—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 22, 1972
14
Equipment Manufacturers
Slate Farm Safety Show
As a highlight of National
Farm Safety Week, the nation’s
leading manufacturers of farm
equipment will open a week-long
exhibit Monday demonstrating
the progress they have made in
providing safer machinery for
the nation’s farmers.
The display, representing a
broad spectrum of mechanized
farming, includes 8 tractors, a
combine, a forage harvester, a
mower-conditioner, a baler, a
planter, a plow and other pieces
of farm equipment. It is set up by
invitation of the United State
Department of Agriculture on the
lawn outside the USDA building
on Jefferson Drive just off 14th
Street
The exhibit was formally
opened at 11 -30 a m by Secretary
of Agriculture Earl L. Butz and
by L Emery Dearborn, president
of the Farm and Industrial
Equipment Institute (FIEI), and
vice president and general
manager of Ford Tractor
Operations. FIEI is the trade
organization of the nation’s farm
equipment manufacturers.
The display shows progress
made by the farm equipment
manufacturers in machinery
systems, and in providing farm
tractor overturn protection, high
way safety, shielding of power
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take-off drives and other moving
parts, and operator environment.
Research in farm safety
a statistics shows that farm ac
cidents are trending downward
with the expanding application of
safety technology.
In 1970 the Department of
Transportation, at the direction
of Congress, conducted an in
vestigation into farm machinery
safety The report recognized the
progress being made on a
voluntary basis by the industry.
The USDA farm machinery
safety exhibit, with the theme
“Advancements in Farm
Machinery Safety”, shows some
of the things that have been
accomplished.
To protect tractor operators in
the event of tip-overs, protective
structures have been developed.
There were the result of ex
tensive field tests in which
remote-controlled tractors were
deliberately tipped and rolled.
The result has been frames which
not only protect the operator in
the event of upsets but in most
instances will limit tips to 90
degree rolls, rather than com
plete overturns. This roll-over
protection also is built into
tractor cabs, and large numbers
of farmers are using them.
The entire operator station of
modern farm tractors now
provides numerous features of
environmental protection,
comfort, and safety. Sound levels
have been reduced, and
operators also have been given
comfort seats, air conditioning,
power steering, heaters, power
brakes and finger-tip hydraulic
controls to reduce fatigue which
is often the contributing factor
toward accidents.
Slow-moving vehicle emblems,
flashing lights, and other
features have been developed to
promote safety during transport
of farm machinery on public
roads.
Free-spinning shields have
been developed and continually
improved to protect an operator’s
clothing from becoming tangled
in power take-off shafts. Just
recently new free-spinning
shields which fully cover the
universal joint and coupler have
been developed for increased
protection.
Accident prevention also has
been provided with machines
which combine several
operations in one trip over the
field, thus reducing the exposure
time of operators to possible
accidents Other developments
which have eliminated much of
the drudgery and hard work
associated with farming also
have contributed to make far
ming a safer task.
Companies exhibiting
machines in the display include
Allis-Chalmers, J.I. Case, John
Deere, Ford Tractor Operations,
International Harvester, Massey-
Ferguson, New Holland, and
White Farm Equipment.
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