RDrancher
Veteran Member
Apparently quite a few. We all make mistakes and some of us (me) need to learn by making those mistakes. Maybe we can learn a few things NOT to do from this poor guys experience.
This morning I was sitting in front of the picture window enjoying a hot cup-o-joe. A truck towing a new trailer pulls into my neighbor's place across the road. There's a nice new cabbed Kubota on the trailer with a disc attached. The neighbor is a renter and likes to have a garden, so I figure that that is what the guy is there to do. I recognize the truck as belonging to the guy that bush hogs the neighbor's pasture with his little tractor (chinese I believe.) So I'm thinking, nice new tractor and good for him!
But I'm also thinking that the clay is too saturated from recent rains to be discing, especially with a 2WD tractor. I also noticed that the disc is a bit narrower than the tractor.
The guy pulls out to the garden area and starts discing, makes maybe six passes and starts heading back to his trailer. Ah...he just realized that it's too wet.
So he jumps in his truck and proceeds to turn around across the saturated pasture. He'll regret that come summer mowing time! Seems it would have been better to back out of the driveway onto the road to turn around. But that's just my two cents. Maybe he's not comfortable backing up a gooseneck yet.
He pulls his tractor up to the trailer, but he's at quite an angle and has the wheels cocked. As he starts up the ramps the front end of the tractor gets REALLY light, swings sideways and off the ramps he goes! Scared the cr*p outta me!
So he pulls his trailer out onto the pavement and then hops into the tractor and drives it out to load. The disc is packed with gumbo and he's dropping it all over the road behind him. When he starts up the trailer ramps the disc is dragging on the asphalt with big chunks of clay and grass falling off, but this time he actually makes it up the ramps safely. Would have been a good idea to clean off the disc before pulling out onto the road. Shortening up the top link would have kept the disc from dragging on the asphalt as well.
As the guy is putting up his trailer ramps he looks at the mess he left and hurries to his truck and drives away. He looked pretty flustered.
Oh...I almost forgot the best (worst) part...he drove off without chaining his tractor down!
This morning I was sitting in front of the picture window enjoying a hot cup-o-joe. A truck towing a new trailer pulls into my neighbor's place across the road. There's a nice new cabbed Kubota on the trailer with a disc attached. The neighbor is a renter and likes to have a garden, so I figure that that is what the guy is there to do. I recognize the truck as belonging to the guy that bush hogs the neighbor's pasture with his little tractor (chinese I believe.) So I'm thinking, nice new tractor and good for him!
But I'm also thinking that the clay is too saturated from recent rains to be discing, especially with a 2WD tractor. I also noticed that the disc is a bit narrower than the tractor.
The guy pulls out to the garden area and starts discing, makes maybe six passes and starts heading back to his trailer. Ah...he just realized that it's too wet.
So he jumps in his truck and proceeds to turn around across the saturated pasture. He'll regret that come summer mowing time! Seems it would have been better to back out of the driveway onto the road to turn around. But that's just my two cents. Maybe he's not comfortable backing up a gooseneck yet.
He pulls his tractor up to the trailer, but he's at quite an angle and has the wheels cocked. As he starts up the ramps the front end of the tractor gets REALLY light, swings sideways and off the ramps he goes! Scared the cr*p outta me!
So he pulls his trailer out onto the pavement and then hops into the tractor and drives it out to load. The disc is packed with gumbo and he's dropping it all over the road behind him. When he starts up the trailer ramps the disc is dragging on the asphalt with big chunks of clay and grass falling off, but this time he actually makes it up the ramps safely. Would have been a good idea to clean off the disc before pulling out onto the road. Shortening up the top link would have kept the disc from dragging on the asphalt as well.
As the guy is putting up his trailer ramps he looks at the mess he left and hurries to his truck and drives away. He looked pretty flustered.
Oh...I almost forgot the best (worst) part...he drove off without chaining his tractor down!
