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   / DUMMY, DUMMY, DUMMY #131  
All very funny, but its tragic when the vandals get violent! Before I had my wood splitter I used the old fashion way, an ax and a younger man's back. While I walked away to get a hunk of wood, heavy enough that I had no business carrying it around, the vandals were able to position the ax handle against another piece of wood, calculating the exact trajectory so that when I tripped and dropped the large piece of wood I was carrying it struck the handle causing the big heavy metal part of the ax to fly through the air and strike me in the forehead! Concusions are no fun! /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

They also snuck "too much" gas into a 55 gallon drum I was trying to light a fire in with a match - where'd my eyebrows go? /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

Priceless, while I'm typing this wife calls me, gas guy came, he's stuck in the driveway! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
   / DUMMY, DUMMY, DUMMY #132  
<font color="blue"> Well nobody would hook up cables backward for jumpstarting. </font>

When you hook up a new battery on a used truck you just bought, never assume the red cable goes to the positive terminal and the black cable goes to the negative terminal!

I know this guy who made that mistake once! /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif
 
   / DUMMY, DUMMY, DUMMY #133  
This happened about 4 hours ago. My wife witnessed it. Buddy- when they witness an error, you never get to live it down... so anyway, We were working on the barn today. I needed to replace some wood, and build a feeder for a few goats. I had the NICE Circular saw I got for Christmas two years ago with me- and was hauling the generator with the front end loader. I ran a strap around the genny, wrapped it around the loader bucket, raise it up, and just go slow.
Fast forward- got the work done. I'm tired- ready to head to the house. Hook the generator up, lift her up, throw the saw and extension cords in the bucket with a bunch of other tools, and head for the shop. Got inside, dropped the genny, and curled the bucket down to make it easy for the wife to unhook the straps- and everything dumped- including that NICE SAW, tools, hammer, nails, a lightbulb, and a glass bottle of coke all hit the concrete floor...

I just shrugged and watched her laugh. It's all fun and games until your wife catches ya...

C1
 
   / DUMMY, DUMMY, DUMMY #134  
OK, I have put 100 hours on the BX22 and felt pretty confident. on how to operate it. I even switched out the truf tires for bar tires after about 10 hours use after I realized that the trufs were useless in mud. Go into and out of some ugly areas with the machine.

One evening last fall I was playing, I mean operating, the tractor. Now we have a creek in the back of the property that serves as the rear property line. The creek normally runs 12" to 24" deep and 20' to 40' wide. As one point there is a gentle slope on the creek bed (most areas drop off 2' to 4'). I decided that I needed to get down to the creek and then turn the tractor around and drive out again and then put the little darling in the shed for the night. As it turns out, it was no problem to get the tractor DOWN the embankment. I was even able to turn the machine around. It was then that I discovered that I could not get the little beast UP the embankment. It was 100% mud, the harder I tried, the deeper the machine buried itself. By the time I gave up, both axles were buried. I then decided that I would get the older boys truck, a Ford F-250 Quad Cad Diesel, (The boy and his wife moved back home in August. They sold their home, bought a older home, ripped it down to the foundation and are in the process of rebuilding it, they were going to be in the new home by Christmas; Its now the middle of February and the framing is now just finished) He was on vacation, so I had to maneuver the truck through all of the trees and bushes. It was getting dark, so I managed to scrape the right side of the truck on one of the trees before getting to the creek.

Finally got the truck down by the creek. Almost all of the light is gone. I finally got a tow chain attached to the truck and the tractor (no simple feat as I'm close to sixty and approximately 18" shorter than my perfect weight says I should be) Since I couldn’t operate both the truck and the tractor by myself, I get the bride involved to drive the truck (a lovely, sweet women, but didn't quite understand why I needed to drive down to the creek - the same reason that you climb a mountain, because its there)

Anyhow, trying to coordinate her with the truck and me on the tractor was like all of our experiences with doing wiring together, it ended in tears and frustration, and that was just me.
Needless to say, the tractor spent the night in the creekbed.

Now, a luck would have it, the next day we were supposed to get hit with some rain from the leaving edge of a hurricane (Floyd, I think). When we get more that an 1" of rain, the gentle creek in the back becomes a raging river. It goes from 40' wide to 200 ' wide and from 2' deep to 6 to 7 ' deep.

Sooooo - needless to say, not much sleep that night. Between dinging the kid's truck and knowing that a $15,000.00 piece of equipment is about to be flooded or swept away, I wasn't feeling all warm and fussy.

The good part. As it turns out, we were in the middle of having a new septic system installed when I had this brain f*** of a idea to visit the creek. The contractor installing the new system had two JBC model 215 backhoes on the property. Luckly, the bride had been feeding the guys and keeping them supplied with soda and ice tea, so when I stayed home the next morning and asked that come down to the creek and pull out my toy, they didn't even laugh. It took less than ten minutes and toy was put back in the shed so that the mud could dry.

As it turned out, we got over 6 inches of rain from the storm that started later in the day. While the house is 400' from the creek and the creek would need to rise over 12' to get to the house, I have never seen as much rain as we received for those couple of days.

The really dumb thing is that I now have an RTV900 and I know that it wants to see if it can get down to the creek and back out again! Who knows, there may be a drought next July!
 
   / DUMMY, DUMMY, DUMMY #135  
<font color="blue"> Between dinging the kid's truck </font>
I know how a father handles a kid putting a ding in his truck. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif
How does a kid handle a father that puts a ding in his truck. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif
Glad you were able to get tractor out before storm hit.
 
   / DUMMY, DUMMY, DUMMY #136  
Luckly the truck is four years old it wasn't the first ding. He had already taken out the tailgate with a load of hardscapping supplies as he was placing a pallet in the truck using a skid steer. Of course, it comes in handy whenever he needs something from me, just gives me a gentle reminder of the "event"
 
   / DUMMY, DUMMY, DUMMY #137  
A very good story Keybal.

And therein lies one of the major differenced between men and women.

Tell a woman you're stuck in a creek-bed and up to your waist in mud and she wants to know why it was necessary to get your good Levi's muddy.

Tell another man the same thing and he's immediately dragging out the chains and heavy equipment to get you out ASAP. Once it's all over there's nothing but high 5's between you. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
   / DUMMY, DUMMY, DUMMY #138  
Last night it seems The wife got mad at me

Seems she started running water in the tub and then started clipping the dog nails a fogot about the tub. I walk in the bathroom and the place was flooded all the way out to the bed room. Looked like a sinking ship water run down the AC vent and all.
I yelled at her to get in there it was flooding she tought I was joking so I yelled louder.
Because I yealled it would seem the whole thing was my fault.

This morning our Dachshund was on the back of the couch like a cat would be. The wife said what's wrong with her...Dummy me said dogs know when things like earthquaks tidle waves and FLOODS or comming

Some times it is best to just say "i don't know"
 
   / DUMMY, DUMMY, DUMMY #139  
Chucko - its funny how we do that with our significant others & yet we know better.

I was digging a untility trench for a customer 2 summers ago about 150' long. In the middle of the trench was about a 15% slope. I wasnt paying attention to were i was & trying to rush to get the trench done. when I got to the steep part, not realizing i was there, i lifted my stabilizers on my hoe & pushed myself(on the tractor) backwards to keep digging & the tractor took off down the hill. I emmediately tried to grab earth with the hoe but it took some time to stop because of all the momentum. Luckily I was fine & nobody was around to ubserve my rushing deliquece to make saftey first.
 
   / DUMMY, DUMMY, DUMMY #140  
knowing better I went to the boat last night and got a Life Jacket and hung it on the bathroom door.
 

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