Unbelievable Year

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wolfman

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• Oct 3, 2018

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On the way home with parts to repair the mower gearbox the nearly new truck's caliper hung up. Since June, big tractor caught fire, another tractor hydraulic line failed and fan filled the radiator with hydraulic fluid. Heavy hay wrapped around PTO shaft on round baler and tore hydraulic lines off tractor and baler. Farm riding mower drive belt snapped, Weed wacker won't run, gear box locked up on 8-ft rotary mower, hay truck door decided to quit opening, leaf blower only runs on full choke and at half speed. And it has rained so much I parked the hay balers and am building an ARC.

 

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johnofnewhaven

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• Oct 3, 2018

• #1

Well at least you got it all out of the way in one year. Had those years too. It stinks!!!

 

Janicholson

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• Oct 3, 2018

• #1

Be optimistic. Now that it is wet, you have a chance to fix all those items. Jim

 

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wolfman

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• Oct 3, 2018

• #1

Forgot to mention the car that ran through the pasture fence in the middle of the night taking out four panels and the tow truck destroyed two more panels retrieving the car kind of adding to the hit and run.

 

UncleTom

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• Oct 3, 2018

• #1

could it be a bad brake hose that lets fluid flow only one way preventing the caliper from releasing. It happened to me once.

 

rustred

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• Oct 3, 2018

• #1

old murphy must have moved right in on you! only thing i can bitss about is this dam freezing cold weather thats been here all of sept.with snow and now oct looks no better. -5 c now.snow coming again on weekend. taking grain off tough in the 17's. 14 is dry for barley. wish there was some global warming here!

 

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dhermesc

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• Oct 3, 2018

• #1

So what happened on Tuesday?

 

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grizz02

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• Oct 3, 2018

• #1

but the wife and dog OK ? LOL😵

 

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DeltaRed

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• Oct 3, 2018

• #1

Sometimes you get the bear. Sometimes the bear gets YOU.

 

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flying belgian

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• Oct 3, 2018

• #1

Pa used to say "just keep putting one foot in front of the other"

 

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Traditional Farmer

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Location

Virginia

• Oct 4, 2018

• #1

Sounds like a slow afternoon at OLD's place(LOL)

 

Geo-TH,In

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• Oct 4, 2018

• #1

No disrespect to Old, but I had the same thought.

 

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rrlund

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• Oct 4, 2018

• #1

Is that all? Sounds like a typical Tuesday here. LOL

 

kcm.MN

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Location

NW Minnesota

• Oct 4, 2018

• #1

(quoted from post at 21:24:18 10/03/18) Pa used to say "just keep putting one foot in front of the other"

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...Can I help it that my feet are heading downstairs into a deep, dark cellar?? :shock:

 

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Davidj

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• Oct 4, 2018

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(quoted from post at 20:44:02 10/03/18) Sometimes you get the bear. Sometimes the bear gets YOU.

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Or as I sometimes say, "some days you're the baby, some days you're the diaper" Better days ahead.

 

onefarmer

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Location

6735 S Lowell Rd, St Johns, Mi 48879

• Oct 4, 2018

• #1

Wow is that all? You can try again tomorrow!

 

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Pops1532

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• Oct 4, 2018

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(quoted from post at 02:17:36 10/04/18) could it be a bad brake hose that lets fluid flow only one way preventing the caliper from releasing. It happened to me once.

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The internal hose failure has become a fairly common problem. Usually starts as an intermittent problem.

 

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bcdave

Member

• Oct 4, 2018

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My dad used to tell me "You need to have those bad days so you can appreciate the good days"
Dave

 

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cool hand

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Location

SE IN

• Oct 4, 2018

• #1

All in one year?? Gosh, I have weeks, maybe days, like that!! Relax, soon the grass and weeds will stop growing, even the hay. Besides, there's "always next year"!

 

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dhermesc

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• Oct 4, 2018

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Kind of what I thought. When the lawn mower belt makes your tale of woe things aren't all bad.


Most of that could have been a single day, the hay wrapped around the PTO shaft ripped the hydraulic lines out spraying the the tractor with hot oil causing a fire that burned a hay field to ash with several hundred big round bales and the tractor would have been a bad day.

 

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2510Paul

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• Oct 5, 2018

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I noticed no one got killed or maimed. Last week I went un-responsive in the hospital. Fortunately the doctors got me back. It is all relative.

It seems if you gave each of those some thought they some might have been preventable. For example the gear box, is it checked at least annually for good quality oil. I was surprised to find a lot of water in the oil of my brush hog (Woods) gear box after several years. I'll be checking it more often now.

Paul