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Joel Owens
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Please be careful with power equipment ! You can get hurt....

Joel Owens
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  • Canton, GA
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So today a friend of mine was late to a meet up. It turns out his next door neighbor a wealthy retired gentleman wanted to play with power equipment. The friend was helping this person out with some landscaping work as they live in the same subdivision as neighbors.

The neighbor had a Bobcat and stated he knew how to run the machine. What happened is you pull both handles forward and back and then alternating for turning. Apparently the neighbor was trying to go one direction and turned the handles the other which flipped the Bobcat and it went tumbling down the hill with him inside of it.

My friend and another guy raced down and pulled the 300lb neighbor out of the Bobcat as there was a smell of a gas leak and it might have exploded.

Apparently the neighbor driving the Bobcat was not wearing any head gear for the ears. One of his ears was ripped off from hitting the metal criss-cross interlace. They called and the ambulance showed up and the guy will live. My friend ended up pulling a bicep muscle getting him out as he was really heavy.

I hope he recovers well. The point to all of this is people need to quit pretending they know something when they don't. Part of being strong is actually knowing when to ask how to do things you do not currently have the capacity for. If you are unsure about power tools and equipment please do not "wing it" as you could get yourself hurt or worse killed.

Off the soap box now but hopefully someone reads this and thinks twice about things.

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