Many fingers, toes and backs are injured while hitching and unhitching tillage equipment. How you arrange your equipment in the farmyard area can make life easier and safer. Avoid uneven areas for machinery storage. Equipment may move after being released from the tractor. Machinery with integral hitches, such as three-point, are much easier and safer to attach on level ground, he says.
Equipment is safer to work on and hitch to the tractor while on relatively flat, level ground.
Jacks and blocking that machinery may rest on are not as likely to slip. While hitching equipment the helper should always stand to the side of the equipment, stepping between only when the machinery is lined up correctly and the tractor is in park or neutral while the brakes are set. For fewest problems, back the tractor up to the machinery in a straight alignment whenever possible. Locking hitch pins should always be used to keep implements from working loose and causing accidents. Too many injuries and deaths are recorded because someone trusted a hydraulic system.