Back to earth with a bump - pardon the pun. A coroner somewhere has opined that he thinks it would be a good idea for tractors to be fitted with safety belts and that wearing of same should be mandatory. This after a bloke who was smoking dope rolled a tractor down a 18 degree slope (one in fiveish in old money) and ended up being crushed by the John Deere. Had he been wearing a 'safety belt' his chance of leaping from the vehicle if he had not been too stoned to think it was a good idea would have been zero. Coroner obviously not seeing the elephant in the room.
Has this coroner not heard. All this bollocks finished on November 8. We don't talk like this any more. Nanny State is no more, caput, gone bye byes. All calls for seat belts on office chairs will fall on deaf ears. Seat belts on horses? Forget it. Restraints on pogo sticks - no show. Endless rules to make our lives totally risk free is so last year.
I have a very nice 20 year old Shibaura SE4000. 42 horse power of Japanese agricultural grunt and wonderment. It drives a sodding great 3 rotor park mower off it's PTO and is used on flat ground. As it has been orchardised (lowered, small fat wheels) it has a top speed in 4/3 gear of about 15kmh. It is driven exclusively on my private property which is paid for and owned lock stock and shelter belt by me. If any numpty official comes along to tell me to wear a seat belt whilst cutting the front lawn I will mow him down - literally.
Get into 2008, Mr Coroner. The days of stupid unenforceable safety ideas like your hair brained scheme are gone.
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