That rotary hoe sure looks scary, don't it? I rode while Dad was doing that too. A cousin was telling me just the other day that he fell off the tractor once while my uncle was hoeing. His Dad got the tractor stopped just as a spike went through his his tennis shoe, right between his foot & the sole of his shoe.

Same cousin later rolled a narrow front WD-45 on top of himself while moldboard plowing. He survived with a broken leg, that time. He was in his early teens, then.

 We worried about him when he took flying lessons, though...