DUMMY, DUMMY, DUMMY

jfdlaw · Dec 6, 2004

Hey Bob, your vandals were at my house a few months ago. They banged up my garage door and trim. Funny how the marks they made match the top of my ROPS. Almost like someone drove my tractor into the garage with the ROPS up. Will you back me up with my wife? She still thinks I did it.

RobS · Dec 6, 2004

Yeah, I'm still looking for the guy with a back blade very similar to mine. Left a nice dent in the garage door trim last year during snow season. Not sure why he came all the way out just for that and didn't even bother to clear the driveway for me /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

milkman · Dec 6, 2004

It feels better, knowing I'm not alone, and I guess they're not really lost, the tin snips are in my new building. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

Bird · Dec 6, 2004

Jim, I had something very similar happen a few years ago. I spent the day cutting hay with the neighbor's old Oliver, and that evening discovered my wallet was missing from my hip pocket. I really got lucky; only spent about an hour and a half hunting for it before I found it, and like you, it was undamaged and not even anything missing from it. I really never expected to find it when I started hunting.

frank_f15 · Dec 6, 2004

( I guess they're not really lost, the tin snips are in my new building.
)
0H GREAT!!! u got the rest of these dummies to tell u all the dumb things they did, but i on the other hand only told you abut the dummy i know /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

SPIKER · Dec 6, 2004

there is a hunk of 2x6 attached to the barn of mine, it sticks out (actually INTO the garage about 1 ' ) and I was leveling some gravel, I was close to the new siding/grage door when I dropped the bucket rather quickly so I could back up leveling some more gravel. well I think I was about 8" away from the garage door, and well the clearance was a little less than expected, needless to say my 2 week old garage door trim got slightly wrinkeled. as it turns out when you have ~6 16 penny nails holding a 2x6 on to the side of the 6x6 post the nails are the first thing to give when a downward motion is placed on the extended 2x6 /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif the lifting edge of the 2x6 met slight resistance when it met that shinny new trim /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

Mark M

Todd_C · Dec 6, 2004

I don't know how my garage floor got a 24" long gouge. I think someone borrowed my tractor and forgot to lift the rear blade high enough when he drove out the door! I wish I could find this guy.

I have a friend who hit some ice last winter in front of his garage with his wife's suv. He didn't have to tell his wife about it because he drove into the living room. $14,000 later everything was fixed. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

sendero · Dec 6, 2004

LOL, these are great .....

They remind me of the time I didn't back over a garden hoe in my F150 and split a sidewall wide open.

Or the time I wasn't backing out of that same driveway, about the same spot (hexed?) and I let my wheels go just a foot off the crushed rock and it was raining and I wasn't stuck tight and I didn't go back up into the woods 20' trying to get a running start out and my wife didn't helpfully suggest I get the tractor and I didn't ignore her suggestion for 20 more minutes so I could'nt play in the mud, and I didn't spew a stream of profanities that would make a sailor blush /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

AndyM · Dec 6, 2004

( I didn't realise my tractor had a back seat?? )

I know where you can get one! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

hobbyfarm · Dec 6, 2004

I don't know if anyone ever noticed the orange cones that the telephone companies put around their trucks everytime they stop when they are out on service calls. That is so they can have the people walk around the vehicle before leaving and make sure that all the equipment is stowed properly and not left behind. It is these little habits that can keep you from losing tools and equipment.
Just my $0.02
phil

JoeR · Dec 6, 2004

This is great! Wait till I tell my brother about this thread! My brother decided to operate my tractor and backed into his car!! He comes into the house and tells me he accidentally backed the tractor into his car and it left a small ding. I responded, "I hope you didn't scratch my tractor!" 10 minutes later, my wife drives out to the store and calls me on the cell phone. She said, "your brother's car is in the front pasture and is has a BIG DENT in the back door!!!! I could see it from 300 feet away!!!" Now my brother drives his car and hears a whistle from the back door as a constant reminder to look back before backing up.

Joe

txdon · Dec 6, 2004

...And there's also those MANUFACTURER DEFECTS.

Did anyone know that they made a mistake when they made the Jeep Grand Cherokee.

The exact distance from the rear hatchback to the front windshield is exactly 9' 11 1/2", it should have been 10'.

I sacrificed my windshield to find their mistake when I closed the hatchback and the 10' electrical conduit just barely went through the front windshield.

I made a lot of people happy that day, everyone I passed was laughing. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

AND...... HP cameras will tend to jump out of your hand and make a sicking crash when they hit a hard floor.

AND.... Kubota really needs to have a glasses retainer on it's fender. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

graybeard451 · Dec 6, 2004

I'll have to go with the glasses holder attachment. I was unloading brush from the trailer and hit myself in the nose. Now I'm bleeding like a stuck pig so I put my glasses on the seat to try and stop the bleeding. After a while that wasn't happening, as I hadn't put a first aid kit on the tractor yet. So I decide to jump on the tractor and drive back to the house. OH, what was that noise? I'm now bleeding all over my new tractor and my glasses are in three peices, quite a sight if there had been anyone around. The worst problem was I was leaving the state the next day. So off to the mall to one of those one hour places to get new glasses with the band-aid on my nose.

milkman · Dec 6, 2004

Now if I just knew where to buy some orange cones /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

RobS · Dec 7, 2004

Now if I just knew where to buy some orange cones 

My kids had some for soccer... until (someone) ran over them /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

kensfarm · Dec 7, 2004

If you don't remember where the electric extension cords run or the water hose.. the FEL cuts them nicely when removing snow.

Bob_Skurka · Dec 7, 2004

If you don't remember where the electric extension cords run or the water hose.. the FEL cuts them nicely when removing snow. 

Somehow, and I really am not sure how, but somehow and someway, one of the water hoses got covered with snow and forgotten. The front snowblower on the Cub found that hose on a particularly bad day when the snow was really coming down hard. Now I don't even know who was driving the Cub, but they took a lot of time hand digging that hose out of the snow bank and hand wrapping it (TIGHT) around the auger blades of that blower unit. Heck, when I found it, it had choked the engine to a stop, broken a couple shear pins, and done a mess of minor damage that I really didn't want to deal with on a feezing cold sleeting-snowing day. I really wish I knew who did that one! But I'm still blaming the vandals.

Dutch445 · Dec 7, 2004

hmm,
ok, about 10 years ago i rented a small mini excavator to replace footer drains around a raised ranch house.. had some extra time after that project, so i decided to redo the drainage across the garage door opening, being a raised ranch the driveway sloped down to the house, where the garage was under half, and therefore water had a tendency to run down the driveway and collect there. as i was backfilling with the blade, the machine sort of stopped,, wouldn't go as far as i needed. i looked up, and noticed the boom pushing against the house above the garage door.. who put that boom on this machine anyway?

another oops was trailering a JD4110 with FEL and tiller. Using a 12' landscape trailer, I drove the tractor on, but had to hang the bucket over the front of the trailer just a bit. Went to back up, turned the wheel, and as the trailer turned the cutting edge on the bucket sliced open my tailgate just like a can-opener! About 10" worth. The wife (now ex)never found out about that one, took the tailgate off and dropped it at a body shop and picked it up a few weeks later, skimmed a bit off a few paychecks to pay for it.

easy how things can happen that you don't foresee,..

/forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

oliver28472 · Dec 7, 2004

Lost my wallet one day while sowing some fescue in the yard. Got off the Satoh Buck to unhook my drag harrow so I could ride the tractor and look for the wallet. Why walk when you can ride? I stepped in a dip in the yard, my prosthetic knee decided to bend when all my weight was on it. I went straight down on the leg and broke it in two pieces. Dang, it's getting dark. I call my wife who is at my cousin's son's little league ball game. (I know, it's the wrong time of year to sow fescue)Told the wife I lost my wallet and need help to find it before it gets dark and I broke my leg. She asks which one. At the time it was not a laughing matter. Unhooked the drag, get on the tractor and drive up to the front door, hobble in the house and remove what is left of the broke leg, use crutches back to the tractor, find the wallet and finish the job before she gets home.

LarryD · Dec 7, 2004

I just want to inform all that with a few metal working tools you can restore a garage door roller guide to almost its' original shape. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif