Bonehead Award of the year

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Once upon a time in LennyLand
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Lenny

Now that right there is funny no matter where you are! As for the rest of you clowns, what the heck is wrong with you? I've never done anything that comes close to your indiscretions

 

[sixdogs]

I used to clean under the belly mower on my B7800 Kubota by just hooking a chain to the front bumper of that tractor and lifting it off the ground with a 90 HP bigger tractor. It worked great until I just barely nicked the hood on the B7800 with the edge of the bucket on the bigger tractor. You would be shocked to see how much a hood, decals, lights, light surrounds and grill cost for a B7800. Now I do it the right way.

 

[RoyJackson]

And if that were the case.... if most of us added up the costs of mishaps over our lifetimes, we'd all be working on our master's degree.

Ain't no doubt about that!

 

[k0ua]

Once upon a time in LennyLand, I used to build small wooden boats.
Sometimes, pieces have to be glued and screwed together to build up thickness like a rudder blank.
Glue and epoxy needs some warm temperature to set.
One cold wintry week, Missus Lenny went to visit kids leaving Lenny all alone.
Lenny laid up two pieces of 3/4" plywood for a rudder blank over plastic on Missus Lenny's antique cherry dining table in her oh so warm kitchen. He was very very careful with the plastic drop cloth placement and glue as the table was the wife's cherished family heirloom.

It is now a proven fact that 1 3/4" wood screws will go through two pieces of 3/4" plywood, a thin layer of glue between them and a 3mil thick drop cloth and into the highly finished top of an antique dining room table every 4-6 inches when used to clamp said blanks together.
Approximately 30-40 screws were used for consistent clamping pressure.

This had the added unwanted advantage of securing the rudder blank rather well to top of said table.

Temporary repairs was easily done however by reinstalling the previously removed tablecloth and centerpiece left on the table before the Missus' departure for holidays.

It got rather loud in LennyLand when Missus went through her ritual of removing tablecloth and waxing cherished families heirloom dining table shortly after her return to home.

After 10 years, Lenny still receives go to **** looks when table is discussed or noticed even after professional repairs were done by Lenny.

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Lenny

Wow!, I am surprised you are still with us.

 

[dragoneggs]

Wow!, I am surprised you are still with us.

My thought too. Thinking that wooden boat might have been repurposed if the wife was handy making boxes.

 

[Garandman]

I tipped over one motorcycle, which creased the fuel tank and knocked the other over, generating about $450 of damage in about three seconds. So that would be $540,000 per hour - way ahead of you!

 

[kgoeke]

I will nominate myself. I was spreading mulch around my property with my 5035. I would pull up to a tree and rake out whatever mulch I needed from the bucket and then proceed to the next tree. In my haste to get the job done, I carried my rake and shovel up onto the operators seat with me as I moved to the next tree. Problem was as I was pulling up to the tree, my rake rolled over directly underneath the clutch pedal. Instead of a nice easy coasting stop, my bucket slammed into the tree before I could powershift back to N. My bucket has a nice bend in the cutting edge on it now to remind me of my boneheadedness.

 

[k0ua]

I will nominate myself. I was spreading mulch around my property with my 5035. I would pull up to a tree and rake out whatever mulch I needed from the bucket and then proceed to the next tree. In my haste to get the job done, I carried my rake and shovel up onto the operators seat with me as I moved to the next tree. Problem was as I was pulling up to the tree, my rake rolled over directly underneath the clutch pedal. Instead of a nice easy coasting stop, my bucket slammed into the tree before I could powershift back to N. My bucket has a nice bend in the cutting edge on it now to remind me of my boneheadedness.

Ouch!, That had to hurt!

 

[sixdogs]

I will nominate myself. I was spreading mulch around my property with my 5035. I would pull up to a tree and rake out whatever mulch I needed from the bucket and then proceed to the next tree. In my haste to get the job done, I carried my rake and shovel up onto the operators seat with me as I moved to the next tree. Problem was as I was pulling up to the tree, my rake rolled over directly underneath the clutch pedal. Instead of a nice easy coasting stop, my bucket slammed into the tree before I could powershift back to N. My bucket has a nice bend in the cutting edge on it now to remind me of my boneheadedness.

A welding or fab shop can easily remove the dent. I, ahh, err, have a "friend" that bent his bucket.

 

[k0ua]

A welding or fab shop can easily remove the dent. I, ahh, err, have a "friend" that bent his bucket.

Tell you "friend", that you can remove a lot of them yourself with a chain and an hydraulic jack.. But I wouldn't really know... I heard it from a "friend".

 

[sixdogs]

Tell you "friend", that you can remove a lot of them yourself with a chain and an hydraulic jack.. But I wouldn't really know... I heard it from a "friend".

My friend spent hours trying and then took it to a welding shop. Not much money and 15 minutes later and back on the road and it looked 100% perfect. After you bend it, the indignity of not having it perfect would haunt the perpetrator forever. I wouldn't know but that's what I heard.

 

[EddieWalker]

I really want to win this, so here's another one!

A client hired me to finish off a bathroom remodel that the contractor had started to gut the existing bathroom, then disappeared. Second contractor came in, do a little more demo, then also disappeared.

So I did the job, got it all done, and then ran the shower to see how well it worked. In a few minutes, the drain backed up and began to flood. I took off the cover, checked the trap, and it was all good. I put a snake down the line and hit something solid about 5 or six feet down. I tried cleaning it out without any luck. It was like concrete.

So I crawl under the house, cut out the pipe and put in a new section. It was packed full of demolition debris that had solidified into something like concrete.

That would have been a very simple fix if I had thought to test the drain line. I also didn't realize how long ago the demo had been. I thought they said a few years, but it was 14 years that it took for them to feel comfortable hiring somebody else!!!

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Was managing a construction job in TX in the 80's. Hvac guys installed 3 or 4 " copper lines off a chill water loop to ac units. They were starting one up, flooded the place. Forgot to solder a connection, also didnt air test.

Same hvac guys cut through a roof truss, because it was in their way. Had to get an engineered load analysis of the roof done.

 

[dragoneggs]

Good stories but just to be clear... in order to be eligible, the BHM must be your own.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Good stories but just to be clear... in order to be eligible, the BHM must be your own.

I was trimming a tree behind my house in Nov, a limb i cut took down my TV antenna, broke it in half.

Then there were the pallet fork tips into my siding.

Sliced a hole in barn garage door clearing snow.

Nope. I ain't done nuttin.

 

[disney]

Good stories but just to be clear... in order to be eligible, the BHM must be your own.

You mean we can't just give it to our "friend"?

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Oh yea, that wasnt me, just someone i know.

 

[Citydude]

Ran into the corner of my 5 day old spanking new pole barn with my loader bucket. Fixed that and learned a lesson. Fast forward 3 months, hit the garage door rail with the forks. Fixed that and learned a another lesson. 6 months later, you guessed it, learned another lesson. Make sure the garage door is opened far enough when exiting the barn with a tractor.

 

[dragoneggs]

You mean we can't just give it to our "friend"?

Nope! Gotta fess up.

 

[4570Man]

A welding or fab shop can easily remove the dent. I, ahh, err, have a "friend" that bent his bucket.

Chain both ends of the bucket to a log or other beam that’s heavy enough and put a bottle jack in the middle.