Human error. Lets help others deal with the pain of their mistakes by listing our.

[xzcVAbc5]

The two tractor related ones I can think of:

1)JD2440 has adjustable wheel spacing for row crops. The axle is a little proud of the outside of the tire. I was trying to box blade close to my garage and ended up tearing the corner tin piece. It's an easy fix, but I haven't done it yet. This story two summers ago.

2)JD2440 (same tractor above) last year I was moving gravel around near the building with the bucket. When I was backing parallel closely to the building I didn't realize how close the bucket was to the building tin. I caught the corner of the bucket on the tin siding and tore a hole in it. Fortunately, all of the damage was on one piece of tin. I cut above the damage and slid another short piece behind the existing piece and screwed it back on. I think a contributing factor to the accident was the loose steering on the tractor. It will wander a bit, but at the end of the day I was behind the wheel.

As far as chainsaws go I was cutting through something and almost cut my leg. It ripped a hole in my jeans on my thigh, but didn't leave a scratch on my skin. Chainsaw chaps would be cheap insurance against what could have happened. I routinely spend money upgrading tools or expanding tool sets so I really should get this added to my list this year.

When I was a younger guy I had a '84 Honda Prelude (my first car). One night my CD player was stolen out of the car while at work. Later that night when I went to leave I forgot to push the clutch in when I started the car. I was parked in front of a light pole with concrete base. When I left the parking lot my car bumper was the same shape as the base of the light pole. The plastic pulled back out almost flush and I straightened the bumper behind the cover as well as it needed to be.

 

[Deere Dude]

I practiced for my motorcycle license for a few week even the emergency stops.

Time came for the test in a big parking lot with cones and lines all over. I was supposed to get up to speed and stop fast. The bike dropped like a brick and fell but I bailed off and I kept on going on my feel. I looked around and about 20 people were watching so I was really embarrassed.

A couple days later in a different town I tried it again only with a busted windshield, but this time I cranked it up to about 15 MPH and took a long time to stop. I got my license.

 

[Deere Dude]

I had n=my X740 JD garden tractor in a woods pushing over small trees with the front blade. I had it weighted down to much and was working the dif. lock a lot and cracked the transaxle housing. oil went all over. To get it out of the woods I had to pull it out backwards with my new GMC dually. I cut a few small trees so I could make the turn into the woods and had a lot of room. I couldn't quite make to turn so I backed up about 4 feet and heard a crunch. You guessed it, the rear fender hit a tree that wasn't even in the woods. Then I had to tell my wife how my screwing around in the woods just cost her about $5000.
That wasn't even counting the doctor bills from her attack

 

[pat32rf]

I have a whole fleet of trailers parked around our place. Some are doners, some are loaners, two belong to our tennant, one to my son, some are even licensed but all get used for something, even if just to set the snowplow blade on. As a result I have a ball on the 3pth so I can back up to any trailer, lift the ball and move the trailer out of the way.
I just can't figure out how the latch handles keep getting broken off, 3 or 4 a year... Yesterday I brushed the snow off the tongue of my big float trailer, the one with the 2- 5/16 ball and found that it was also broken, but it is a odd hitch so I will need to replace the whole assembly.....before I float the trailer anywhere. Just replaced the trailer fenders and lights last fall too...

 

[Beltzington]

Thinking, thinking, man I got nothing.

Wait - Closed a pull down garage door by placing my fingers of both hands in between two panels and gave it a big tug. Fortunately it was flimsy gauge metal or I could have lost 8 finger tips, also fortunate it didn't latch or I could have been there for hours waiting on someone to show up and open the door. Good Times.

 

[xzcVAbc5]

I have a whole fleet of trailers parked around our place. Some are doners, some are loaners, two belong to our tennant, one to my son, some are even licensed but all get used for something, even if just to set the snowplow blade on. As a result I have a ball on the 3pth so I can back up to any trailer, lift the ball and move the trailer out of the way.
I just can't figure out how the latch handles keep getting broken off, 3 or 4 a year... Yesterday I brushed the snow off the tongue of my big float trailer, the one with the 2- 5/16 ball and found that it was also broken, but it is a odd hitch so I will need to replace the whole assembly.....before I float the trailer anywhere. Just replaced the trailer fenders and lights last fall too...

You're going to have to spell this one out for me. I can't figure out how the handles are getting broken.

 

[bcp]

Sharp turn so the latch handle hits the 3PH? Rotating drawbar with a ball that rotates HARD against the internal latch parts when starting or stopping, and breaking them off.

Bruce

 

[Green Acres Homestead]

Thanks everybody for being man enough to fess up. Now that everybody is mature enough to laugh at their mistakes I feel much better and not so alone in the world. Man I am glad you guys messed up. Lol

Guess the only people that don't make mistakes are the people that don't do anything.

Keep on chugging along and I sincerely hope your mistakes don't cost you any body parts.

 

[forestcreature1]

You ONLY have BRAKES on the REAR tires !!!

So, when you are not properly balanced, esp. downhill, you will not have the ability to STOP before the LAKE.

Just because the rears are touching the ground, doesn't mean they are helping you any....

from the former commander of U-4100 (and you didn't know Deere made submarines)

 

[coobie]

My mistake was to buy a shuttle shift tranny tractor the first time around in 2008.I resolved that mistake buying a tractor with a HST tranny in 2012.