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Topic: 'member the "don't ask how I know this" thread?
Posted By: David Grubb
Subject: 'member the "don't ask how I know this" thread?
Date Posted: 22 May 2012 at 1:36pm
A finishing mower set to cut at a height of 3" will not mow over the top of a partially full 2 gallon jug of engine oil. It will cut it up and throw oil all over the lawn. I don't know if this is due to CRS or an acute case of the Dumb Ass but don't set anything on the steering box in front of the radiator, check some other things, and then back out of the barn and start mowing. Again; don't ask me how I know this!

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Posted By: FloydKS
Date Posted: 22 May 2012 at 1:45pm
Do not turn on the oven then answer the doorbell and go back and light a match close to the oven...you CAN ask me how I know, but that was 30 years ago and my facial hair has grown back. I figgure my glasses saved my eyeballs.
peace


Posted By: CTuckerNWIL
Date Posted: 22 May 2012 at 1:49pm
Careful David, the EPA will be out and start a billion dollar clean up.

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Posted By: Dave Richards (WV)
Date Posted: 22 May 2012 at 2:21pm
Floyd, now that brings back (painful) memories.  I did almost the same thing.  Set the old oven to preheat.  Lit  the pilot and went to take a shower.  Seems the flame did not go down the little tube as it should.  I came back and opened the oven door.  Now the flame goes down the tube.  There were two explosions.  One when the oven went off, and one when the right guard under my left arm went off.  Had to call off my date, smelled like burning hair for weeks.  


Posted By: DonDittmar
Date Posted: 22 May 2012 at 2:51pm
David.....pictures please......LOL

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Also 1965 Cub Loboy and 1958 JD 720 Diesel Pony Start


Posted By: MikeinLcoMo
Date Posted: 22 May 2012 at 3:07pm
On the grimmer side, an old friend was carrying a empty 5 gal gas can on the back of the tractor brush hogging. The can fell off and got shredded by the mower. The resulting explosion threw the brush hog back on top of the tractor breaking the guys neck and setting the whole mess on fire.


Posted By: Mike56073
Date Posted: 22 May 2012 at 3:16pm
    Okay, so how many other guys have laid a grease gun on a tire, forgotten about it, and found it later flattened on the ground???????


Posted By: Dean(IA)
Date Posted: 22 May 2012 at 3:24pm
I have replaced several side hoods on 7000 series tractors
for customers. They had taken the hood off and leaned it
against the rear tractor tire and then.....
The side hoods don't come out so good after you run
them over.


Posted By: CAdon
Date Posted: 22 May 2012 at 3:32pm
at our house it's the morning coffee.  1. throw out the old coffee & filter.  2. put in a new filter.  3. put new coffee in the filter.  4. empty the coffeepot.  5. fill with water.  6. pour water into the storage tank... 7. not onto the grounds. 8. replace the empty pot into the coffee maker.  9. press the start button.
an awful lot to remember before your first coffee in the morning.  i believe we have now tried each and every variation individually and in combination of skipping one or more of the steps.  some are messier than others.


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Posted By: Reindeer
Date Posted: 22 May 2012 at 4:32pm
We were heading across the Andes of Peru, and before departing we decided to check the cables on the electric winch on the old Bronco we were using.  Some wires looked a bit rough, so got out a good Swiss army knige and did soem cleanup. 
At that point, someone suggested a picture.  Yep still got the picture of us and  the knife, sitting on the bumper.  
 
 


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Posted By: AllisFreak MN
Date Posted: 22 May 2012 at 7:54pm
I ran a grease gun thru a haybine once, it didn't survive.

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'49 A-C WD, '51 A-C WD, '63 A-C D17 Series III, 1968 A-C One-Seventy, '82 A-C 6060, '75 A-C 7040, A-C #3 sickle mower, 2 A-C 701 wagons, '78 Gleaner M2


Posted By: dave63
Date Posted: 22 May 2012 at 8:46pm
When working on silo unloaders always account for all of your tools before you turn it on.
It is a pain in the rump when you need your 3/4" wrench to take the silo unloader blower appart and it is jammed in it.


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Posted By: dave63
Date Posted: 22 May 2012 at 8:53pm
Oh yea, cell phones don't fair out so well when the silo unloader is turned on ether if left in there.

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The universal answer to all questions is yes, how much do you want to spend?


Posted By: wfmurray
Date Posted: 22 May 2012 at 8:54pm
Run over a new  Case knife  that i was cutting fert bags with and broke pretty bone handles.


Posted By: Pat the Plumber CIL
Date Posted: 22 May 2012 at 9:21pm
Hired hands on our farm (My older brothers friends)had a bad habit of leaving the hayhook lying on the back tire of the tractor.Strange how the hayhook would not bounce out of the path of the tire when the tractor moved

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1964 D-17 SIV 3 Pt.WF,1964 D-15 Ser II 3pt.WF ,1960 D-17 SI NF,1956 WD 45 WF.


Posted By: Lonn
Date Posted: 22 May 2012 at 10:00pm
Don't park an L2 with a 6 row corn head face the broad side of your WD while on a hill even if you have locked the brakes and even if it's only about 4 feet between the tractor and combine. It results in two extra holes in one rear tractor tire, a bent and broken corn snout and a tractor sitting at about a 40 degree angle. Don't ask me how I know this.

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Posted By: Don(MI)
Date Posted: 22 May 2012 at 10:01pm
Wow, you just brought back a funny memory for me....
 
 
At about 8 years of age, I decided riding an old lawn mower around the yard, was the cool thing to do.
 
Welp, one day dad told me, better check the oil in that mower.
 
So I did.
 
Check the oil, with the ENGINE RUNNING...........
 
Black oil everywhere, down my shirt, pants, hat.....all over the engine.
 
Got my first lesson in checking oil that day, SHUT THE ENGINE OFF!!LOLLOL
 
And ya, BTW....'Don't ask me how I know this'!!!


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Galatians 5:22-24

"I got a pig at home in a pen and corn to feed him on, All I need is a pretty little girl to feed him when I'm gone!"


Posted By: Lonn
Date Posted: 22 May 2012 at 10:06pm
Another one. Just because you hear a strange dog barking at 10 PM outside your house doesn't mean you automatically grab the gun and step outside to fire one in the air. It could result in the sound of horse hooves gallopping, then the sound of steer hooves gallopping then the sound of fence wire stretching and then a midnight tour of the neighborhood. In that order. Don' ask me how I know this.

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Posted By: LoggerLee
Date Posted: 22 May 2012 at 10:16pm
Don't bother trying to have someone who you think "must" know more than you do about something fix it,they never do. 
Please don't ask me how I know.


Posted By: Harvey/pa
Date Posted: 22 May 2012 at 10:37pm
Lonn, methinks you should have fired into the dog instead of into the air, then the dang dog would not have chased the horses & steers thru the fence! That is what happened, right??...Harvey


Posted By: SHAMELESS
Date Posted: 23 May 2012 at 2:06am
well David...yer wife shouldn't have left that jug laying there!


Posted By: Jim Lindemood
Date Posted: 23 May 2012 at 6:56am
Well -- you guys are making me feel a lot better - thought I must be the only one who could do such things -- LOL.


Posted By: D17JIM
Date Posted: 23 May 2012 at 8:45am
Don't leave your WD45 on a hill above your D17 with a 170 picker mounted on it.  Narrow front of 45 can run over all three snouts and rear wheel stop in the row closest to hill.  Don't ask how but was many years ago.   Jim


Posted By: AC WD45
Date Posted: 23 May 2012 at 9:34am
A Bush hog and a 100' garden hose do not mix! Don't ask me how I know this!

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1957 Allis Chalmers WD45
#WD234847
1951 Allis Chalmers WD
#WD88193


Posted By: Rawleigh
Date Posted: 23 May 2012 at 9:41am
Originally posted by AC WD45 AC WD45 wrote:

A Bush hog and a 100' garden hose do not mix! Don't ask me how I know this!


LOL!  Been there and done that tooDead!!!


Posted By: AC WD45
Date Posted: 23 May 2012 at 9:41am
Check the bucket before scooping  load of corn into the feed grinder. You never know, you may have left a chain in it.



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1957 Allis Chalmers WD45
#WD234847
1951 Allis Chalmers WD
#WD88193


Posted By: allisrutledge
Date Posted: 23 May 2012 at 9:45am
Following me with a camera could pay off for someone . (ENOUGH SAID !) Scott

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Posted By: FloydKS
Date Posted: 23 May 2012 at 10:28am
I think this theme has caused a lot of us to feel better...?and some of feel worse? : )
we all have our brain burps that cause things to happen.....peace


Posted By: Gerald J.
Date Posted: 23 May 2012 at 10:36am
I've heard the hand lit gas ovens could be troublesome. I know my mom gave away an otherwise perfect combination gas and wood cook stove in 1947 because she got tired of growing new eyebrows and picking the oven door off the opposite wall of the kitchen. The rest of her life, she cooked with an electric range and was very happy.

Gerald J.


Posted By: Lonn
Date Posted: 23 May 2012 at 11:58am
Originally posted by AC WD45 AC WD45 wrote:

A Bush hog and a 100' garden hose do not mix! Don't ask me how I know this!

I bet they mixed just fine. Probably the unmixing that had you perplexed.Smile


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Posted By: Lonn
Date Posted: 23 May 2012 at 11:59am
Originally posted by AC WD45 AC WD45 wrote:

Check the bucket before scooping  load of corn into the feed grinder. You never know, you may have left a chain in it.


I've spread a chain in the field with a manure spreader. Didn't really help the hay grow at all.


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Posted By: TGerber
Date Posted: 23 May 2012 at 12:01pm
Propane BBQ lids open very fast and with alot of energy if you leave them down, turn on gas and push the ignition button! My mom's friend would say don't ask her how she know's that!( first time with new gas grill!)


Posted By: Lonn
Date Posted: 23 May 2012 at 12:07pm
Large amounts of ingested alcohol and lighting a gas grill don't mix well either. You would have to ask my cousin and my neighbor for details. I know they both looked funny for a while.

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Posted By: Redwood
Date Posted: 23 May 2012 at 12:39pm
If you don't have saw horse on site the tailgate might work...
However IF you leave the saw on the tailgate make sure the tailgate is facing the way you approach the truck from.
If you forget this step... DO NOT forget you only have 100' to remember what you did.
If you forget this step don't worry at 104' the built in speed bump reminder will make you remember.
 
ahem...someone once "TOLD" me
 
 


Posted By: AC WD45
Date Posted: 23 May 2012 at 1:27pm
Originally posted by Lonn Lonn wrote:

Originally posted by AC WD45 AC WD45 wrote:

Check the bucket before scooping  load of corn into the feed grinder. You never know, you may have left a chain in it.


I've spread a chain in the field with a manure spreader. Didn't really help the hay grow at all.

Trashed the hammer mill and still doesnt feed correctly



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1957 Allis Chalmers WD45
#WD234847
1951 Allis Chalmers WD
#WD88193


Posted By: AC WD45
Date Posted: 23 May 2012 at 1:34pm
Originally posted by Redwood Redwood wrote:

If you don't have saw horse on site the tailgate might work...
However IF you leave the saw on the tailgate make sure the tailgate is facing the way you approach the truck from.
If you forget this step... DO NOT forget you only have 100' to remember what you did.
If you forget this step don't worry at 104' the build in speed bump reminder will make you remember.
 
ahem...someone once "TOLD" me
 
 

Im confused


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1957 Allis Chalmers WD45
#WD234847
1951 Allis Chalmers WD
#WD88193


Posted By: FloydKS
Date Posted: 23 May 2012 at 2:17pm
I have to admit i was curious how that hammermill acted after the chain went thru : )


Posted By: Redwood
Date Posted: 23 May 2012 at 2:45pm
 
 
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Im confused
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tail gate for sawhorse, with a circular saw on a 100' extention cord
speed bump ...IS the circular saw


Posted By: CAdon
Date Posted: 23 May 2012 at 3:35pm
imagine chevy chase and goldie hawn playing out these scenes in a movie called "dick & jane on the farm".  i can hear people saying "who thinks this stuff up?..."

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Posted By: LouSWPA
Date Posted: 23 May 2012 at 4:21pm
Well, a stack of half rotted wood pallets topped with an iron lawn chair is NOT a suitable replacement for a ladder......especially if ones attempts to extend the usefulness of the "idea" by standing on the armrests of the chair.
Fun fact, did you know a knee can be dislocated and bent sideways?
Oh, and another fun fact, did you know it can be extremely difficult to extract oneself from a pile of half rotted wooden pallets and iron lawn chair while hanging upside down from the tower by one leg, dislocated at the knee and bent sideways stuck in iron lawn chair, with only head and elbows resting on the ground, not to mention just a little bit painful?

Oh ya, one other fun fact, did you know wives and daughters can be extremely cruel......actually laughing at people hanging from a pile of half rotted wooden pallets with a iron lawn chair stuck on top, by one leg, bent sideways at dislocated knee?

Don't ask how I know!


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I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living.
Wait for the Lord;
be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord. Ps 27


Posted By: Dave Everett
Date Posted: 23 May 2012 at 4:31pm
 DONT !!!!!!!!!!!! ask your younger brother to check the brake fluid on your race car.............AFTER you have to use a tree as an emergency brake and ask him if he checked it............the answer comes back              yes  i did..........there wasnt any !!!!!!


dont ask me how I know that either             MARK!!!!!


Posted By: David G.
Date Posted: 23 May 2012 at 6:23pm
If the starter button goes out on your tractor, don't bypass the clutch safety switch so you can jump across the starter with a screwdriver.This becomes a problem if you forget to take the tractor out of gear when you do use this method of starting the tractor (especially if you give it 3/4 throttle). It will take off eventually going in circles side swiping one car and later coming to rest on top of the hood of a Grand Prix and pushing the car into the house before it will choke the tractor out. Don't ask me how I know this........ask my dad how he knows this. After all the carnage, the 185 escaped with only a scuff to the paint on the front weights. Surprisingly, the Grand Prix wasn't totaled out(it was close tho), the other car was( wasn't alot of damage but it was a $900 car so it didn't take much). The house also escaped with only very minor damage due to the fact that the basement wall, 10" concrete, took the brunt of the impact. Somewhere there are pictures of this incident. I will post them if I can locate them. Needless to say, this wasn't one of my dads shining moments.


Posted By: DREAM
Date Posted: 23 May 2012 at 6:33pm
It's sad to say that I can relate to almost all of these so far.....I mean, i've seen OTHER PEOPLE do them. Not me. Nooo sir!Big smile
 
As an addition to the bush hog and water hose, an extention cord doesn't do well either...so i've heard.


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Posted By: GBACBFan
Date Posted: 23 May 2012 at 8:12pm
If you don't want to retrieve your grill cover two houses down and across the street, make sure you puncture the lid for your beans before putting the can on your grill to heat them up. Don't even bother looking for the burgers.

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Posted By: bryan/silex
Date Posted: 23 May 2012 at 8:55pm
Watched a neighbor once who had been working on a brushhog for a week pull out into field messin around with loader dumped a tow strap out, started the brushhog drove forward 20ft and back to work on brushhog again. sometimes it the stuff you see that you know.


Posted By: CAdon
Date Posted: 23 May 2012 at 9:37pm
we oughta do this about once a month or so.  don't think i've ever laughed out loud so much in a room by myself... until other people come in to see what's going on.

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Posted By: Greg_WJP_(WI)
Date Posted: 23 May 2012 at 10:16pm
Don't think gas grills cook like charcoal grills. 
My dad decided the first turkey I ever got would be the first thing he ever cooked on his first ever gas grill...he hadn't even cooked hot dogs on it.  He lit the burners, turned them all to high, and decided he had time to run into town to pick up my brother.  When he got back it was burnt THROUGH the bones.  25 pound turkey and we didn't even get a sandwich out of it.


Posted By: JohnCO
Date Posted: 24 May 2012 at 12:35am
Ad on Jay Leno's "Headlines" Monday night; "Best offer on new Kenmore range, must be put back together after falling out of a pickup on highway."
Must have been an interesting sight, especially if someone was following fairly closely behind!


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Posted By: Lonn
Date Posted: 24 May 2012 at 6:28am
My uncle loaded a pickup with paneling for his house and when he pulled out onto hwy 63 he watched in his rear view mirror as the load slid out on the road like a deck of cards and at 50 mph they land flat but float off in all directions. He spent the next 20 minutes dodging cars and semis on this 4 lane (no one stopped) picking up what amounted to kindling for his brush pile (the traffic didn't try to dodge the panels too hard). 

A neighbor did about the same thing with the tin for his pole shed he just picked up from Menards with his grain truck. It dumped out on a side road on a very steep hill. He didn't have his phone so he hurried home to get help and a skidder to pick up the steel, which was luckily mostly on the side of the road. Unluckily when he got back to the spot where it all fell off someone had already loaded it all up and was out of sight.


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Posted By: cornbinder
Date Posted: 24 May 2012 at 6:49am
i was probably 17 or so and purchased a pair of "cherrybomb" mufflers to install on my ford truck. "heat treating" the mufflers before installing to burn up all the fiberglass inside was a must do. well here's how it goes, dump gas into the mufflers and roll them around to get the gas soaked into the fiberglass packing. a friend of mine decided to help, he held the muffler from the top while i lit from the bottom.............well he wasn't supposed to look  down the  threw when i hit the lighter, needless to say once in awhile i still call him singed!!! lmao

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185-d yr round cab
95 mustang gt 5.0
86 mustang 5.0 coupe
3 99 f-250 7.3 4x4's
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Posted By: AC WD45
Date Posted: 24 May 2012 at 7:01am
Originally posted by cornbinder cornbinder wrote:

i was probably 17 or so and purchased a pair of "cherrybomb" mufflers to install on my ford truck. "heat treating" the mufflers before installing to burn up all the fiberglass inside was a must do. well here's how it goes, dump gas into the mufflers and roll them around to get the gas soaked into the fiberglass packing. a friend of mine decided to help, he held the muffler from the top while i lit from the bottom.............well he wasn't supposed to look  down the  threw when i hit the lighter, needless to say once in awhile i still call him singed!!! lmao


Been there, done that


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German Shepherd dad
1957 Allis Chalmers WD45
#WD234847
1951 Allis Chalmers WD
#WD88193


Posted By: TomYaz
Date Posted: 24 May 2012 at 7:21am
 
Not noticing the large yellow labled "power steering fluid" cap practially dead center under the hood and putting the fluid in the master cylinder.....


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Posted By: TGerber
Date Posted: 24 May 2012 at 7:22am
Please don't ask how I know that your sisters newly purchased upright piano will land flat and slide a ways on it's back on a 2 lane blacktop road.. and that it takes about 5 guys to load it onto a pick-up  at the auction sale- but 2 guys can load it back onto pick-up
 at the side of the road and quick I might add!- brother in-law who said "it'll stay we don't need straps" still hasn't lived that one down!
As Shameless would say.. whew!!     


Posted By: Bob(FL)
Date Posted: 24 May 2012 at 7:43am
A customer of mine was mowing the road side ditch and hit a propane cylinder someone thru out, set the mower on fire and he went to the hospital with very bad burns.


Posted By: GlenninPA
Date Posted: 24 May 2012 at 10:29am
On the vein of Kenmore's and gas grills, alway remember to strap down your new grill in the bed of your pickup, after you bought it and paid the store to do the assembly. That first sharp turn you make will result in cast aluminum "kindling" on the roadbed. Thankfully, I was far enough behind the guy that I was able to stop my car before I hit the shrapnel.....

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Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.


Posted By: GlenninPA
Date Posted: 24 May 2012 at 10:31am
Originally posted by LouSWPA LouSWPA wrote:

Well, a stack of half rotted wood pallets topped with an iron lawn chair is NOT a suitable replacement for a ladder......especially if ones attempts to extend the usefulness of the "idea" by standing on the armrests of the chair.
Fun fact, did you know a knee can be dislocated and bent sideways?
Oh, and another fun fact, did you know it can be extremely difficult to extract oneself from a pile of half rotted wooden pallets and iron lawn chair while hanging upside down from the tower by one leg, dislocated at the knee and bent sideways stuck in iron lawn chair, with only head and elbows resting on the ground, not to mention just a little bit painful?

Oh ya, one other fun fact, did you know wives and daughters can be extremely cruel......actually laughing at people hanging from a pile of half rotted wooden pallets with a iron lawn chair stuck on top, by one leg, bent sideways at dislocated knee?

Don't ask how I know!
 
Did I take this picture at your house??????
 


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From listening comes wisdom and from speaking comes repentance.
Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.


Posted By: CTuckerNWIL
Date Posted: 24 May 2012 at 10:33am
YIKES, I can stack bales WAY better than that and I don't think I would work off that rig.

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Posted By: JC-WI
Date Posted: 24 May 2012 at 11:15am
YEEEAWOOO! Red neck stacking big time.
 
Watched a guy load a big old G900 Moline on a trailer, drove it from where it sat onto the trailer which the trailer and truck were pointed down hill. Fellow stepped on the brakes and there were none. Front end of tractor ended up on back end of truck.
 They had to jack it up and block it while some one else had to pull it backwards...
 
   Latest wtf was 2 am in the morning I hear a THUNK at the bottom of the hill, I jumped up and looked out the window and here is an old van with glass windows in the back being dragged down the pavement with the front hanging yet on the trailer. Back end firmly on the ground, no wheels touching, sparks flying everywhere and up inside the van..that was a shower of sparks... 
 
  Which reminds me of a fellow with a 966 pulling two gravety wagons of shelled corn couple years back. Could hear him coming for 3/4 mile, turn a corner and then was coming past my place. Flagged him down cuzz there was smoke coming up from the back wagon... he had snapped an axel and pulled it a good three miles and had ground off the frame of the wagon in that distance to being only couple inches left on the top of steering arm shaft.  Should  have seen the look on his face...


Posted By: Lonn
Date Posted: 24 May 2012 at 4:22pm
Had an uncle who went to clean the frozen manure off a running spreader beater with a crowbar once. He just barely touched the beater and WHAM! Bounced the bar right back to his forehead and knocked him flat. He had a big lump right between the eyes for quite a while.

Another one, never take an old steel wheeled wooden elevator down the road at more than 10 mph and without checking to see if it will clear all the high lines across the road. You'll end up with a 2 wheeled real poor cart instantly and the neighbor's wires pulled right out of his house. That's the same uncle and another uncle after they bought this elevator at an auction. 


I could right a book on just that one uncle, then add in my Dad and other uncles and it's a TV comedy series.


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Posted By: realolman
Date Posted: 24 May 2012 at 7:15pm
 If the LP vehicle doesn't run and you disconnect the LP hose, there is a little spring loaded valve in there to keep the LP from coming out.  If you use a screwdriver to push that little valve to see if there is any LP in the tank, and there is LP in the tank, it will come out and  freeze your face off .


It's no disgrace to be dumb, but it's unhandy as hell.


Posted By: jccleav
Date Posted: 24 May 2012 at 8:39pm
It should have worked........really

Try a mower and electric fence wire.

Take corners in low gear when the front of the tracor is light with a bale on the back.


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Posted By: 1951WDNWWI
Date Posted: 24 May 2012 at 9:14pm
When installing the shingle type ventilated ridge cap on a house, it's getting dark, and you see a little jog to the line and you can't find your utility knife....  Had to back track a few ridge cap shingles.  Roofing nailer put a nail right through the shingle and the Stanley 99 utility knife.  Still have the knife complete with nail hole and it still works.  Don't ask how I know this...


Posted By: Lonn
Date Posted: 24 May 2012 at 9:21pm
Originally posted by Harvey/pa Harvey/pa wrote:

Lonn, methinks you should have fired into the dog instead of into the air, then the dang dog would not have chased the horses & steers thru the fence! That is what happened, right??...Harvey
 
Ya Ya that's what happened.Big smile


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Posted By: GBACBFan
Date Posted: 24 May 2012 at 9:41pm
I've heard that when your riding your bike in the cow pasture, never ride in the lane right next to the electric fence. You could be unfortunate enough to hit a rock and fall onto the fence. It takes an unbelievably long time to untangle yourself from the fence (and your bike, which in itself is a very good conductor of electricity) with the electric current pulsing through your body. Your friends riding with you have no appreciation for the intense pain you're feeling, and will not lift a hand to help for fear of getting a shock, but will laugh as you're trying to kick your way clear of the fence and the bike.

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Posted By: JeffMOnt
Date Posted: 24 May 2012 at 9:54pm
Don't try to use butane spayed on a log in a wood stove to have the fire start quicker. Burned off some facial hair and nose hair. Also when using a multimeter to check 220 volts don't accidentally touch the lead. Don't feel good.

Had a friend of mine loading some stuff into a barn with the loader up. His foot slipped off the clutch and drove right through the wall.


Posted By: TimOk
Date Posted: 24 May 2012 at 11:48pm
Never park a 60 Oliver pointed directly at a newly filled fuel barrel that you have to choke with your hand over carb to start and leave it in gear. Starts on first turn and climbs barrel stand knocking barrel off stand.  Took 4 of us to roll barrel so filler was at top, lost about 50 gal. Dad was glad I wasn't hurt but it was a bummer to dig a hole and use 5 gas cans to fuel tractors all summer. Barrel still has the dent in top and hasn't had fuel in it for 25 years.   

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Posted By: TGerber
Date Posted: 25 May 2012 at 7:32am
Never try to lead a yearling holstein heifer home from the neighbours on your bicycle.
Heifer went  on one side of our mailbox post and our neighbour on bike went on the other- speed WAS a factor in this incident! Dad and I could also have written a book on this guys
escapades! 


Posted By: didgood
Date Posted: 25 May 2012 at 7:59am
55 gallon drums cut in half will catch air and fly off of the truck when you clear a hill and get an unexpected head wind. At least the state trooper was tailgating and didn't notice them going over the cruiser.


Posted By: ernie(IND)
Date Posted: 25 May 2012 at 8:08am
10 year old with tools working on bicycle in the yard is a no no. He never puts the tools away and when you mow, 1/2 inch wrenches fly fast and take out siding.
 
DOn't ask me how I know this!


Posted By: bradley6874
Date Posted: 25 May 2012 at 8:33pm
When cutting hay and you see somthing coming towards you from the other end of the field dont wait till you figure oit its the electric fence corner post TURN THE HAYBINE off its a pia to cut all that wire off the rollers after you put up new fence


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Posted By: Walt
Date Posted: 25 May 2012 at 9:48pm
A brand new installed $100 electric clutch on a mower will spin and pull the wires out rendering it usable for a trot line weight at best if you don't tighten the bolt on the bottom of the shaft.



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