Idiot award for the week

[bunyip]

And I declare myself the winner, was grading the driveway and moved to a paddock where my wife had a coffee for me, turned the ttractor off, dropped the bucket and 3PL, took out earplugs and had a drink without getting of the tractor.
10 minutes passed and time to start up, earplugs in, fire up, bucket up and try to rverse, just wheel spinning and not going anywhere, drop it into 4WD and the same response, ground is flat and firm with a bit of loose dirt and I am just burrowing down.
Trying to work out what is going on and I realise that I have the grader blade down, feel a complete fool and Mrs is laughing.
Raise 3PL and make it much easier to move.

 

[davidcbaker]

And I declare myself the winner, was grading the driveway and moved to a paddock where my wife had a coffee for me, turned the ttractor off, dropped the bucket and 3PL, took out earplugs and had a drink without getting of the tractor.
10 minutes passed and time to start up, earplugs in, fire up, bucket up and try to rverse, just wheel spinning and not going anywhere, drop it into 4WD and the same response, ground is flat and firm with a bit of loose dirt and I am just burrowing down.
Trying to work out what is going on and I realise that I have the grader blade down, feel a complete fool and Mrs is laughing.
Raise 3PL and make it much easier to move.

That's pretty tame compared to the stuff I've done.

 

[4570Man]

I usually shut the tractor off before I drop the implement and immediately return the lever to the up position. Otherwise I forget to raise it every time.

 

[Aquamoose]

I usually shut the tractor off before I drop the implement and immediately return the lever to the up position. Otherwise I forget to raise it every time.

Smart advice!!! I’ll do that as I forget from time to time.

 

[Wagtail]

Nah, that's a typical occurrence Mate... 3-4 separate occasions I've blissfully dragged my ballast box around a paddock.

And I'm not going to fool myself as I'll probably do it again in the future.

 

[widefat]

Yep, regular occurrence when I have my box blade on.

 

[Jim Shooz]

You get coffee delivered.........wow

 

[oldballs]

I thought sure the brake was engaged. Yet leaving the Grader Blade down is just as funny. I did that once with a Box Blade and ripped up an un planned place.

Have you drove into the garage door header yet with the ROPS ups?

Cheers,
bunyip

 

[Thomas]

Had my moments over the years...many.

 

[mikester]

I don't know if you've won.

I was doing some backhoe work, raised jacks and locked the boom. I didn't notice that the one jack had it's valve "slightly" engaged while I started doing loader work. At one point I was backing up thinking my machine wasn't responding as it should when I realized I had a 50 foot skid mark in the grass and I was driving backwards with one jack down.

Unfortunately for me the way I was turned in my seat and looking behind me while driving I didn't see that one jack dropping.

 

[diesel85]

I've done this too on a number of occasions. Along with leaving the parking brake on while mowing. <-- When I get my new tractor I want a dummy light saying duh, the parking brake is on!

The best one was with the box blade, I ripped up a nice chunk of grass in my front yard.

Then during the winter I forget to lift the snow blower sometimes and start going forward... helps if I lift it up.

 

[Jchonline]

Mental note for my future endeavors ....coffee before tractor work

 

[PILOON]

This one take the prize.

A relative and his wife were having a heated discussion returning from a bike ride.
He , as usual, drove his car into their garage using his remote door controller.
Problem was their 2 bikes were mounted on a roof rack.

The 'spat' was very costly!

 

[BubbaJr]

Back in 2001 I was clearing ground and cutting trees to get ready for the builders to build our house. One day I cut down a walnut tree about 40' long and about 3' in diameter. I limbed it up, chained it to my tractor and dragged it about 150 yards uphill to where I had my splitter. My plan was to buck it up, then split the wood to use in our new fireplace after we moved in.

I got to the splitter, unhooked the chain, then started to move the tractor. It seemed strange that it felt like I still had the tree hooked up, I looked back and it was where I put it. Then I realized that I had just drug that tree there with the parking brakes engaged. Sadly I didn't learn my lesson. Over the years I repeated that feat dozens of times. I've even done it a couple of times with my new tractor. :banghead:

 

[bunyip]

Have you drove into the garage door header yet with the ROPS ups?

Cheers,
bunyip

yes, twice

 

[CincyFlyer]

I drove about 50 feet across the lawn without raising my sub-soiler. But I really meant to do it, honest!

 

[ccsial]

I usually shut the tractor off before I drop the implement and immediately return the lever to the up position. Otherwise I forget to raise it every time.

Exactly what I do.

 

[PhysAssist]

yes, twice

Which is why, after 2 near-misses with the temporary tent-garage, we built our barn with 16' height at the eves- so we could fit a 10' tall roll-up door in the gable end.

Plenty of ROPS room for any tractor we're ever going to own...

 

[PhysAssist]

Exactly what I do.

But doesn't that make the 3-pt SNAP up as soon as the motor catches?

My SWMBO has done that a couple of times on start-up, and startled the brown out of herself...

 

[mikester]

I drove about 50 feet across the lawn without raising my sub-soiler. But I really meant to do it, honest!

At least you can say you aerated the lawn!