i am tuckered out!!!

been a long winter for me even tho most all ya gots more pretty than me. I may hafta make more holes in the hose for next winter! anyways...decided to takes a couple tractors outta hibernation. started with the 180D as it has the crane on it and I want to move sum heavy stuff, I had one of those battery maintainers on it all winter on a new battery so I knew this would be easy! WRONG! battery is 4 months old and deader than dead! WTF? grabbed a charger and it wouldn't even take a charge! tooks it out and back to the store and gots a free replacement. the tractor started right up and I used it some around the place. I do need to make another new seat for it again. next was an old backhoe. that this is such a PITA to climb into. needs more steps and a bigger door to the cab. and you can't just reach in and try to start it, you hafta be in the seat. PffffT! finally gits in, sits and catches my breath, turn the key and NUTHIN! PffffT! well I kinda expected that, but still had to try it. I thoughts I was gonna hafta take the cab off that thing to gits the battery out! sits under the cab floor, then down in a hole about 18 inches below. had to fabricate a battery lift to gits the dead on out. that battery was the same brand as the one in the 180! not gonna go there and gits another, went to NAPA instead. only reason for doing the backhoe, I need to digs a big ole hole for a burn pit. the local fire dept won't issue me a burn permit cuz they say my tree pile is to big! I thinks the real reason is I thinks they saw a couple tires in that pile! PffffT! i'll shows them, i'll dig this deep hole and ya'll know you can't see black smoke at night! and Hubert....if'n you calls my local fire chief....i'll hunt you down! my machine has a trailer hitch on it!

yeah Joe....he prolly gots caught trying to burn sum tires too! but I wouldn't rat him out for it!

Well,,I'm sure glad to see ole Shameless ain't the only'ist one that UMmm,,,,Ummmm,,pushes the intent of the law to the last point,,,, I know the dudes at the disposal are always wantin to look thru the trash trailer lookin for any ta'ars, old paint or batteries,,, I have to walk around the trash trailer with them to show them they ain't none of thet stuff anywhere ON the trailer,,,,,never mind what may be UNDER all thet trash,,,,,

And Dave, I ain't dragging any hose through cow chit. I'll drive the tanker up close and use the turret nozzle, won't even have to get out of the cab. If the ground is to wet then the fire won't get out and burn anything else so no problem. "He has a burn permit, so nothing we can do."

If your lucky,wait for a foggy day. Nobody will ever know.

that's what I used to do Fixer...I used to dispatch for our fire departments, and they would also give me a yearly permit...but our state goberment puts a stop to that! the fire dept always said I made their life and calls a lot easier! they gave me the name of "pyrow" . they said I was the only person they knew that could burn off 80 acres of CRP all by myself with no fire department equipment....done it twice! and now for over the winter I cut a 300 gallon fuel barrel in half, set it on blocks and use it to burn trash in. takes a year for it to fill up then I gotta dump the remains. usually lasts about 2 years if I punch holes in the bottom for water drainage. was kinda glad I got the 180 going as we had a goat pass away the very next day and we were able to carry it to the pit and burn it as per law. Hubert....we had a a$$hole fire chief one year and he just didn't gits (nor tried) along with anyone. they were gonna have a house burn one Sunday and guess how many tires was in that ole house! LOL he caught all kinds of he!! from that and also gots voted out the next election! I told them they could thanks me later! (the list goes on) LOL

You should come dispatch for us shameless I would love listing to your humor every time the pager goes off.      

Hubert (Ga)engine7 wrote: And Dave, I ain't dragging any hose through cow chit. I'll drive the tanker up close and use the turret nozzle, won't even have to get out of the cab. If the ground is to wet then the fire won't get out and burn anything else so no problem. "He has a burn permit, so nothing we can do."

it's kinda easy to remember, it's on Christmas eve at a time between 2100-2200 hrs as permited, if there is no important calls. it's just a little something I can do for Officers and Fire/EMS's kids. been doing it since about 1970

What radio station?

AHEM,,,,,,AHEM,,,,,,I WANT TO SEE THE ONE WHEN YOU WAS ON TV,,,YEP,,,THAS WHAT I WANT,,,,OK,,???