zoltanthegypsy
Gold Member
Must have been the same driver that showed up at my house. No harm, no foul, but close.
There should be a section entitled "Hope nobody saw me do that!"
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jonyyuma
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OMG, that is a good one too???
How come this "fully raising the stabilizer" thing so hard for me? I was finished trying out the new Bro-Tek tooth and needed to move to another area. I was turned in the seat and fully pressed both stabilizers to raise them. Of course the stabilizer on my blind side some unknown reason didn't fully raise. The one in my vision was fully up, so off I go with basically a metal wing on my right.
Ya know tractors are made of some pretty stout metal and well fortunately I just scraped my entrance gate. Could have been very bad!
Ya know tractors are made of some pretty stout metal and well fortunately I just scraped my entrance gate. Could have been very bad!
AJRAPTOR
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ChuckinNH
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As the head of the Engineering department where I worked often said. "We don't have problems. We have situations, and conditions". If you get a little creative you can cover a lot of things with just those two words.
EE_Bota
Veteran Member
I was splitting wood with a new splitter, and putting the splits into the bucket of the FEL. The tractor was down a slight hill. I had been working like a Trojan all day, and moving mountains. Time to back the tractor with bucket full of wood up, and unload for the nth time.
While turning, it felt funny...but I kept going. Finally got off to look, and one of the rounds had rolled down the hill, and was trapped between the BX2200 tractor, and the ground. No problem...I have my fresh built body armor on, and its stout..so what can it hurt?
Why is this not working?
It feels like I'm sinking! What in the world! "Do I hear a hiss?"
That round unseated my rear tire, and all the fluid spilled out!
I felt pretty stupid ...and then I remembered my new philosophy about such things "let yourself up, let yourself live, treat yourself like a friend, not an enemy." Well that sure didn't work.:laughing: So I had to deploy my backup strategy...I said aloud in a nasty tone: "b****ing at yourself fixes what exactly?" That helped, (usually does) so back to work.
I was right near the garage, so I had that round out, and the tire reseated, and aired up in about 10 minutes. I'm thinking "only a GENIUS screws up next to a stocked garage! Even the air hose reaches! Yea, that's right you're a GENIUS. The guy who flattened the tire was sure an idiot though.":laughing:
A common theme in this thread is a) tired / frustrated b) tractor sounds / moves different, but we don't listen to what the tractor is telling us.
While turning, it felt funny...but I kept going. Finally got off to look, and one of the rounds had rolled down the hill, and was trapped between the BX2200 tractor, and the ground. No problem...I have my fresh built body armor on, and its stout..so what can it hurt?
Why is this not working?
It feels like I'm sinking! What in the world!
"Do I hear a hiss?"That round unseated my rear tire, and all the fluid spilled out!
I felt pretty stupid ...and then I remembered my new philosophy about such things "let yourself up, let yourself live, treat yourself like a friend, not an enemy." Well that sure didn't work.:laughing: So I had to deploy my backup strategy...I said aloud in a nasty tone: "b****ing at yourself fixes what exactly?" That helped, (usually does) so back to work.
I was right near the garage, so I had that round out, and the tire reseated, and aired up in about 10 minutes. I'm thinking "only a GENIUS screws up next to a stocked garage! Even the air hose reaches! Yea, that's right you're a GENIUS. The guy who flattened the tire was sure an idiot though.":laughing:
A common theme in this thread is a) tired / frustrated b) tractor sounds / moves different, but we don't listen to what the tractor is telling us.
Oh... Besides sinking my tractor past the rocker peddle.. I was carrying an oak log that was about 2'x12'. It was so heavy that when I was passing by my house, The weight of the log blew the valve stem out of the rim sending it INTO my vinyl siding. My wife came out of the house wondering what happened.. HAHAHAHA!!! OOPS!!! I had to patch the hole it made.
JCody
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I had a brand new garage and the trim on the side was aluminum. I put a nice 6-inch slice in that aluminum with my FEL within the first week. That was about 10 years ago. Someday I'm going to fix that slice.
zoltanthegypsy
Gold Member
EE, I wish you hadn't mentioned tree rounds. I had almost managed to forget this one.
I was lifting alder rounds out of the ditch and onto the driveway so I could muscle them into the pickup. This was pre-BX.
One of the rounds rolled under the truck. No big, I'll roll it out later. Of course I forgot about it. No big, it was small enough to roll under the truck in the first place, so what harm could it cause?
Thing is, a 1/2-ton Silverado is much closer to the ground when fully (over)loaded with alder. When I drove off it made some awful noises and tore the trailer wiring bracket off the hitch. Oh *bleep*!
Now that I think about it, maybe this thread should be renamed "Oh *bleep*!"
Z.
I was lifting alder rounds out of the ditch and onto the driveway so I could muscle them into the pickup. This was pre-BX.
One of the rounds rolled under the truck. No big, I'll roll it out later. Of course I forgot about it. No big, it was small enough to roll under the truck in the first place, so what harm could it cause?
Thing is, a 1/2-ton Silverado is much closer to the ground when fully (over)loaded with alder. When I drove off it made some awful noises and tore the trailer wiring bracket off the hitch. Oh *bleep*!
Now that I think about it, maybe this thread should be renamed "Oh *bleep*!"
Z.
crash325
Elite Member
Wanting to get the tongue on the sheep's foot turned over and it turned around. "All" the tools and electric cords were picked up, moved out of the way first.
For some reason 1 end of it pitched up about 5" and banged back down.
"ALL" the tools did not include a 25 year old "Black & Decker" 1/2" drill. Lucky for once, didn't hurt it a bit and it was used today. :thumbsup:
For some reason 1 end of it pitched up about 5" and banged back down.
"ALL" the tools did not include a 25 year old "Black & Decker" 1/2" drill. Lucky for once, didn't hurt it a bit and it was used today. :thumbsup:
