Human error. Lets help others deal with the pain of their mistakes by listing our.

[powerscol]

Was running my brush hog near my new wire fence. Made a turn and after a minute it felt like it was going slow. Looked at all the gauges and levers while still moving forwarder. The wife started yelling and pointing behind me. Looked back and I had snagged the fence with the dolly wheel on the mower. Had to re do over 100 feet of fence and replace three posts - not fun . Lesson is when you have something out back, watch as you turn.

 

[blacklion66]

Learning how to operate equipment without mistakes will never be found in a manual.
Only hours (lots) in the seat

To be honest years instead of hours is what I really think☺

 

[JLH4]

^^^^ Garandman posted ""Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement."
Will Rogers. Your wiser for the experience if you survive the bad judgement.

 

[falfrenzy]

If you own a chainsaw but dont own cut resistant chaps, you need to pull your head out of your butt before you have to pull your wallet out at the Emergency Room. The price will be many magnitudes different

 

[Green Acres Homestead]

Yep. Chainsaws are the worlds most dangerous tool and logging is the worlds most dangerous profession.

 

[Green Acres Homestead]

Was running my brush hog near my new wire fence. Made a turn and after a minute it felt like it was going slow. Looked at all the gauges and levers while still moving forwarder. The wife started yelling and pointing behind me. Looked back and I had snagged the fence with the dolly wheel on the mower. Had to re do over 100 feet of fence and replace three posts - not fun . Lesson is when you have something out back, watch as you turn.

Man that sucked. I guy beats himself pretty bad for thing as such but we all do them. I may be making a mistake. I hired a guy to do some snow blowing for me because I don't always want to be here. That may not work out in my best interest. ]\

 

[oosik]

Garandman - there is a good reason Harley owners have leather saddle bags. When their Harley lays on its side to "sleep" the saddle bags may get scratched or mud but no dings. A damp shop rag and some leather oil will fix that.

I thin/chip my stands of small Ponderosa pines every spring. Until three years ago I used my Stihl 270 with a 20" bar. After a couple hours of thinning - quit for the day, tired. One day I pressed on. When I quit and in the house changing clothes I noticed the big gash on the toe of my left work boot. No blood but the boot was removed with some fear. All the toes were still in place. Now I use a Stihl 190 with 12" bar and I QUIT when tired.

 

[blacklion66]

I started on the little end of a Mall saw when I was 12, I was taught by experts long before all the safety gear was invented for newbies. I expect at the age of 83 I have as much saw time as anyone in this forum. Safety glasses, leather gloves plus a hard hat and common sense. Never had to use so much as a band aid! :laughing:

 

[Oaktree]

Bush-hogging with my 750 with the loader on the front.

You DO know that you can get closer into the corners if you have the bucket up in the air, right?

Making the corner between the fence and the feed shed, watching the mower instead of the bucket. Done this hundreds of times, what could possibly go wrong?

Missed it by this much and the cutting edge of the bucket tore the rake board, the drip edge and a half dozen shingles off the end of the feed shed.

Oops! Never did that, but I have caught the edge of the bucket on small trees when trying to mow trails thru the woods, or just around trees at the edge of a field. A couple close calls, now the loader comes off when I bush hog.

Another time I felt really stupid involved a pickup and a trailer. I suck at backing using mirrors, so I'll usually drop the tailgate down to better see where the trailer's going. There's about 6" of clearance between the end of the tailgate and the jack on the trailer...no problem with relatively shallow turns, but a sharp turn, not so much. Put a nice big gouge in the top of the tailgate. :duh: Lesson learned, now I remove it when I use that trailer!

 

[Oldpath05]

My right hand little finger is still messed up, it still bends but has a glitch in the joint. While cutting up firewood two months ago I was standing on the ground, sat the saw down, reached in with my left hand to the FEL lever, for the first time in 11 years I placed my right hand on my roll cage post, watched the bucket go up then felt the loader arm pinching my little finger, normal thinking person would've just backed off without thinking, so in an instant without thinking I went the same way with the lever and nearly crushed my little finger. For some reason I cannot operate the loader lever the right way if I'm not sitting on the seat, so for a warning for the next time, I wrapped a piece of foam with pink tape so if I ever put my hand there again it will push my hand against the foam.

When I made the roll cage I raise FEL all way up then started to add square tubing, I didn't factor in the pinch point, should've put more room between loader arm and roll cage post.