I have ( or rather had) a load of farmers in my family
My uncle died when his clothes were pulled into a threshing machine. He probably suffocated. My other uncle had his arm pulled off as described above by a fast twisting thing at the back of a tractor. A third uncle shot himself in the foot tripping while carrying a loaded shotgun - silly man. One cousin fell off a haystack and broke his back, luckily nothing a couple of metal pins couldn't fix. Another cousin fell off a trailer and got dragged along a gravel path for a while. He has impressive scarring. My granddad got charged by a bull. It broke his leg and dislocated a shoulder. He stcuk cow shit in its eyes to confuse it then crawled about 500yds back to the farmhouse. I have no more farmers on that side of the family.
(Smale is stuffed, Mon 28 May 2012, 17:53, 3 replies)

I have loads of farmers in my family
and the worst that's happened is that one lost a finger.

I suspect the problem isn't the choice of occupation but rather the fact that your family are an evolutionary dead end that needed culling.
( Dr. Shambolic je suis charlie, Mon 28 May 2012, 18:29, closed)

Sadly
this is probably true.
(Smale is stuffed, Mon 28 May 2012, 19:32, closed)

Sounds rather 'Downs on the farm' to me.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Mon 28 May 2012, 19:07, closed)

Well the PTO shaft is about 2-3" diameter and spinning at 540rpm, divide by 60 and you get 9rps. So if your arm is kind of normal human size it would wrap around three or four times. Call it four and a half for ease of counting, and it's all happened in half a second.

I never even mentioned shotguns but most people are *reasonably* careful with them here. A lot of farms are getting chippers or shredders, and fallen stock incinerators. I expect we'll see a lot of astoundingly gruesome accidents from those.
(gordonjcp, Mon 28 May 2012, 21:50, closed)