DUMMY, DUMMY, DUMMY

JazzDad · Dec 7, 2004

I'll have ya'll know- this was not my fault. The people who poured the concrete in front of the garage forgot to tell me how much higher it was than the gravel. The ROPS that just slid under the door before, made quite a noise when it caught the bottom of the door. It popped up and then released poor Babs. Just goes to show, you can't trust concrete installers.

bczoom · Dec 7, 2004

Oops.

I just pulled a DUMMY!!!

Don't empty all your gas cans (yesterday) when you need gas in the pressure washer (today).

Then, don't syphon gas from your tractor to the pressure washer during business hours. I was using a very small syphon hose so I knew it would take 5 minutes (I went off to do something else for a couple minutes).

Sure enough... the phone rang. Client. Had to take the call. Went back to the office and worked with them for a good 20 minutes then realized the syphon is still running. Put them on hold. Gas everywhere /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

milkman · Dec 7, 2004

It's an amazing thing, that we've lived as long as we have!!! /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

HammerFour · Dec 7, 2004

If I ever figure out the fool who managed to stick a 7ft sickle mower twice in the fence and once in the hay barn in one round around the pasture he won't forget it!

Of course it was the fool's first experience with a sickle mower and it took a bit for the fool to realize that this isn't something a novice uses to cut right up to the fence line. Fool's should leave a couple feet between the end of the sickle bar and the fence and barn until they get a bit more practice.

That doesn't even begin to mention the fence posts ( wood and T post ) that said fool has wacked with a front end loader bucket when mowing.

Or the funny dents in the back bumper of our pickup that I tried to blame on somebody at the rodeo until I got caught making another one with the leading edge of the FEL bucket setting on the tongue of the trailer while turning and backing up. ....

Ooops.

JDFANATIC · Dec 7, 2004

milkman and everyone, what a great post. 5 pages in 24 hrs., it must have hit vein with lots of us. I've done a lot of stupid things in my time, but I have one that happened this summer on my tractor.

The Mrs. and me are pulling out some rhodendrums and replanting some newer shrubs in their place. I bend the tip of my shovel so many times in our wonderful clay soil that I say next time I'm going to buy a really decent heat-treated shovel. The Mrs. goes out and buys another shrub from our local nursery (expensive place) and comes back with a shrub and a shovel. The shovel was nice, heat-treated American steel with a heavy-duty fiberglass handle. I ask her how much and she says $100 (plant and shovel). I say not bad, how much was the plant? She says $25. I say you paid how much for a shovel -- are you crazy? (maybe plus a few more choice words). Now she's really pissed and ready to use the shovel for my grave. She picks the shovel up to return it and I won't let her, saying I said I wanted a nice shovel, and you did what I said. Hopefully it won't work-soften with use and we'll get a lot of years out of the shovel. So I redeemed myself. The next day I was using the shovel while working on a new road to my shed and laid it down to mark the ground (the yellow fiberglass seemed like a good visible marker). YUP YOU GUESSED IT, I RAN OVER IT WITH MY TRACTOR. The fiberglass shattered like bamboo. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

Dutch445 · Dec 7, 2004

I can see it now,,

"I just got this shovel,, and the darn thing broke the first day I used it, now it must have been defective, won't you take it back under warranty and give me a new one?

as the clerk looks at the tire tracks on the splintered fiberglass!

and yes,, they do splinter, especially after a few years... OUCH!
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TC18guy · Dec 7, 2004

That sounds like something I would do! My $40 sears fiberglass shovel has a lifetime warranty, hopefully yours does too!

The vandals have been around my house too. I noticed they put a couple of poke holes in my brand new 18' garage door. They happen to be about the same size and spacing as the wire shelving rack that was hanging 4' out of the back of my pickup. They must be trying to make me look bad.

rdln · Dec 7, 2004

I have a level under or next to the septic tank, chainsaw left in bucket (replaced the handle $70, saw was $200 new), brushhogged a city water valve, utility bundle, fiberglass shovel, acouple cable hookup wires (that should have been buried), rototilled a LPG gas line (buried too shallow), 1/2 galvanized pipe (instant coil spring), a couple sprinkler lines, york raked a green transformer box off its base, etc,

hey its all in a days work, it happens

P.S. there is an advantage to backing the tractor on to the trailer, unless you made sure the hood is latched

DaveNay · Dec 7, 2004

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( I can see it now,,

"I just got this shovel,, and the darn thing broke the first day I used it, now it must have been defective, won't you take it back under warranty and give me a new one?

as the clerk looks at the tire tracks on the splintered fiberglass!

and yes,, they do splinter, especially after a few years... OUCH!
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Knowing most of the clerks I have run across (pun intended) at the home centers, they wouldn't recognise tractor tire tracks if they were on their own forehead. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

Dave

getut · Dec 7, 2004

I watched some dummy lose a 20' chain on 2 CONSECUTIVE trips dragging downed trees.

Brand new tractor so anything that can be touched with the FEL looks like fun. I.. err... I mean the dummy that I watched drug a large cedar to the burn pile. Puts the chain in the FEL and proceeds to head back to the area with the downed trees. One of them is still attached to the ground slightly, to I, I mean the dummy, pops it out of the hole and proceeds to fill the hole. Then get off to fasten the tree to the back of the tractor and the chain is gone. Dig the chain back out, drag the tree to the burn pile. Put the chain back in the FEL and start to head back to the trees. On the way back, run over a big rock that has been hit many times with the mower and decide it has to go. Idiot proceeds to dig up the rock and bury the chain again. Not 5 minutes have passed since the last chain burial.