BB—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 28,1980
Local firemen learn farm equipment rescue
BY CURT HAULER
RHEEMS Firemen and
ambulance crews from a
large number of Lancaster
County companies are at
tending a course m farm
machinery rescue
operations.
The purpose of the
sessions is to teach
emergency crews how to
extract a person trapped m
moving parts of any piece of
farm equipment safely and
swiftly.
The course, sponsored by
the Lancaster Farmers’
Association Womens Safety
Committee, consists of four
seminars. This is the second
Shirley Garner, Lancaster County Farmers’ Association Womans Safety
Committee, provides background information on farm equipment rescue to
about 35 firemen at a training session Tuesday evening. The course teaches
prompt removal of persons trapped in farm equipment.
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year the course has been
offered.
Shirley Gamer, Mt. Joy,
explamed the purpose of the
training seminars is to teach
emergency crews to operate
farm equipment, to turn
machinery off, to be aware
of potentially dangerous
operating parts of machines.
Many of the non-farm
firemen participating m the
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Those who were aware of
PTO systems often were not
familiar with how to turn the
system off.
On hand to explain the in’s
and out’s of farm equipment
was Ken Messick, son of the
owner of Messick’s Farm
Equipment where the
seminars are being held.
The rescue company
members are encouraged to
poke around all sorts of
equipment including trac
tors, hay balers, corn
pickers, PTO units, and
other live farm machinery.
Firemen are able to tear
apart junk machinery with a
Hurst tool to get them
familiar with the strenght of
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They leam the differences
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While most of the work
they did was with New
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(because that’s what
Messick’s handles), the
rescue crews are en
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farms or other equipment
dealerships and get familiar
with the location of stop
switches and other power
controls on other brands of
machinery.
In addition to the hands-on
work with used machinery,
the fire crews are showed
films of farm equipment in
action.
The movies were not
necessarily farm safety
oriented. The basic idea, as
Shirley Gamer explamed,
was to get the non-farm
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The Lancaster County
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