What have you Missed / Hit with your tractor?

MossRoad · Dec 15, 2014

Dead turkeys! Usually about 1-2 per year out by the highway. Can't see them in the deep grass and POOF! feathers and maggots and the wonderful smell. All you ever find after that is a curled up foot!

/pine · Dec 15, 2014

MossRoad said:
Dead turkeys! Usually about 1-2 per year out by the highway. Can't see them in the deep grass and POOF! feathers and maggots and the wonderful smell. All you ever find after that is a curled up foot!

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PoorPlowboy · Dec 15, 2014

I plowed into a 16" red oak with a Massey 231 head-on. BushHog 2426 loaders are STOUT! I was bushhogging in a figure 8 around the trees at 5mph with an 7.5' pasture clipper tow-behind. I was keeping an ~8ft berth around the trees and was turned around to make sure the cutter cleared the base of a tree and simultaneously slammed into one in front of me! Nothing on the tractor was hurt or bent, but my family jewels were introduced to that too-sturdy of a steering wheel.

MossRoad · Dec 16, 2014

/pine said:
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That's pretty much what it looks like! ahhahaaha! :laughing:

Egon · Dec 16, 2014

A lot of things I wish I had not hit.

blin · Dec 16, 2014

I was backing up the bush hog into a damp area. I didn't realize that the BH was on top of a log half buried in the ground. Once the front passed over, the tractor dropped down in a wet spring, wedging the log between the BH and the rear of the tractor. 4 wheel drive and an FEL didn't free the tractor with the BH attached. Had to disconnect the BH and have a neighbor pull me out. Then turn around, chain the BH and lift it out. It was an another tractor learning experience.

oosik · Dec 16, 2014

Winter - three years ago - backing up to garage doors with rear blade to clear snow. Foot slipped off clutch pedal - luckily only minor damage to garage doors.

Lesson learned - clear the last foot between rear blade and garage doors by hand!!!

deerseeker001 · Dec 16, 2014

I could see that happening for sure.

oosik said:
Winter - three years ago - backing up to garage doors with rear blade to clear snow. Foot slipped off clutch pedal - luckily only minor damage to garage doors.

Lesson learned - clear the last foot between rear blade and garage doors by hand!!!

NewfieDan · Dec 16, 2014

oosik said:
Winter - three years ago - backing up to garage doors with rear blade to clear snow. Foot slipped off clutch pedal - luckily only minor damage to garage doors.

Lesson learned - clear the last foot between rear blade and garage doors by hand!!!

Been there, done that. But I had the quick hitch with the trailer adapter AND the ball was still in. Bent the door pretty good. Managed to get most of the bend back out.