One of those days. WARNING: ENTER AT OWN RISK!!!

Keep in mind that it's dark outside and snowing like you know what. Ok, so I decided to clean out the shed in which the WD45 sits and maybe move some snow, and everything is at the back, Behind the tractor. So, I try to start the tractor, Rolls over a few times, pops and comes to life...for about a second. Try to start it again rrrrrrr! rrrrrrr!... battery is dead. So I'm thinking "Ok, I'll put it on the charger for a minuet or two and get it started right?" Wrong. So, I leave it on the charger for a good half hour while I move what I can from the shed to the barn. Try the tractor again, rolls over and fires once or twice before the battery looses it's juice. I repeated this process 3 or four times, all the while cussing and spitting cause every time I want to do something around here, I can't get it done because of either no gas, dead battery, rain, etc etc. By now the snows too deep to pull it with the truck, and I'm alone because my girlfriend had a basketball game half way across the state, and the neighbors at work. So, I move what I can to the barn and attempt to pull the door closed. Door gets stuck about half way down so I push up and pull hard, BANG! It shut, but the top half of the #?*!$% door fell in! This is a 20 foot tall door, heavy as heck, and once again, I am alone tonight until around 11:00 when she gets here, and I know there is no way she is going to be up to climbing up the ladder while I hammer the rollers back in to the rails before she goes home, and her dad (my neighbor) won't be home until 3 or 4 tomorrow  (trucker). So, Needless to say, I am not in a good mood.

You have my sympathy but sometimes that's just the way things go.Remember,it could always be worse.

Reminds me of the day the neighbor came bustin in our house saying "Finks house is on fire, call the fire department." Well we were on a party line and the phone was dead. We went to the next guy down the road and sent him to the closest phone to call FD. I went back with the neighbor and he told me to try to move their car, he was taking them all to the hospital. I got in the car and found the shifter and steering wheel locked( brand new 1969 Chevy station wagon) and no keys. I ran across the road to the shed where I knew there was a tractor and tried to roll the door open and it came off the track. I thought I'd just drive the tractor through it. Got inside and the tractor is hooked up to the mixermill and no chain in sight. I can now hear the FD trucks so I head back over to the fire and watch as they water down the corn crib and dumpy old milk house, while the new car turns black and sinks into the ground in a pile of burnt rubber and tin.
 Oh well, the dad was only burned on his arms and face from busting the door open. The Mom and kids followed him out and didn't get burned much at all.
 Now tell me how bad your day was again. LOL


Edited by CTuckerNWIL - 01 Dec 2010 at 9:01pm

Every day we can say we made is a good day. Sometimes what happens isn't so good.

Every day I wake up is a good one!

OK, maybe not as bad as CTucker's, but one day I was hammer throwing mad when someone left the gate down and the cattle got out. Got them in alright but it just set the day off wrong for me. I decided to go fence in a piece of pasture that had not been grazed for about 10 years. Drove my pickup full of posts out to this slew part but was fairly dry at the time. Started fencing and swinging a corn knife. It started to rain lightly but I was ticked and didn't stop. After about an hour of light rain I went to move the pickup but it was too greasy even in 4wd. Went to the house but wife was leaving for work. Got my D19 as that wasn't far from me and it really started to rain. I'm thinking I really need this truck out as that was my transportation to work the next day. Backed the 19 up to the pickup and hooked up. By myself I couldn't budge it and now the 19 was stuck with the chain just as tight as can be. Walk to my Dad's house a half mile away to get another chain and brother's 7030. Put my 9 year old in the 7030 and pulled the pickup back enough to unhook chain from 19 but now the 7030 was stuck. 3 units down. It's really raining now. Walk back to my house 1/4 mile. Unhooked the 7050 from the digger. Drove down to pull out 7030 with my 9 year old daughter in the 7050. Alright, the 7030 is now unstuck. I backed towards the 19 but now the 7050 can't even get to the 19 and it's stuck. Back the 7030 up to the 7050 and can't budge it and now am stuck with one tight chain again. 4 units down. Walk to Dad's 1/2 mile in the rain and about as mean as a grizzly and even more stubborn. Get the brother's 190xt and he happened to pull in to Dad's. Drove that back and also grabbed my 190 from Dad's. Now with brother, tried to pull out these animals in the rain to no avail. 5 units down and his 190xt was the only mobile one. Drove down to Dad's to get more chains. Dad was home and asked what we were up to. Then said why don't we take his HD11. Duh! Forgot he even had it. Been sitting in the shed out of the way since he bought it a few months before. Well anyhow it floated across that waterlogged slew and pulled everything to safety. I was in no mood to hear Dad say I can't believe you forgot about the dozer. He said it anyway. Way too often I seem to make my own misery but so far that's the worst for me.

You need a few of these.  I have a 12 pack of them.  Battery's last longer and always fully charged when you need them.  Have them on tractors, farm truck, ATV's and riding mowers.

Lots of good Allis people out there in Pewamo, sounds like you need some good tractor buddies. You must have more snow than we got in Lansing, it barely covers the ground here.

Sometimes the biggest smack in the face comes when everything looks good.
I bought a Allis "M" crawler,got a great deal,and the guy gave me a Oliver 35 combine with it,looked all there....checked a bunch of stuff out,got the tires to hold air,getting ready to fire it up...well the frickin starter is gone,looked em' up online,sure they sell em',$250 smackers,for a combine the owner who knew anything about it is long gone,so does it run? no way to know,unless I want to roll the dice and spend $250 on a starter that I probably wont get $50 for if the engine don't start....oh well,going to build a crank and see if I can start the dang thing when the weather gets up over freezing.

Not to mention we were going to buy a running dozer this summer,but NO we got too good a deal on some old Cletracs,so....the work didn't get done.

Then the grader my uncle and I were going to fix....well if we could get the dang repair manual before spring that would be great.

LOL,yet somehow life goes on,and I have some stuff to bellyache about! :)

How does the saying go?   "What doesn't kill us usually succeeds on the second attempt."

You guys need to quit being philisophical..........same days ya' just wanna kick the dog! LOL LOL!

Some days just make you rethink "Why I chose this job". Nothing like putting head gaskets on a 7.3 diesel in a van that has 500K on it. Fix one crispy broken wire and break 2 more in the process.

LouSWPA wrote: You guys need to quit being philisophical..........same days ya' just wanna kick the dog! LOL LOL!

Why the poor dog kick the dang cat

I knew of a fella that heard water dripping under his sink at night, and was on his hands and knees checking it with a flashlight in his birthday suit. I probably don't have to tell you what the cat did to cause him to jerk his head up and put a big knot on the back of his skull!

Larry, can I pass that story on? LMAO