Always have a escape route when hooking someone on a tractor up to a wagon in case their foot slips off the clutch

If it’s moving, stay out of the way, if it weighs more than you, it has right of way. Don’t get on/off unless fully stopped. Always leave in neutral, regardless of safety mechanisms. Stay out from under suspended things on hydraulics. Stay away from PTO shafts unless the vehicle is off. With mowers, stay out of the effective firing range of a hunting rifle because if something comes out from under the mower you basically a gun pointed at you. Combines are death traps unless you are in the cab/operators platform, period. There are more.

Great stuff. Perhaps the one thing I can add, this goes for many dangerous jobs, is there are 2 very dangerous times with equipment. 1) when you first start using it and don't fully know the dangers. 2) when you have been using it for years and get too comfortable.

This is why you have 221K subscribers, Great video.

At all times that is possible, maintain EYE contact with the operator of any vehicle, tractor or machine. Make sure they know where you are at all times. This includes machinery INdoors as well.

dont try to milk the bull? ;)

Heres a simple tip, always think whats the worse that can happen, will happen

Also never get on or off a moving tractor. If you trip or your foot slips off the steps you could get run over by the tractor or the implement. It does not take a great imagination to think what would happen if you fall in front of a disc or a mower.

Lots of great information in this video. One thing I would add: general ladder safety. People get hurt climbing ladders on silos and bins all the time. Making sure you have 3 points of contact at all times goes a long way to preventing falls.

The ladder on the new bin was worth every penny. Great safety points. Respirators for all bin cleanups period. Good luck with spring planting and field work weather.

I highly recommend to shut off any modern tractors with computer controlled SCVs / PTOs before getting somewhere near their rear end. you don't want to find out that the software (e.g. headland management) has some bug in it and randomly executes a task like running a certain SCV or engaging the PTO.

My biggest piece of advice as a non-farmer: *don't go where you don't belong.* I grew up with friends and relatives who farmed; some still do. Whenever I am on a farm, be it theirs or yours, I am very careful because of the inherent danger and liability involved. I've been injured on a farm, and I've had a relative sustain a life-altering injury as a result of work he was doing in a silo. This was a very good video. Thank you for making and sharing it.

To me one of the most important safety rules is don,t work tired. Worked in factory for over 40 years. I seen a lot of injuries caused by employees who are burning the candle at both ends.

A guy was telling me once about helping a neighbour work on the air bag in the top of one of those harvastore silos, they were outside the silo on top. The guy wasn't real fond of heights and mentioned something about falling off, and the guy he was with said there is a better chance of living to fall off the silo then it is into it. He said you would be dead before you hit the feed inside the silo because there is a absolutely no oxygen in those silos due to their designs.

When on a slight hill opening a gate always put on the hand break my friends father got squashed between the gate and the tractor 🚜

Love all the safety info!! we'd love to send you a few devices to test out if you're interested...visibility can save your life!!

Just wanted to add a few things since we deal with confined space alot in my industry. You're right to turn on the blowers to get air moving, but the rule of thumb that we were taught is to make sure that you're ventilation system is giving you at least 5 air changes inside the vessel per hour to ensure that you have good clean air inside. Also make sure you have turned your blowers off for at least 30 minutes before checking your air concentrations at multiple levels and outlets. It seems like you have a good handle on it but just hitting the high notes.

You could do a multi hour video on all the dangers of farming.

Yep, you said it right with your first safety tip on the 4020, my grandpa took that precaution seriously. He has an older model JD 310A backhoe loader open station with ROPS (there is no windows or doors, just a roof on the top with 4 supports) and I would always ride with him and my spot was on the fender (at least the fender was about a foot and a half wide), but to be safe he installed a thick metal bar on the fender that would go little over half way of our backs and keep us from falling out, and it also double as a safe thing to hold on tight to. Great video Ryan

Clothing: Wearing improper clothing while working on machinery. Although loose clothing can help in movement, it can also kill you....and usually in a spectacular way. An experienced farmer out here in MI recently lost his life when his clothing was caught in an operating auger, it wasn't pretty. Happens a lot. Operating equipment around overhead electrical lines has killed a bunch of people too. I just look at it like this, treat everything like it wants to kill you. Farming is not all rainbows and butterflies...it's a dangerous occupation. Keep your stick on the ice....

This is very valuable information, thank you for your time.

All great advice Ryan. Never put your hand on a hydraulic hose to try to stop or slow a leak.

Thank you Ryan for really good videos and good teacher

Hi Ryan, That was one great and important video. Would be nice if young and old alike could view this video. You explained it very clear and to the point. Take care and be safe with the upcoming planting season.

My AG teacher says 3 point protection when climbing on and off of the equipment. Just always have 3 points of contact when getting on and off because thats how most people break there legs is because of them jumping off. So when you have 3 points you can never fall.

it really puts shivers down my spine when i see young kids running around the farm

Thank you Ryan your a good teacher.

I watched a news show like 20/20 a couple years ago that followed a farmer and In Iowa that got stuck in a grain bin under the corn. They mentioned that they were now making helmet type devices with mesh facemask that went around your neck to prevent you from suffocating in a corn bin and that actually many insurance companies were requiring farmers to wear those in grain bins. They also talked about volunteer fire departments needing to have these panels available in farming areas where they could push those down into grain bins in sections to dig somebody out without the corn continuing to fall down around them.

Great video - one important thing u missed though, in modern tractors and telehandlers with electric or even mechanic shuttle control by very careful with dogs about. There was an incident near us in south west England where a dog knocked the shuttle of some guys jcb and it drove back and crushed him between a gate.

Great video Ryan have a great day and a safe season.

Very well explained Ryan.. Keep up the excellent work...

interesting tips Ryan cool video, I've had a few bad farm accidents myself, like the time I crushed my finger between a hitch pin and the hitch on a tractor while helping my brother hook up a cultivator. If you'd like to make hooking up farm equipment one guy came up with a couple of hitch thing to make it safer. Like the power pit which is hydroicly operated from the cab and his other one called the drop in pin, You backup bump the hitch and the pin drops in the hole.

Great video. This dose help with the tractor safety class I am taking.

EXCELLENT video Ryan!!! There are a 101 ways to kill or injure ones self on a farm. When y'all were repairing the auger in the harvester I was cringing at seeing the unguarded pulleys and belt/chain drive. You're right, those will instantly take fingers off. You hit on a lot of the dangers. Fatal falls, struck by, caught in, electrocution, etc... Stay Safe!!!

This was a great video! I really like these kinds of vids!

Great video Ryan. Thanks for sharing

Great video Ryan! You coverd quite a bit of ground there,my tip would be always use the safety chains on implements. I was pulling a 35" field cultivator whn the pin broke . The chains held it so it didn't tip over .

Good to point some risks out on equipment and around the farm

a 16 year old boy was run over by his own tractor a couple of weeks ago in my city. he was out rolling a field and apparently he went out of the cab to remove some rocks while the tractor was still moving, and he must have fallen over because a woman found him lying in the field unconscious. he was taken to the hospital with an ambulance helicopter. he survived but had broken a lot of ribs ( i think somthing like half of his ribs but i am not sure ) he is now out of danger but is still healing. 2 men who were out for a drive saw the tractor driving very slowly without a driver and went out in the field and stopped the tractor.

Great video Ryan. I took a tractor safety course when I was 16 and there's definitely a lot of things that can go wrong if you aren't being careful on the farm.

One thing I notice with my dad (farmer) is that it's always the small, unnecessary things that injure him. Falling off equipment, accidents with angle grinders, one time he almost lost an eye because of a small piece of baling wire that he walked into, thankfully it slipped off his eye into his eyelid, possibly because of his contact lenes. Had to wear an eye patch for 2 months regardless.. Sure was a sight seeing him come into the house like a zombie with blood running from his eye as a kid :D. The most dangerous thing was probably when he got Meningitis and fell unconscious in the pig pen, thankfully another person was present and got him out of there.

Thanks for the great safety tips

Hey there Ryan very good video on Farm safety tips now let's hope everybody that sees it knows what to do with it and takes it into the future from here on out very good tips especially about the silos I know y'all was getting ready for the upcoming planting season let's get it going be safe bud on the farm

Never step over a running pto shaft. My neighbor by my dads found out the hard way and killed him.

Thanks Ryan, good advice for a non farmer like myself. Most seem pretty self explanatory, but good to hear. As a side note. My father in law used to sell and deliver farm equipment back in the day. Him and my Mother in law were unloading a piece of equipment, and my mother in law stepping in between a head of a combine I believe and it slid back and caught her leg in it to the point they had to amputate below the knee. She didn't even think about it at the time, she wanted a better angle to do what she was doing and in a blink of an eye lost a leg.

Great video Ryan, very good advice:)

Great info thanks for this video.

Excellent and important idea to do a video on this...farming is dangerous. You covered the important stuff in my opinion...thank you and great job.....my 3 most dangerous things are the PTO...never straddle to step over...the silo gas and the grain collapse...had 2 of those happen to me and the PTO was a nearby farmer lost his you know whats when his pants got caught in it...Thanks again for bringing attention to an important topic.

Another one I just thought of is jumping across the starter terminals with a screwdriver from The ground.. most of us farmers have done that at least once... that’s a big no no. If the tractor is in gear or not the engine will crank over no matter what if you jump the starter terminals.

My grandpa's uncle was killed on a JD 4020 while grading a road shoulder with a box blade. It was an open station model without a ROPS... he got on too much of a sideways incline and it turned-over... crushing him. :( Always, always, always take your time so you can be careful! It's usually when people get into a hurry that they lose appendages, limbs, or their lives!

These safety vids are the best! Please can you do more

Great video Ryan. Farm Safety is #1 on the farm

Spent many days riding on open tractor fenders...back in early 80’s

Little cousin was riding on the front with his dad and it went wrong and he was thrown 26 feet, had his head caved in and he lived luckily thank the Lord. He now has 8 plates in his head. They are very very dangerous to ride on the front. THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS VIDEO

My grandad got a bit of his arm ripped of with the pto but luckily it was a 06 tractor and was able push a button to switch of the pto in time

For the cement silo we always close the doors right again the ones we open while emptying the silo and never climb the chute when there was no silage behind them

Thanks Ryan great job

Nice vid! Allways want to keep fingers and toes!

My closet call was with a kicker on a JD bailer. On JD bailers even if you shut the machine down the kicker may still have a charge in it. There is a lever to keep the kicker from accidentally going off..... but you know how that goes when your in a hurry. I had a bail come apart in the kicker, so I shut the machine down, got out, and started cleaning the bail out. The kicker went off and broke almost all my ribs and damaged some of my internals. I was taken away by helicopter and did recover. I got lucky.

We have many little kids at our farm. So we do head counts before moving equipment around. It never hurts to ask.

Don’t become too comfortable or lazy around things that need extra caution such as Anhydrous, Chemicals, and working around implements. Just because you have been around it awhile doesn’t make you immune to the consequences or can get lazy with PPE

eye protection ... the most forgotten piece of safety equipment.

When you were covering grain bins surprised you didn't mention keeping all limbs / loose clothes away from loading / unloading augers.

Very good video, always important to pay attention to what you're doing, your surroundings, , I would add anything with hydraulics, dump truck/trailer, implement, know of people killed reaching under a dump body, just for a second, glad you mentioned keeping the bucket low, not walking under a raised bucket, I've mentioned this to a certain you tuber, didn't appreciate my warnings

Great safety clips !!

I've got a good tip that I've learned the hard way! When bush hogging in fields with sticks, stumps or anything other than grass....NEVER look directly back at the implement when you hit a stick or small log. Wait till you completely pass over it to look back. Chunks of wood and rock can easily come back and hit your face/head or break the glass if you have a cab.

Paint the PTO like the cone on a plane jet motor

There was a guy here in western Australia that was having starter problems with his tractor. So in the morning it wouldn't start so thought it was the starter and he short circuited it but the tractor was in gear so it ran him over. He was lucky and survived.

Never step in front of a running sweep auger.

You should do one on cattle safety while you are at it Ryan. I had an accident with a heifer 3 years ago she kicked and dislocated my patella, tore my ACL and fractured my knee joint and I have been around cattle my entire life on a beef farm. You can never trust an animal especially after calving. Greetings from Ireland. 🇮🇪

Paint some white and red Horizontal lines on the PTO shaft guards that are not chained so you can see if it is turning before you approach it. the navy have been doing it for years why not on a farm? paying for a few bucks $ on paint is better then paying hundreds to thousand of dollars on doctor bills.

I had a case where the farm dog was riding along and there was a throttle pedal on the ground and the dog layed right on top of it and lunged us forward

And another thing I’ve plugged up blowers before. I shut the pto off and stuck my hand in to unplug it and I didn’t realize the fan was still slowing down and grazed my fingers on the fan. Thank god I didn’t lose any digits.

Never try to hook up a PTO implement when the tractor is running. Watched a guy get his arm ripped off on a Massey 399 trying to hook up a mower

if you are on a hill or their in presser on the pin look around you and try to get something to block the implements tires

Always shut off the tractor when messing with loaders and turn off equipment when working on them

i got a few old massey open station that the high low lever that has to be in S which means start to even crank over but you still want to make sure it is not in gear and 2 of are fron the 60s and one from the 80s and has the same system

You should always wear a harness when climbing a silo or bin.

Safety is always number one

I am so glad I am watching this before I get into farming

So many times it happens where someone uses a tractor to pull stumps or branches and the tractor flips over on top of them!!! IMO do it from the front of the tractor or use a truck.

Always make sure you check your blinker fluid

Very well said video Ryan

Awesome video!

2 cylinder John Deere had the best pto guard it held up a spring loaded cover if you removed pto guard it snap down and cover shaft

Thanks Ryan. It may be my fear of heights, but every time you guys climb up the bins, my testicles get a little bit closer to the body, because I don't see any safety lines. I think they were used once when the new one was built. My great uncle was a tobacco farmer in S Ohio, killed when his open station tractor, rolled over

Very excellent points.....great job.....been around all kinds of farm machinery......my dad taught me at a very young age to be very carefull.....farm equipment has no forgiveness

great video Ryan

a friend of mine has the same bobcat you have he was using it and something happen and i was about 10 feet away from him wen it happen i looked over and seen him brake the side window out with his head me and a few other friends took him to the ER after we got him out and wrap a shirt or a towel around his head

Good job Ryan!!Farm safety is very important and also would you ever get new rear tires for the 4020

Earlier this year I drove some vineyard tractors for the first time. I had no idea how easily they could throw you off the seat. In one place I thought the land was flat and just push the hand throttle to speed, seconds later I was jumping around, not able to steer the tractor and in direction of a building. Thankfully I reacted and smashed the throttle down. It was a very dangerous place for work at, I actually can't believe they just gave me the tractor without real training, just cause I told them I understood the controls. (Still thought, I was the only one in that far that used the seat belt, I actually had to fix it to use it).

Loose clothing & jewelry...ie..Long sleeve shirts/coats without cuffs being buttoned. Also unbuttoned shirts and shirt tails hanging loosely. Two examples of mishaps I have witnessed. Just outta high school I worked at a meat processing facility and a young man new hire tried to add spices to a #500 mixer/grinder and he had a white lab coat on that has loose cuffs and being in a hurry he didn't shut the machine off and while he was pouring the bag of spices the mixing paddle came around and caught his cuff and it pulled his arm into the machine and was in the process of pulling his entire upper body into the machine through the 8"x8" opening! Thank God another worker was near by and didn't panic and was able to hit the emergency stop button! Had that worker panicked the mixer/grinder would have ground his entire body into sausage in about 5 seconds! The second example is a friend of mine was working on the PTO shaft shield and somehow the his wedding ring caught on something and not only did he lose his ring finger but he also lost 3/4s of his hand! It happened so fast and was so devastating we never could figure out exactly what happened but my buddy is now called stumpy!! No funny but true!

I have one friend that's had many accidents with equipment. The 2 most worst accident that he's had was one evening, he was driving his tractor down the road peacefully and all of a sudden, a truck going about 80mph down the road hit him sending him flying 56 feet toward. Thank god he only broke a rib and that's it. He also was servicing a bulldozer and the blade lowered down when he was under it. It fell and crushed his leg, but thankfully the doctors could save his leg. I believe he's still amazed about what happened, but thank god he's still living healthy and he's still working fine.

Hey I know that you guys are busy but Have you ever thought of using safety harness when climbing up the Silo?

We had a farmer in ohio that was at the top of the cement silo and fell backward into the chute. He was a big fella and fell backward and was wedged into the chute. Basically his head was touching his knees. The local fire departments and rope rescue worked as quick as they could but to no avail and he suffocated because the way he was in the chute. It was an 80 ft silo. He went up to to work on the Unloader. No one knew he was there. It was a sad day in the county.

Oh yeah, one last one *very important* old tractors are *death traps* plain and simple. On an old tractor, from the beginning to the 70s, if it’s moving, *stay away* we have a 1940 M, narrow platform, pto cover (aftermarket), no fenders, no sensors for in gear (tractor starts in gear), you aren’t sitting in it, you are on it. Tractors back then had seats as an afterthought, the seat is on top of the tranny on this tractor, you are at the same height as a semi driver, you can fall off easily. The brakes are the equivalent of a “eeh, yeah I’ll work now.” If it is on, and people are standing around it *make sure no one is on it* treat it as if it is a bomb.

Great video Ryan

Very good Safety video, Trim the beard Lol

Very cool safe tip about farm

If I have to put a hand in compromising conditions like where my hand could get crushed I always use my left hand, I don’t like it as much as my right. But always block it up if possible!