Fun with Fence Wire...

[Dave___in___CT]

Hi...


Lesson learned...

Some smooth fench wire and barbed wire wrapped around one rear axle... I didn't have anyway to cut it off at the time... so I kept using the tractor... didn't look like much...

By time I stopped... there was a hard knarled ball of twisted wire about the size of a bowling ball around the axle... the wire was packed really tight... /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

Using cable cutters & pliers... spent 2+ hours removing it... not a fun job... /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

Think I'll keep the cable cutters and pliers handy...


Dave...

 

[DaveNay]

Ouch.....that sounds worse than the time I caught a piece of plastic twine from a round bale, and proceded to unravel the entire bale and around my axle. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

Dave

 

[PineRidge]

Dave that doesn't sound like a very productive way to spend an afternoon to me. Sorry that you had such a problem.

 

[ScottAR]

Yikes!! Everytime I've hit wire like that it took out an oil seal...

 

[KiotiJohn]

Almost the same thing happened to me right after I got my tractor in January. Clearing tall brush, it was hidden and I never heard a thing. We were both lucky the wire didn't do more damage! John

 

[Ozarker]

Reminds me of a night I spent under a 5-ton military truck after it went through a triple strand of Concertina/razor wire on a night maneuver. It was wrapped tight, tore up a couple of tires and mangled the brake lines. Try doing it a night by red lens flashlight while lying in the dirt with brake fluid all over everything.

Not the most miserable night I have ever spent.....but close.

 

[DaveNay]

Could be worse.....were you being shot at? /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

Dave

 

[DiskDoctr]

Dave,

We used to have a pickup truck with a dump bed. I was hauling some tree limbs and such up over the hill, and got the smart idea to back up over the last load to push it back into more of a pile than stretching out the debris.

Well, backed over barbed wire. It didn't take the tires, but it wrapped into the same type of knarly ball of wire on my rear driveshaft. It was almost solid metal instead of strands. Had to use a torch to cut it off.

I watch much more closely at anything I run over now. You've now been granted membership in that club /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif Looks like we have a few other members here, too! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

-JC

 

[Dave___in___CT]

Thanks for sharing...


I'm keepin' a lookout for wire now... and have the cable cutters handy...

Once is enough for that kinda' experience... /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif


Dave...

 

[Ozarker]

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Dave )</font>

No....unless you count all the sniping my platoon sergeant was shooting our way.

 

[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.