I try to cover safety every chance I get in these videos because agriculture always ranks at, or near the top in the most dangerous of occupations. The bulk of the injuries on the farm come from tractor and equipment-related accidents. Even though most most of my viewers don't farm, they do own a small tractor and even the little ones can injure or kill you.

I was discussing safety in a previous video, and after posting, the next morning I received a call from a good friend of mine, named Gary, who works at a dealership in St. Louis. He sells industrial equipment, but like me, he's an old farm kid and he told me that I needed to talk about a tractor danger that he'd never heard me discuss. After hearing him talk about it I realized he had a really good point. Fortunately, I've never known anyone injured from this, so I tend to not think about it. Gary's family, though, was close to another family when he was growing up, that had a very serious injury from this and he wanted me to cover it. His dad was a crusader against this practice.

The danger is passengers on an open station or non-cab tractor. The operator area on tractors aren't designed for passengers and if someone is riding and they fall, there's a good chance they could be run over by the tractor and/or the implement before it could be stopped. There are people all around the country killed or injured riding on tractors every year and it's a terrible idea. It's only slightly better if the tractor has a cab, because in cramped quarters on a small cab tractor, the operator could be hampered from taking split-second actions to avoid accidents.

The best thing to do if you want to show family and friends around your estate is to get a utility vehicle. I know they're expensive, but not compared to the cost of hospital bills or lawsuits if someone riding on your tractor is injured. Utility vehicles are designed to carry people around safely, tractors are definitely not. So keep the riders on the UTV's and off the tractors!

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