Ever had one of "those" days?

[Fuddyduddy1952]

Recently a few trees blew down near the creek onto a pasture so I cut everything in 12ft lengths. Then I use a tractor with winch hauling them to a ravine that worked until cable snapped. So then I put the grapple on.
This was fantastic until apparently a limb snapped a hydraulic hose.
I get another tractor with a trailer and that runs out of gas at the exact farthest point so a long hike (gas gauge showed full).
I had two other trees to cut but of course no matter what that saw wouldn't start so another hike. The one tree in the middle of briars & poison ivy & I'm wearing short pants...but I brought soap to wash in creek by sitting on a big rock.
Did you know crayfish like big rocks?
By now I've had enough especially watching my socks float downstream to the neighbors lake.
So I go back to the tractor which won't start. A new battery and it won't crank, so another hike getting the wife and truck. Now it's lightning really bad and she's yelling over top of the thunder. But that tractor had a winch I could tow with except that broke also. Thankfully (???) she pulled it enough so I pop started tractor, and across the creek up the steep hill she goes still bi tching.
I unload the trailer, hamburger legs and heading back with dim headlights I see black & white rags up ahead flipping around. Wait??? Rags flipping? Well, getting off the tractor to see what it was I realized it was two skunks mating!
So the end to "what a day!" and all this broken stuff in garage floor.
Anyone have days like that? Is it the moon phase or what!?!

 

[Mtsoxfan]

Damn, is that all? All that would put me in my chair for the night with a beverage of choice...
Tomorrow is going to be a better day...

 

[Jstpssng]

You would not see me doing much of you describe wearing shorts. Aside from that; yeah, sometimes every day is Monday the 13th.

 

[civilian]

Recently a few trees blew down near the creek onto a pasture so I cut everything in 12ft lengths. Then I use a tractor with winch hauling them to a ravine that worked until cable snapped. So then I put the grapple on.
This was fantastic until apparently a limb snapped a hydraulic hose.
I get another tractor with a trailer and that runs out of gas at the exact farthest point so a long hike (gas gauge showed full).
I had two other trees to cut but of course no matter what that saw wouldn't start so another hike. The one tree in the middle of briars & poison ivy & I'm wearing short pants...but I brought soap to wash in creek by sitting on a big rock.
Did you know crayfish like big rocks?
By now I've had enough especially watching my socks float downstream to the neighbors lake.
So I go back to the tractor which won't start. A new battery and it won't crank, so another hike getting the wife and truck. Now it's lightning really bad and she's yelling over top of the thunder. But that tractor had a winch I could tow with except that broke also. Thankfully (???) she pulled it enough so I pop started tractor, and across the creek up the steep hill she goes still bi tching.
I unload the trailer, hamburger legs and heading back with dim headlights I see black & white rags up ahead flipping around. Wait??? Rags flipping? Well, getting off the tractor to see what it was I realized it was two skunks mating!
So the end to "what a day!" and all this broken stuff in garage floor.
Anyone have days like that? Is it the moon phase or what!?!
View attachment 3784908

Should have been in the "Humor" thread. Jon

 

[5030]

Yesterday sucked. Keeps raining here and the sheeters are wicked, despite the bats and barn swallows. Go outside and give a pint unwillingly....

 

[2manyrocks]

When a bunch of things go wrong, usually better to stop and regroup for another day when we are better prepared to deal with it. Lots of bad accidents happen when we are frustrated.

 

[ponytug]

When a bunch of things go wrong, usually better to stop and regroup for another day when we are better prepared to deal with it. Lots of bad accidents happen when we are frustrated.

Wisdom!

I can't count the number of times I ignored that before learning, (at least sometimes! ) that it is better to come back fresh, and I have the scars to prove it.

All the best,

Peter

 

[thclimer]

Oh my, that's a lot of bad luck in one day, glad you got it all out of your system!

 

[LittleBill21]

that seems like a weekly thing for me anymore

 

[beckmurph]

It went from this:
A Beautiful day bush hogging


To this:


Got to close to the ditch trying to leave.

 

[Dftodd]

It went from this:
A Beautiful day bush hogging


To this:


Got to close to the ditch trying to leave.

Thats a pretty large wrecker. What were you driving???

We buried a forklift once and had to have a semi tow truck come over to winch it out.

Dude was literally a block down the road. $900

 

[ponytug]

A few years back, we were out riding our horses, and I noticed something shiny about 1000' down the hillside, across the valley in a ravine and I could not imagine how the car got there, and what state the driver was in. We could tell that there was no way it was visible from the road, so we radioed it into the rangers.

Apparently, a guy pulled into one of the road scenic pullouts to take a picture, got out of his car...and you can guess the rest.

He forgot to put the car in park or shut it off, and while he was taking his photo, in slow motion the car rolled off the edge, and drove more or less straight down the ravine.

It took most of the day and three large semi-wreckers, using all of the cables that they had to fish the car back up. I have no idea what that tow bill was, but I'd be very surprised if the car wasn't totaled out.

I was just happy nobody was in it.

A few years later, we had a little old lady drive off the edge of the same road, dropping only 30' or so, but the car wasn't totaled invisible from the road she was on, and it was a week before a rancher checking on his cattle happen to see the car. I heard that she survived, but spent time in the hospital; not bad for an eighty plus year old.

All the best,

Peter

 

[beckmurph]

Thats a pretty large wrecker. What were you driving???

We buried a forklift once and had to have a semi tow truck come over to winch it out.

Dude was literally a block down the road. $900

I told the operator I would need to rob a bank to pay for this mistake.

He said it was the only equipment available at the time. Same price as a roll back.

 

[Dftodd]

I told the operator I would need to rob a bank to pay for this mistake.

He said it was the only equipment available at the time. Same price as a roll back.

You got lucky... we were told it didn't leave the yard for less than $900. .

He tried the smaller truck first, but it didn't have the Butt to get the forklift out.

So he ran back to the shop for Matilda

 

[part-time-Farmer-NC]

WHen I have the makings for those kinda days (when everything touched turns brown), I have been known to just stop. Tackle things for another day...

 

[1 Old Man]

Fuddyduddy1952,
Murphy's Law. He threw the book at you.

 

[grsthegreat]

Your day was worst than mine last weekish……

Was chipping trees after wrangling tractor to exact part i wanted, then boom. Feed belt breaks.

Had to pack everything up and haul it out with side by side than go get tractor.

Went to dump logs in back of side by side and wife breaks off shift lever. Didnt know kawasaki shift lever was hollow.

I had a few other chores to do, but after this mess cancelled those and spent about 2 hours rounding up and replacing feed belt.

Than spent rest of day tearing apart the front end of the Kawasaki mule and making myself a new shift lever out of spare parts i could find. I didnt want to buy another factory hollow one. I made one out of solid 1/2” rod. Looks like original after i was done. Could not believe how long it took to get that mule torn apart. Never seen so many fasteners.

That was on a saturday. Sunday was spent watching TV. Figured i couldnt break a chair and tv.

 

[gsganzer]

You would not see me doing much of you describe wearing shorts. Aside from that; yeah, sometimes every day is Monday the 13th.

Agree. Sometimes shorts aren't the best choice. I know I can overheat really easy, but I never run a chainsaw or some other at-risk tasks in shorts.

 

[Jstpssng]

Agree. Sometimes shorts aren't the best choice. I know I can overheat really easy, but I never run a chainsaw or some other at-risk tasks in shorts.

Unless I'm on the woodpile, I won't even start my saw without putting chaps on.
Then again if I hadn't been wearing them one day back in my R/W maintenance days they'd be calling me Stumpy.

 

[Dftodd]

WHen I have the makings for those kinda days (when everything touched turns brown), I have been known to just stop. Tackle things for another day...

If something i'm working on goes together way too smoothly, I know I should stop and call it a day.

If I keep going, that gremlin is fixing to show up and make my day absolutely miserable.