What's wrong with this picture....

HuskerInVA · Dec 18, 2006

Check this out. The pic is on dealers page to buy the tractor in picture.

Get a great used tractor. It's only maimed 3 out of 4 reckless users....

schmism · Dec 18, 2006

lets air on the side of caution and assume that that pic was posed and the auger wasnt actually turning when they snapped the pic

dirtworksequip · Dec 18, 2006

HOW MANY IDIOTS DOES IT TAKE TO AUGER A HOLE???

thingy · Dec 18, 2006

Well,that reminded me of,,,me,,,this summer,,,,borrowed my neighbors auger,,hooked it up,,got her turn good,,but it just wouldn't go down more than 6 inches or so,,now I'm all by myself,,get of tractor,with tractor running and auger turning at speed,jump on the lift arms like those guys are,and auger went down,moved tractor and repeated,,,worked great,,,and to top it off,,his post hole driller didn't have a safety cover over drive line,,yeah,mans gotta do what a mans gotta do,,,thingy

Gatorboy · Dec 18, 2006

It's hard to tell for the picture is so small.

daveinpoway · Dec 18, 2006

Sort of reminds me of something I saw awhile back (can't locate it on the Internet right now) showing one forklift lifting another one in some factory. Some guys were hanging onto the forklift that was not on the ground. Didn't appear to be OSHA-approved!

Hold the presses! I just saw the picture on this site. Under "Using bucket as work platform", a link to the picture is in post #2 by knute_m.

RobJ · Dec 18, 2006

dirtworksequip said:
HOW MANY IDIOTS DOES IT TAKE TO AUGER A HOLE???

then I'd say yall haven't used an auger very much if at all. maybe only digging in sand. try some hard pan or clay. some augers i've seen do come with a long lever type pole.

rob

Dusty · Dec 18, 2006

thingy said:
Well,that reminded me of,,,me,,,this summer,,,,borrowed my neighbors auger,,hooked it up,,got her turn good,,but it just wouldn't go down more than 6 inches or so,,now I'm all by myself,,get of tractor,with tractor running and auger turning at speed,jump on the lift arms like those guys are,and auger went down,moved tractor and repeated,,,worked great,,,and to top it off,,his post hole driller didn't have a safety cover over drive line,,yeah,mans gotta do what a mans gotta do,,,thingy

thingy...... how about a bunch of us on TBN pool our money and buy a multi million dollar insurance policy on you. From some of the things that you say that you have done, I am beginning to be inclined to believe that our chances of collecting on the policy are greater than our chances of winning the lottery. If you want to live to a ripe old age, you better start taking better care of yourself. We don't want to be reading about you in the Safety Forum.
Dusty

WhyNot · Dec 18, 2006

Well I'm guilty. You guy's may be surprised how many people do this. It may not be the safest thing but neither is letting your animals roam the streets.

thingy · Dec 18, 2006

Dusty,thanks,and I mean it.Never figured I'd live this long thats for sure,but I am a lot more carefull now than I used to be. Yeah,when I did that I was thinking to myself,that this ain't the brightest thing I have ever done,,that drive line not covered was the worst part,part of it was,but seems like I was looking pretty close to a part of it and a u joint that wasn't,first time I ever used one too,,,like I said,it worked great after I got off tractor and put 260 lbs on lift arm,even rocked it back and forth a little,,,it was august and dry here,,plus about 9-10 inches down was shale,,,but like I said,sometimes a mans gotta do what a mans gotta do. thingy