Safety switches are required to be used on boats equipped with them. This is not only good safety but the law here.;)
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Safety switches are required to be used on boats equipped with them. This is not only good safety but the law here.;)
I always wear mine, but I am usually a little paranoid about safety, b/c I want my wife to hae a hubby.
As Nimrod said, it is the law in Arkansas. If you motor or boat is equiped with a kill switch lanyard, you MUST attach it to yourself or you can be given a citation.
BTW, glad you are OK.
Glad your ok cheezy! 30yrs or so ago a good friend had that happen to him over on the Savannah River in Ga. He was thrown from the boat, the prop took most all the meat from the back of his leg/calf. The boat then did circles over him while he tried to stay down, he told me he was prepared to die because he was not going to come back up. Lucky for him one of his passengers was able to get to the controls, shut it down then they jumped in and found him and pulled him up. I have always tried to remember my cord since.
just a thought i had and will do in the very near future. Lets just say that a less experanced person is driving your boat and some how you get knocked out of the passerger seat, wouldnt it be nice if there was a kill switch next to the passerger seat so it would kill the motor and not chop up up or wreck the boat because of a less experances driver
What the boating industry needs to do to make it more safety prone, is make switches in the seats...driver and passenger that when the driver or passenger leave the seating area the engine will cut-off. This way the error of forgetting to clip the kill switch to your wrist or life jacket is now error proof.
Do you know how to diable the safety switch on your lawn mower? I know alot of folks that do it...:eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by bacrappie
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Originally Posted by LMBarnett
Yes I do. I have a John Deere with a 54" deck. It was a nuisances to get off the tractor with the engine running...not the mower deck, and the engine dies. I found on the John Deere forum how it can be done to remove couple wires and the driver and get off and the engine still runs. So much for safety for those that mower their lawn tipping the beer can.
Cheezy I am glad to hear that you are alright. I never wear mine but I believe I will start. You never get to old to learn.
Shew...glad you're OK...Hard lesson learned. Thanks for sharing. Post this on the board of every state!
Cheezy you were a lucky camper!! Hope your sharing the experience with all of us will make us more responsible and safe.