Watch Overhead

[Bird]

This morning, our electric power flickered on and off, and I didn't think too much about it since it's not that unusual, except today there was no unusual weather. Then this afternoon, I went to visit a neighbor who was vaccinating and ear tagging some additional cows he bought yesterday, and learned what caused the power to flicker. He had rebuilt a feeder on skids; the type that cows can walk into on one side and calves can get into on the other side, but not a full grown cow. Then he was dragging it with the tractor to a pasture across the road from his house. He watched carefully to see that it fit through the gate and past a power pole, but forgot about the guy wire on that pole; ripped the back half of the roof off the feeder and shook a dozen or so power poles./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

 

[Harv]

When somebody named Bird tells me to watch overhead, you can bet I pay attention. /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

I can tell you your neighbor isn't the first one to hit/snag/drag something with one part of his tractor while carefully watching another. /w3tcompact/icons/tongue.gif

 

[Bird]

<font color=blue>your neighbor isn't the first one to hit/snag/drag </font color=blue>

Yeah, Harv, and it's only funny when someone else does it./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

 

[glennmac]

My first day on my first tractor, a BX, a was demonstrating my masterful maneuverability. I decided to go under a 30' ladder that was leaning against my house, which my sons were painting. I paused to worry about the superstition about going under ladders, and then mentally chastised myself for harboring such irrational thoughts. I danced that BX right between the ladder and the newly painted siding without getting a dab of gray paint on the orange. Unfortunately, I forgot about that thing arcing over my noggin--the ROPS. Sure enough, clang, and down comes the ladder.Thank goodness no one was on the ladder and it didn't come down on me.

 

[Thomas]

/w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif That guy should count his blessings,for he could have a real hot seat.

 

[MDNick]

I posted <A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.tractorbynet.com/cgi-bin/compact/showthreaded.pl?Cat=&Board=owning&Number=49370&Search=true&Forum=All_Forums&Words=guy%20wire&Match=Entire%20Phrase&Searchpage=0&Limit=50&Old=allposts&Main=48388> this </A> back in June, but it sure fits this thread.

 

[Mike_Dumond]

Hey Harv, that reminds me of a poem I heard a long time ago:

Birdie Birdie, in the sky,
dropped a t*****, in my eye
But I'm a boy, and boys don't cry,
But boys I'm glad, that cows don't fly.

 

[cowboydoc]

Oh that's not pleasant. I did that last year during harvest season. We were over helping a guy that had helped us and I forgot all about the elevator being up and jerked their power line right off the pole. Luckily the linesman that came out to fix it was one of my patients and he wrote it up as a default and it didn't cost me anything.

 

[dmccarty]

Bird,

When part of my land was being timbered the foreman told me a story about him, timber equipment and power lines.

The cutters they were using has tires at least 6 feet tall. The "saw" is a round disk danged near three feet in diameter and an inch or so thick. The machine is basically a tank used to cut down trees. He could run over a full size pickup truck and not really notice. Once they cut a tree they could hold the timber VERTICALLY as if it was still attached to the stump and move it as the wanted..... WOW! Saw them do it and I have pictures moving a 30+ inch oak. Very impressive equipment. Anyone seeing where this story is going? /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

The company was timbering some land near some big power lines. Not a little power line feeding a house but not a big transmission line on tall towers but a more medium size transmission line that had lots of power. The foreman got a bit confused where he was located, cut a tree and was moving it around a bit so he could drop the timber. Unfortunately he moved the tree through the power line! /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Nobody was hurt but it cost the timber company a pile of money to fix the power line and the foreman had to buy a new pair of underware and Levi's..... /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

When they timbered my property they were VERY careful of power lines! /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif In fact there are some trees they bought that where near some power lines. I still have the trees and the money! /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif The foreman has this thing about taking trees near power lines.... /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Later....
Dan

 

[Bird]

Dan, I've never actually seen a cutter like you described, but did see them on TV awhile back; very impressive. And I don't blame them from being leary of power lines; I am, too.