Ever get caught?

[Thomas]

Have you every play hooky from work and have your wife or girl friend catch you?
Sunday mother nature show her fury by washing out some of my ditches,so I decide to stay home and order 28 yards of hard pack and had it dump into pile.
Around noonish my girl friend show up to see if I was okay,but when see saw me on the tractor she just roll her eyes and smile also said, "boys will be boys" and I ran out of coffee in which she wanted for lunch....oh boy.
Looks like I owe her one. )
So how many of you ever play hooky from work to play only to get caught playing with your tractor? )

 

[JonE]

All the time. I'm sure glad I have that High range on my tractor for quick get-aways!/w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif

 

[Pks]

The Job:
Our house is about 4 years old with a lot of trees: apples and oaks. None of which had been cared for during the last twenty years. So, Mary and I figured to spruce up the place by adding woodchips around the house an all the trees.
Woodchips in my area sell for $1.5 per cubic foot. With more than 40 trees plus the garden areas this would get expensive fast.

Hooky(?):
One day I happend across a construction crew cutting trees in order to widen a road nearby. After talking with the guys in charge, I paid $100 to have a nearly full 50 foot long semi truck bring the woodchips to the house. He dropped them onto the driveway in a nice neat pile...10 feet wide, 4 feet high and about 60 feet long. Now Mary was REALLY surprised to see this huge truck backing into our driveway! I guess it had to be strange: I came running into the house hallerin' to dig up the hundred bucks, right as she's putting dinner on the table. As I remember it, all I said was get the money because we're gettin' a *load* of woodchips-a whole semi-truck load

It took Thursday and Friday, with Mary's help, to move that pile. I used our B2400 with FEL and a motorcycle trailer. Filling the trailer was easy, but I had to empty each load by hand. That part way tough!

When the phone gets fixed, I'll post a photo of Mary reducing the pile.