I am the dumbest human on TBN. Trust me.

HomeBrew2 · May 5, 2005

I had just rebuilt the motor ... who would have used a catch pan !?! /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

thcri · May 5, 2005

The only difference between you and everyone else is the fact your not afraid to admit to mistakes and errors. Unfortunately too many people would not have admitted to such a thing. We all learn by mistakes and in your case you learned and so did we. That is part of what TBN is all about. As far as my mistakes I have made many of them. In fact there was a post for every one to admit to their mistakes. You should see how long the post was. Just keep you chin up and keep pluggin away.

murph

Henro · May 5, 2005

I am the dumbest human on TBN. Trust me. 

Man...now I'm worried!

I don't have a clue what you are talking about. Never used a plow...

But I trust you. Now I have a problem. Guess I better grab a brew and try to figure out what I am...since obviously I am dumber than you, but also on TBN, and since you claim to be the dumbest human...and I believe you...hummmmmm...

Maybe the wife is right after all...when she calls me an animal... /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

thcri · May 5, 2005

( I am the dumbest human on TBN. Trust me. Guess I better grab a brew and try to figure out what I am...since obviously I am dumber than you, but also on TBN, and since you claim to be the dumbest human...and I believe you...hummmmmm...

Maybe the wife is right after all...when she calls me an animal... /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif )

Aww grab me one to Henro, I could help in this situation and the brew would be good for me too. Couple shakes of salt would be nice if your offering!! /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

Alan L. · May 5, 2005

One Saturday morning I went out out to the garage and noticed some kind of fluid leaking from my truck onto the floor. I crawled under there and looked closely. Strangely, the fluid appeared to be leaking not from the engine or radiator, but from a point under the passenger compartment. In fact it seemed to be just below the rear floorboard of my extended cab.

So I opened the back door and looked in the floorboard. There lay a plastic bag, empty of the ice it had held the night before.

I forgot to get it out and put it in the freezer after picking it up at the store.

Now thats stupid.

Soundguy · May 6, 2005

( But doesn't ease the pain of being the Big Donkey Head on TBN. Thanks for listening.
)

Come on in and join the crowd. Now your a member of the 'I did something stupid' club.. here's a key to the executive washroom /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

Don't feel bad. I bent the adjustable lift link on my yanmar 1700 while dinking with a box blad about oh.. 1 hour after I bought the darn thing /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

Like Bird says.. we've all got stories!

Soundguy

KubotaTrax · May 6, 2005

Yea, Don't feel bad about that. Thats light duty boo boo.
I'd be willing to bet that we all have done allot dumber things and wish we could forget!
Not that were stupid....just not thinking at the time of the stupid thing we just did.

/forums/images/graemlins/confused.gifHope no one saw that! lol

Indydirtfarmer · May 6, 2005

( I will make a long story short and say that I am really really stupid. I have been ***!#&!!* with my two bottom plow for a year. I have several previous posts revealing my stupidity. But only today did I realize that the reason I probably got it cheap and second hand, and the reason the last owner couldn't use it, was because the pins were reversed and the pin for the adjustable link was high, not low like it's supposed to be. TSC sold it to him crated, so they obviously (or King Kutter) assembled it wrong. How many times have I looked at plow photos? How many times should I have caught this?

You want some fun? Reverse the pins and try to plow. You'll want to shoot yourself. Fixed it today and MUCH better. But doesn't ease the pain of being the Big Donkey Head on TBN. Thanks for listening.
)

So... You think THAT makes you "stupid"?????

About 3 years back, I started looking for a 3 bottom plow for a tractor I'd just bought. I wanted a good one. It was to plow a big garden with every fall...

I ran on to a good looking Ford model 101, 3-bottomX16" plow at a local dealer I do business with. He said that there was "something wrong" with it. A good customer of his brought it in for some parts, and then brought it back to him a few weeks later to try and sell it for him.

So the story goes, the old man bought it at an auction where a Ford dealer was going out of business. (I think I MAY know why now) He never had much luck with it. The old guy would hook it to his tractor, and "drag it all over the field". It just wouldn't go in the ground....

So, he brought it to the dealer that'd been in business for 30 some-odd years... He tried a set of new shares. Still no luck. It was decided (after the old farmer and the old dealer both looked the plow over) that there was something "sprung" on the frame. It was "junk".

I looked at it close. (I'm an old farm boy myself.... Plowed literally THOUSANDS of acres over the years. I SHOULD know my way around a plow) I thought that if nothing else, I'd take it home and part it out to fix up another old Ford plow.

Before I took the torch to it, I thought I'd try it once myself. I hooked it up to the tractor. After a few failed attemts, I decided that there WAS something wrong with it....

I backed it into the shop. I got out the impact wrench to dismantle it.

SOMETHING JUST DOESN'T LOOK RIGHT.......

Then it hit me.... The off-set drawbar was on UPSIDE DOWN......(Just like yours!)

An old farmer with probably 50 years of plow experience missed it. The dealer and his mechanics with at least that much total experience missed it. And I ALMOST missed it....

I loosened 3 bolts, spun the drawbar around, and took it plowing.

Ended up being about the best set of plows I'd ever used......

And I HAD to tell the dealer about those "JUNK PLOWS" he sold me at junk price!

Laminarman · May 6, 2005

Indy

Glad to see you caught your setup earlier than did I. You would think at the end of last season, when only one board was shiny and turning soil, that I would have figured the second one wasn't supposed to just be along for the ride. When everyone here told me to "lay her level on level ground" and it ABSOLUTELY JUST WOULDN'T, you would have thought some of my remaining gray cells would have fired up. But I'm new to this, and lesson is learned. Can't wait to go tear up some sod!!

KiotiJohn · May 6, 2005

( When everyone here told me to "lay her level on level ground" and it ABSOLUTELY JUST WOULDN'T, you would have thought some of my remaining gray cells would have fired up. But I'm new to this, and lesson is learned. Can't wait to go tear up some sod!)
What you've done is to train yourself to look a little closer, to see more than you've been seeing. This will come in handy in the future when something "just isn't right" again. You'll be looking for that abstract thing that's getting by you somehow, and you'll find it. Good lesson, not stupid.
John