You know you are a redneck when ...

[300UGUY]

I thought there would be some great stories on this thread .. I'm a little disappointed.

I've got quite a few stories, but one comes to mind.

I was told, that is if I cut the cat-tails, in the pond, below the water level, that would take care of them. So, I took the weed-whacker/brush cutter with the brush blade out in the boat to cut them off below the water level, thinking, the blade would have less drag. I stood up, and pulled the starter rope. I immediately fell in. The engine of the whacker was hanging from the edge of the boat. I waded out with wet wallet, etc..

There is one more, which has come to mind.

Had a decent size maple near the house, with most of the weight toward the house, which I wanted to saw down. Plus, it was right along side of the garage. I drove a stake in the ground, about 30 feet away and chained the tree to it with a come-a-long. As I sawed, I kept tightening the come-a-long. This would have worked fine, except as the tree started to fall, the chain no longer had any effect on it's trajectory. My hinge-cut was off by a couple of degrees, so a fair number of branches crashed down on the garage roof. No real damage, but I was embarrassed that my scheme didn't work better.

I had pretty much the same experience. I attached the tree to a 9K winch mounted on my truck. But once the tree bagan falling, the cable went slack, and didn't pull the tree quite the way I wanted. No real damage, but I now realize the winch cannot take up the slack that fast. I think hiring a guy with a bucket truck is my next scarey tree removal technique.)

 

[jonyyuma]

It probably felt like me when the tree started to pull the 8n backwards?

 

[tcreeley]

-"A couple of our local kids were out on their 3-wheelers shooting through the woods. It was getting dark and one of them was getting worried that he might run out of gas. Took the cover off the tank and looked in. Couldn't see nothing. So he figured he needed some light to see by. Pulled out his lighter, popped a flame and peered down into that tank. Boy you'd guess there was some gas in that tank! Took off his eyebrows and eyelashes. Don't think I'll be doing that again. We went to a buddy's house and got some gas."