous field if stats are anything to go by.
We had a life changing accident on this farm some years ago and it was carelessness, we should take this as a reminder if what can happen

stanflt

Rip and safe farming to all
Christmas can be very dangerous around farms so please everyone take extra care this year and every year because friends and family can sometimes arrive in the yard.

rs8

RIP

joejobrien

RIP. and comfort the family.
To everyone and fellow boarders, slow down a little, a few minutes extra is all it takes between life and death situ.
Cant reverse the clock

jersey101

I had to take a few trips into the diet feeder this year already to get boards out that were under bales to keep the row of bales straight, they got mixed up in tge straw when i was grapping it out of shed. I make sure the tractor is turned off all the same, 30 knives wouldn't be long doing a job on you

supersean1999

V sad . Rip

TUBBY

God rest him. Be a sad Christmas for that family. Christ you never think hitting down the yard you wouldn't be coming back up.

whelan1

jersey101 wrote: »

I had to take a few trips into the diet feeder this year already to get boards out that were under bales to keep the row of bales straight, they got mixed up in tge straw when i was grapping it out of shed. I make sure the tractor is turned off all the same, 30 knives wouldn't be long doing a job on you

ye oh was saying yesterday, imagine if you where in it and someone started it up:eek::eek: i was saying you would have to take pto shaft off or take key out of tractor before you climb in to be 100% safe

milkprofit

whelan1 wrote: »

ye oh was saying yesterday, imagine if you where in it and someone started it up:eek::eek: i was saying you would have to take pto shaft off or take key out of tractor before you climb in to be 100% safe

aLWAYS PUT KEY IN MY POCKET

jersey101

Any one hear what happened? This would have to be by far the worst accident you could have on a farm.

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moy83

milkprofit wrote: »

aLWAYS PUT KEY IN MY POCKET

Deffo ! The brother was cutting turf in the summer when a stone got caught in the hopper , he jumped in to free it and a lad started the tractor to give him a fright not knowing the pto was engaged . He said he had a couple of seconds dancing before he pulled himself out .

ZETOR_IS_BETTER

R.I.P

whelan1

jersey101 wrote: »

Any one hear what happened? This would have to be by far the worst accident you could have on a farm.

Either that or a forage harvested. Did you ever notice how long it takes for everything to stop moving once you knock off pto

jersey101

whelan1 wrote: »

Either that or a forage harvested. Did you ever notice how long it takes for everything to stop moving once you knock off pto

the diet feeder does stop fairly quickly alright because its under pressure but mowers, balers, topper take a good while to stop moving

Rovi

Speaking generally, and having no knowledge whatsoever of the circumstances of this particular incident, diet feeders aren't to be trusted after the PTO has been disengaged and the tractor engine stopped either.
Certainly, the early 'paddle' type I'd have been familiar with would sometimes stop with a lot of the load balanced at the top of the rotation, and the whole thing would give a groan and do another half rotation (in either direction!) as it settled a while AFTER all the noise had stopped and you were out of the tractor walking across the yard.

onyerbikepat

I was working on the muckspreader this year doing a bit of maintenance. I was changing some chains and was short one bolt for the last one. Threw the chain into the spreader anyway. A day or two later came back to put the spreader away. Put back on the PTO shaft and started it up. Load bang and chain came out and flying across the yard. Nobody hurt, thank God. Now, I'd pride myself on being extra careful, never taking risks and all that but you can never be careful enough.

Dont be daft

Thoughts with the family and friends. A truly horrible thing to happen anyone. RIP


Only heard about this now. Why aren't accidental deaths in the workplace and specifically farms given national media coverage?
When a person passes in a car crash or a fishing accident its on RTE news that night.
I often wonder does the fact that we often dont hear about accidents make us more likely not to learn or adapt our practices.

Butcher Boy

RIP

keep going

Has this been a very bad year for accidents

aidanki

awful death surely RIP

alderdeer

That's a shocking tragic way to die may he rest in peace

NewBeefFarmer

i hadnt heard about this until lately, and had to youtube a feeder to confirm what this was.

rip


the video i watched was loaded by a front loader and then just put out for feed.

not getting in to what happened, but someone mentioned here he had to go in for boards, and knocked it off etc..

but i was wondering what other reasons to farmers even have to step up to even look in? do ye have to confrim its mixing? or does plastic get in to the feeder in error?.


on a health and safety note. . .people that work while farming in the evening may be subject to strict health and safety in the work place.. extreme in some companys and for proper reasons to. . but at least 20% id say of this work enviroment must carry with them to the farm .. and help them work with caution and keeping health and safey at the front of their minds a good deal of the time.

but i do wonder about the full time farmer. who i would say only sees the words health and safety either on tv or in the journal after an accident. .

would signs on the farm, placed in different places remind the farmer of his health and well being.
or on machinery. . . some of the manufactures health and safety warnings are a bit small and usually coupled with instructions of how to change parts/work the machine. . . its lost in the mass of stickers a machine has.


i guess this is coming from seeing a neighbour billed a house, and has the gate plastered in health and safety signs, and think there is no requirement on a farm. .. then again, having it on a gate only is useless. . 10ft in the gate and uve forgotten it, if u even seen it.