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Any kind of oops,tractor ,farm,work related mistakes or oops is what Cory wants to see or hear about,,,I hope someone can post Krusers tractor when the wheel fell off...lol
 
OOPS! Should have put a few more nails in the roof at 2 o'clock and maybe it wouldn't have blown off at 6.
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I have posted this picture a lot over the year and this is how not to brush hog a hill side. A friend cousin was told to go up and down on the hills but no he had to drive along the hill. It it wasn't for the tree he would be likely to be dead but the tree stopped it from flipping over on top of him
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When I "oops", the last thing I think of is a camera. As a matter of fact, if someone
stopped by with one, I'd probably run em off! I make mistakes but I REALLY don't like
admitting to them. Here is one that was cause by getting in a hurry! I wish I knew
how to resize it.

Aaron
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Uhmmm, my husband's first wife (me)... forgot that one fall we had moved the kid's swing set because it was sinking in to the ground.

The next spring, I was mowing and slowly drove the mower up against the double-seated glider swing to push it away and mow underneath it - BUT because the swing set was now "taller" that ol' swing hopped right up & over the hood of the Cub Cadet, then jumped over the left side of it... viciously tearing the carburetor off the lawn tractor.

Went and told husband I had knocked the air cleaner off the cub and it wouldn't restart. He walked over to see what the trouble was... you could probably hear the string of expletives a mile away.

That lil' oops cost us $50 bucks and began a never-ending retelling of my evil deed (with the story getting "worser" and "worster" each time...LOL).

Won't do that again!
 
That's for James to post, unless he has something worse! How about this plastic Saturn that burned a hole in the parking lot at work?
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Ok, Ok , Ill start this one! Several years ago, my brother, Pastor John invited me out to Iowa for the WHO tractor ride held in Spencer Iowa. We traded off riding his 49 Case SC through out the area for 3 days.. Well I was hooked, and picked up a 1955 Case 411. A year later, Fast fwd to Centerville Iowa, sponsored by WHO Radio. I proudly mounted my 411 and headed out with 475 of my new best friends for three days of country road riding. This is the part you wanted to hear about! Two hours into the ride, we had just finished a short stop for coffee and homemade deserts from the local Betty Crockers in the county. You know who they are! The peach cobblers that melt in your mouth. The cherry pies that make your belly ache if you eat too much ,and the fudge brownies that can only washed down with a hot cup of coffee. So on the road we go, only to find the axle clamp bolts loose. T Chuck Machinisthe left wheel scoots out about 12 "on the axle. Back to the rest spot to tighten the axle bolts. That's mine ,what's yours Chuck Machinist
 
Mine wasn't as bad a Brendon's oops, more of a double OHH SHI# Yesterday I blew out an outer wheel bearing in my 440 while gathering sap in the morning. I managed to drive it back to the house and stole an outer cone from another tractor to get by. Tonight on the way down from the sugarbush the other front wheel shucked out an outer bearing. The ground is frozen solid with deep ruts and the front wheels are really takeing a beating. You can see the marks on the tire where they squeeze in and out of the ruts.
Yesterday I called our friendly YT friend and trusted Case parts supplier John S and he had the parts in stock. I had to call back again tonight and have him double the order for both wheels now. Complete set of bearings, seals, and dust caps, as it shucked the caps of some where also.
The good part if one, is that I had another sleeve shim to raise the flange heidth on one cylinder ordered for my 931 project, and they can combine ship, now 3 orders together. They live less than 3 hrs. drive from me here in NY.
told them to tie the package to the belly of a crow, so I would have it tomarrow. HeHe.
More than likely, I will be barrowing another outer cone from my 57 Case 300 to keep going.
Loren
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Chuck,
You forgot to mention when you nearly rearended the guy in front of you, and the time you were getting off the 411 and the shoestring of your pink sneeker got caught on the eagle hitch and you just about fell on your nose. Just kidding!!! Give me a call, Haven't talked to you in a while. After 6:00pm is best.
Loren
 
Long story short, I had to leave the scraper in the wrong place (the pond was dry) and left it a bit to long,,, Then I had to go fishing, there was about a 1/4" of ice that day I had to paddle that two man boat through to get a chain hooked to the scraper,,,
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Oops no.1.....extended the auger on the soybean wagon out full length...when the wagon got empty I found out I had lost the bolts holding it to the running gear......

oops no.2 when you have several wagon loads of round bales hooked together and have a flat on the back load and don't realize it for a while......
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I almost cut my finger off. Cutting Kindling... thought I should move my hand...moved the hatchet and board with the hand I SHOULD of Moved BEFORE the last swing

Ran a hammer though the blower...worked on chopper wagon... take break(left hammer in), loaded load... something made a racket going through, blew shroud off blower....went to get hammer to fix, remembered the on that was IN wagon we were unloading.. We did find most of the pieces... Who knows what else went through the blower through the years..

Tipped the gravity box of cob corn over this fall... side hill, car ramps.... got that far corn across drive..

countless times tipped the wagons off back of running gears.

Heavy wind tipped the grain elevator over one day.
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My brother ran a tractor into the greenhouse once. this is some of the damage.
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Wish I had the pic just now, my uncle was putting in a huge zip line across their pond. He was using his Kubota to stretch the cable. he forgot to put the parking brake
on. So the cable pulled it into the pond an the steep end. The pic was really funny. The muffler was just sticking out, and you could just see the tops of his back
tires.
 
I've had several "oops" over the years- fortunately, I had the presence of mind never to photograph any of them. "If there's no pics, it didn't happen".
 
No it is up a tree. On the left side right where the clutch pedal is the 8N hooked a tree did a 180 on it and came to a stop as pictured. The guy went to the hospital with a bused up knee. Took me an my friend 2 day to get it off the tree and back on its wheels with out having it roll over. Rear wheel/tire on the left side was about 6 inches off the ground and the front tires almost 2 foot
 
woo, i have a few

paslode framing nailer and a knothole. yeowch

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found a razor blade in a customers tire...ford f250

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swmbo's handi work on the riding mower tossing rocks

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hydraulics are stronger than the axle rating

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quicker to dump than unload in an auger

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try and stay away from quicksand

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grain shovels are fun!!!

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dam beavers!!

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planting road ditches is hard work!!

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save fuel....go green!!!!

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dirty rotten cheetoe stealin turkey!!!

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found the funny noise in the baler...

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why i get stung by my bees

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oh yeah...forgot...too much water is bad for crops

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Turned a little sharp with the hay elevator putting it
in position for the season...oops.

We brought out our best mechanic for the job.
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I can't believe you got the pic of the nail in the finger. who in there right or rong minds is going to stop and take a pic of that?!?!?! LOL
 
I was thinking of posting pics of a couple of my son's feed semi trailers laying on their side in the ditch with feed spilling out but out of respect for the drivers who had a really bad day I decided to just describe it. Had to vacuum 24 tons of feed out of the trailer and the road ditch each time. I don't want to do it again but there might be a next time????
 
I'll throw in - especially since my name is Cory. I did
a double take at the title!

The first is my foot about five minutes after I had a
run in with a bull. Shattered all of the bones there in
the left side. This pic was after I set it. The doctor
was impressed at my skills. This was back at
Thanksgiving and the foot looks about the same
today.

The other picture is what happens when you have a
sleep disorder and don't treat it. I act out just about
everything in my sleep and walk the house. This
was after I got up and slammed my head into the
corner of the bureau a few years back. The
bedroom looked like a crime scene. It severed the
one main nerve running to the whole side of my
head all of the way back to the crown. It's still numb
and won't ever have feeling. The doctors see to it
that I won't be getting out of bed in the night, now.
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stone quarry plant caught fire from cutting torch catching grease on fire in columbus ohio two years ago
RICK
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How about when you are using you're 4 1/2 inch angle grinder with a sanding disk. The rubber pad is 4 1/2 inch too. You bought the wrong size disks. Do not use 5 inch disks. They can catch and go boom! First shot is two weeks later. the next was a couple of months later. The finger now is allllmost perfect with a little angle on the nail. Went right to the bone.
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Where to begin? ? ?

What about the time driving the Ford 2810 at night, with no lights, across a narrow bridge, with two bales of hay.

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And the time mowing down in the woods when a large sweetgum tree suddenly appeared in front of "Audie" our 1954 Model 40S

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Not to mention the time cultipacking with "Mac" one of our 1951 MTs.

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To my credit though, at least a wheel has never fallen off any of our tractors.

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Kinda think the glennster might get the coveted award for this "contest"!

PS: His SWMBO and Dottir are trying to tell him to STOP.
 
Who will stop and take pictures of a nail through the finger........someone like me who would also take one of a messed up finger that just about had the end taken off......

This was the worst OOPS I have had in nearly 25 years. I might not get hurt often, but I definitely save up so I do it right when I do.

The first pic was the Mon before Christmas, right after I got to the ER, but before the doc had done anything.

The second is after doc deadend it and cut away everything that had become detached and had died. It was bandaged up looking like this.

The third was about 2 weeks later. It's amazing how resilient the human body is. It's been a little over two months now, and I have something akin to a nail coming back. I just stopped wearing any kind of bandage/cover on it last week. The feeling still isn't right, but it's getting there as I work with it and get used to the 'new' feeling.

On the mechanical side of things, the pin came out of a customers machine. They wondered why the cylinder had so much slop in it.


The last one is the #1 piston out of a 3306 CAT engine with less than 100 hours on a fresh rebuild. It's the only engine I have ever warrantied....and it wasn't my fault. A cracked head meant a brand new, fully loaded head was purchased and used on this engine. For some reason the stem broke on #1 intake just below the head. If you look you can see the mark where the valve embedded into the top of the piston before shattering it.

The company we got the head from warranted it, even though it was technically out of the warranty period of 1 year (the machine wasn't used regularly at the time). I installed a new piston and liner. The old girl is once again up and running like a top.....and has been for several years now.....
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how about trailer surfing nite ,,,.. I don't have any pix ,, but I do have a little experience ,,,sure gets exciting when the back wheels of the truk get lite under them and a fella is just getting on the bak of the trailer ,,.and everything is going downhill
 
uh -ohh.... ponds and tractors only get worse .....just helpt a neighbor get his massey 135 out of the pond ,,it was setting on the hill when the mules got to rubing on the back wheel like they always do , BUT this time somehow rocked the massey out of gear and away it went ,, the clutch side front wheel was under water ,, the belly was foundered in mud after Rick tried backing out , and realized he needed help .. trouble was it was durn near impossible to pull backward up the 45 degree bank and forward offered no good vantage point on land because of the steepness and all the trees the massey somehow got thru without touching one,,.
Enter me with a 6 inch aluminum pully chained to one of trees and a 150 foot of half inch cable hookt to the drawbar of the mm jetstar 3 ,and the other end was hookt to the front bumper of the massey ,..the jetstar got easy traction on the rain soaked ground pulling down hill and the massy pulling under its own power made it short work..we both feared the foundered front axle mite bust something but that greasey old hoosier mud let us slip rite on out...
 
it is a wonder some of us are among the living,..my 1st wife coulda kilt me rite after this happened some 25 yrs ago ,,./// I had backed a load of corn on the pikup into the shop,., since it was gonna be few days before I made sow and pig feed , I chained the back bumper to the chain hoist and took some weight off the back springs,,the hoist is mounted on a hay track that runs the length of the shop . , my dear wife was plenty busy with the 4 babies to pay too much attention to how I do things , however she always liked to be outdoors doing stuff and help lighten my work load , such as cutting the grass,. one day while iwas off driving nails making the big dollars She decided SHE wanted to cut grass ,, trouble was the Cub Cadet was behind the truck.. NO PROBLEM for her ,,She has baled hay with the 430 Case, jump started the 4020 , and even could handle Pops ol DC with the hand clutch,..a 3 on the tree was nuthin to SHE ,. she crankt that 300 six up ,, yankt the worn out shifter half way around the steering wheel serveral times and found 1st gear ,, eased the clutch and rolled the loaded truck out the doors ,.and began wondering what was making noise that sounded like wheels on rails . When WHAM !!,,. when I got home she was all but done cutting the grass with the cub cadet ,,. instantly I wondered if she managed the chainhoist ,,She Told me laughingly she Coulda kilt Me rite after it happened because SHE COULDA been killed ,"It was Just like the Cop car on American Graffiti" she said ,. the truck had a nice dent in the roof ,the guilty chainhoist lay in the corn ,, the track was mangled but fixable . . ahhhH,,. what a free spirited gal ,.sadly that free spirit and charming wit would carry the pretty thing to nursing school .and then open her eyes to whole new world that did not include me ,,.7 yrs later I found my sara,,. so far , so good
 
That steering wheel is bent not sure if you can see it in the picture. the thing that saved my brothers life was that he was on the first pass in the field so he was going slow getting it straight. He had his foot on the clutch. When the planters flipped up on him it pushed him forward and pushed the clutch in and stopped the tractor. My youngest brother was sitting on another tractor nearby and jumped off only to get his pants leg caught on the pedal and ended up hanging upside down. Other brother backed up enough to get unpinned and rescued him.
Ron
 
I did the nail-through-the-finger thing with a finish nailer. I just pulled it out and treated the wound. I learned to not have my holding hand at the same level as the nail site. Power driven nails can take some odd turns!
 
This incident happened a while ago, was applying on a farm that was broke into several smaller fields. To go into the back field, I had to go down a moderately sloped hill. Had done this many times before the incident.. Started down the hill with a loaded set of wagons (approx. 11000 gallons), they started to push the tractor, tractor went sideways, I couldn't get it to straighten out and hope for the best, so I went for a ride.. All I could do at that point was apply the brakes and hope the brakes on the wagons slowed me down, close my eyes and hold on. I still feel lucky I didn't go over, or that the drawbar on either tractor or wagons didn't break.. It could have gotten much worse in a hurry!

After that incident, I told the company I worked for that I would never apply that farm again, as it had many steeper hills than the one that this happened on, and was much more aware of some of the other hills I had worked on many times before (before I left this company about a year ago, I had over 5000 hours in the seat of the 9430, and many many more in other equipment). Other than being stuck a time or 2, this is the only serious incident I ever had.









When John Deere came out to help us get back moving, this is what they said caused the accident.. I believe the line split because of the accident, but we will never know for sure.

It happens fast.. Be safe out there.
Brad
 
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