Buried the tractor

[Harv]

Re: We want pictures!-Bobcat+loader Stuck

Richard -

All's well that ends well, eh? /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Sounds like you've got some of those great country neighbors I've been hearing about.

That's cool. /w3tcompact/icons/cool.gif

 

[Thomas]

Re: We want pictures!-Bobcat+loader Stuck

It happens.
Isn't good to know your friends are there to help when in need.
Thats what country life style all about,and hope it shall never disappear.

Thomas..NH /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

 

[Bird]

Re: We want pictures!-Bobcat+loader Stuck

Another of those nice things about living in the country. Two years ago, my wife rolled her car, went partially over and across a barbed wire fence, and ended up upside down in a pasture in some brush and briars. I was still on the volunteer fire department at the time and the fire chief was here at my house when we heard the call come out on his scanner, so we were there before the ambulance. I rode to the hospital in the ambulance with her, and while she was severely bruised, strained, scratched, etc., she was treated and released that same evening and when we got home, found that a neighbor had called his brother who owned a wrecker, they had already brought the car home and parked it in front of my shop building, and repaired the fence she damaged, then they brought in enough prepared food that evening to feed us for about 3 days./w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Bird

 

[cowboydoc]

Re: We want pictures!-Bobcat+loader Stuck

Yea these old guys around here are great Harv! They look after the place when I'm gone, come by and feed my animals for me. I always try and pay them but they'll never accept. Most of them have become patients and I don't ever charge their deductibles or co-pays so I guess it works out pretty good. I lived in the city while I was going to school and it nearly killed me. Can't imagine living anywhere but the country.
Richard

 

[markcg2000]

Re: We want pictures!-Bobcat+loader Stuck

Bird,
So call me a sap, but that one did indeed make my eyes a little wet just thinking about both how you must have felt on the ride to the hospital as well as what must have been going through your mind once you'd pulled into your driveway later.

This is exactly the sort of story that reaffirms some of my many reasons for moving to a more rural area. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

<font color=green>mark</font color=green>

 

[Harv]

Re: We want pictures!-Bobcat+loader Stuck

Bird -
That's a terrific story of neighborly country folks, and I'm glad your wife came through okay.

Mark-
Okay, I'll call you a "sap" if you want me to /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif, but I think stories like Bird's touch all of us. In fact, I told my own story last year about how total strangers jumped in with both feet to save my mom's place from a fire. I won't clutter this thread by telling it again here, but you can check this post if you feel like reading it.

There's definitely a lot to be said for living in the country. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

 

[Bird]

Re: We want pictures!-Bobcat+loader Stuck

Good neighbors are definitely worth their weight in gold./w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Bird

 

[gordon]

Re: We want pictures!-Bobcat+loader Stuck

Your right there Bird you don't get help like that from the city folks! Glad to hear that you wife was allright, scary time for you I bet.
Gordon

 

[Bird]

Re: We want pictures!-Bobcat+loader Stuck

Yep, Gordon, it scared both of us; she thought she was dying and I wasn't too sure she wasn't right.

Getting back to the topic here, my brother told me a story about when they were building the haul road for the Alaska pipeline and he swears they sunk a D8 Cat so deep in the tundra they couldn't pull it out with another D8, so they dug down beside it on each side, their explosives expert put small dynamite charges under the track on each side, hooked a long cable to the other D8, then the driver got on the stuck one, got it running, ready to instantly go full throttle forward, the one pulling strained on the cable, and they set off the dynamite. He said that D8 jumped up out of the mud and away they went. My brother says, even though the pay was good, it wasn't good enough for him to be on that Cat when they set off the dynamite, but it worked./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

Bird

 

[Harv]

Re: We want pictures!-Bobcat+loader Stuck

Bird -

Oh, great! /w3tcompact/icons/tongue.gif

Bad enough I have to learn how to use a cutting torch and a MIG welder -- now it's dynamite? /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif

When I started carrying stuff around in ammo boxes I never dreamed I might have actually load them up with real ammo! /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif