Hitting things with the FEL

[Buster57]

Does that ever sound like something I would do! I am too busy running over things. My orchard is so big that where ever I go I am more camouflaged then a Green Beret. I plan to use the L3010 for Deer hunting this winter. I never will bag a deer(I don’t hunt anything except the mighty gopher), but I will be prepared!

 

[Kodiak]

You know a lot of people pay a lot of money for safety classes. And never gain the benifit of the on the job experiance, that the rest of us have gained.

 

[grandad]

ROFL! I was going to say something about having to make a U-turn with my 4610, loader and 6' cutter (which must be 20+ ft. of travelling circus) on a 1-car wide gravel lane in front of the neighbors place... but you got me covered hands down! Great confession! We can all relate!

 

[Anonymous Poster]

Only have 45 hrs on my TC33D and just had my first encounter with my FEL and the subdivision's transformer box. This was while mowing along curb with a rotary cutter. After hitting box I fell off curb and the cutter took chunk out of curb. No damage to tractor or box, just curb.

When I was a young lad. I put my father's FEL with manure forks into my uncle's car. He used duct tape on each hole for the body work.

 

[Egon]

I have only had bucket encounters when my glasses needed replacing and myopic eyes could not distinguish distance or largewr objects such as trees or buildings.

Egon

 

[bellweather]

Haven't had that problem in my vast experience of under 5 hours of seat time, but I have pulled the car into the garage with bikes up on the roof rack.

 

[rf33]

I hit a plastic fence post while discing a friends arena, and it did not fare too well. My other dumb FEL trick was to get too lazy to change from the bucket to a hay spear, and get a round bale out of the back of my pickup by dragging it back with the bucket tipped down over the top of the bale. Guess I pushed down a little too hard on the bale, as my tailgate now has a slight U shape to it, and it takes about 3 men and a boy to open the darn thing. These two incidents are the only ones which come to mind right now, but rest assured that you are not alone in this one.

As to the orange paint leaving behind the telltale marks, you could just paint every car and structure you have on the property that same Kubota orange, and then you would not leave such terrible evidence. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

 

[bsauter]

I've only hit trees with the loader...just last weekend in fact I stopped dead in my tracks when the loader hit a tree as I was going through a stand of trees in my pasture.

BUT...

I have sliced 2 underground electric lines from my house to the older of 2 barns I have while digging a garden. Havn't repaired those yet after two years. Just use the barn for storing hay and implements. May get around to that soon.

AND

cut my phone wires while digging a hole for a transplanted lilac bush. No phone for 5 days while waiting for the phone company to come out.

AND

cut my satelite cable while regrading a slope next to the foundation of my house.

AND

while snow plowing a couple years ago I dragged the rear blade across the water hose my wife left across the lane from the water spigot to the old barn (buried under the snow). The tractor didn't even slow down and I heard a loud bang as the hose ripped apart and I looked over to see the pipe bent 90 degrees coming out of the ground and what's left of the hose whiplashing backward. I thought I would straigten up the pipe a little and grabbed it and broke it completely off and had to run through the snow to the house and into the basement to get the water shut off. Thank goodness the new barn has running water!

Oh...there might be a little orange paint on some fence posts, trees, barns, beams in the barn....oh...and had to fix my little boys wagon when I ran over that.... ok...I better stop now....

 

[Mrwurm]

Brad, in regard to running over the 'little boys wagon', I have run over my share of bikes and toys with my car. It always gets my wife real upset because if I did'nt see the toys then maybe I won't see the kids either. Oh yeah, ran over a few cats too. Good thing there is no shortage of cats around here or I would probably be in trouble for that too.
Jerry

 

[Wingnut]

Glad to see I'm not the only satellite cable butcher here. My wife was some ticked after I tilled her garden and managed to really rip up the cable. And she stayed upset for 3 whole days ... imagine .... 3 whole days without Home and Garden TV ... gasp! Lot's of fun splicing a satellite cable!

 

[Frank_Mulligan]

Haven't hit anything with the FEL yet (other than a few saplings), but I'm surprised the trailing wheel on my brushhog is still intact. Wacked that thing against some trees a couple of times. I'm learning that the tractor needs a wide berth when turning and backing up. (I was about an inch away from backing in to my car once.)

 

[Bob_Trevithick]

<font color=blue>...Glad to see I'm not the only satellite cable butcher here. My wife was some ticked after I tilled her garden and managed to really rip up the cable. And she stayed upset for 3 whole days ... imagine .... 3 whole days without Home and Garden TV ... gasp! Lot's of fun splicing a satellite cable!</font color=blue>

Look on the bright side, Wingnut. A contractor told me the other day that if you tear up a fiber optic phone line it can run you over $130,000! /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif

 

[Ledgemere Farm]

I work for a telephone company up here in Maine. There was a certain company hired to redo a section of road. We spray-painted the road with "FIBER--DO NOT DIG HERE"... The construction company cut the fiber SO MANY times, we finally had to post a technician to sit on top of where the cable was buried!!!!

By the way, I can run into things with DRAWN implements just as easilly. I was driving down the road with an old Farmall 504 and a hay tedder when a woman tried to pass me just as I was making a left hand turn. THAT made a nice scrape down the side of a Saturn!!! OOPS!!!

 

[treebark]

Ya, I done me some fence adjusting with the bucket before.Kinda silly ,the loader comes off so easy on the 4200 .Just gatta bend over in front of a mirror and kick yer self in the butt.

 

[Boondox]

My first tractor was a little B1750 with mmm. Great mowing machine, tight turning radius, very good visibility from the seat.

Then I traded up to Clementine, an L3010 with FEL, 3ph mower, and just lots of size. First time mowing I misjudged the turning radius and was so intent on making sure I didn't mow the Wife's irises that I never saw the three apple trees uprooted by the bucket! Then, a couple of months later the ROPS didn't have enough clearance and took out 8 feet of trim on the breezeway. I saw there holding the trim piece, hoping she didn't notice the impact. No such luck! She came out bellowing that the entire house shook! /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif

I'm amazed I still managed to get a backhoe after causing so much damage! /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

Pete