Ever had one of "those" days?

[Dftodd]

It went from this:
A Beautiful day bush hogging


To this:


Got to close to the ditch trying to leave.

Thats a pretty large wrecker. What were you driving???

We buried a forklift once and had to have a semi tow truck come over to winch it out.

Dude was literally a block down the road. $900

 

[ponytug]

A few years back, we were out riding our horses, and I noticed something shiny about 1000' down the hillside, across the valley in a ravine and I could not imagine how the car got there, and what state the driver was in. We could tell that there was no way it was visible from the road, so we radioed it into the rangers.

Apparently, a guy pulled into one of the road scenic pullouts to take a picture, got out of his car...and you can guess the rest.

He forgot to put the car in park or shut it off, and while he was taking his photo, in slow motion the car rolled off the edge, and drove more or less straight down the ravine.

It took most of the day and three large semi-wreckers, using all of the cables that they had to fish the car back up. I have no idea what that tow bill was, but I'd be very surprised if the car wasn't totaled out.

I was just happy nobody was in it.

A few years later, we had a little old lady drive off the edge of the same road, dropping only 30' or so, but the car wasn't totaled invisible from the road she was on, and it was a week before a rancher checking on his cattle happen to see the car. I heard that she survived, but spent time in the hospital; not bad for an eighty plus year old.

All the best,

Peter

 

[beckmurph]

Thats a pretty large wrecker. What were you driving???

We buried a forklift once and had to have a semi tow truck come over to winch it out.

Dude was literally a block down the road. $900

I told the operator I would need to rob a bank to pay for this mistake.

He said it was the only equipment available at the time. Same price as a roll back.

 

[Dftodd]

I told the operator I would need to rob a bank to pay for this mistake.

He said it was the only equipment available at the time. Same price as a roll back.

You got lucky... we were told it didn't leave the yard for less than $900. .

He tried the smaller truck first, but it didn't have the Butt to get the forklift out.

So he ran back to the shop for Matilda

 

[part-time-Farmer-NC]

WHen I have the makings for those kinda days (when everything touched turns brown), I have been known to just stop. Tackle things for another day...

 

[1 Old Man]

Fuddyduddy1952,
Murphy's Law. He threw the book at you.

 

[grsthegreat]

Your day was worst than mine last weekish……

Was chipping trees after wrangling tractor to exact part i wanted, then boom. Feed belt breaks.

Had to pack everything up and haul it out with side by side than go get tractor.

Went to dump logs in back of side by side and wife breaks off shift lever. Didnt know kawasaki shift lever was hollow.

I had a few other chores to do, but after this mess cancelled those and spent about 2 hours rounding up and replacing feed belt.

Than spent rest of day tearing apart the front end of the Kawasaki mule and making myself a new shift lever out of spare parts i could find. I didnt want to buy another factory hollow one. I made one out of solid 1/2” rod. Looks like original after i was done. Could not believe how long it took to get that mule torn apart. Never seen so many fasteners.

That was on a saturday. Sunday was spent watching TV. Figured i couldnt break a chair and tv.

 

[gsganzer]

You would not see me doing much of you describe wearing shorts. Aside from that; yeah, sometimes every day is Monday the 13th.

Agree. Sometimes shorts aren't the best choice. I know I can overheat really easy, but I never run a chainsaw or some other at-risk tasks in shorts.

 

[Jstpssng]

Agree. Sometimes shorts aren't the best choice. I know I can overheat really easy, but I never run a chainsaw or some other at-risk tasks in shorts.

Unless I'm on the woodpile, I won't even start my saw without putting chaps on.
Then again if I hadn't been wearing them one day back in my R/W maintenance days they'd be calling me Stumpy.

 

[Dftodd]

WHen I have the makings for those kinda days (when everything touched turns brown), I have been known to just stop. Tackle things for another day...

If something i'm working on goes together way too smoothly, I know I should stop and call it a day.

If I keep going, that gremlin is fixing to show up and make my day absolutely miserable.