Farm Accident

[Maple Leaf Angus]

Well it's stuff like this that makes one sit back and take inventory of life. Yesterday, one of our neighbours was killed while cutting a tree for firewood. Seems the tree wasn't falling right and he got in harm's way trying to help it.

He was a good neighbour, the kind that will be missed by everyone who knew him. He was a real down-to-earth sort of guy who loved to laugh and enjoy a joke with whoever was with him.

He was not a greedy man who worked hard at whatever he did. If you needed help, he was the kind of fellow who would willingly pitch in. He kept a few cows and his wife loves and owns a few horses.

One never knows when the call will come. Only 57 years old, he leaves behind a wife and grown daughter.

 

[azcowpuncher]

Wow dang i feel for the family . Such a freak deal but it can happen to anyone thats for sure . Kinds makes me think back , i was 18 punchin cows for an ole boy up on the mogollon rim , and the lightning was poppin all around us and i was lookin for a low spot and that old man was laugin and we held up under a tree and said you know you dont need to be scared of that lighting or anything else cause if its your time to go its your time to go dont matter if your settin here horse back in the rain or at home in your rockin chair the good lord will take you when he is ready .

 

[Ranchy]

Things like that always come as such a shock to everyone. My condolences to you and your neighbor's family......

 

[Big Muddy rancher]

I know how you feel MLA. We had a week in early July that took two acquaintances and almost the whole neighbor family. Makes you stop and think.

 

[rainie]

Sorry for your loss MLA. I know what it is like to lose a good neighbor. Things are never quite the same.

 

[Faster horses]

I'm so sorry. It really hurts to lose a good friend/neighbor.
They are never replaced...

 

[Mrs.Greg]

Sorry MLA about your friend,we've had too many close calls and friends hurt and lost to farm accidents

 

[Maple Leaf Angus]

I appreciate your kind thoughts. It is just such a shock to see someone go down when they are still strong, healthy and vital.

And, as I am sure that many of you have found out first hand, it is difficult to watch the family struggle through their shock and grief when there is so little one can do to help.

We just don't know when our time is up. So when someone leaves us so suddenly, it has the effect of making one do a little self-evaluation.

By the way, I mistakenly said he had one daughter whenin fact, they had 3.

 

[IL Rancher]

We had one of these terrible accidents happen a few years ago during harvest.. Young family, young kids, Gentleman might have been in his mid 30's... Hard to imagine.. The one good thing that comes out of this is it reaffirms my believe in humanity as all the neighbors lined up in the morning with their combines and finished harvest for them.. Miust have had 10 or so Combines along with grain wagons and semis there to help out.. It was beautiful to see the community come togehter like that, terrible that it took such a tragedy.

Our thoughts and prayers MLA.

 

[cattleluvr18]

aaww im sorry. i almost lost my dad last fall to a tree accident. i thank the lord everyday that he was smart enough to have someone else there with him. the guy moved a 40 ft tree off him. amazing what you can do when your scared to death. i couldnt pay him back with the world.