Admit Your Failure! Mower off the 3-point but PTO still connected...

[Runner]

Forget fullness is a sign of old age!

willy

Not for me, I've always had a crappy memory.

 

[Supraman0614]

Had the ROPS folded down so I could fit the tractor in the garage. While driving out, I didn't notice that the ROPS tube got ahold of the garage door release, and the timing was perfect for me to be just outside the door when the folded-down ROPS grabbed the bottom of the garage door and bent it out. I stopped before it ripped the door out of the track completely, but still needed to replace the bottom door section.

 

[KennyG]

By the way, anyone that has a JD with the hook/pin connectors on the loader, don't even think about being lazy and letting the circle clips for the pins hang by the little cables...you will tear them off instantly. Ask me how I know...

I only tore one of mine off before I figured it out. I've been thinking I need to get some kind of flag to put on the bucket when I have something in it. My worst one was when I was backing up my trailer with the tractor and hit a wasps nest. Continuing in a hurry to get away from the wasps, I backed into the pole barn siding. I should have jumped off and ran.

 

[5030]

I’d rather pull the PTO shaft apart in 2 pieces than drive away with 7pin trailer plug for the tail lights or hydraulic lines still connected. That can cause damage.

Guess I'm sort of lucky in that respect. I could do serious damage electrically and to the cab mounted computer if I forget to disconnect the 7 way or the twist lock computer cable interface on the back of the tractor but far as hydraulics, I have the separate under pressure Pioneer poppet style male and female couplers so if I was to forget to uncouple them and drive away, they are supposed to uncouple under pressure. I say 'supposed' to. I've never tried it, I'm chicken to and I don't want to screw something up anyway.

Besides with all the hydraulic and electrical lines that run from the bailer (especially) to the tractor, it would be pretty dumb if I didn't disconnect everything.

One reason why I'd never get one of those male-female hookup gadgets, I have enough stuff to fiddle with as it is. One thing I do have an issue with it hooking up all the hydraulic lines into the correct ports on the tractor and being old, my memory is basically shot so I took pictures on my cell phone of the correct hookups. That makes having the right males in the right female holes in the disconnects.

Maybe someday I'll get adventurous and test out the disconnect under pressure deal but then maybe not. Hydraulic hoses aren't cheap today anyway.

 

[5030]

Forgot to close the tractor cab door while pulling into the barn.

Boy that door exploding sounded like a bomb!

Been there and did exactly that but instead of a door jamb, I hooked a tree. It's amazing how fast a glass door turns into a pile of small pieces and all that is left (on the Kubota) was the frame. The closer bar and the latch fell to the ground as well.

My second surprise was when I found out how much a new glass cost and it was way before Covid and inflation as well...

The glass was just under a grand, my cost, no tax at my dealer and had to be special ordered and the second bust when I realized my farm deductible was 1500 bucks, so I ate the entire cost. Hanging the new door was the easiest part and believe me, I make doubly sure the doors are closed and latched now.

I'm a slow learner but not a no learner...lol

 

[redman135]

5030 at least you hit something to make your door break. I was driving down the road when the dooor went bang and covered me in glass. And yes doors are expensive, more than a pto shaft replacement.

 

[John0829]

I have done plenty of other "brilliant" things with the tractors but the PTO shaft is not one of them. I suppose I have a bit of OCD for my routine on hooking up anything that uses a PTO shaft is that it is the first thing I disconnect when removing or the last thing I connect when putting the implement on.

I don't know why I do it this way but it is one thing I do with the tractors without fail.

 

[404nouser]

On my old tractor with its old rotary cutter I normally pulled it apart.
It was always very stubborn to slide in and I normally couldn't get it off the PTO without just pulling it apart.
Tools from the 50's don't know when the shaft was replaced but it has a notch worn in at it's spot.


But I've bent the draft arms pushing in reverse, bent a top link lifting without paying attention and sank the tractor to the oil pan not paying attention.