Dumbest Thing you have done with your tractor

[MBDiagMan]

I seem to recall hearing this story before...

Yes, I think I posted it in another thread here somewhere.

 

[Soundguy]

well lets see.. iwas saving this one.. but after haring about the truck nbeing knocked off the jackstands.. i can't resist.

was a kid and had an old beater t-bird I was doing the brakes on it and had one rear wheel of and up on a stand.. in the inclined driveway. I of course earlier, when i was doing the fronts, set the parking brake so she would not roll.. but then realized I could not get the drum off the rear as the pbrake was holding it. reached in and popped the pbrake.. she rolled back just enough before all the gears got tight and she stopped so tip the jackstand over.

nothing hurt but my pride... didn't break the concrete OR hurt the car...

soundguy

 

[Redneck in training]

This is not tractor related but it is funny. Years ago back in the Czech land we used carpool to go skiing. We gathered very early in the morning, got assigned to some car etc. One day I was supposed to go with a guy who owned WW2 jeep. He was also company driver driving Russian made Volga car. Since the Volga had the same rims and tires as the jeep he would swap the wheels from the company car to his jeep every Friday so he wouldn't wear his own tires. It was dark in the garage when we boarded the car. He used his foot to kick the 1st gear in saying "This is how the American GI used to do it" and the car fell from the wooden stumps it sat on. He forgot to put the wheels on.

 

[The Haymaker]

well lets see.. iwas saving this one.. but after haring about the truck nbeing knocked off the jackstands.. i can't resist.

was a kid and had an old beater t-bird I was doing the brakes on it and had one rear wheel of and up on a stand.. in the inclined driveway. I of course earlier, when i was doing the fronts, set the parking brake so she would not roll.. but then realized I could not get the drum off the rear as the pbrake was holding it. reached in and popped the pbrake.. she rolled back just enough before all the gears got tight and she stopped so tip the jackstand over.

nothing hurt but my pride... didn't break the concrete OR hurt the car...

soundguy

I used to work in a lube shop and was changing the oil in an '86 full size blazer. Finished the job and reached in the door to start the truck and look for leaks.

Just as I turned the key, the owner yelled "No!". Dumbass had disconnected the clutch switch.

Not sure which stopped the truck. Me wedged between door and lift post or my coworker who was wedged between the plowframe, grill, and steel rollup door which now was removed from it's tracks. I bent the stering wheel over I had pulled so hard.

 

[johnrex62]

Ok, there are enough auto related stories that I won't feel singular in admitting these two stories.

Hi, I am John and I have done something stupid.


A number of years ago I was doing a brake job on an old Crown Victoria. I lived at a place with no driveway or garage, so I was working on the car in a dirt parking area on the side of the house. I had all four wheels off and the car on stands so I could bleed the lines more easily. It got dark before I finished so I left everything as it was for the night.

A front came in during the night and it started raining and did not stop for several days. Of course the ground softened up, and you got it, the car sank to the axles in the mud while still on the jack stands.

I had to wait a few more days for things to firm up and work the car out of the ground and dig up the jacks. :ashamed:



The next story is one I am embarrassed to admit, even anonymously.

I had a car with a battery problem sitting in my driveway, just a little out of reach of my extension cord and battery charger and parked in a way I could not get another vehicle close enough to jump start it.

"Fortunately" it was on a very slight incline that would help me coast it backwards toward the house with only minimal pushing. UNfortunately, it had sat long enough that the tires in small depressions that gave me some little trouble getting it rolling.

I was home alone and had nobody to help me, and I wanted to stay near the brakes to ensure it did not get rolling too fast. I was sitting in the drivers seat with the door open and rocking the car with one foot and so I could keep a foot near the brake and steer the car as it rolled.

Everything seemed to be going as I expected, until the tip of my shoe got caught by the front tire as the car left the depression. My choice was to hit the brake with the tire on my foot, or let it keep rolling and hope for the best. There was no real weight on my foot, only a couple toes actually under the tire, so there was not pain related to the tire going over the shoe.

The problem came when I realized that with my foot trapped in one spot and the drivers seat moving slowly backwards, I was soon unable to keep my seat in the car. I was pulled out of the car, carefully avoiding being rolled over by the tire and keeping a hand on the wheel to pull myself back in when my foot was free.

I must have made a dozen stupid decisions in that 5-10 seconds, each of them making sense at the time and making no sense a second later. :confused2: It makes for a great "Never do what I did" speach. :ashamed:

 

[Iplayfarmer]

The next story is one I am embarrassed to admit, even anonymously.

I had a car with a battery problem sitting in my driveway, just a little out of reach of my extension cord and battery charger and parked in a way I could not get another vehicle close enough to jump start it.

"Fortunately" it was on a very slight incline that would help me coast it backwards toward the house with only minimal pushing. UNfortunately, it had sat long enough that the tires in small depressions that gave me some little trouble getting it rolling.

I was home alone and had nobody to help me, and I wanted to stay near the brakes to ensure it did not get rolling too fast. I was sitting in the drivers seat with the door open and rocking the car with one foot and so I could keep a foot near the brake and steer the car as it rolled.

Everything seemed to be going as I expected, until the tip of my shoe got caught by the front tire as the car left the depression. My choice was to hit the brake with the tire on my foot, or let it keep rolling and hope for the best. There was no real weight on my foot, only a couple toes actually under the tire, so there was not pain related to the tire going over the shoe.

The problem came when I realized that with my foot trapped in one spot and the drivers seat moving slowly backwards, I was soon unable to keep my seat in the car. I was pulled out of the car, carefully avoiding being rolled over by the tire and keeping a hand on the wheel to pull myself back in when my foot was free.

I must have made a dozen stupid decisions in that 5-10 seconds, each of them making sense at the time and making no sense a second later. :confused2: It makes for a great "Never do what I did" speach. :ashamed:

This one gets my vote for "Most likely to show up in a TV sitcom".

 

[WillysWoodPile]

This is not tractor related but it is funny. Years ago back in the Czech land we used carpool to go skiing. We gathered very early in the morning, got assigned to some car etc. One day I was supposed to go with a guy who owned WW2 jeep. He was also company driver driving Russian made Volga car. Since the Volga had the same rims and tires as the jeep he would swap the wheels from the company car to his jeep every Friday so he wouldn't wear his own tires. It was dark in the garage when we boarded the car. He used his foot to kick the 1st gear in saying "This is how the American GI used to do it" and the car fell from the wooden stumps it sat on. He forgot to put the wheels on.

Now that was funny.

 

[CompactTractorFan]

Yes, I think I posted it in another thread here somewhere.

Yeah, I seem to think it is the one with RachelV's mowing story...

 

[CompactTractorFan]

Here it is...

http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/1958822-post25.html

 

[Don87]

I didn't do this, but it's good for show and tell I guess.
The trucking company I used to work for, hired a fellow who was going to 'lease/purchase' a truck from them. They gave him the keys and a load to pick up from the steel mill several miles away.
The driver hooks up to a flatbed(the wrong one)with no tires or wheels on one axle. They catch up to him several miles down the road and get him turned around.
While trying to park the trailer, he proceeds to back into another rig, tearing the hood off of it.
One would think at this juncture that the mans career is over, but the 'dumb-bunnies' hooked him to another trailer.
They got the call a little while later..........
The driver didn't watch the trailer as he was pulling into the steel mill..........Pulled that trailer completely over top of a boulder(put there to keep drivers out of the grass), and ripped both axles out from under the trailer.