Fun with Fence Wire...

[Loges1]

It didn't happen to me but I saw the aftermath. Someone on the Interstate ran over an old metal frame box springs. The rear u-joint hooked one of the springs. You know those aren't seperate springs. When you keep pulling on one and it unwinds it will start pulling on the next one in line. And so on and so on untill they are all unwound. That poor guy had this whole box spring wound around his drive shaft and the rear axel. It locked it up and spun him out. Being spring steel they had to use the torch to get it all cut off. It was quite a mess

 

[fire72]

Happened to me too. A few years back before I had my own tractor I rented a tractor and bush hog to clear some brush on property I had just bought. Within the first 30 feet of mowing I heard an awful racket and shut down to find a steel T-post and about 10 feet of four foot high woven wire fencing jammed up in the bush hog. Made for an unpleasant session of crawling under the bush hog parked on a dirt road with a pair of wire cutters. Lesson learned; now I check a little more closely before cutting in unfamiliar areas.