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randy 
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Posted: 22 Mar 2011 at 12:49pm |
Think your having a bad day? What about this guy, I heard him going through the fan when i started the combine this morning. He bent one fan blade, and luck would have it he came out in one piece! 
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SHAMELESS
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Posted: 22 Mar 2011 at 1:48pm |
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my ole lady...oooops...i mean my loving wife says she saw one of them critters jump up in the back of my 1440, may hafta go start it and see how good he is at jumping around!!! lol
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Posted: 22 Mar 2011 at 2:07pm |
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OH my, not the way to start your day, poor little feller.
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427435
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Posted: 22 Mar 2011 at 2:11pm |
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I did in one of our farm cats in a similar fashion years ago in the fall. It had crawled up into the space between the fan and the radiator (warm as the tractor had been running earlier). A while later, I jumped on the tractor (Farmall 300) and hit the starter. It came flying out the side of the tractor and was dead when it hit the ground.
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Orange Blood
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Posted: 22 Mar 2011 at 2:17pm |
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happened to two very little kittens when I was a little guy myself, we were visiting our grandparents, at their farm, was very cold day, the Monte Carlo had a nice warm big block that stayed warm for hours. Went to leave, and killed them both, I still remember the blood spots that made it up to the windshield through the cowling. :( That was over 30 years ago.
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rob(ont)
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Posted: 22 Mar 2011 at 6:24pm |
That is why I check the fan/radiator cowl EVERYTIME I start the combine first time EACH day. My current machine minced one by the previous owner. Just bent a few radiator fins. I did replace the fan for safety sake, all the blades were bent at the tips. Neighbour ground one with a big green machine, some 2500$ damage to the rad, oil cooler, fan, water pump, etc.
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Brian Jasper co. Ia
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Posted: 22 Mar 2011 at 6:40pm |
For quite some time I had a cat that was bound and determined to keep kittens under the hood of my 98 Chevy truck. Back then they put the 2nd battery tray for the diesel on all gas engines too. Got to work several times and heard kittens under the hood. Once I was in the drive thru at BK, and heard them. It was one of those days that it was warm and I had the A/C on. Opened the hood the same 4 were under there. The people in line behind me eye's were big as pie plates when they saw me take them out from under the hood. Still have another cat that learned it's lesson about setting next to the radiator. Started the truck, heard some thumping under the hood, saw a cat run out from under like it was on fire. Must not have gotten hurt cause it's still around.
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Butch(OH)
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Posted: 22 Mar 2011 at 7:34pm |
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Must be something about those Axial Flows? B-in-law shredded a coon with his 1460 last sping but it hammered around long enough before it came to pieces to cost him almost $1000.00
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John (C-IL)
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Posted: 22 Mar 2011 at 8:07pm |
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When is the BBQ? Heard they taste like.......?
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Skyhighballoon(MO)
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Posted: 22 Mar 2011 at 8:16pm |
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John - I've had BBQ coon - it was good but it does not taste like chicken...LOL! Probably more like gamey pork. Mike
Edited by Skyhighballoon(MO) - 22 Mar 2011 at 8:17pm
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John (C-IL)
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Posted: 22 Mar 2011 at 8:49pm |
 Skyhighballoon(MO) wrote:
John - I've had BBQ coon - it was good but it does not taste like chicken...LOL! Probably more like gamey pork. Mike |
Come to think of it, when I was in college I got involved in a wild game feed, I tried a little piece of coon loin. You are right, it tasted like gamey pork, but the BBQ sauce didn't help the taste much. I preferred the deep fried quail, now that was tasty. And I still remember grandma fixing rabbit stew for us when we would shoot a rabbit.
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randy
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Posted: 22 Mar 2011 at 8:49pm |
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John, I can bring him to your house if you want!!!! I was lucky I heard it and shut it off right away, been there before!. Guess i will have to check everytime i start it when its in the shed. I usually walk around and bang on the sheet metal before starting, but not this time. I ran one through the chopper on my M2, good thing the concave knives were retracted.
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Posted: 22 Mar 2011 at 10:24pm |
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One fall we pulled our 1440 out of the shed for the first time and engaged everything and I was standing back behind it and the fattest possum I ever did see slid out the back and jumped out to the side, I bet he jumped a good 5 feet before touching ground and he ran off belly practically draggin the ground and never saw him around again after that ride.
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Posted: 22 Mar 2011 at 10:54pm |
Andrew(southernIL) wrote:
One fall we pulled our 1440 out of the shed for the first time and engaged everything and I was standing back behind it and the fattest possum I ever did see slid out the back and jumped out to the side, I bet he jumped a good 5 feet before touching ground and he ran off belly practically draggin the ground and never saw him around again after that ride.
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Reminds me of working on an IH prototype test crew during one summer while in college. We were in the California San Joaquin Valley. If we had repair or checks to make, we would do it in the morning before it got hot. However, nobody did anything until the combine was started and everything run for about 10 minutes to get rid of any snakes that had crawled in.
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