(04-09-2022, 09:50 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(04-09-2022, 08:08 PM)Jags Wrote: As aggravating as it is, this is why there are multiple safety switches/dead man switches that kick in on later pieces of equipment.  Hard lesson to learn.  Kids/adolescents do silly things. I’ve heard similar stories and even knew someone that survived a similar experience.   I’m surprised this lady’s legs were even able to hold her 130 lbs up.  I’ve heard other stories with mowers too.  Getting too close to lakes and it rolling on top the operator in the lake then drowning.   All preventable.  But deadly if not taken seriously.

Most heavy equipment also has a seatbelt.  Mowers don't have roll cages, but excavators and loaders do.  Maybe mowers will soon.  
Thanks for doing the dangerous work you do!

Lol, it’s only dangerous if you don’t know what you’re doing or an idiot.  Actually, the sit down mowers do have seatbelts and roll bars.  I don’t know of a single person that uses either of them except the big companies that hire just about anyone breathing.  Most use standers now.  Which are pretty easy to ditch if the occasion happens to arise.  Then it’ll shut off and stop in its tracks within a few feet, or go into the drink by itself while the operator tries his best to come up with a really good reason why it wasn’t his fault.

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