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I was out yesterday doing some grading with the box scraper when I noticed that pain and lump was gone on the right side of my butt, OH NO ! my wallet fell out while grading. Grrrr I just hope I can find it today. Have you ever lost something while on the tractor?
 
Never take my wallet on the tractor. Have lost many a hat under rear mowers.
My brother plowed his wallet under and we found it by seeing money sticking up.
Phd I worked for at Clemson lost his while mowing.
Lost my religion when plowing under edge of a tree and a snake fell across my lap.
Richard
 
My cousin was mowing his yard in the dark one night, felt his wallet had fallen out, so he backed up to swing the mower around to look for it and he backed over the wallet shredding it...
 
Lost my glasses when forking brush onto the burn pile with a hay fork. I looked everywhere I had picked up brush with no luck. Late that evening when putting out the embers of the fire a shiny spot appeared just outside the burn area. My glasses were undamaged, neither burned or run over.
 
Remember when they sold sun glasses that got darker as the sun got brighter? Bent over watching a patch of thistles feed into the combine header. Thistle fuzz settled on my head, so I brushed off the fuzz and knocked my sun glasses off into the header. I was sun blind and had to stop the combine until my eyes could adjust.
 
Hats under rotary cutter, moldboard plowed a cell phone under. It popped off my belt against seat frame. Watched grease gun slide off platform into plowed ground. I stopped instantly, saw where it went, never did find it. My dad made several brass mallets for the neighbor who tended our farm. The neighbor always said he was waiting for them to sprout, because he planted all of them in about two years.
 
Lost my wallet while plowing snow with back blade for neighbor. Absolute panic, canceling credit cards, getting new ID cards, and driver's license.
Fortunately my cousin works in county clerk's office, was able to get birth certificate and copy of my CPL on the spot. then I had ID to get driver's license, etc.
Wallet showed up a couple weeks later, sitting on a snowbank when snow melted back some. No or minimal damage to contents.
 
I stood up in the seat and the snake fell and wrapped around the clutch peddle. Had to sit back down and stomp it with my foot to get it loose.
Richard
 

Lost my checkbook while building a pond with an old TD-14. At that time I kept my tax records in my checkbook. Looked for an hour then gave up and kept working. A couple of hours later it turned up glistening in the sun, no damage except a cleat mark.

Lost my keys baling hay. Reasoned they could not be in a bale so I looked the last three rounds and could not see them anywhere. Started turning bales at the corners and found them under the third bale, whew!
 
Thats about when the crap would be running down my pants legs Lol. I dont mind snakes when i know where they at but those sneaky ones just creep me out.
 
Yeah I have lost the wallet. Cellphone and water jugs.

But have any of you sneezed and had your false teeth fly out while driving a cabless tractor?

I have.

Gary
 
one night I was seeding alfalfa with brillion seeder and a Ih 560 diesel. I had a older flashlight with the magnets on it so it stuck to metal. I turned to look back and bumped it and it fell, I grabbed for it and touched it, but didn't get it. stopped to look for it but couldn't find it. wrote it off as a loss. The next morning I walk into the shed and spoted it hanging from the underside of the axel housing.
I pick rocks with a UTV and have a goofy dog that grabs at anything moving. I carry a 6 tine manure fork along for any rocks that put up a fight. this spring I loaded up and went through a pasture to pick rocks in a remote field. when I got there the fork was gone. handle had been sticking over the edge of the box and the dog had grabbed it and pulled it off. I have searched 10 feet on both sides of the trail with no luck yet, but I am sure I'll find it in a tire someday.
 
Not off the tractor but I lost two cell phones while boating on the same lake. One when my hat blew off and I circled around, reached over to pick it up and cell phone went right from my shirt pocket to the bottom of the lake in a fraction of a second. Same lake several weeks later stopped at a restaurant for lunch and was putting out one of those rubber bumpers and yep slow learner.
 
I never sit on my wallet;in my vehicles I lay it on the dash or passenger seat.If I ride with someone I lay it on their dash or console.If I am home I just leave the wallet in the house.But I lost my wrist watch one time loading tobacco and found it later disking as I was making a turn at the end of the field:looked down and there it was.I had walked that whole field-nothing.Also I have lost a few tools doing field repairs;some were found and some not.My oldest borrowed my keys to unlock a shed,ran them back and laid them on the back blade I had been using,yelled 'here's your keys' while I was off the tractor talking to someone for a minute.I never found them back.Mark
 
Lost my wallet once doing fieldwork. Got the necessary things replaced right away, the license and the draft card. There wasn't any money or credit cards in it back then so that wasn't a problem. A year later I happened to look down just at the right time while cultivating and there it was a few feet out from the west fence in an 18 acre field. The license and draft card were paper back then so they were illegible and the leather billfold didn't look very good either. If I remember right I had the billfold in my pocket because I was told I was supposed to have my draft card with me at all times. Boy was I gullible back then!!!!
 
Lost one of those anodized-aluminum folding utility knives. Found it a year later. The blade had rusted all to heck but the rest of the knife was perfect and I now can't tell the difference between the one that spent a year in the field and the replacement that spent the time in my toolbox.
 
I lost my wallet while moldboard plowing for my Dad once, never found a trace of it.
Lost my wallet while pushing snow with my JD 520 and 45 loader, found it when the snow started melting.
 
At one time I lost some tools and one pepsi. While I was driveing it aroound town from flied to flied. Threre was a long line of cars behind me so I could not stop. Just hoped that no body found the flat blades screw divers in there tires that I lost. Every know and then I have to drive around in my big city and hope they all think it is funny.
 
Yes, my cup cover for my coffee thermos out cutting hay many years ago. I never did find it.
Kow Farmer Kurt
 
lost my wallet a couple times, but found it, old IH SMTA seat will work it right out of your pocket. Lost a Crafatsman 1/2 drive ratchet while cutting hay one year, walked over the field severaltimes and couldn't spot it. Tore up ground about 3 years later and found it. With a little cleaning and oil it works better than the one I replaced it with.
 
A wallet and a tractor do not mix well that is why when on a tractor I leave my wallet in the house. I have lost vise grips and other such things while on a tractor.
 
Guess i am a lucky one as i have never lot my wallet while on any piece of equipment . But i did loose one of my favort BMFH one year while plowing , four years later i plowed it back up , lost a good chain while plowing and again four years later i plowed it back up . Must be the style of pants that you ware for your wallet to come out . or YOUR WALLET IS WAY TO fat WITH ALL THE BUCKS YOU HAVE.
 
I used my extra large Craftsman screw driver to pry open the rock trap on the combine last fall and forgot and left it on the ground next to where I used it. Searched all over for it. Driving across the field this Spring I saw it laying on the ground just before I would have run it over.
 
I lost my wallet once years ago while moldboard plowing in the spring.Had to replace every thing.The next year I found it when I happened to look back while harrowgating the field getting it ready to plant.It had been cut by a disk blade or collator on the plow and drivers license,ss and other cards and what little cash I had a corner cut off of them.I still have some of the cards in my wallet today with a corner cut off.
 
My wallet in 1955 shortly after being discharged from the Army. Never did find it as I was on a tractor plowing. Hal
 
Hmmm... Does the right rear tire of the tractor count?! :)

Lost my wallet on a JD Self Propelled swather 3 days in a row too...Thing had a cab on it, so it wasn't going anywhere, but that seat would work a wallet out FAST! Would just end up laying in the dust under the seat, and about the time I made it 30 min home, it would occur to me that "Hey... I don't have my wallet!"
 
(quoted from post at 12:45:20 10/07/15) My dad lost his wallet while raking hay. I was baling and SAW IT!! Miracle of miracles.
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once good hay cutter will find a lost chain!
 
Forgot to put the fuel tank cap back on my JD1020 after re-fueling. I hadn't gone 30 feet before I realized it. Searched for an hour. Found it about five years later.
 
Lost one seeding a sod field in the dark.I stood up to straightin my legs and I sat down on the seat back. Didn't realize it till I got to the house. Looked the whole next day and didn't find it.When I unhooked the seeder found it laying on the running board against the tool box.
 
My hearing from running a 453 gm in an oliver 1950 without hearing protection for way too many years.Dumb a##.I know better now that it's way too late!
 
that's funny , true with mechanical problems ,,. in all honesty I usually find my sanity and answers when I am on the tractor ,planted tools and most never come up and go to seed . lost my cell phone in a 40 acre field, went bak with the wife at 1 am and called it ,,thank god it was a quiet nite ,.. found it on the 7th try
 
(quoted from post at 12:09:57 10/07/15) I was out yesterday doing some grading with the box scraper when I noticed that pain and lump was gone on the right side of my butt, OH NO ! my wallet fell out while grading. Grrrr I just hope I can find it today. Have you ever lost something while on the tractor?
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Many years back my dad was letting his younger brother drive the Ford Commander 6000 while plowing. Dad sat on the fender while his brother drove several rounds. When they got off he realized his wallet was gone, apparently got pushed out of his pocket and got plowed under. He lost all his ID, except his police ID that was kept with his badge. He was most upset with losing the $100 bill he kept in there for emergencies, this was in 1972 when that was much more than it is today.
 
When I was a kid ,Me and my Mom and her friend and her friends son went fishing! He cast out his bait, I ;looked over at my Mom and said "Mom where are your glass's,She felt her face and didn't even know her glass's were gone! That kid (maybe 10 yrs. old) had snatched those glass's off and she didn't feel a thing. We started looking and found them hanging on the limb of a bush right next to the water !!....... Jim in N.M.
 
I lost a wallet while plowing when I was 15. Lost 5 or 6 bucks and the wallet I had hand made at 4H camp. I have lost several wrenches and log chains. Found most of the chains when fitting ground. If not the same year it would be in a year or two. They would catch on a spring tooth drag.
 
Some years back I provided tractor and wagon for a church group hay ride, when it was over the pastor realized he had lost his wedding ring. The next day I started sifting hay, two hours later the ring fell out of a handful of chaff. He was overjoyed that I actually found it.
 
I should have a good crop of wrenches with all that I planted . What worries me is the hay hooks I've lost . Neighbor found one of his with the tractor tire. Then there was a neighbor who lost a cultivator shovel on the highway a guy found it with the oil pan of a car.
 
Dad and I was baling hay one day and he stopped to get a drink and add a bale of twine. When he tied them together he used his pocket knife to cut the access off. He laid it down on the baler and forgot it. We walked all over that field while hauling the square bales in and after. I know we found it 2 years later. It isn't really good for anything but I keep it for a good story.
 
once while plowing for a friend didn't lose it but i found it a wheel wrench for a 2 cylinder john deere tractor.
the thing is he never owned a 2 cylinder deere and couldn't remember anyone who farmed that farm who did.
 
I see a lot of folks that have lost their wallet. My chiropractor told me that if I was ever going to get any relief from sciatica I would need to stop sitting on my wallet. I carry it in my front pocket and I have never lost it. I have lost my share of vice grips, pocket knives and wrenches.
My uncle lost his false teeth once. He was driving his tractor down a gravel road and felt a sneeze coming. He let it go and his teeth went flying and landed right in front of the left rear tire. When he hit the brake it ground them to a pulp,
 
I have been very lucky with lost items. Plowed under one wallet when I was 16, special to me because I won it with a 4-H project. Back plowed about an acre, no luck. I plowed it up a year later, but not worth much then. About 20 years ago I lost a wallet raking hay, I looked very carefully when we baled that field, never saw it. My wife and I walked the field the next day, still didn't find it. When we were about to give up I saw our dog digging at something, walked over and there it was. Also lost a log chain, plowed it up years later, badly pitted but usable. I try to be more careful now.
 
(quoted from post at 04:09:57 10/07/15) I was out yesterday doing some grading with the box scraper when I noticed that pain and lump was gone on the right side of my butt, OH NO ! my wallet fell out while grading. Grrrr I just hope I can find it today. Have you ever lost something while on the tractor?
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Lost my grill a couple of years ago brushhogging.....$400 oops!



Lost the pin out of one of the 3pt arms to the 8' rotovator while tilling today...still haven't found it.
 
Eldon, I have an AC grill almost that shape; was considering a body shop or a machine shop fix what you think?
 
I lost my dog tags while in the Army. Went about two years without any as no one could seem to be able to figure out how to get new ones so never did. Only got caught in one inspection and that was when I tried to get new ones.
 
Ran my best grease gun through the discbine. Searched and searched and only found half of it. Lost enough hitch pin hairpins to build a 20 ft link fence!
 
Farming a field that hadn't been farmed in a long time last year. Had farmed it for a few years, picked rocks every spring. After chisel plowing last spring, picked rocks as usual. Also picked up a strange looking rounded cast weight. Searched the casting no's on it and found it was a JD 40T front nose weight. Funny thing was, dad's buddy who was helping us with farming, had a JD 40T and had the side weights for the front frame, but not the very front nose weight. Dad just set it in his buddy's truck, and he found it when he got home, he was pretty excited. Chisel plowed up a rear wheel weight for a Farmall on my grandfather's farm that we started farming last year for the first time in 45 years. Who knows what it was lost off from, as my grandfather and his brother had many Farmall's on their Farms back in the day, M's,MD's, Super MD's, Super M's, many H's. I rolled it up against a white oak tree at the end of the field in a clearing. Need to go pick it up and toss it on the weight pile one of these days.

Ross
 
Been there, done that. Not quite that bad, was able to get it bent back into shape. There's now two little L brackets on each side and a 1/4" bolt holding it on. Those factory clips get worn, and they just won't hold
anymore.
 
Now that I think about it, I lost a small 7/16 x 2" pin. Battery was dead, took this pin out to get at the battery. Left it on the hood, and kept loading manure once I got the tractor going. Realized after what I had done, thought for sure it was gone forever, how would you ever find that back. Found it a year later while square baling. Happened to look down while on the wagon, and saw it on the ground. Not really a big deal ,just the odds are so slim.
 
My boy lost his cell phone while he was doing some plowing.It took us about 2 hours to find it.I would dial his phone, and he would drive all over the field trying to hear a ring
 
(quoted from post at 19:59:14 10/07/15) Been there, done that. Not quite that bad, was able to get it bent back into shape. There's now two little L brackets on each side and a 1/4" bolt holding it on. Those factory clips get worn, and they just won't hold
anymore.
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I run some baling wire thru mine in case the clips fail....this one hit a tree branch as I was turning and tore the wire loose as well. I was busy watching another branch that was wanting to take off my head and didn't see it fall off till I heard that sickening sound....d@mn apple tree limbs are tough.
 
I bought a tractor a couple of years ago, drove it on my trailer, tied it down and drove the 150 miles home. When I got home I untied it and proceeded to drive it off the trailer. But no key!! I had left the key in the ignition when I loaded it. DUMMY!!
So I proceed to start rolling it off the trailer and as I'm walking around the rear I see the key laying on the deck of the trailer. Got lucky there!
 

That is the reason I always take the key out. Normally with just a key its fine but I don't want to press my luck.
 
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