county mowing crew made boo-boo

[Soundguy]

was on my way to work this am, and the county mow crew was out mowing row and medians. must have had a new guy on the tractor looked like a ts 100 on a 15' batwing... wings folded but no transport locked.. he wipped it around from one lane of traffic at high speed, drove over median and sharp turned into other oposing lane of traffic.. while traffic was present.. turn was sharp enought that it jack-knifed the mower.. then he jambs in reverse quick while still jackknifed, and skids the mower back about a foot till one set of rear wheels hits the tall curb of the median.. at the same time his wings flop bad and one starts coming down. mower torques up on one side that has wing still up.. this is the high one at the curb side.. whole thing looked like it was gonna go over, as the tractor had also backed on rear and one front onto the curb... traffic on both sides of the 2 lane road screeched to a halt, and sbout 10 other road crew people were running ver to the mower waving their arms.. someone gets the guy to idle the machine down ( was running full tilt it sounded like ).. and then lower the wings fully.. then pull forward and tot he right to get the tractor off the curb and pull out of the jackknife.. this got everything near strasight, then he pulled up onto the median straddling it.. then they all stasrted looking hte thing over.. traffic resumed.. etc.

guess it was the new guy's turn to drive the expensive tax payer owned training device??

soundguy

 

[Soundguy]

Oh yeah.. cut right hand pretty good last night.. got bandage on fingers..that and laptop keyboard makes for some bad typos! sorry.

soundguy

 

[jimmyj]

Sorry to hear about your hand. Hope you are well soon.

Also, sorry to hear about the taxpayers having that lunkhead driving equipment!!

 

[Soundguy]

thanks.

nuisance on the hand.. can't get dressing wet... and I'm right handed.. so it makes 80% of what I do more difficult.. etc. GRRR

now who would have left that boning knife half out of the scabbard in my shooting supply duffle bag????

soundguy

 

[tugboat-2]

a "Get Well Soon" wish to you Soundguy. Funny how these things work, but it always amazes me that there had to be some sort of "Supervisor" involved with "assigning" this inexperienced jackarse to operating the equipment on a highway !!!????.......no?

Oh, but of course this could get you a 20 page discourse on all the ridiculous decisions, (mostly government) that somebody's "Supervisor" had to actually make a decision to "OK" !! I am not necessarily "bragging" but my experience claims our Ontario (Canada) top "Supervisor's" should be the recipient to "that" bouquet of withered weeds!!

OH me OH my,...but it sure do cause a fella wonder do it not?

CHEERS!
. . tug

PS: .....just reading it over,...sounds like a political statement,..which it was most definitely NOT meant to be,...I can delete the particular group if necessary? (IF they want to lay claim to the prize?) (But I'd have to get the request OK'd by a Supervisor I spose?)

 

[Soundguy]

yep.. somebody must not have had enough tractor hours.. in fact.. they didn't even have their signs up.. they were still setting in the back of the trailer on the back of the county road dept. work truck. about 6 guys out there walking around aimlessly.. and one guy driving a tractor like he was a blind and drunk racecar / roller derby driver.

fingers are doing good.. knife was clean and ultra razor sharp.. cuts are actually healing much better than I expected.. still a pain to not be able to use that hand for most things.. oh well.. coulda been alot worse..

soundguy

 

[srjones]

fingers are doing good.. knife was clean and ultra razor sharp.. cuts are actually healing much better than I expected.. still a pain to not be able to use that hand for most things.. oh well.. coulda been alot worse..

soundguy

Yep, it could have been a lot worse. (a dull rusty jagged knife comes to mind).

Hope it gets better soon.

 

[20 20]

That's just one isolated case of wasted tax $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ can you imagine how much of this stuff happens????? We were driving to town a couple weeks back and came accross one of these "operators" mowing. He had the tractor at such an angle that he was leaning over the high side fender. We slowed down and just watched waiting for him to tip the tractor over, one small rock would have easily done it. When we finally got around this dork he was stuck. the only way out was to back up the way he drove in. Oh well I quess anybody can just get on a machine and drive it...... heck thim thar big tired mowchines cin bee droven by dum fok

 

[DANOCHEESE]

AHH you cut your hand and you are bashing the county worker!!!

 

[AchingBack]

Holy Terror, Batwing! Soundguy attacked by a knife! Run to the rescue.