What's wrong with this picture?

Spotted here:

Cute concept: check.

Muzzle discipline: check.

Trigger discipline: check.

Loader safety: RED ALERT!

... Yeah, been reading tractor manuals and watching safety videos.  This is solidly in "don't do that" territory, unless there's something other than the hydraulics keeping that loader raised.  Most of the time, you get away with it... but only most of the time.

Update:  As Rob points out in the comments, it's not, realistically, a big risk, on a one-time basis.  The likelihood of a catastrophic failure at any given moment is pretty darn small; you just don't want to make a habit of hanging around under loader buckets.

And we all do some risky stuff from time to time.  Like crossing the street, or trying to make friends with a barking German Shepherd.

Comments

[Rob]

Life is not without risk. It's a good picture, a cute idea and if they all lived through it all it was risk managed well.