Blog Heap of Links for the day 15 January 2018

…My maternal grandfather lost his left arm up to the elbow in a corn picker PTO shaft. This would have been sometime in the mid 50's, before my aunt was born. She says she's glad he never had two hands when she was growing up, he was mean enough with just one. Grand-dad was a stern fellow. Tough old bastard, too, he managed to kick the drive lever into neutral and disengage himself from the PTO shaft, then he unhooked the tractor from the corn picker and drove himself to the house so that Grandmother could drive him to the hospital.…