oombala
Bronze Member
i work for the local sheriff's dept. among other specialties i do there is i am on the dive recovery team. about 2 years ago i got a page saying a local wrecker company needed my help recovering a tractor at a golf course in the southern part of my county. seems an out of state company was contracted to remove the golf balls from the ponds. they had 2 b7100's with pto winches mounted at right angles to the driver,they would drive parallel to one another and pull this contraption with alluminum discs across the bottom that allows the balls to slip between the discs for collection. works fine except when your winch locks up and you cant hear your buddy yelling at you over the diesel !!!! they drag it back and forth as the drive along. one winch froze, the other didnt, no radios to talk on, the tractor with the working winch dragged the one with the frozen winch down the bank into about 14 feet of water. the driver being the dragee finally realized his buddy wasnt stoppping and jumped off after having the water up to his waist. when the submersible bota snagged a big stump the other guy stopped and looked back only to see his soaking wet partner shaking his fist at him unmericifully from across the pond. when i arrived i had to follow the winch cable down to the tractor, typically couldnt see my hand in front of my face,and came to an abrupt hault when i hit the lug nuts with my head. so i surfaced to get the wrecker cable only to be pelted with a golf ball as i crawled onto shore. seems the golf course didnt want to interrupt play and didnt shut down that hole. the players could see myself, and a large wrecker setting on the green but they didnt care. he got the message when i picked up his ball and threw it in the lake. he obviously didnt think a golf ball smashing into a tempered glass face mask was a big deal. i offered the owner of the tractor a reasonable figure to buy the tractor as is, but he wasnt in a bartering mood....
