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Mowing the lawn on a flat tie.(OT-but a tractor)

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dej(Jed)

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I came home from work to find the lawn mowed. The trouble was that when I left for work, the rear tire was flat. When I got inside I asked
why the lawn was such a mess. My wife explained to me that there must be something wrong with the mower blades. Now whereas we are both getting older I am wondering about some sort of mental issues. Can anyone explain to me how anyone can cut grass for over 1 hr and not see that the drive tire is flat? I won't even get into what happens to a tire and wheel when it is driven for over an hour. That will be in my next post.
 
Don't feel bad, My X mowed our yard with a steer tire flat. Same question How in heck can you not see or feel that? Or why would she not think to stop after seeing all of the grass riped up make gouges across the yard?

Jray
 
I'm guessing she doesn't weigh as much as you so it wasn't noticable to her.
And I would guess she doesn't use the mower as much as you so realizing something was wrong wouldn't be as obvious.
I will tell you that I would appreciate it if my wife would mow the yard for me once in a while, but she is under the impression that is my job.
Don't get to mad, she can cut you off in more ways than one!
 
just be glad she mowed the grass and move on,theres battles then theres battles. besides ,after more years of marriage than i can remember ,its your fault anyway......
 
Same way I can mow about an acre of lawn before I noticed there's a 2" diameter branch stuck in between the mower deck and the tractor frame - pointed directly down into the sod - gouging a deep furrow everywhere I mowed.

Talk about a mess. At least yours can just grow back!

For a long time, Mine looked like I had a very precise and determined mole going up and down the lawn.

I think it's such a mundane job you just get in a zone wanting it to be done, and you kind of lose focus on the world.
 
My wife jumped into a pickup with a flat tire and dove it across town and back without noticing.

If it will run and its not on fire she'll drive it.
 
Several years ago we hired a summer employee. Part of the job was mowing in the campgrounds. She lost the center blade on a 50 inch Gravely three blade deck and just kept on mowing....Somehow she couldn't figure out what was wrong, but continued on anyway.
 
Old friend of mine was raised in the city,but as a teenager needed a summer job so he hired out to a local farmer.Old fellow showed him how to run tractor,and filled a drill and took him to a feild to drill in wheat. He left a truck full of seed and went about doing other work.My friend drug the drill around half a day and the old farmer stopped to get him for lunch.First thing he asked was how much seed he had left. My friend had ran around all day without the drill in gear!
 
Some people just don't have a feel for machinery the way we do. My neighbor had a daughter-in-law run his IH 1566 pulling a 24 foot disk in cornstalks. She called him on her cell phone and said the tractor died in the middle of the field. He went out there and found the disk completely plugged and it had killed the tractor. She didn't look back and didn't have any feeling for the tractor so she didn't know what was happening.

On that same tractor the overfueling valve stuck open while he was V ripping with it. It gave him unlimited power so he shifted it up and went faster. He said the pyro was running at 1500 but he kept going. His son and I replaced the scored pistons that was the result. Of course the scored pistons weren't his fault and I kept my mouth shut, but I thought "why did he put that pyro in there if he doesn't know how to read it?" Jim
 
My wife is much happier in a tractor cab than in the kitchen, she will help out any way she can. Bless her.

But, there mustr be something genetic there, as others mention, some days I just wonder how this or that isn't noticed....

Speaking of flat tires, I was hauling 2 smaller gavity wagons of corn 5 miles to town a few years ago. Just got to the narrow, railed, bridge ahead section where _2_ state highways cross a river, and saw the rear wagon bouncing. Tire on it was so flat the rim was damaged.

What to do, the rim & tire are shot, very dangerous place to be sitting still.

Dropped down a few gears and kept going, was surprised at how many helpful folks waved me down to point out the flat tire. Got off after the bridge and parked the rear wagon, came with a spare.

I still have that rim, funny, it's rolled into a barrel shape, the tims are about level with the drop center.

--->Paul
 
Your lawn is like a bad haircut it will grow out again. Your wife's intentions were good. More than one time I have started mowing, got to the other end and turned and headed back, and thought must be something wrong with the mower, the weeds are still standing. Problem was me. I forgot to start the mower. Maybe age, when this kind of stuff happens, Who knows Stan
 
About thirty years ago when I was a hired hand, my boss told me to haul the lawn mower to the south farm where no one was living at yet and mow the lawn. He said the other part time hire had sharpened the blades already so the tall grass would cut easier. I unloaded the mower and started to mow but the engine seemed to be short on power. After about a hundred feet or so I notice that the grass was not cutting very smooth so I stopped and sure enough he had put the blades on upside down.
 
My ex had a flat front and ran the tire off the wheel, She said it was rough steeriin for a bit, but then started steering ok again. But the mower was leaving a funny gouge in the grass--
 
Fellow jumped on a 3600 Ford with a 6 foot brush hog where I worked. Mowed a while and came back to the shop saying it wasn't mowing well. Farm manager laughed and said he had taken the blades off for sharpening and had not put them back on yet.
 
Just make a pair of steel wheels with lugs like all tractors had before the 1930s, a small enough set for your mower. You won't have to worry about flat tires anymore. And they'll aerate the lawn at the same time.
 
you're lucky,..mine backed through the garage door,..i asked how that happened and she said ,..i thought it was up,...how do you not see a garage door....LOL
 
dej(jed)

Teddy Kennedy had half of his brain removed at Duke university and he lived for a while before the cancer got him.

Few people realize that this is historic medical break throught. The most difficult medical procedure of changing a man to a woman was removing half their brain without killing them.

I'm sure some may say I got it backwards, woman to man.

The older we get the more our brain shrinks:)
George
 
had a hired man on the planter while I ran to town ..he told me when I got back that he couldn't figure out why one hopper never needed filling up...drive chain was gone...duh
 
A few years ago my wife came and told me the mower didn't sound right, so I went and checked it over. One of the deck spindle bearings was going bad, and she caught it in time. I called around for bearings, and she even went and got them! She doesn't want me to mow, I don't do a good enough job!
 
That's kinda like when Dad drain the oil in the car and Mom got in it and drove off with no oil in it ! Even worse was it was in the garage over the oil change pit.
 
Heck I had a JD 300 with the big rear tires mowing shorter grass a few years ago and it took me a while to notice that the belt for the side blades jumped off. The center blade would spin and the tires mashed the grass flat anyways......
 
Sometimes I have learned just to smile real big and say "Thank you dear for helping me, it saved me a lot of time." Then I go back and correct as necessary.

Its the same thing she does to me when I try to help with the laundry, colors and whites can go together right???

Rick
 
I buy those rims at auctions. The center is still good, can be used to replace a bad center where the holes wallowed out. I drill out the welds and weld two good halves together.
 
Well - a few years ago we had a big storm that wrecked most of our woods fences. #2 son brought his 4 wheel drive Kubota over to help me with repairs. He works during the day, and one day I slid it off of a small embankment and got it "stuck". Didn't want to tear up something on it, so I walked home and got the old 630 JD and the wife to help steer. She was on the Kubota - I'd showed her the hydro pedal - press front goes forward - press back goes backward. The old 630 was pulling kinda hard - thought I'd forgot to unlatch the brake or something. Couldn't find nothing wrong with the 630, and when I looked back at the Kubota, she had all four wheels spinning backward with us all going forward. Dang! No wonder it was pulling hard. I didn't say a word about it to her (and I trust you guys won't either). Never want to anger the cook. I might need her "help" again someday.

Paul
 
Guys,

This entire thread is funny and makes me feel GREAT, because I am not the only wife who rips carburetors off Cub Cadets, steps on the car brake when he's trying to tow it, breaks his metal bandsaw blade because I used it to cut wood, ran the car out of gas once and could not figure it out for the life of me (though, to my credit neither could my FIL or BIL... hubby was at work). Uhmmmmmmm, the list goes on! But I am a good cook and have a fairly pleasant disposition - so he still puts up with me.
 
My son mowed the yard once and forgot to turn the mower on.A local grain elevator does custom grain drilling.One of there employees drilled a 20 acre field with an empty drill.
 
Came home with tractor once and spotted a shattered concrete block in the middle of the road, with an oil trail leading away from it...Thought "Ouch" and went on home. Stopped in the house to refill water jug and mom called..."I am over at your aunts house, and my battery is dead". Jumped in my truck and headed there, 8 miles away. As soon as I saw the concrete block the second time, I had a sinking feeling that mom did not need a jump start! Sure enough...she had driven about 71/2 miles with the oil pan torn off, and locked up the engine, a slant 6 no less!

That previous comment about if it will start and is not on fire definitely applies to my mom.

My wife on the other hand, may not be a good operator, but will stop or at least call right away if something does not feel right.
 
thats not as bad as my ex and her mom drivin my 76 T-bird 15 miles without coolant ,.cept for gripe CAR HAS NO HEAT . No HA$RM DONE !,But that Lady was HOT!! ,cooled her 460 down,slowly Very cold day , below freezing,..Her Sis told me that water was runnin out when they left her place ,, Freeze Plu Rusted out
 
One of our "summer helpers" at the golf course (a turf grass student) was using a Hydra-gang to mow rough (hydra gang is a Ford 3000 with 7 hydraulic drive reel mowers mounted on it) He notices the reels "stopped turning" seems he knocked one of the outboard units OFF, the reels stopped turning because he mowed almost 1/4 of a mile after knocking the unit off, it took the tractor that long to pump out the 30 gallons of hot hydraulic oil all over the ground, had brown strips in the rough the rest of the year
 
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