Growing Pains..

[KICK]

there is a learning curve that has to be observed when operating machinery.

guy I know ran his yappy little dog over with the bush hog. I'd say ouch but there really wasn't much left.

we own a skid steer loader, one of the employees was told to move it and he did. right thru the 8 x 8 support beam that holds the roof up at the end of the horse stable.

I've flipped that loader over frontwards when I was learning how to use it, you can drive it with a load in the bucket and raise the bucket. just just wont get very far.

its also funny learning to mow with a bush hog hanging out the back, you make a turn and take something out that you didn't intend too with the mower.

 

[LoneCowboy]

did landscaping for years.
I've trenched thru unknown number of cable drops (cable guys are the worst).
Trenched thru 3 gas lines
Couple phone lines
went down and scraped an unmarked 12" high pressure gas line with a trencher for about a 100 feet!!!! (wouldn't have been nothing left of me but a puddle)
Watched a guy in a big tracked excavator pull out a marked 10,000 pair phone line (that was spendy, glad it wasn't me)
Trenched thru a sidewalk once. (about 2 feet in, wondered why it was throwing all this concrete up, it was covered in a foot high pile of dirt)

Haven't hit much with the tractor
My wife however, isn't so good with the tractor
nothing major, but lots of little things. She even hit the ramp on the trailer getting off (JUST GO STRAIGHT!!!) I'm still not sure how she did that.

 

[thcri]

Good thing I'm a builder and I could fix it myself but not before a good verbal lashing from my wife. BTW, it still gets thrown in my face every once and a while and this is 30 years later. Isn't there a statute of limitations on our screw ups?

No, absolutely not

unless it is something they did and then it is only 30 days.

 

[charlesw]

Boxblade (1) v Mailbox (Nil).
Backhoe stabilizer legs (1) v Corner of shed (nil).
Backhoe (1) v Water pipe (Nil)

Ah, yes... Well, I was taking out a granite block foundation with my backhoe once. Snapped my bucket in two! Welded it back together (properly!) then went back and got the darned foundation out. So, is that like:
Backhoe (1) v Block Foundation (!)
?

It's seems silly to call that a tie 'cause I did get all of that granite out... But, well... I guess I never did end up doing anything with it. I had plans! But then we moved twice in a year. The blocks only made one of those moves...

 

[Glowplug]

guy I know ran his yappy little dog over with the bush hog. I'd say ouch but there really wasn't much left.

YUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[450EXC]

I've learned a couple new sounds while mowing.

Whooose: the sound of a brand new Carhart falling off the back of the tractor and being ejected out of the brush hog in a million pieces.

Cling, clang, bang: the sound of my rake and shovel falling out of the fel and being minced in the finish mower.