DUMMY, DUMMY, DUMMY

Gary_in_Indiana · Dec 7, 2004

"The shirt fragments in your photo are bright enough to look like a forensics team used luminol" 

Fortunately, there was no blood involved. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif It was just a very bright, sunny day the first week of June. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif It's been a whiile since we've seen one of those around here. /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

lrunge · Dec 8, 2004

I had the backhoe and FEL on the tractor and was going to put it in the barn. My brother parked a Ford F250 in in the driveway in front of the barn door. Very carefully I drove beside the Ford so I wouldn't hit it with the FEL. All of a sudden there was a loud CRUNCH. The Backhoe stabilizer pad took out the Fords rear light and smashed the metal in around it. I looked back and immediately hit the reverse pedal to stop the damage which caused the FEL (with tooth bar attached) to take out the passenger door. He wasn't happy.

chucko · Dec 8, 2004

I tend to quickly forget mistakes only to make the same one again
BUT my wife remembers EVERY one. I would put her on her to list them but it might be too much for the TBN servers

JDgreen227 · Dec 8, 2004

If not for this incident I would not have ANYTHING to contribute to this list of dumb things...(I wish).

Since our 2000 Yukon was new, we parked it in our garage, it has an overhead console with 3 buttons that you can program to replace the clip on remotes for a garage door opener. We used the center button for that purpose. Skip ahead to late 2004....sold our 1992 Olds and bought a new Buick Lesabre, used to keep the Olds in the barn about 180 feet directly north of the garage, now we keep the GMC in there so the Buick (wife's car) could go in the garage.

For years, used a clip on remote in the Olds to operate the overhead door in the barn, when we started parking the GMC there my wife wanted the "convenience" of using the console buttons to operate the barn door, so she programmed the console lefthand button and took the clip on remote out.

You can likely guess what this is leading to....want details? /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

About two weeks ago, we both left the house to run errands, we were going to meet at the bank to sign papers first, well I helped the wife take her stuff to the garage, then walked to the barn and opened the door with the keypad. Warmed the GMC up for a minute, drove out, and reached up to push the button on the overhead console to close the door. Now, after using the center button for four years, wouldn't you agree it would be rather automatic to push that one instead of the left hand button? 180 feet away, spouse was just backing out of the garage in her BRAND NEW CAR (130 miles) when I closed the door on her trunk lid...the door reversed, but badly scratched the paint on the top.

STOP LAUGHING...it was HER fault, she programmed the GMC remote, not me. But I still gotta pay for the repaint job.

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Dutch445 · Dec 8, 2004

( I looked back and immediately hit the reverse pedal to stop the damage which caused the FEL (with tooth bar attached) to take out the passenger door. He wasn't happy. )

OMG, tooooo funny,
video of that would certainly have been worth some money on the funny home video show!

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chucko · Dec 8, 2004

( ...it was HER fault )

I bet that is not the way SHE tells the story.
more like ......"I told him that I had changed the remotes and........"

Bob_Skurka · Dec 8, 2004

To everyone of us, or to nobody in particular . . . .

Does it strike anyone else that we, collectively, cannot be trusted to use or own heavy equipment? I'm not really sure if we are too stupid to operate what we own or if we are too careless or if we just get caught up in the moment, but we sure damage a lot of stuff with these tractors of ours. As a service to society in general, we really should be made to sell our tractors so that we do not further damage or destroy life or property.

And of course, in my case, I've never done anything wrong, I'm still sticking with the story that the neighborhood vandals did "it"

Bird · Dec 8, 2004

( we really should be made to sell our tractors so that we do not further damage or destroy life or property. )

Sounds logical . . . at first. The only problem is that whoever we sell them to may do more damage than we will, especially if they aren't members of TBN so they can learn from others. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

Bob_Skurka · Dec 8, 2004

Sounds logical . . . at first. The only problem is that whoever we sell them to may do more damage than we will, especially if they aren't members of TBN so they can learn from others. 

Bird, yet again your wisdom shines through like a beacon in the fog. We better keep these tractors of ours to make sure that others can do no harm with them!

RobS · Dec 8, 2004

I don't know Bob, with all the damage done by the vandals, miscreants and other mal-contents I feel much better having my tractor in my hands. As evidenced by this thread, any number of mis-fortunes can occur in the dark of night while we rest safely in our beds. Yes, that's it. It's all Santas elves joyriding on our machines causing all of this havoc. Think about it, they've got a lot of spare time on their hands.

Well, that's MY story anyway, and I'm definitely sticking with it /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif