What have you messed up, with your tractor? Including ROPS into garage...

[dieselcrawler]

Oh, they didnt eat anything... Just made a big mess.

 

[JRobyn]

We had a local barbeque joint smoke a turkey for us for Thanksgiving. Absolutely delicious. We stripped most of the meat off the carcass for meals but I couldn't bear to discard all the tasty shreds left, so the chunks of carcass went in a big stock pot in the downstairs fridge. A future turkey stroganoff! Of course, it was forgotten until about three weeks later. Not sure what wife was thinking, maybe to feed the local little furry critters that like partially rotted meat (possums, buzzards?) but she dumped it out about 20 yards behind the house in the woods. Anyway, (of course), the first time the dogs went out off-leash, one of them made a beeline for it. Several days of puking and diarrhea ensued.

Now returning you to your regularly scheduled thread.

 

[jenkinsph]

We had a local barbeque joint smoke a turkey for us for Thanksgiving. Absolutely delicious. We stripped most of the meat off the carcass for meals but I couldn't bear to discard all the tasty shreds left, so the chunks of carcass went in a big stock pot in the downstairs fridge. A future turkey stroganoff! Of course, it was forgotten until about three weeks later. Not sure what wife was thinking, maybe to feed the local little furry critters that like partially rotted meat (possums, buzzards?) but she dumped it out about 20 yards behind the house in the woods. Anyway, (of course), the first time the dogs went out off-leash, one of them made a beeline for it. Several days of puking and diarrhea ensued.

Now returning you to your regularly scheduled thread.

Hope she did not throw out turkey bones, that has killed many dogs.

 

[Argonne]

Just an hour ago I unloaded a tractor off of a trailer after making a $1200 trip to the tire shop, and proceeded to back my 9'6" high tractor into my shop with a 10' door that was only open to 8'11". Damage to door and tractor exhaust pipe. No pride damage, I gave up on that years ago.

One step forward, two steps back.

 

[bullebak]

A while ago, Sam, one of my neighbours who is not well-known for his safety habits... borrowed another neighbour's tractor and sometime during the day decided it was time for lunch.

When Sam came back, tractor was nowhere to be seen!

On looking futher, he saw the top of a ROPS sticking out of the water in the nearby dam.

Got it out eventually with the help of one or two other tractors, but the tractor owner was not very pleased. Sam argued it was the tractor's fault as he did put the handbreak on...

 

[bullebak]

That same Sam was helpine me spraying weeds once... when the 200l tank was empty he offered to get more water from his rainwater tank (with hindsight was much too dirty for agricultural spraying purposes).

Thee driveway to his property is steep and slippery in wet and dry weather (when dry, tractor wheels slip over the small pebbles). It already started to skid on the way in.

Going back out, I carefully drove my tractor in low gear maintaining a constant speed avoiding the gravel.

Near the exit where the driveway is steepest, he overtook me and directed me to go onto the gravel. That I declined because if the tractor would start slipping backwards, I would finish up 200m below in that same dam.

He said he was worried about the grass. He didn't speak to me for a year...

 

[PatrickS2222]

Sam argued it was the tractor's fault as he did put the handbreak on...

G'Day Mate A little familiarity can generate a lot of casualness! (Voice of experience - See Post 145).

Was it established whether the handbrake was indeed applied - once it was fished out of the dam?
Do you know what make and model it was?

I was driving my neighbour's TEA28 recently - the first tractor with a ROPS I've ever driven. It is home-built, super-duty and much higher than normal - inordinately high. It took me a full 2 minutes to tangle it up with a limb on a gum tree :shocked: and about another 2 minutes to get the pucker factor back in check. :confused2:

 

[beeforty]

I was loading wood chips into the bed of my old truck with the bucket high enough to clear the side when the dang gophers suddenly dug a hole in line with one of my wheels causing me to suddenly dent the top edge of the bed as the one wheel sunk down.

 

[buickanddeere]

Mrs B&D is on the warpath at the moment. Short story long , I made do and will pay for it. Kids had borrowed my balaclava so I tied the parka hood down tight to have less snow blown onto my face and neck. I had the loader up to clear the vehicles in the driveway and began a snow blower pass along side the house. I was turned around looking rearward which slid the parka hood over one eye . I over estimated my accuracy with one eyed depth of perception. Touched the new evetrough on the corner of the garage, crushed both the east-west and the north-south portions. She is so ticked off right now. Probably also has something to do with the block of firewood that rolled into the downspout while stacking the woodpile .

 

[sixdogs]

Here's one narrowly averted and I may have posted this in another thread at some point. I occasionally am moving pretty fast in the Spring and moving wide equipment in a hurry past the barn and such. Anyway, when I had wrapped up one year and was looking things over, I noticed I had nicked the metal barn siding by maybe 1/8" to 3/16" by what would have been a 16 ft wide heavy implement and going way too fast. It would have been pulled with a 90HP, 10,000 lb tractor in 4WD and could have easily taken some or part of that building down. It wouldn't be hard to see $10,000 worth of damage had I hit the building. Talk about a poster child for bad behavior.

Other than that I have never made any mistakes ever. :liar: