Dumbest Thing you have done with your tractor

[pycoed]

Great thread!
Started a Wheelhorse in my garage with my hand holding down the clutch to make the starter circuit. Started up, so I took my hand off the clutch only to find it was in gear. No problem, just reach over & switch ignition off, but the thing had now trapped my foot & I couldn't reach the switch... just as I managed to knock it out of gear it disappeared down the inspection pit! What a perfect fit it was, until it jammed sideways 5 feet down. Luckily I had a gantry at the end of the pit & hoisted it out, but ( in common with everyone else it seems) not before the "boss" had come to see what the noise was! Why do wives have such good ears?

 

[RWEST]

Flipped my Dad's J-D 755 one time working on a backstop on my shooting range. Had the bucket full and raised well above the tractor to add some more fill to the back of the pile. Wasn't watching the left front tire - it dropped off the side of a little dropoff, and over I went. Reflexively, I stuck my arm out to 'catch' myself, then, fortunately, pulled it back in and hung on. Crash!! Crawled out, got the backhoe and pulled it back onto its wheels. Checked all the fluids, fired it up, and away it went. Those front wheels get watched NOW, I can tell ya'.

 

[Podunkadunk]

Red gas containers, one with diesel, with "diesel" written on it in magic marker in garage.


Wife who likes to "help out".



Nope...it didn't happen, but almost did...I'll just leave it at that!


Yellow Diesel containers in garage now!

 

[VT365]

After tightening a fan belt on a new DK40hst, I forgot to remove my coffee cup from the hood shock bracket on top of the engine. No problem until I started it the next day. Cup vibrated off bracket and slid right into the plastic fan! I believe it broke 5 of the 6 blades. I could cry! New tractor with 5 hrs! Ordered new fan next day, and with the radiator shroud removed, I had just 1 1/2" of clearance to remove the four 10mm bolts with a straight gearwrench. This was a good one! 2 hours later I'm back in business. Thank goodness water pump shaft had no damage.

 

[GaryE]

Wow.. I forgot about this thread!


Ok..... A few months ago I was cutting down some trees. I am not an expert when it comes to getting these suckers to the ground! I figured this tree was going to fall between to others, but as usual I was wrong. It got hung up in the canopy. So I backed up the old tractor and got the chains out. Only had about 20' in the bucket. I thought about running back to the barn to get more, but no... I can just "twitch" this thing a little and it will come right down.


So I hitch up to it, take it real slow in first gear and pull. I only pulled a few feet when I looked back and saw the tree already standing straight up. By the time I stopped the tree was falling (you guessed it!) right at me. My only thought was, this is going to hurt..... The tree came down right at me...... the only thing that saved me was the ROPS....... There were limb and branches all around me. Not one hit me! My first thought was, "man are you ever @#*&#^ stupid."

 

[crk133]

ran into the front of my truck with the loader on. was looking back at my new pallet mover while moving pallets. bent the hood cracked the grill etc.....i wasnt impressed with myself

 

[TrippleT]

When I was a young man, I was working for a guy cutting some logs on his property. He had a truck with two logs/poles on one side and a long cable tied to the truck. We would skid the logs from the woods up to the two logs/poles on the side of the truck. Then take the cable that was tied to the truck and loop it over the logs we had skidded up. The tractor that pulled the logs onto the truck bed was an old John Deere with a hand clutch. He put me on the John Deere and I pulled the logs onto the truck and kept on going I almost turned the truck over before I remembered that the clutch was a hand clutch. While it wasn't my tractor, that is about the worst thing I have done with a tractor.
Talk about a young fellow being skeered!

 

[Rameck]

After building an addition onto the house, I decided to rent a tractor from a friend to grade and level my back yard. Now, it's was hard to see in front of the tractor with the fel down low, so I raised it up so I could see clearly in front of me, as I graded with the box scraper behind the tractor. I started in a small circle and expanded as I kept going around in a circle. When I came close to the new addition, I figured I had plenty of space between the tractor and it. Forgot about the position of the loader way out in front and hit the corner of the house dead on. That was one quick stop and put a horizontal gash in the corner about 7ft up. Lucky my father-in-law was the one who built the addition and he builds strong, so it with stood the impact. The inside drywall just had a few cracks. My wife told my friend not to rent me anymore tractors.

 

[jimmer2880]

Had the FEL raised up, trying to push a tree over. Sure enough, the tree decided to fall to the side, instead of straight. Layed the MF 1020 on her side real quick. Got her shut off. Hooked onto it with my pickup to upright her. Nothing even scratched.

On a seperate incident, pushed over a tree. As it was going over, I failed to notice the rootball raising up. The bar on the steering that connects both wheels was right on top of that root ball. Snapped perfectly in half.

Luckily the ball joints were already toast, to I took the bar off and welded back together. Must have been a good weld, it's still working after many years,

 

[firemanpat2910]

20+ years ago in my FFA class I wiped out a chainlink fence post with our Brand new JD 4wd tractor. I was looking behind me at the box blade and went to use the steering brakes and found out that 4wd tractors have a steering wheel for a reason. Worst part was the fence was right next to the sports field, so all the pretty cheerleaders got to laugh at me. Earned a lot of respect from our ag teacher though. I stopped tractor, walked into the classroom told her what I had done and what I planed to do to fix it, and told her it would be fixed that afternoon.
She never got mad and laughingly used that story for years when teaching tractor safety.