Farm Equipment - Ever have this happen??

Print Page | Close Window

Ever have this happen??

Printed From: Unofficial Allis
Category: Allis Chalmers
Forum Name: Farm Equipment
Forum Description: everything about Allis-Chalmers farm equipment
URL: https://www.allischalmers.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=26919
Printed Date: 27 Feb 2025 at 8:00am
Software Version: Web Wiz Forums 11.10 - http://www.webwizforums.com

Topic: Ever have this happen??

Posted By: Ryan Renko
Subject: Ever have this happen??
Date Posted: 07 Mar 2011 at 6:58pm

I stop by my parents to talk AC with dad almost everynight. It always makes his day!! Today he was talking about parking the WD with a manure spredder behind it in the feed lot during lunch and having the cows eating the spark plug wires!!!Ryan

Replies:

Posted By: JohnCO
Date Posted: 07 Mar 2011 at 7:20pm

We had that happen on our C, at least the cows have good taste.

-------------
"If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer"
Allis Express participant

Posted By: acd21man
Date Posted: 07 Mar 2011 at 7:33pm

the cow took the dipstick out of the 220 once took a few mins to find it

-------------
2 wd 45,2 D-17 diesel/gas 3 pt, 220,d21, 4020,2 4430s used daily http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCudh8Xz9_rZHhUC3YNozupw

Posted By: Nathan (SD)
Date Posted: 07 Mar 2011 at 8:25pm

Cows chewed my fuel hose once while it was running. I left it run cuz I thought it would keep them away. I was in the barn and heard the engine quit. My first thought was plug wires.

Posted By: Butch(OH)
Date Posted: 07 Mar 2011 at 8:47pm

As a child we had well for the cattle waaay back in the pasture and it had an upright Novo on the pump jack. One of my chores after school was to take a premeasured can of fuel back there and pour it in tank, start the Novo and leave it to run until out of fuel. Starting that Novo was a whole lot easier for dad than me when I was 7 years old so I was glad when I went back there and found a hole inthe block from the rod escaping. Only thing else on the farm that could run the pump was the model C and a long v belt he borowed somewhere off the JD model 25 combine. Of course dad didnt trust me to run the tractor back and forth so we left it back there and WOW was he mad when them dang cows ate the plug wires, half the seat cushion and the V belt for the combine, they was even chewing in the rear tire cleats. Next day we had a shiney brand new Lauson on that pump and I had orders to stay back there until the tank was full and cover it up with and old drum, LOL.

Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 07 Mar 2011 at 9:48pm

Cattle!!! Good for nothin but eatin!! Darrel

Posted By: Lonn
Date Posted: 08 Mar 2011 at 6:11am

Try having a horse in the pasture. I moved an old WC into the horse pasture and already thinking of things it could take off I removed the wires. I didn't think the next time I looked it would have ripped off the radiator but sure enough. Danged thing pushes it's rear against anything and everything and pushes for all it's worth. Actually it pushes way more than it's worth cause a horse ain't worth much. Now the old tractors get to sit in a fence line where they belong.

-------------
-- --- .... .- -- -- .- -.. / .-- .- ... / .- / -- ..- .-. -.. . .-. .. -. --. / -.-. .... .. .-.. -.. / .-. .- .--. .. ... -
Wink
I am a Russian Bot

Posted By: Bill Long
Date Posted: 08 Mar 2011 at 7:18am

Speaking of horses, I remember my Uncle talking about his horse. It would stay in a fenced field but would walk along the fence posts. When it found a loose post it would lean against it to break the fence and escape. Usually went back to his farm but you never saw that horse in the middle of the field. Always on the fence posts.

Good Luck!

Bill Long

Posted By: DaveKamp
Date Posted: 09 Mar 2011 at 9:32pm

My mom had a pony that somehow found it's way out of the corral, and stuck his head in the (open) house window when nobody was looking... and it ate half their sofa...

I'd like to see a cow eat spark plug wires off a running engine though... that'd be some top-notch farm entertainment...

Posted By: Allen Dilg
Date Posted: 09 Mar 2011 at 9:39pm

We sold a freshened cow to the neighbor, he called back later and said that the cow drank a 5 gal bucket of drain oil, the vet couldent save it.

Posted By: chllngr528
Date Posted: 09 Mar 2011 at 9:52pm

I grew up around dairy cows and I can tell you that there isn't much that I HAVE NOT seen them eat.

This maybe just a story but I had a vet tell me one time about a cow at a farm in the next county from us that got into a bushel of apples and ate till her stomach was so full that she had apples caught in her throat and suffocated

Posted By: Lonn
Date Posted: 10 Mar 2011 at 6:13am

Yep, cows don't know when to stop eating. Dad once took a loader bucket of cobbed corn left over from the bottom of the crib and dumped it in the cow yard with the D17. It was just a half full manure of half blacked cobbed corn and he thought with about 40 head of cattle it should be alright. Wrong, one bossy cow we called Pal stood there and ate the whole pile and kept the other cows away. She hadn't gone down yet but Dad called the vet when he saw what she had done and that she looked bloated. The vet put a hose down her throat to relieve some gas and Dad actually milked her with the vet still there but right after Dad took the milker off she dropped like a sack of potatoes dead. Vet said all that pressure built up inside gave her a heart attack.

The best story about animals eating things that I've witnessed was when brother took the dog with him to go check fence but left it in his 1977? pickup cause previously he had seen stray dogs up in the pasture and didn't want our dog to tangle with them. He said he wasn't gone 10 minutes when he came back to find the dog had completely tore up the seat, ripped the visors off, ripped the armrests from the doors, and took several large chunks out of the padded dash and a strong dog odor filled the cab. The dog was just sitting there calmly panting like nothing had ever happened. We figured the stray dogs had passed by the pickup within those short 10 minutes and our dog got real brave while inside the pickup. Lesson learned. Take your dog with ya fencing and take your rifle.

-------------
-- --- .... .- -- -- .- -.. / .-- .- ... / .- / -- ..- .-. -.. . .-. .. -. --. / -.-. .... .. .-.. -.. / .-. .- .--. .. ... -
Wink
I am a Russian Bot