Improper procedure

[ore540]

News item: Sometimes it is less expensive to purchase the correct tools. Here a farmer has tried to avoid the cost of jackstands.

 

[daTeacha]

I thought that might have been the result of improper passing by the race combine.

 

[RonR]

Growing up on the farm, we always knew to park any pickups in plain view of the combines--never behind them. And usually we'd put them where the combines were not likely to travel.

ron

 

[dgl24087]

I think you're both wrong, it's the Summer Combine Olympics, and that was the Pickup Truck Jumping competition.

 

[sandman2234]

Almost looks like a set of 1978 3500 Bowtie Jackstands.
David from jax

 

[john_bud]

I noticed that the combine is only properly supported by the left rear wheel. Hope the safety police give him a ticket as it's just not safe with the right rear only partly supported!

Either that or it's a bad result of watching NASCAR and trying to bump draft a combine so it harvests faster.....

jb

 

[gordon21]

That may be the best use for a Chevy I have ever seen!!



Notice to Chevy owners: This was a joke. Don't fire up your flamethrowers...

We had another thread get real ugly in the last day or so. This was meant in fun. You Chevy guys could make fun of a Ford in a situation like this if you wanted to and it would not bother me.



Notice to TBN'ers who know how to use Photoshop:

We have already seen the Chevy. It will be very susupicious if another pix shows up with a Ford under the same combine....................

 

[mjarrels]

May have been the only way to use the "farm use only" truck and still claim a tax deduction?

mark

 

[dirtworksequip]

Thats the best method to do a grease job on both the truck and the combine and not have to lay on the ground. Makes U-joints real easy to get to.

Sincerely, Dirt

 

[Z-Michigan]

Notice to TBN'ers who know how to use Photoshop:

We have already seen the Chevy. It will be very susupicious if another pix shows up with a Ford under the same combine....................

Gordon, there IS a Ford underneath the combine.... it's just below the Chevy. You just have to look closer for the little blue line between the Chevy and the earth (it's hidden by the grass to some extent).

 

[wedge40]

That may be the best use for a Chevy I have ever seen!!



Notice to Chevy owners: This was a joke. Don't fire up your flamethrowers...

We had another thread get real ugly in the last day or so. This was meant in fun. You Chevy guys could make fun of a Ford in a situation like this if you wanted to and it would not bother me.



Notice to TBN'ers who know how to use Photoshop:

We have already seen the Chevy. It will be very susupicious if another pix shows up with a Ford under the same combine....................

Ya but wouldn't a Ford owner know where he should park his truck?

Sorry .. Couldn't resist.

Wedge

 

[gordon21]

Mighty big talk from a man with a blue tractor.

 

[sandman2234]

I am the one that called the Chevy a set of bowtie jackstands, and there are three Chevy's in my driveway. The only Fords are out back, either with a pto on it, or a flatbed and jib-crane on the back.
Guess I can handle a little good natured fun!
David from jax

 

[john_bud]

Ya but wouldn't a Ford owner know where he should park his truck?

Sorry .. Couldn't resist.

Wedge

They usually park in the "no door" area....


jb

 

[4720 OWNER]

GPS gone bad. REAL BAD!

 

[daTeacha]

Maybe if the truck was a ummmm, Dodge the whole thing wouldn't have happened at all.

Fords are pretty popular around here, but the big Mopars with the Cummins engines are probably seen at least as much with Farm plates on them. On the compact side, the Dakotas see more use as errand running trucks while the Chevy/GM, import and Ford compacts seem to appeal more to the non-farming country living types. Maybe it's cause the Dakota's are just a little bigger.

 

[pennwalk]

You Chevy guys could make fun of a Ford in a situation like this if you wanted to and it would not bother me.



Sure LG but are you saying that because you drive a Dodge?
I'm still wondering how they did that. Maybe they were on the phone when they hit the bump and didn't hardly notice it. Have ipods hit farm country?

Chris

 

[daTeacha]

I showed it to the ag teacher. He said he had seen it before and there are other pictures out there that are similar, some worse. Kind of makes you wonder about enncountering one those combines when driving down narrow country roads.

 

[john_bud]

Rich, that's why the combine drivers carry long pry bars. So they can pry your crumpled car out of thier wheel well.

jb

 

[Z-Michigan]

About a month ago in Detroit's outer suburbs a murderer (there were multiple eyewitnesses and no doubt) fleeing police managed to drive a stolen Lexus SUV into the front of a combine. Murderer 0, combine 1. The SUV was wrecked, the murderer got his just reward, and the combine appeared to need little more than a crowbar and a wash.

Moral: don't drive into combines at high speed.