Show toehold on trouble i A gashed foot sooner or later I 1 if the inevitable result res u it of steadying i block ol of wood with your foot chei chopping ing into the national safety council from many of the organizations which cooperated in arranging national farm safety week activities in 46 states in 1914 1944 indicate an even more successful week this year lifetime of the implement has long been a yardstick whereby farm machinery care is measured but there is a far more important and better measurement the Iffe lifetime time of the farmer and where the farm safety program with its emphasis upon the relationship of the human factor to the life span of farm folks comes in with this in mind manufacturers of farm equipment are doing a useful job of urging users to take extra care in handling implements tractors or other farm machines when the tractor for instance was new and its friends so freely and correctly forecast the approach of power farming it stirred critics who ranged from mild to bitter to catalog the criticisms would be an endless and unprofitable task but all out of the book of genesis of power farming it was soon proved again and again that a tractor produced under good engineering and manufacturing auspices would stand up to the job for which it was designed tractors kept getting better and better their betterment conti confines neos maintenance is a big element in such confidence long ago the stronger retail implement dealers assembled good mechanics and organized d their shop service departments many sent apprentices and senior mechanics as well to tractor factory schools farm safety plan in the meantime the farmer himself has improved as his own service man many young farmers have grown up in the new age of power farming and qualify as professional power farmers and farmer knows he can go to the shop of some dealer for repair and overhaul work that the farmer is not equipped to do factory management by the way fou fought the battle of safety with shields over moving parts wherever these might menace workmen with shields and plenty of special training of foremen and workers in the technique of safety this battle goes on now with never a sign of letup factory men treat safety as one of their major c concerns on cerns an unshielded machine is a rarity in any well run plant to make life and limb safer for those who work with farm machinery the farm machinery manufacturers have developed and put into effect protective shields for tractor and pull type power drive implements power line ime and power takeoff shields so designed that the shield for any make of implement may be attached to the master shield bracket of any make of farm tractor now the power line shield for any make or model of implement built to the standard could be connected to the master shield on any make or model of tractor A good job well done but what about the thousands of implements and tractors already in the hands of the farmer amt safety important to them too it is and soon provision was made to make available conversion packages for old implements so they could be adapted tor for use with new tractors and old tractors converted to the standard so that new implements could be used with them in every way possible farmers are urged to use these shields never to operate a machine without them conspicuous precautionary signs are posted on danger spots throughout ghou implement and tractor alike certain parts of any machinery must be regarded as functional elements and cannot be completely shielded and still perform their job but even here we do have one real safeguard man can think before he acts |