 Welcome to this segment of Farm Safety. Today we're going to talk about the hand signals which are universal throughout the farming operations and how we can communicate from a person that might be on the ground versus one who might be inside of a tractor or pickup or a piece of farm equipment. Again, the universal systems are important from the standpoint that if we have a tractor in an operator inside they're unable to hear what you're telling them to do. They're very enclosed and they are pretty much soundproof and so if there's somebody on the ground that's trying to back up this operator to a piece of farm equipment understand that the signals are as such. Let's say we're talking about raising the equipment. If we're going to lower the equipment, if you're going to start the engine, or if we're backing up to this this piece of farm equipment, we're going to give signals as come to me. This far to go. Know what stop is. Again, it's really critical that we use those and we also stay out of the line of which accidents can happen. Many people I've seen over the years, they're going to stand right by the hitch of a trailer or a piece of farm equipment and tell the person you know come to me or we're doing a lot of different things and they're standing right in that line. What happens if that person's foot comes off the clutch and now we're going to be trapped and very seriously hurt by doing that. Understand that the stop signals and if we are going to be out on public roads or if we've got a tractor that does not have the signal lights on, you still have to give the signals to the same as the bicycle signals. We're going to make a right hand turn, left hand turn, and this is a stop sign even when we're operating tractors. To kill the engine is basically a hand across the throat that means to shut the engine off. Again, learning the signals is really critical to making farm safety a safe operation that we can all survive and talk to our kids about about what we did when we were growing up on the farm.