DUMMY, DUMMY, DUMMY

Gary_in_Indiana · Dec 7, 2004

"The shirt fragments in your photo are bright enough to look like a forensics team used luminol" 

Fortunately, there was no blood involved. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif It was just a very bright, sunny day the first week of June. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif It's been a whiile since we've seen one of those around here. /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

lrunge · Dec 8, 2004

I had the backhoe and FEL on the tractor and was going to put it in the barn. My brother parked a Ford F250 in in the driveway in front of the barn door. Very carefully I drove beside the Ford so I wouldn't hit it with the FEL. All of a sudden there was a loud CRUNCH. The Backhoe stabilizer pad took out the Fords rear light and smashed the metal in around it. I looked back and immediately hit the reverse pedal to stop the damage which caused the FEL (with tooth bar attached) to take out the passenger door. He wasn't happy.

chucko · Dec 8, 2004

I tend to quickly forget mistakes only to make the same one again
BUT my wife remembers EVERY one. I would put her on her to list them but it might be too much for the TBN servers

JDgreen227 · Dec 8, 2004

If not for this incident I would not have ANYTHING to contribute to this list of dumb things...(I wish).

Since our 2000 Yukon was new, we parked it in our garage, it has an overhead console with 3 buttons that you can program to replace the clip on remotes for a garage door opener. We used the center button for that purpose. Skip ahead to late 2004....sold our 1992 Olds and bought a new Buick Lesabre, used to keep the Olds in the barn about 180 feet directly north of the garage, now we keep the GMC in there so the Buick (wife's car) could go in the garage.

For years, used a clip on remote in the Olds to operate the overhead door in the barn, when we started parking the GMC there my wife wanted the "convenience" of using the console buttons to operate the barn door, so she programmed the console lefthand button and took the clip on remote out.

You can likely guess what this is leading to....want details? /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

About two weeks ago, we both left the house to run errands, we were going to meet at the bank to sign papers first, well I helped the wife take her stuff to the garage, then walked to the barn and opened the door with the keypad. Warmed the GMC up for a minute, drove out, and reached up to push the button on the overhead console to close the door. Now, after using the center button for four years, wouldn't you agree it would be rather automatic to push that one instead of the left hand button? 180 feet away, spouse was just backing out of the garage in her BRAND NEW CAR (130 miles) when I closed the door on her trunk lid...the door reversed, but badly scratched the paint on the top.

STOP LAUGHING...it was HER fault, she programmed the GMC remote, not me. But I still gotta pay for the repaint job.

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Dutch445 · Dec 8, 2004

( I looked back and immediately hit the reverse pedal to stop the damage which caused the FEL (with tooth bar attached) to take out the passenger door. He wasn't happy. )

OMG, tooooo funny,
video of that would certainly have been worth some money on the funny home video show!

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chucko · Dec 8, 2004

( ...it was HER fault )

I bet that is not the way SHE tells the story.
more like ......"I told him that I had changed the remotes and........"

Bob_Skurka · Dec 8, 2004

To everyone of us, or to nobody in particular . . . .

Does it strike anyone else that we, collectively, cannot be trusted to use or own heavy equipment? I'm not really sure if we are too stupid to operate what we own or if we are too careless or if we just get caught up in the moment, but we sure damage a lot of stuff with these tractors of ours. As a service to society in general, we really should be made to sell our tractors so that we do not further damage or destroy life or property.

And of course, in my case, I've never done anything wrong, I'm still sticking with the story that the neighborhood vandals did "it"

Bird · Dec 8, 2004

( we really should be made to sell our tractors so that we do not further damage or destroy life or property. )

Sounds logical . . . at first. The only problem is that whoever we sell them to may do more damage than we will, especially if they aren't members of TBN so they can learn from others. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

Bob_Skurka · Dec 8, 2004

Sounds logical . . . at first. The only problem is that whoever we sell them to may do more damage than we will, especially if they aren't members of TBN so they can learn from others. 

Bird, yet again your wisdom shines through like a beacon in the fog. We better keep these tractors of ours to make sure that others can do no harm with them!

RobS · Dec 8, 2004

I don't know Bob, with all the damage done by the vandals, miscreants and other mal-contents I feel much better having my tractor in my hands. As evidenced by this thread, any number of mis-fortunes can occur in the dark of night while we rest safely in our beds. Yes, that's it. It's all Santas elves joyriding on our machines causing all of this havoc. Think about it, they've got a lot of spare time on their hands.

Well, that's MY story anyway, and I'm definitely sticking with it /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

gcrabb · Dec 8, 2004

This is great reading!

Greg

GregMVT · Dec 8, 2004

( ( we really should be made to sell our tractors so that we do not further damage or destroy life or property. )

Sounds logical . . . at first. The only problem is that whoever we sell them to may do more damage than we will, especially if they aren't members of TBN so they can learn from others. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif )

This really sounds like justification to go and buy another tractor just to keep it out of "unsafe" hands!! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Gary_in_Indiana · Dec 8, 2004

"cannot be trusted to use or own heavy equipment" 

That should be the caption under my picture.

Golfgar4 · Dec 8, 2004

Gee, right about now I'm not feeling so bad about NOT having my tractor yet! /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

Bob_Skurka · Dec 8, 2004

Greg wrote: This really sounds like justification to go and buy another tractor just to keep it out of "unsafe" hands!! 

Garry wrote: I'm not feeling so bad about NOT having my tractor yet! 

I think that Greg is thinking along the same lines as Bird's prior wisdom. Those of us with tractors are actually performing a service to humankind. We might even be the very weak links that Darwin referred to in his treatice: The Evolution of the Species when he wrote of the how the smart & strong evolve to grow the species into a stronger one over time. Our misfortune is allowing others to grow evolve for the betterment of the human race. WE OWE IT TO ALL OTHERS TO GO OUT AND BUY YET ANOTHER TRACTOR!

Garry, on the other hand, seems to delight in our plight. But I'm sure if we pour a couple adult beverages down his throat there will be a story about how SOMEONE took out Funbuggy and did all sorts of mischief??? And Garry, I'm sure if everyone with a tractor follows up on Greg's idea, you will have to wait a while longer because those of us who follow his lead will be buying up all the available tractor inventory!

Golfgar4 · Dec 8, 2004

( Garry, on the other hand, seems to delight in our plight. )

No Bob, I'm not delighting in your plight.

With some of the stories the guys have posted, I'm just glad that I'm not participating in it !

( But I'm sure if we pour a couple adult beverages down his throat there will be a story about how SOMEONE took out Funbuggy and did all sorts of mischief??? )

Wouldn't take any beverages at all! I've refrained from contributing to this thread with some of my.....er......THE NEIGHBORS various exploits with vehicles/equipment because they're not tractors. Want to keep things in proper context, now don't we? /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

bczoom · Dec 8, 2004

A little twist, but I believe the end result is the same…

In the cases whereby it wasn’t acts of vandals, neighbors, etc. it was not us as drivers that committed these acts, it was the equipment. We didn’t put our hands, feet or otherwise through the walls, windows, cars nor did we step on the ladders, bury the chains, and dump our equipment out of the buckets… The equipment did it.

Take lgrunge’s experience as an example. The tractor did not heed the content of the saying “Do as I mean, not as I say” when it took out the window.

Apparently, our existing tractors are not as smart or wise as they should be and it is then obvious that as tractors go, the adage of “Age and treachery will overcome youth and skill” is not true.

Therefore, it seems evident that each of us must get a new, more intelligent tractor to tutor our existing, dim-witted older tractors.

I’m off to the store to get mine!! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

JDgreen227 · Dec 8, 2004

chucko....

What really hurts is that I was sitting in the passenger seat when she reprogrammed the overhead console in the Yukon...so I didn't have any defense except this:

About a month prior to the garage door incident she had backed the Yukon up and demolished the driver's side mirror against a concrete post...$350 for repairs, which she paid. I did not give her a hard time about it when it happened, so how could she give me one when I did something just as careless?

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jfdlaw · Dec 8, 2004

JDGREEN,

'Tis the difference between men and women. Bet there isn't one of us that has our wives' capacity to remember the details of something we did wrong years ago. Bet 60% of wives know their husband's social security number and less than 5% of husbands know their wive's. Our brains must be different.

By the way, my wife has no problem telling people about the garage door incident (earlier in this thread), but watch out if I tell people how she slowly backed into my car while I was walking across the yard yelling for her to stop and waving my arms. She says she thought I was just saying hello.

chucko · Dec 8, 2004

( driver's side mirror )

oh god I can hear it now LOL
"are you going to bring up that mirror from now on!!!!! You just will not get over that will you?! You were sitting right beside me when that thing got changed to the left side!!!!"

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