What is the dumbest thing you have done with your equipment ?

[jjeff]

Or replacing a fusible link with heavier gauge wire and not trouble shooting why it blew in the first place. It fried the entire lower harness on my L2850. had to get a custom built harness.$$$

 

[Jstpssng]

Using my equipments tracks or tires as a portable workbench. That was a speed square like top of pic in it's better days.

I always thought that speed squares came in two pieces... at least mine always look like the one in your picture.

 

[seville009]

Just saw this driving down my road this morning at a neighbors house - as I drove towards it, saw what looked like a utility truck working on some wires



Turned out to be a pick up truck pulling a trailer with a tractor with a backhoe on it. The "elbow" of the boom and stick had snagged and pulled out low hanging wires (not the power line at the top though)



Didn't look like anything broke, but the wires were definitely stretched. If they just untangled them from the backhoe, looks like the wires would be about six feet off the ground.



Going to be an expensive morning for someone....,

 

[jjeff]

I always thought that speed squares came in two pieces... at least mine always look like the one in your picture.

Not me I think some of the bigger ones are 2 piece, you call it a rafter square? Anyways its in several pieces these days sitting in the scrap bin.

 

[Fxfymn413]

Or replacing a fusible link with heavier gauge wire and not trouble shooting why it blew in the first place. It fried the entire lower harness on my L2850. had to get a custom built harness.$$$

When I was working part time as a boat mechanic one of our pet saying was "If you can't find out why the fuse is blowing put a prop pin in it and look for smoke,"

 

[dougtrr2]

When I was working part time as a boat mechanic one of our pet saying was "If you can't find out why the fuse is blowing put a prop pin in it and look for smoke,"

We had a similar saying in the military. "Replace the fuse with a nail and follow the burned wiring back to the faulty component."

Doug in SW IA

 

[jjeff]

We had a similar saying in the military. "Replace the fuse with a nail and follow the burned wiring back to the faulty component."

Doug in SW IA

The problem for me occured when the fried wire continued to fry the rest of the wires bundled in the harness.

 

[jjeff]

A few weeks ago I noticed a leak in the RV in my infinite wisdom I improperly drained the water heater. Did you know you can buy 2 residential ones for the price of a single 6 gallon motorhome one?

 

[marhar]

Sometimes one never learns from their mistakes. This one did not turn out bad but could have; I should have used the bigger truck. BTW theses are walnut I found on the farm, they were dead before I cut them.

 

[Raul-02]

digging shallow graves.

Jimi Hoffa Much?