Dumbest Thing you have done with your tractor

[DarrylH20]

I finally was able to get out last night & clear out our driveway. I built on the windiest place on the planet and deal with some nasty drifts. I was using my rear mount blower last night. The wind was still up, I lost my bearings and backed the blower into one of the beautiful Cleveland Select Pear trees I planted. Split the poor thing in half. It broke my heart. As luck would have it the wind and snow stopped so it's very obvious what I did. Forgot to mention it happened directly in front of the front door

I know the feeling. Last winter I had planted the wife a bunch of nice white and purple Lilac's, forgot where and plowed them right over with the bucket:ashamed:

 

[banzai runner]

Haven't had my own tractor long enough to do anything dumb with it (I'll add it as soon as it happens), BUT I did almost roll my neighbor's brand new JD 2025 on it's side transporting a full bucket of gravel. I had the backet a bit too high going diagonally across a slight decline and decelerated (pretty much ALL the factors for a bad situation?). All of a sudden the rear, uphill wheel came off the ground, quickly!

For some reason, I kept enough presence of mind to dump the load right there. :thumbsup:

Of course the obligatory "look around to see if anyone saw what happened" was next. :ashamed:

Got away clean!

 

[Joe H]

Dumbest thing I ever did with a tractor was sell it.

Joe H

 

[rd_macgregor]

I finally was able to get out last night & clear out our driveway. I built on the windiest place on the planet and deal with some nasty drifts. I was using my rear mount blower last night. The wind was still up, I lost my bearings and backed the blower into one of the beautiful Cleveland Select Pear trees I planted. Split the poor thing in half. It broke my heart. As luck would have it the wind and snow stopped so it's very obvious what I did. Forgot to mention it happened directly in front of the front door

It might be possible to save the tree with a little bit of trimming (this is the voice of experience with a similar mishap), but it might always be misshapen...not the best reminder to have right up in front of the house.

BOB

 

[fiveacrefarmer]

Let's just start with the recent boneheadedness and eventually work back to birth.

I'm out in the chicken yard replacing a leaky all-weather faucet. Good old Kay (my B7800) is sitting beside me faithfully waiting to drag out the mud after the job is finished. Have the awesome idea of enjoying some tunes on my brand new, shiny Blackberry while I'm diggin out the old faucet and plumbing in the new one. Don't want to get the phone muddy so I sit it on the tractor's grill guard and fire up some Rolling Stones.

I'm diggin' and jammin'! Life is good. Singin' along, "Pleased to meet you, hope you guessed my name"

New faucet's in and the plumbing's holding tight. It's a great day to be alive. Still humming, "what's been troublin' you is the nature of my game" I hop onto the tractor and start smoothing out ground. Dragging the bucket in float position.

All done!

Go to open the gate and it hits me like a cartoon piano drop. Phone. New work phone. Company phone. Touchscreen. Cr@p!!!

Frantic pocket check to see if my IQ is higher than I suspect... and no. It's not.

After kicking through chicken poop and mud for a few minutes there it is. Screen completely destroyed.

Oddly enough... it turned on! And it worked to make a phone call. The screen was shattered but it still worked!!! Awesome!! Don't have to tell the boss about needing a new phone due to "unforseen circumstances." All I've gotta do is replace the glass, and how had can that be, right?

You guessed it.

Killed the dang phone trying to fix it. It could withstand the tractor plowing over it, but me trying to do electronic surgery was just too much.


How bout another good thread idea: Ways I've come up with to p!$$ off my wife. So many stories!!

 

[dcyrilc]

How bout another good thread idea: Ways I've come up with to p!$$ off my wife. So many stories!!

I have been lucky not to do anything really stupid with the tractor yet, but I would fit right in to this subject.:laughing:

 

[Dr_Zinj]

Uh, Mace? Not ********. Most compacts or smaller, your left foot rests on the wheel well under the dash. Tire is close enough to easily pin your foot under it.

MSgt, USAF (Ret)
22+ years Vehicle and Equipment Maintenance

 

[thatguy]

I was turning sharply to go into the garage and severely misjudged where the FEL bucket was and hit the garage door frame..

brian

 

[thatguy]

I was turning sharply to go into the garage and severely misjudged where the FEL bucket was and hit the garage door frame..

brian

This is not a repost.. backed up and tried to get into the garage again.. with the same jolting stop as the FEL hit the door frame.. LOL

 

[chad22]

Great Stories.

Here's something dumb I've done.

This wasn't with a tractor. But it was a pretty dumb thing to do. I had an old Ranger pickup when I was 15. I was playing with it and got the front driver side wheel stuck on a stump. I put it in neutral and got out to start lifting the truck off the stump. I got it off but was unable to get back in the truck fast enough to stop it before it rolled down a hill and crashed into the side of my dads dodge motor home. While it was rolling I was dragged along with it hanging onto the bottom of the drivers side door.

My dad was gonna gonna get his tow truck to lift it off but me being impatient and stupid at the time couldn't wait. It would have took him 10 minutes to get the truck off the stump safely. And I had to go and do that.

My dad was pissed when he saw the side of his motor home. :laughing:

I got lectured on how I could have been killed by doing that. My dad asked me what was I thinking.

I responded. I wasn't thinking. lmao

Chad