Source: Chris Bennett, AGWEB, 7/20/21


In a macabre moment frozen in time, Carl Lucas stared as a PTO shaft devoured his shirttail and pulled him toward the edge of horror. Blink to a blur, the spinning steel sucked Lucas off his feet and jerked the Alabama farmer into its orbit, mangling flesh, smashing bones, and rag-dolling him through at least three terrifyingly contorted revolutions.   Despite 72 years in the field, consistently surrounded by the hazards of agricultural work, Lucas was caught in an unguarded moment and knew the plain truth: What the PTO gets, it keeps.

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