Dumbest Thing you have done with your tractor

[kude]

I was using the 3520 with a rear blade to cut a drainage ditch today. You get rocks you pulled out laying around such that you can't help but accidently drive over them. Whoa Nelly.

 

[Sumpter]

Leave for two weeks to work two days after you get the tractor and only have time to put one hour on it.

 

[sblackb]

First time on the site, but when I was 14, I was clearing some ground for a skateboard ramp with my dad's sears GT. Had the trailer on back, and brakes that worked worse that first gear. Started down the hill to dump a load and realized first was just too slow. Once I popped the tractor out of gear the brakes would not stop it and I was along for the ride. Doing a 6 wheel slide into the turn at the bottom of the hill, the tractor finally hooked up and I slammed into the inside corner of the ditch at what the neighbor said was 40 mph. I rolled with the tractor (no Rops back then) then the trailer unhooked and slammed into the back of the trailer. All I remember is watching it cartwheel over me.

I only had a cut on my hand, with a scar to this day, but nothing sticks with you like the look on your dad's face when you roll his tractor.

 

[kday64]

I allowed an unqualified operator to sit in the drivers seat.

I dont really remember when this occured but I know I was home from college and I needed to get my familys Ford ready for winter; remove the Rear Mounted Mower and attach a 60" rear blade. For some reason I thought it was a good idea to allow my sister to help. How hard could it be right?

So I positioned the mower over the top of the a couple of 4x4's and was giving very specific instructions and training for this one simple task. Do this (3pt up/down, back/foward) when I say! Don't ever touch this (engage the PTO)! As I was kicking the 4x4 blocks under the mower something made my sister jump. I guess she saw a ghost or something!

All of a sudden... She dropped the mower on to my right foot pinning it between the floor and the mower. She was then so scared that she hurt me, she began to turn left/right in the seat. I start yelling, STOP, Don't... but I was not fast enough because in a flayling motion and she kicked the PTO engage.

Thankfully the shear pin, did its job and protected the PTO and my foot. The blades did lurch from the sudden engagement of the PTO. Thankfully I was wearing my first pair of Catipillar Steel Toes. The newly rotating blade was stopped by my steel toe. It cut clear through the leather and dented the steel. The impact twisted my anchor like something fierce but my foot was intacted!

I am now on my 7th pair of Catipillar Steel Toes, I wear them everywhere.

Since that day, I have refused help from all sources when changing out attachments.

~Kevin

 

[Mace Canute]

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.

Bullsh*t. That would be quite impossible.

 

[Don87]

Bullsh*t. That would be quite impossible.

Actually, it is not impossible. While I wasn't pulled out of the car, the tire did run onto my toes.

 

[The Haymaker]

Actually, it is not impossible. While I wasn't pulled out of the car, the tire did run onto my toes.

Reminds me a lot of that time I tried to neuter myself with an ATC110.

 

[Mace Canute]

Actually, it is not impossible. While I wasn't pulled out of the car, the tire did run onto my toes.

Again...bullsh*t.

 

[Soundguy]

and I'm the harsh one?

soundguy

 

[Don87]

and I'm the harsh one?

soundguy

He has either had a really bad day, or has never had to push a car by himself. And doesn't understand the "mechanics" of said actions.