Lost my cell phone

Gauntlet · Aug 4, 2011

We were up to our camp yesterday and I finally got around to mowing a trail I like to keep open with my B3200 with a 5' RC. Wife was well behind me walking along with a pair of pruners, trimming stuff back. I got back to a small shallow creek that the trail normally cross's and found that beavers had recently dammed it up and made a good sized pond. So as I am sitting there sizing up the new project of removing the dam, the wife catches up to me. After a few minutes of discussion and seeing how I can clear out this new dam, she decides to get into the bucket so she won't get wet while crossing the stream to finish clearing the trail. Well, I start to cross and it is now as deep as the front tires on my B3200, so I raised the bucket a little more. All of a sudden, the front tires hit something underwater, I come to a complete stop and the wife gets launched off and kerplunk she goes. :thumbsup: After seeing she was alright, I grabbed my cell phone to take a quick picture. She wades over to me and snatched my phone and threw it into the water?

I told her the story is no good without pictures.

Farmwithjunk · Aug 4, 2011

Gauntlet said:
We were up to our camp yesterday and I finally got around to mowing a trail I like to keep open with my B3200 with a 5' RC. Wife was well behind me walking along with a pair of pruners, trimming stuff back. I got back to a small shallow creek that the trail normally cross's and found that beavers had recently dammed it up and made a good sized pond. So as I am sitting there sizing up the new project of removing the dam, the wife catches up to me. After a few minutes of discussion and seeing how I can clear out this new dam, she decides to get into the bucket so she won't get wet while crossing the stream to finish clearing the trail. Well, I start to cross and it is now as deep as the front tires on my B3200, so I raised the bucket a little more. All of a sudden, the front tires hit something underwater, I come to a complete stop and the wife gets launched off and kerplunk she goes. :thumbsup: After seeing she was alright, I grabbed my cell phone to take a quick picture. She wades over to me and snatched my phone and threw it into the water? I told her the story is no good without pictures.

Consider yourself lucky.....Had I done that to MY wife, I'd have lost TWO of something a lot more "near and dear" than a cell phone.....if you know what I mean....

Glad everything (except for the phone) turned out OK....

TripleR · Aug 4, 2011

So let me see if I get this right. You have your wife in the bucket over over the water and your front tire hit "something" in the stream and she gets dumped and the first thing you think of is to take her picture. Only way to safely take a picture in that circumstance is over your shoulder while you are running away.:laughing:

johnrex62 · Aug 4, 2011

Another choir member here. Regardless of intentions or quantities of apologetic platitudes, the incident would never be known unless my body was located and that would be very unlikely if she had access to a rotary cutter and a FEL.

jonyyuma · Aug 4, 2011

Consider your-self fortunate, you could have suffered a lot more for your adventure..

not2old · Aug 4, 2011

I disagree, the story was great without pictures and I plan on learning that lesson the easy way. Thanks

Hooked_on_HP · Aug 4, 2011

I bet if we ask your wife she would tell us the you were crossing the creek andthat you intentionally dumped her out of the bucket.

Bill

groundcover · Aug 4, 2011

May have to repost this in the safety forum !:laughing:
You did the right thing , pictures first !:thumbsup:
At least you didn't get any beaver wise cracks !

robbyr · Aug 5, 2011

I hope you had a crappy ghetto fone like i do. Almost tempted to throw mine in a pond. Oh wait, we are in a drought and dont have ponds. Thanks for the laff.