Dumbest Thing you have done with your tractor

[Fishguy]

It has to be one of three things.

1) I was using the RFM to cut along a ditch, trying to get as much overhang hang as possible and, you guessed it, slid right on in there and laid her on her side.

2) Had the bride get in the truck to pull me out. Said she didn't hear me yell "slow" and took off. Broke a bracket right off the axle when she "took up slack". The chain flew up and put a nice dent in the tailgate.

OR

3) Had to brakedown and ask her Uncle to pull me out with his 4wd toyota. Haven't heard the end of it yet!! Don't really expect to anytime soon.

note: I'm now looking for a sicklebar mower!!

Steve

 

[Fireman_dcb]

After 5 years of pulling in/ out of the barn I managed to clip a 2"x6" and snapped it like a twig with the FEL. I'll be out there this weekend with a bar, hammer and nails putting in a new brace.

Rented a JD backhoe for a friend to use when I was tearing out 5 acres of pheasant pens. He did a great job of pulling out posts and the chicken wire, after he left for the day I wanted to get my hands dirty on a backhoe.... doing OK moving a pile of dirt from point A to point B about 300 yards away when all of a sudden the bucket FALLS OFF - it just FELL OFF - if FELL the frick OFF. So I shut down the machine, there I was looking at where the bucket should be, looking at the bucket on the ground and at a hole in the bottom of the bucket where the quick disconect pin SHOULD have been. I backed up to the bucket and was able to get it hooked back onto the stick, but the pin (about 2 inches in diameter and about 12" long) was nowhere to be found. I returned the backhoe and the rental guy just asked me to look for the pin. About a week later I was walking the field looking for pieces of fencing I might have missed picking up and there it was .... the pin was lying right there on the ground. The rental guy was very happy to get that back - seems they run about a hundred bucks. He told me that if you scrape the bottom of the bucket across the ground they can come loose ... so ends my career as a backhoe operator.

 

[GuglioLS]

I live where in the winter, your car sinks in the mud after you park it when you get home from work. Then, over night your car is frozen to the ground.

So next morning I gets my tractor, hook up the chain and pull out the car - no problemo.

Some nights are colder than others - so next time car is frozen to ground, no problemo. Get tractor, pull out car, NOT. So let's "bump" that chain (over and over again) to break it free. After several wheelies I finally ripped the front bumper off the car.

Good thing is was a company car.

Now I know what concrete slabs are for.

 

[GuglioLS]

OK, a little advice for all you who have (tried) to drive into your garage or barn that is lower than your ROPS, You need a canopy a.k.a. "eairly warning system". Unless that is, you tried to back in - in which case you need one of these:

 

[LBrown59]

I did something similar to this.
I parked my truck in the side yard one winter
When I parked it the drainage ditch was full of ice from previous freezes.
While the truck was parked there we had a real down pour and of course the frozen ditch overflowed right out into the yard where the truck was setting.
The 6 inch deep water froze solid leaving the truck locked in 6'' of solid ice.
The truck set there all winter into the spring till the ground dried up. Then I just drove the pick up back into the driveway.
I didn't tear off any bumpers or break any chains this way.

I live where in the winter, your car sinks in the mud after you park it when you get home from work. Then, over night your car is frozen to the ground.

So next morning I gets my tractor, hook up the chain and pull out the car - no problemo.

Some nights are colder than others - so next time car is frozen to ground, no problemo. Get tractor, pull out car, NOT. So let's "bump" that chain (over and over again) to break it free. After several wheelies I finally ripped the front bumper off the car.

Good thing is was a company car.

Now I know what concrete slabs are for.

 

[NewToy]

When we built our new house I installed 8' doors to accommodate my 1 ton Chevy van and my pick-up with a rather tall cap. My fixed ROPS clears it by an inch or two, so I thought I was all set. I had the door open and the wife wanted the Jeep out of the other door and pressed the wrong button and let my tractor door down an inch or two before depressing the button and stopping it and then opening the correct door. After completing the mow job I headed to the garage and it looked fully open to me, didn't really scrutinize it too closely since I have never had any trouble getting in or out. All of a sudden POW!, I hit the panel and immediatley slammed on the brakes. I'm standing there scratching my head wondering how in the world the door was down that little bit and then the wife comes out to inquire what all the noise was about. I explained I had hit the door and expressed my befuddlement at how it could have happened. She said at least nobody was hurt and the door only had a small crease in it. A few weeks go by and we were in the garage and I asked my wife to open the door and she hit the wrong button and did exactly the same thing. At this point she came clean on my door episode. I couldn't figure out why she had been so understanding when it happened, now I know.

John

 

[mikim]

Have a new QA on the fel .... was having some trouble getting the grapple to release from the QA .. get off the seat and am yanking on the lock lever on the side of the QA that hasn't quite released yet ... then it suddenly did ...and the loader came down hard and fast on my foot (there was down pressure on the hyd) ... now my foot is under the loader - I'm screaming like mad cause it really hurt...the foot is trapped .... and there isn't a soul around for miles. It kinda hit me then that I have no choice - that foot has got to come out. I was finally able to work the foot out of my boot - albeit with more pain than I cared for. No broken bones - but it sure was bruised for a couple of weeks - and it scared the !@#$ out of me.

 

[ctpres]

Built tractor barn with room for ROPS. Started out with dirt floor and just now getting around to removing dirt in preparartion for washout concrete floor. Easy plan, drive in fill FEL, back out, dump and repeat. No extra weight so tires spin digging hole and throwing dirt back to door area. Several inches in fact. You know where this is going. With practice speed building. Now backing at a good clip. CRACK, what the the H was that as Bota comes to abrupt stop at door. Good news-no real damage, bad news Head Honcho hears and comes running. I can't hide this one.

 

[Defective]

Just to bring a dead thread back to life...

When driving your tractor in the bush, if it has extra long axles for dual wheels and you remove the outer wheels for some odd reason, do NOT forget the axles stick out. When you squeeze the tractor between the trees and the one on the left is just a sapling, the tractor will make a rather sudden right turn. That'll make yer shorts smell funny.

 

[outdoorstom]

I just came across this thread and read every post....hilarious! This definitely makes me feel better about some of the stuff I've done. I started young - we moved out to the country when I was 12, and I went to the neighbors farm looking for work. He asked me if I knew how to drive a tractor, and I told him yes. I was a city kid through and through, had never even ridden on a tractor, let alone drive one. I can't tell you what kind of tractor or the size, but to me it was huge. He went in the house and I climbed up there with an assignment to drive it to town to get it serviced. It was parked on a hill, a muddy hill since it had rained the night before. I figured out how to start it and took off. I slid down the hill sideways and ran over his corn planter. Shortest job I ever had, not to mention all the new words I learned that day! Now to the present.....a few months ago I was working up a 7 acre field and had my cultipacker hooked up. As I was packing, I would come across some rocks so I'd throw them in the bucket. When I got to the end of the field and dumped the rocks, my short term memory loss was apparent because I forgot about the cultipacker as I backed up. Amazing what some flat bar and a welder can fix.