How stupid can I be?

[Soundguy]

Reminds me of one time I was crossing a feedlot and forgot I had my longhorn in the pen.. i was about half way across.. and my friend called.. we talked fro a few seconds.. then i heard ths rumble.. .. I ended up making it to the fence about .02 microseconds before the 'horns' did.. phone went flying.. I probably let out a panic scream, and then threwmyself over the fence... lande don a thorn bush too!

A bit later I found my phone and called my friend back.. said he herd some loud breathing.. running.. a scream and a thud... we laughed about it later!

soundguy

 

[Mike058]

Reminds me of one time I was crossing a feedlot and forgot I had my longhorn in the pen.. i was about half way across.. and my friend called.. we talked fro a few seconds.. then i heard ths rumble.. .. I ended up making it to the fence about .02 microseconds before the 'horns' did.. phone went flying.. I probably let out a panic scream, and then threwmyself over the fence... lande don a thorn bush too!

A bit later I found my phone and called my friend back.. said he herd some loud breathing.. running.. a scream and a thud... we laughed about it later!

soundguy

Now, you see, you can get away with that kind of stuff when you're young-good reflexes, plenty of speed. My problem is I'm getting older, reflexes suck and any time I try to move fast, I pull something. Ain't life grand?

 

[Soundguy]

Now, you see, you can get away with that kind of stuff when you're young-good reflexes, plenty of speed. My problem is I'm getting older, reflexes suck and any time I try to move fast, I pull something. Ain't life grand?

After a (thankfully) minor knee and back injury in the past few years... I'm beginning to 'run out' of those 'panic run/jump' situations!

soundguy

 

[Treemonkey1000]

Fear and adrenaline can do great things for responses sometimes! Recovery time from aches and pains is getting longer for me though from over doing it on tree jobs......Might have to hire some young 20-30 year old whipper snapper....

 

[Soundguy]

I've used up all my friends on my farm.. they will come over and help sometimes.. but wear out fast.. they all have soft hands and are used to ait conditioning!

soundguy

 

[scoutcub]

This is great....finally a thread where there's no name-calling, my-brand-is- better-than-your-brand, grown men (supposedly) arguing about insignificant "stuff". Can we make this a separate forum, called "my screw-ups" or "don't do this at home" or "Tim Taylor's tips" ???
I can't resist, I have to add my own saga. Hopefully it'll bring a chuckle as many of the other stories did to me.
So I'm mounting a backhoe on my CUT. Get the bracket all mounted (had done the same procedure before so was intimately familiar with the process) subframe bolted to the "hoe, now all I have left is the hydraulics. No problem running lines from power beyond, hook them up to the hoe, stand back and ready to enjoy the fruits of my labor with some joysticks.....move them all around, nothing. Re-check connections, every possible item I can think of, nothing. Talk to my buddy the dealer, he says check all hard lines, might be clogged with little blue plastic outlet protectors.....rip the whole valve assembly apart (whew), clean out every line, re-assemble, nothing. What the #%$?? Now I'm getting upset. Must've hooked up the hydraulic ports, switched them around, taken them off about 6 times. Nothing. Now the expletives are flying. Very upset, get on tractor to turn it around and load up the hoe to move it back to storage and try again some other day. Back out of the garage about 20 feet and wonder why this huge puddle of hydro fluid is following me......forgot to cap the lines. Lost at least half of the 32 quarts....what fun cleaning that up was! Reach under tractor again to undo
quick disconnects.....to find one was 3/4 of the way on......snug but not on enough to allow fluid to pass. DOOOPE!!!!!! Good waste of 1/2 day!!

 

[allen in texas]

Here's "ONE" of the stupid things I done in my life. In 1972 I bought my first new Harley.
I rode it home and rode it around for several days. One afternoon, my brother, my cousin and I were going to ride our bikes for a bit.
My NEW bike would not start. It was a kick start only Sporster and I kicked until I was about dead, then my brother did, then my cousin did and then we tied a rope to the handle bars and pulled it up and down the road with a pickup.
We finally gave up and loaded it in the back of the pickup and got ready to take it back to the Harley shop, 40 miles away.
I went in the house to take a leak and I heard the bike fire up.
I ran out side and my brother was on the bike in the back of the pickup, blipping the throttle. I asked what he did.

"I flipped this little switch on the handle bars that says "RUN" and "STOP" to run."


As I said, that's "ONE" of the stupid things I've done in my life.

Another time...


Oh never mind.

 

[firemanpat2910]

ok put me down for a # 5,9,10,26, couple of 40s,49,50 and a 57. Lots a dumb stuff, next act starts soon.

 

[Soundguy]

Remember.. life's a journey.. not a destination.. I'm always on the lookout for the next stupid thing I can do!

soundguy

 

[greggh]

Remember.. life's a journey.. not a destination.. I'm always on the lookout for the next stupid thing I can do!

soundguy

Well, I'm never on the lookout. They just seem to find me and catch me by surprise. Though always my fault...