Three young children killed while riding in tractor shovel

[burnt]

Come on guys, when looking back there we're questionable and dangerous activities occurring on the farm while growing up? Now that we're older and wiser we shake our heads at ourselves, and won't even let of our kids think about trying the same stuns on the farm. Of coarse it was different times, but that didn't make it any less dangerous. It only takes a second for things to go terribly wrong.

This is just very tragic to the families and leave it at that and don't turn it into some foreseeable inconvenience for yourself.

I look back at some things we did, not thinking anything of it, and some stuff that happened...oh my goodness, we were so fortunate.

Can't say that we deliberately took foolish risks or pulled high risk stunts, but things can happen so fast even in "normal" situations..

[TOM4CWB]

Come on guys, when looking back there we're questionable and dangerous activities occurring on the farm while growing up? Now that we're older and wiser we shake our heads at ourselves, and won't even let of our kids think about trying the same stuns on the farm. Of coarse it was different times, but that didn't make it any less dangerous. It only takes a second for things to go terribly wrong.

This is just very tragic to the families and leave it at that and don't turn it into some foreseeable inconvenience for yourself.

Foragefarmer;

Farm workplace safety is all about 'foreseeable risk mitigation' to prevent accidents to our families and workers... not an 'inconvenience' but obviously about life and death of our people. We deal with it every day... and try to strike a balance that allows families some 'freedom' to be a part of farm 'culture' while controlling / mitigating farm workplace risks we are responsible for. WHICH is everything. My name is on the title of the tractor... I am responsible... this very likely will cost us all... just like the Humboldt hockey bus incident...

Life is precious and very fragile... it is snuffed out in a millisecond... no do overs when a mistaken calculation injures or kills our family. NOT A 'LEAVE IT AT THAT' moment now....

This is an accountable blemish on every farmer in Canada... we either learn from this... or have history repeat itself with the next preventable tragedy for another farm family and OUR farm community.

[foragefarmer]

Come on guys, when looking back there we're questionable and dangerous activities occurring on the farm while growing up? Now that we're older and wiser we shake our heads at ourselves, and won't even let of our kids think about trying the same stuns on the farm. Of coarse it was different times, but that didn't make it any less dangerous. It only takes a second for things to go terribly wrong.

This is just very tragic to the families and leave it at that and don't turn it into some foreseeable inconvenience for yourself.

[the big wheel]

Ya maybe seatbelts in buckets will be rhe law now.
Seriously though Not to make light of this but too often stupid rules for the rest of us that aren’t stupid result from someone else s stupidity. As now that I hear what happenned this was stupid and maybe criminal.

Now we will require a $10,000 training/licensing program to drive a farm tractor down the highway... to solve this problem.

Or they will ban tractors

[TOM4CWB]

Sadly I’ll second that.

Now we will require a $10,000 training/licensing program to drive a farm tractor down the highway... to solve this problem.

[woodland]

People do the darndest things. Ten people in a front-end loader, that just sounds unbelievable.

Sadly I’ll second that.

[sumdumguy]

People do the darndest things. Ten people in a front-end loader, that just sounds unbelievable.

[GDR]

And none of the adults questioned this idea? I really feel for those kids.

We used to ride as kids in the bucket, or on the fender of an open station 4020, thought it was normal. I wont let my kids do that, fun I know but scares the hell out of me now.

[woodland]

4 adults and 6 kids, all in the bucket. All fell out and went under tractor. So either he hit a pothole at a good clip or the tilt cylinders failed. I think it was 3 kids dead and 2 adults in critical condition.

And none of the adults questioned this idea? I really feel for those kids.