Embarrissing Tractor moments?

[Stargazer]

Care to pm me a pic of the deleted post???

 

[Toyboy]

Well mine is more dumb than embarrassing and it happened today.
Went to the gas station to get a few gallons of fuel. I'm standing at the pump minding my own business and a logging truck pulled in to fill up. Looks at me and says "whacha got".
I proudly spurted out "a Kubota diesel tractor" as I proceed to finish filling my container.:thumbsup:. He looks at me and says "your at the wrong pump"......
Huh I say??? Says yeah, your at the on road pump and you should be using the off road fuel over there, it's $.30 a gallon cheaper. DUH...I had no idea there was two kinds. Nice guy, he proceeded to clue me in on the differences. Won't make that mistake again

 

[Gizmo2]

Embarrassing I guess sums it up... While mowing the still slightly wet shallow ditch with my ZTR I felt the low side drive wheel start to spin..

Now for those of you that have ZTRs they dont like slippery ditches to begin with.. When the wheel began to spin I turned off the blades, raised the deck and try to use my forward momentum to just cross the ditch to prevent from getting stuck. My timing was a little off and the L/F anti-scalp wheel caught the guy wire to the telephone along with a sapling tree. This hung me up big time, rear end hung on one side of the ditch so I cant back up even if I had traction. I cannot go foreward due to the guy wire and sapling.. You (least I can not) man handle this mower it weighs in around 1,000 pounds.

So I go get the tractor as ppl drive by gawking. I waited untill most traffic is gone in order to lift the rear of the mower up and out of the ditch. Just as the wife and about what seemed like 2 dozen cars stopped to watch surely laughing...
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Oh well at least I got it out with no damage...

Too Funny! Got my commercial Z stuck last night and boy was it stuck, mud every where. I have no idea what I would do without the 2320. My Z is at about 1,350 lbs and I am sure yours is at least that. I ALWAYS get the Z stuck 4000 miles from the tractor and ALWAYS right in sight of all to see, about 3 times a year. My wife says "Yeah now you're looking like a chick magnet". This time I called the wife on my cell phone and told her to bring up the 2320, what a thinker.

 

[Stargazer]

Funny had 3 other members asking me to forward/pm pic. Will do if ever get same. Maybe just a flash in the pan!

 

[etcallhome]

Welcome RachelV just read your posting and reminded me of a mowing story.

About 25 yrs ago I was working in a trailer court repairing some lines cut into by the gas company. Working in a college town has some interesting moments ! A young female (guessing 18-20) came out in a ****** to push mow there yard.
Of course there are 6-10 male workers across the street.
She makes about 6 trips up and down the yard, turns around backs into a bush, her top comes off, she runs into the trailer. Mower was still running when I left 20 min later. I talked to the some of the other workers the next day, mower ran out of gas , they never seen her the rest of the day.

 

[Big Wave D]

It didn't involve a tractor but something a little larger, a Caterpillar 740 Articulated Off Road Haul Truck.

While moving earth, we were wind rowing our loads. So, you'd back up the pile from the previous truck's load, then raise your bed to add yours.

Got backed up onto the pile, starting lifting the dump bed, felt a sudden lurch, slammed the lift control back to lower, but it was too late.

The back have half was laying on its side.

The trucks are built in such a way that they gimble/rotate for such occasions, but it didn't do a lot for the company's owner's blood pressure. They were used but "new" to him and his firm.

My saving grace was the fact that I'd gotten the bed down before I lost the back end completely and it rolled over. This meant that the two large cylinders that lift the bed didn't snap sideways and get bent, WHEWW! Only damage was the "expendable" flex tubing for the exhaust, and even it was able to be welded back together.

I got some serious teasing/ribbing about that one for several days. It never happened again though. I'd learned my lesson.

 

[MESSMAKER]

I had one just last week. I was finishing a landscape job and pulled my tractor around to use the loader to carry some trash. I finished and was ready to move the tractor to the driveway. I looked at the back of the tractor to make sure I was clear and to gleem at how good my work looked. I hooked the curl on my loader control without knowing it and sunk the toothbar about 3" in the lawn. I started moving forward as I turned. I peeled 6 two inch trenches about four feet long just as the owner was coming out to pay me.:ashamed:

 

[Chilly807]

Not all that embarassing, but expensive enough I'll remember the next time..

Saturday morning, bush hogged part of a field next to the house. When it was done, I backed the mower up to unhook the bush hog. Disconnected the lift arms and top link, then drove away. Notice I didn't mention the PTO?

Anyway, I drove over to the woodpile to unload some small logs that had been laying in the field, and were now in the loader bucket. When I backed up (in 2WD to save the lawn), the tractor didn't seem like it wanted to move more than about a foot. Thinking there was a rock behind one wheel (the lawn is like that) I engaged 4WD. Probably a mistake. Still didn't want to move.

By this time, I was beginning to get an inkling there was more to this than met the eye. Got off and checked, noticed the front half of the PTO shaft pretty much buried in the ground. Bent a bit too.

I'm off to order the shaft this morning.

Sean

 

[Soundguy]

hope it didn't eat your pto bearing and seal

good luck

soundguy

 

[Chilly807]

New shaft is in place, I had to replace the outer sleeve which wasn't too bad price-wise after all. We used the tractor digging post holes most of Sunday, and mowed a bit tonight to try the new shaft, no signs of any leaks or bearing issues yet. It may crop up over time, but looks good so far.

I did learn one thing though, the outer dust seal on the PTO output turns with the shaft. I checked another 3400 on the dealer's lot to be sure, it's the same. Some of the Kubota's don't, had me wondering for a while.

Sean

 

[Soundguy]

are you saying the seal on the pto stub turns with the stub?

odd.. I'm surprised it's not an oil seal and internally lubed.. I'd think a dust seal would be felt if it was external.

oh well.. whatever their engineers found that works... if it works.. it works..

a good way to check bearing play is to see if the pto stub has any in/out or side to side movement.

it's bearing play that usually causes early seal failure.

soundguy

 

[Specop_007]

And I thought topless mowing meant no cab??? :thumbsup::thumbsup:

:laughing:

 

[Specop_007]

When I was 16 I was out mowing our yard in my ****** and the people 3 doors down were on vaction for 2 weeks and left grandma to watch their 3 kids. She asked me if I would cut it for a little money. I said ok. They were all sitting there watching me mow and I was going around this med sized bush kinda close. Some how my ****** top caught on the right limb and off it went just like that. I mean It wasnt just hanging down, it was gone. I was sitting there with no top trying to cover up with my arms and look around. I couldnt see it so I got up. The kids came running down and were right on top of me, all boys. The Grandma found it and I ran inside their house and shut the door so I could put the top on without making more of a scene. hehe I still think about that today, and Im sure I could have went around that bush a hundred times and couldnt do that again if I tried. One things for sure though, those 3 boys became men that day.

Its funny, those boys became men that day but I've seen many men instantly become boys over such things too.

 

[TripleR]

Its funny, those boys became men that day but I've seen many men instantly become boys over such things too.

Ain't it the truth.:laughing:

 

[Soundguy]

I usually like to stop and observe a brief moment of silence when i see something like that.

soundguy

 

[JDGreenGrass]

It didn't happen to me, but my father in law was using his new JD425, you know the ones with the forward and reverse pedals side by side. He was mowing an island in our eight acre pond; just loved that carefully crafted island and his new JD.

I am not sure exactly what happened, but apparently he went right up to the edge, got distracted and took his foot off the HST. It started to roll forward towards the pond, so he pushed down on what he thought was reverse and it lurched forward into ten feet of water. As an old sailor he had no problem abandoning ship and swimming to shore, but the JD went to the bottom pretty quick.

He had one of my sons swim down and hook a chain to it and we lifted it out; new instrument panel, new engine, but that darned thing has never been the same.

To the day he died he swore he pushed on the "right" pedal.

We won't even talk about what happened when he tried to pull a Case out of a different pond with an GMC Sonoma.

Funny how we talk about other peoples problems but rarely speak of our own.

 

[TripleR]

Funny how we talk about other peoples problems but rarely speak of our own.

It was not meant to be disparaging. You would have to know my father in law to fully appreciate the stories as his exploits are told and retold at family gatherings with great fondness and lots of laughter. Everyone has a favorite story.

Now I don't have any embarrassing tractor moments, but how many people do you know who had to shoot a tree down with a .45 ACP when it got hung up and it was too iffy to get close to with a saw. There was also the time "someone" didn't put the plug in the bass boat/unhook tie downs, got stranded in the woods on an ATV and walked home to get help and tools only to discover the "kill switch" had been moved when dismounting; well you get the idea

 

[JDGreenGrass]

It was not meant to be disparaging. You would have to know my father in law to fully appreciate the stories as his exploits are told and retold at family gatherings with great fondness and lots of laughter. Everyone has a favorite story.

Now I don't have any embarrassing tractor moments, but how many people do you know who had to shoot a tree down with a .45 ACP when it got hung up and it was too iffy to get close to with a saw. There was also the time "someone" didn't put the plug in the bass boat/unhook tie downs, got stranded in the woods on an ATV and walked home to get help and tools only to discover the "kill switch" had been moved when dismounting; well you get the idea

I knew you would fess up.

 

[Barely Smokin']

Geez, this is like confessional or something....

I was loading my backhoe onto my 16'+3 equipment trailer, which was connected to my Dodge dually. The whole rig was on a hill.

I stalled the backhoe just as I got the front tires on the trailer. The rear tires were still on the ground. The stalling motion rocked the trailer, which caused the trailer ramps to fold up.

The weight of the backhoe lifted the rear of my dually off the ground. With me still sitting on my BH, the truck, trailer, the backhoe and I went for a nice ride down the driveway, across a state road, and into a farmer's field across the street. Fortunately, the rig didn't jack knife. Moreoever, I wasn't killed. Lesson learned!

Yee-haw! And thank you Jesus!

 

[Soundguy]

that's why I always crib the center rear of my trailer when loading.. plus using a paring brake and wheel chok ( 4x4 piece.. )

soundguy