This freaks me out! (Farming The Alps #13)

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as an American coming to Switzerland and working on these Hills is pretty cool the views are amazing but it's also super scary everywhere I had lived in the U.S it wasn't flat there were mountains but as soon as a tractor goes over like 10 degrees I'm out it's the scariest thing ever I'm like get me out of this tractor I would much rather be on my two feet maybe I'm just a chicken but I don't think so when you combine steep terrain and heavy machinery there are so many things that can go wrong and I lack the experience to even know all of the things that could go wrong maybe this doesn't look that steep on video but I'm telling you it is super scary being in a machine going down this or up this it's not for me at all for Eric he doesn't seem to care at all uh I do Eric was telling me about different factors that go into deciding where he will drive and where he won't you have to really know the field where the ground is and isn't stable enough to to support the weight of a tractor and where all of the wet spots are when you're on a hill like this a lot of the weight of the tractor is on the downhill tires and if those tires sink into the mud then your Hill just got a lot steeper of course we all know that wet mud is slippery and if the ground is too wet it might be dangerous to drive on but it can also be dangerous when the ground is too dry when the ground is so dry that the tires can't dig in and get a really good grip then you can just slide down like it was mud hay is also really slippery and dangerous this is a shot from an upcoming video but I wanted to show it here because it's a great example Eric is following a road across this slope and then suddenly he stops and backs up I didn't think much about this but then later he said yeah if I drive across there I'm going to slide off the road watch this video again you see the front end of the tractor start to slide before he stops and backs up if he had just ignored the small slide and kept on driving he could have slid off the road and ended up in a really bad spot this is how fast things can go wrong and it's not just where you should and shouldn't drive it's also how you drive and how much knowledge you have of the machine's capabilities and this is probably what freaks me out the most there's nothing in a tractor warning you there's no like blinking light or like a warning pull up pull up or anything like that saying you're about to flip over you just have to kind of know the limits of the Machinery you're in and unfortunately accidents happen from 2010 to 2019 155 people died working with agricultural heavy machinery there are accidents from tractors flipping over being on something too steep but there's also other things like mechanical failures or even traffic accidents now in recent years these numbers have been steadily going down as education increases as well as better technology the tractors and machines we're driving today are much better and safer than they were even 10 20 years ago but we've only talked about the people killed working with heavy machinery there's another 189 people that died in that same period from all of the other dangers of farming that silage in those silos we talked about can produce gases that can kill you so can that slurry we talked about and there are lots and lots of other things farming is one of the most dangerous jobs in Switzerland and you have to have a lot of knowledge as a farmer to avoid these dangers while at the same time getting the job done coming from outside of the farming world this kind of surprised me a little bit to be a modern farmer you have to know a lot about a lot of different things you have to know a lot about animals you have to know a lot about the land you have to know a lot about Machinery you have to know a lot about all of these different dangers and so many other things this was kind of the inspiration behind these videos I was like there's a lot more to this than it appears from the outside and I like making videos so I should make videos about this because it's really interesting thank you so much for watching have a good one

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