Strange attachments

[34by151]

Spotted my neighbour today dragging a harrow around the paddock with his BX .
Nothing unusual with that but them I spotted his ROPS.
He had clamped a bracket on the left side and attached a child seat
Round and round he went with the grandson strapped to the Seat on the ROPS.

Obvious safety issues aside about the strangest attachment I have seen

 

[skeets]

I dont know what to say about that, and on a side note I have seen guys riding small kids on the HD dressers seat belted in the bitch seat,, again I dont think its all that smart , but then who am I to say

 

[Bmbbm]

Doesnt sound very safe, but I bet the grandson had fun,

 

[SidecarFlip]

What is a bitch seat?

 

[D2Cat]

Isn't it somewhat amazing we are all still alive and able to comprehend and type sentences! Is there anything more level then a paddock? Hope grampa wasn't doing wheelies or sharp donuts.

 

[GeoHorn]

As kids we also used to ride down the highways in the back of a pickup truck for miles on end. Used to stand up in the front bench-seat of cars with metal dashboards and no seat belts too.
Don’t make it right now that we know better now, does it?
Child endangerment is a crime in most locales. Not mentioning it may be easier, but it’s also complicit.
Don’t know any tactful way to bring it to a neighbor’s attention tho’...

 

[Nicfin36]

Yikes. I don't like seeing kids around equipment. I'm too familiar with Murphy and his law.

 

[34by151]

Is there anything more level then a paddock?

Actually no, not here in the Glasshouse Mountains.

 

[34by151]

Managed to get a picture as he was on the way back to the house after coming up the mountain.
Quality is not so good due to the long distance zoom.

 

[D2Cat]

Anybody ever ride laying down in front of the back window of the family car while going on vacation?

Use to sneak up on the garbage truck and hook our sled to it for a ride!

 

[Bmbbm]

Had a friend had his grandson age about 2 inside a grain bin with him . Grandson got his leg caught in the auger and tore off his leg. Can't imagine what he was thinking. Now that's learning the hard way!! Poor little guy is ok now, but has that to live with.

 

[aaluck]

Sure hope I don't see this story again on the Darwin Awards!

 

[dlsmith]

Anybody ever ride laying down in front of the back window of the family car while going on vacation?

That's where I always rode if my two sisters were in the back seat.

 

[GeoHorn]

Managed to get a picture as he was on the way back to the house after coming up the mountain.
Quality is not so good due to the long distance zoom.

Hope he never overturns that thing

 

[SidecarFlip]

Anybody ever ride laying down in front of the back window of the family car while going on vacation?

Use to sneak up on the garbage truck and hook our sled to it for a ride!

All the above but we used to do the rear bumper sled ride where I grew up. No sled, just smooth soled boots on the ice and snow. Noting better than an irate driver with 4 kids on the bumper...

 

[bird dogger]

All the above but we used to do the rear bumper sled ride where I grew up. No sled, just smooth soled boots on the ice and snow. Noting better than an irate driver with 4 kids on the bumper...

In the small town near where I grew up we called that ski bobbing behind the cars. Kids just aren’t allowed to have any fun these days! Like long ropes to a car hood piled high with cousins and friends being pulled down the country roads. Followed by taking turns on a pair of old wooden skis down in the ditch and having to flip the rope up over an occasional mail box or post along the same. In the summer time we’d wait for some of the old timers to come out of the local tavern, get in their cars and start for home. We’d latch onto a door handle while on our bicycles and hitch a ride. They never went fast and most enjoyed it as it took them a few trips around town to "remember" where they actually lived. A little hand wave would let us know it was time to let go. Dangerous? Risky? Sure, a little. But just about every one of us were driving tractors before we were out of grade school. We knew how to double clutch and drive the grain trucks around the fields during harvest as soon as our legs were long enough to reach the pedals. I started hoeing sugar beets along with the migrant workers when I was 9 yrs. old. We’d be sharpening our hoes with a file while the sun was coming up and the day would end at sundown. Rainy days were our only days off in 11 seasons during the thinning and weeding of those sugar beets. Those earnings put myself through college. Yup, the times are sure different. Some good.....some bad.

 

[D2Cat]

As a pup I lived outside Fountain, Co. When I was 5 my dad put me on his Ford 8N and sent me home. Has to cross two RR track, go by the grade school, cross a long wooded bridge with the planks running the length of the tire area. It was about 5-6 miles. By the time I got to the house I was a proficient operator!!

 

[origami]

Anybody ever ride laying down in front of the back window of the family car while going on vacation?

Yes! My brother and used to do this on cross country trips back in the 60s. We also used to ride on the tailgate on short drives to the dump. We're both still here.

 

[fruitcakesa]

All the above but we used to do the rear bumper sled ride where I grew up. No sled, just smooth soled boots on the ice and snow. Noting better than an irate driver with 4 kids on the bumper...

We did the same as kids but we called it "skitching". It usually po'd the driver who would sometime stop while we let go and scattered

 

[GreensvilleJay]

Any idea WHAT is on the loader and WHY is it up so high ?