Dumbest Thing you have done with your tractor

[Pooh_Bear]

I've got a spot down in the lower part of the property where I am clearing a trail.
Across this trail is a 3/4 inch steel cable. It runs into high weeds on both sides.
Your post has made me decide that I mite not want to know where it leads to.
I think I'll just leave it there across the path.

Another lesson I learned:
When I mow with one side in a ditch, no matter how shallow, the tractor leans.
That leaning doesn't make a big difference on a riding lawn mower.
But on a tractor the rear tires are tall enough that the top of the tire is significantly out of line with the bottom of the tire.
And so far every re-match of the tractor tire vs mailbox, the tire wins.

Pooh Bear

 

[schmism]

you guys crack me up!

keep em comming!

 

[ctpres]

Burning BIG pile of trees on edge of wet weather creek. Hasn't rained for days. Using FEL to push edges into fire. Decided creek dry enough to push that side in. WRONG, front wheels up to axel in mud, FEL VERY close to big fire, rear wheels spinning trying to back up side of creek bank and going nowhere. Ran for cable winch with wife screamin OMG OMG OMG. Minutes later BOTA free and only lost a DO NOT STEP HERE decal due to heat. I think I lost two good years of productive life on that one.

 

[CharlieTR]

Too many to remember but...

Driving forward out of the barn the ROPS cought part of the chain hoist hanging from the barn door header. Heard a loud poping noise, stopped, "what's that", no more noise, started again. OH, that what is was!
That was about a 4 hour job to fix.

Running in too high a gear cutting grass around newly planted pecan trees. Think to myself, better slow down, there's a new tree around here!
Stop to change gears, look around for the tree, nope, there's no tree. Well not anymore! (twice)

Looking backward, driving forward cutting around big trees, notice I am getting higher. Look forward to see my tractor climbing the 5 inch tree trunk.
Front wheels about 4 feet off the ground and the tree is bending pretty good.

 

[FarmerSean]

Well lets see.

It's February, I've had my first tractor for maybe oh I don't know, two three weeks. Snows real good, says I: I, rather than shovel all of that white stuff why not use the brand new tractor?

So there I am, in 20 degree weather using the fel to scoop up snow (on an inclined driveway. some of you know where this is going) and the tractor starts to jerk as I'm scooping up the snow. Huh says I, must be ice. So's I press onward. This tractor can handle a little ol' ice. Give'er some gas!

Yeah. Black ice. The asphalt kind.

Boy the wife wasn't happy about that one.

 

[JimR]

FarmerSean]Well lets see.

It's February, I've had my first tractor for maybe oh I don't know, two three weeks. Snows real good, says I: I, rather than shovel all of that white stuff why not use the brand new tractor?

So there I am, in 20 degree weather using the fel to scoop up snow (on an inclined driveway. some of you know where this is going) and the tractor starts to jerk as I'm scooping up the snow. Huh says I, must be ice. So's I press onward. This tractor can handle a little ol' ice. Give'er some gas!

Yeah. Black ice. The asphalt kind.

Boy the wife wasn't happy about that one.


You forgot to tell us what you destroyed to make the wife mad. I use to have 4 nice lights on my ROPS. Two for going forward and two for backward. You always seem to forget about anything higher than the ROPS. My lights, all four, are history due to branches in the woods.

 

[FarmerSean]

You forgot to tell us what you destroyed to make the wife mad. I use to have 4 nice lights on my ROPS. Two for going forward and two for backward. You always seem to forget about anything higher than the ROPS. My lights, all four, are history due to branches in the woods.

Ha, well I thought it was obvious, but I dug up the asphalt leading up to the driveway. Nice bucket sized pot hole now.

 

[RonR]

Lord knows I've got lots of stoopid tractor moves.

The latest BIG DUH was a 2 yrs ago. Son and I were building a 16x20ft deck on the house. I'd dug about 12 post holes one day.

That night, it rained and the holes partly filled in. Rather than dig them out by hand, and since the PHD was installed, I cleaned them out with the PHD.

Guiding over the existing holes to start at the back, I got to the farthest rearward hole and cleaned it out.

I forget what I needed to get off for, but I backed off the tractor quickly and my left leg promptly went straight to the bottom of a 24" hole.

As I was falling in, I thought "WOW, you'd really pulled a stoopid one now and will break your leg!" Fortunately, I was ok except for a very bruised ego. Of course, most of my family witnessed my stupidity. They were mostly thankful I wasn't hurt.

Be careful.

Ron

 

[roxynoodle]

I fell into a post hole a few years ago too. My entire right leg was in there. Right at that moment a friend calls to ask if I would very suddenly drive up to Toledo (about 40 miles) because she had just bought her son a trampoline and needed a truck to bring it home. All I could say is, "Now is not a good time..." I wasn't hurt but my leg was totally covered in sloppy clay mud. It wasn't easy getting myself out of there either, lol!

 

[sandman2234]

Filling a pond on some rental property, by dragging the dirt around the side of the pond, and allowing the oversize boxblade to fill it on one side. Front wheel would drop over the edge, or the edge would cave in, and I would just turn and drive across the pond. It was only a couple feet deep by 20 feet across. Everything was fine till I caught a tire with the right front that somebody had tossed into the pond. It raised the front enough that the boxblade dug in, causing the rear tires to look for China as they dug... and alas, I was stuck! I cussed and jerked, and jerked and cussed, but it wasn't moving. Then I heard the "POP" when the front wheel drive decided to give it up!
One of the neighbors with a brand new "toyo" 4x4 came to my rescue. (Brand New as in 2 days old!)First he hooked to the box blade trying to pull the tractor out. No movement. So we disconnected the boxblade, and he tried to pull it out of the way. Dead pull wouldn't budge it, so how about a little itsy bitsy jerk? The uprights of the boxblade (did I mention it was homemade?) came loose and the stretch factor of the nylon rope gave them just enough energy to reach his truck. Two pieces of 3x3x3/8 angle will do a job on a black hood.
The rest of the boxblade came out without any problem, and the tractor, once relieved of the box blade limped out on it's own.
The gear I broke in the front end was no longer available, so I had to change the whole front knuckle guts out with the new style.
An expensive lesson on "How to Weld"...
David from Jax

P.S.
Sandman4901 has been notified of the extra front end parts available in case he breaks something in the front end. All I will have to do is find them.
David