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Big Muddy rancher

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Last night my son and I trailed 5 drys over to the pasture on the hay fields where we had been putting the dry's. When we got there we rode thru the rest of the cattle and found a couple of new calves and some yearlings and a bull of the neighbours. We decided then to take all the cattle home sort off the cows that calved, the drys and the neighbours. This morning the neighbour Ryan came over on his quad after checking the fence and helped us sort. my son helped him take the yearlings back and my daughter and I waited a few minutes then started our cows out to where we were to put them. Just as we were getting to where we were to drop our cows we saw Ryan coming back across our hay fields thern he hit the creekgoing to fast and flipped his quad over on top of himself. It landed on his head holding him under water. We saw him coming but by the time we rode over after having to open the gate he was up but soaking wet covered in black mud. He was very luck man to come out alive . He has a bad shoulder from steer wrestling and it popped out again, he bit his tongue and looked to be having bruises coming around his ear.
 

ranchwife

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very, very lucky young man!! the statistics on fatal quad accidents is staggering....most folks just simply do NOT wear helmets....I am one of the guilty!! :shock:
 

andybob

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ranchwife said:
very, very lucky young man!! the statistics on fatal quad accidents is staggering....most folks just simply do NOT wear helmets....I am one of the guilty!! :shock:
I agree, thank the Lord he is safe! I recently recieved a 'phone call from the general manager of a company I once worked for, a former collegue had an accident on a quad and didn't regain conciousness,it was both a shock and a tragic loss.
Please everyone keep safe, these quads are just too unpredictable.
 

Faster horses

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I hope someone keeps an eye on him for a day or so.
You can't be too careful with head injuries. I know from experiencing
it happening to our son-in-law. He was kicked in the head by
a horse. Our daughter learned that most head injuries are caused
by motorcycles, and next from 4-wheelers.

WEAR A HELMENT! ALL IT TAKES IS ONCE!!

I'm glad this story has a happy ending...
 

IL Rancher

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Don't know anyone who has done it on a 4-wheeler but know a few motor cycle and snowmobile folks who have done some real, real, damage to their heads in accidents... I know I should wear a helmet on the quad. I keep meaning to go buy one..

What amazed me as a kid/teenager gorwing up was how many folks on horseback suffered the head injuries..Mainly it as folks doing jumping but it stunned me just the same.... Always during practice as in comps they made them wear a helmet of some sort.... Thinking about it now it doesn't surprise me, I mean, if you fall off a horse you have a ways to go before you hit ground... Do they make the kids as the 4-h type rodeo's wear helmets for barrel racing and the like? Sorry, just curious..
 

efb

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Please everyone keep safe, these quads are just too unpredictable.
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Quads are very predictable. We had 6 young men in our hospital one week end recently. All injured in seperate 4 wheeler accidents. All were drinking, all were riding too fast and careless.

Now horses can be unpredictable :lol: I have been hurt more times than I want to remember on or by a horse. My quad has never hurt me.
 

Tap

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I am not a fan of 4 wheelers. I think they ruined the cow country in some ways. Everyone got to be, and still are in a heck of a hurry when they are on one. They don't get tired so you don't realize that you are pushing as hard as you are with cattle.

That said, falling out of bed can be dangerous too. It just takes caution.
 

Big Muddy rancher

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No he wasn't wearing ahelmet. In fact his straw hat was stuck to the bottom of the creek. My son had to reach down and pull it out of the mud.
My son was over to his place to help brand a few calves. Ryan said he showered for half an hour and was still muddy. I hope it had some effect on my son cause he can ride to fast most of the time.
Funny thing is this fellow used to ride all the time when he was working for his Grandfather and uncle but he has his own place now and uses the quad quite a bit because he is busier. Still a top horse hand and ropes and drags everything at branding.
 

Northern Rancher

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Quads and farm equipment shouldn't be run by young kids-end of argument-end of story-like I've said on here before I've been to too many funerals of careful kids who got killed by both. There's been probably ten or a dozen bad four wheeler wrecks up here already this year. As for rodeo the junior bull riders need to wear helmets-it's actually a busines deciosion you can't ride and win money if your out with scrambled eggs in your head.
 

Big Muddy rancher

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Northern Rancher said:
Quads and farm equipment shouldn't be run by young kids-end of argument-end of story-like I've said on here before I've been to too many funerals of careful kids who got killed by both. There's been probably ten or a dozen bad four wheeler wrecks up here already this year. As for rodeo the junior bull riders need to wear helmets-it's actually a busines deciosion you can't ride and win money if your out with scrambled eggs in your head.


I agree with you NR, This fellow is over thirty and my son is twenty.
Our kids wore helmets when riding horse when they were younger. They didn't like it but when my oldest went off and broke her arm the doctor was sure glad to hear she was wearing one. We were to.
 

the_jersey_lilly_2000

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IL Rancher,
Here in Texas they don't make 4H kids wear helmets durin barrel racing and such events. They can if they want to tho. But it is (in most cases) required that they at least enter the arena with a cowboy hat on. Those that wear helmets aren't required to wear the cowboy hat.
 

DiamondSCattleCo

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efb said:
Quads are very predictable. We had 6 young men in our hospital one week end recently. All injured in seperate 4 wheeler accidents. All were drinking, all were riding too fast and careless.

Bingo. I've been riding quads and motorcycles since I was 6 years old. The only time I've ever been in trouble is when I caused it through my own stupidity or lack of judgement. The quad isn't the problem, the rider and training are. Never ride hard over terrain that you can't see, and never ride past your own abilities.

Rod
 

feeder

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BMR. glad your son is OK. When my 30 yr. old son runs the 4-wheeler sometimes I have to close my eyes and say a prayer.
 

Badlands

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Don't forget the kidney pad, either.

I am as lazy as the next guy when it comes to wearing helmet and pads.

My friend always makes us wear them when we get on a 4 wheeler at his house.

Rolled one over on myself one day down there, a ball joint broke when I was cornering down a steep hill with a load of salt on.

Put a gouge about an inch deep into the helmet (and cracked it most of the way around) on a piece of petrified wood and a little piece of an old root sticking up right there tore up the kidney pad.

Got lucky on both accounts.

I wear a helmet and pads now. Even if it isn't cool. :?

Being a poor cowman and pushing too hard with a 4 wheeler isn't the 4 wheelers' fault. :wink:

How did "what's his name" say it? It's not the guns' fault anymore than it is my pencils' fault I flunked the spelling test?

Badlands
 

Denny

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Northern Rancher said:
Quads and farm equipment shouldn't be run by young kids-end of argument-end of story-like I've said on here before I've been to too many funerals of careful kids who got killed by both. There's been probably ten or a dozen bad four wheeler wrecks up here already this year. As for rodeo the junior bull riders need to wear helmets-it's actually a busines deciosion you can't ride and win money if your out with scrambled eggs in your head.

And kids should'nt be rideing bulls either.I feel alot safer with them on a quad or a tractor than a bull geeeeeezzzzz.I swear you sports nuts are just that NUTS..... :roll:
 

IL Rancher

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It woudlh't surprise me that if in this state it is a law for the barrel racers to wear one too, we are a little more liability exposed in this state than most but maybe they haven't gone that route yet... It would stun me if 20 years from now they didn't make the kids wear the helmets in most of this country... I think if my daughter chooses to do the horse stuff I will make her wear one...


Hard to think about it, when I was a kid you rode a horse, bike, skateboarded or roller skated, played hockey or whatever, with no pads, not helmets and half the time just wearing shorts and maybe shoes (Well hockey we tended to wear a bit more). Now my daughter, who is just three was given a bike for her birthday by a well meaning aunt and she has ll the pads and a helmet. I guess starting them at an early age with that stuff might make it a habbit.. WE shall see.


We have two quads on this farm, wel one right now, the other is getting an engine rebuilt for free due to dealership error. We tend not to run them very hard as taking a cicadia off the dome at 45 miles per hour is no fun. When we move cattle with them we only go about 5-8 mph on them for the most part.. And now that they have all been moved a few times this year it is just open a gate and they move themselves. Oh wel, still thinkof horses from time to time, the boss man told me I should think about getting some long and hard and than do it...
 

the_jersey_lilly_2000

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Have you seen the helmets they wear riding horses? they are similar to the bicycle helmets, all they cover is the very tip top of the skull. Every time I see a kid wearin one, especially a smaller kid, they ride like they can't hardly hold their head up because it's so heavy. Plus if they were to get in a wreck on a horse, what's the likely hood of them injuring the very top of the head. Looks to me like it's covering less of what needs covered than doin much good. You get these kids on these horses, and their helmets slip, they're payin more attention to it than what they are supposed to be doin with the reins. Accident waitin to happen.
Most important thing is, DON'T put your kid on a horse they can't handle.
It takes some looking to find a good kid horse. But they are out there, they aren't cheap tho. I see people all the time that have their kids ridin horses that have no business on em whatsoever, their ridin skills aren't anywhere near good enuff to be on em. They can't stop them, they can't turn them......skeers the daylights outta me. Also, horses can be trained to stop when they feel a rider comin off. That's one of the best things you can do with a horse when dealin with kids ridin. That way that horse aint gonna just have a run away fit and end up hurtin the kid more than him/her just hittin the ground.
 

Ranchy

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You make a LOT of good points, FH! In fact, you echo my sentiments almost word for word.

It just scares the bejezzus out of me, to see a kid on too much horse for them.........
 

Northern Rancher

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Well Dennymeister big differance participating in an organized sport like bull riding and sending a kid out to dreive a 600 pound quad that goes 40 miles an hour-trust me you don't want one of my quad safety lectures in person. My nephew was just recalling the front end loader lecture I gave his Dad last year-I nearly lost Ty in a tractor wreck when he was little-the light came on for me-I was just hoping to switch it on for some people on here before a tragedy does. I really don't like going to kids funerals.
 
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