Like a hot knife through butter

Heyseed · May 14, 2016

A friend jump started his lawn tractor, got it running and tossed the cables on the ground. Drove the tractor into the backyard and made sure it would stay running. Came back to find a small grass fire and the front of his car looking like this. The cables made contact and completely burned off the insulation. The amazing thing is that the battery didn't explode. I have shorted out wrenches a couple times but have never seen anything like this.

D beatty · May 14, 2016

That's going to cost a pretty penny to repair.

UncleTom · May 14, 2016

Hows his altenator?

Buddy · May 14, 2016

Wonderful world of plastic.

HALGETIT · May 14, 2016

That's why you when you remove cables hold one red one in left hand and other in right hand

Brown Swiss · May 14, 2016

Just tossed them on the ground, well suppose to learn from your mistakes!

fixerupper · May 14, 2016

He now has a conversation piece wherever he goes with that vehicle. I had a couple of battery cables short and melt a hole in the top of the battery but all I lost was the battery and cables.

Stephen Newell · May 14, 2016

Looks like about $350.00 worth of education if he fixes it himself.

SweetFeet · May 14, 2016

Probably has a bruise now, from kicking his own backside.

David G · May 14, 2016

I do dumb things like that too.

He was lucky car was not on fire.

jeffcat · May 14, 2016

Now you can tell him " Smooth move sparkie!!"

Heyseed · May 14, 2016

Alternator and battery seem fine. he was lucky not to burn up the whole car. I always disconnect the charging vehicle first, but I can understand what he did. Riding mower will quit if you get off the seat and he wanted to keep it running. I don't think $350 will even buy the parts to repair this. It burned through the headlight, the housing, the bumper, and the inner bumper support. The headlight alone is about $150

D beatty · May 14, 2016

Its going to cost him well over $350.00. I had a guy back into Chevy Impala and you could barely see a little damage to bumper and it cost over $800.00. I have put jumpers on those seat switches of garden tractors and by passed that seat safety switch. Its a pain in the you know what to have to shut tractor off every you need to get off tractor.

Mark-Ia · May 14, 2016

www.car-part.com for his repair parts.

Determined · May 14, 2016

Reminds me of a fellow I went to high school with.
He got a brand new tape measure for his birthday, this was back before import ones were on the market and a 25 foot tape measure was quite expensive.
He was quite proud of it and went out of his way to show it to everyone in our welding class.
The very first time he went to use it he was going to build a new battery tray to replace the rusted out one on his old car.
He opened the hood, grabbed his tape measure and in measuring how wide the battery was he made contact with both top posts of the battery.
Click, click, click, click for 10 seconds was all you heard followed by a string of words I can not write here.

oldtanker · May 14, 2016

(quoted from post at 07:09:30 05/14/16) Alternator and battery seem fine. he was lucky not to burn up the whole car. I always disconnect the charging vehicle first, but I can understand what he did. Riding mower will quit if you get off the seat and he wanted to keep it running. I don't think $350 will even buy the parts to repair this. It burned through the headlight, the housing, the bumper, and the inner bumper support. The headlight alone is about $150

That's what I was thinking. Just the headlight is going to be in the 150-200 range. And as someone else stated 800 for the bumper/front cover? Plus paint, blend and labor. I'm betting north of 1K into the 1500 or so range. Spendy mistake.

Rick

David G · May 14, 2016

I would agree, does not take much to spend a grand.

37chief · May 14, 2016

That isn't good. looks like something I would do. Glad to hear nothing burned up. Stan

Donald Lehman · May 14, 2016

Nothing a roll or two of duct tape and a big ole chaw of spruce gum won't cure. Grab a spay can of paint from Wally-World (any color will do)and you are good to go!

BobReeves · May 14, 2016

Wife and a coworker backed into each other in the parking lot after work. Body shop quoted 1800.00, I fixed it for $50.00 in parts from a u-pull-it junk yard.

Areo · May 14, 2016

Fella I know got a new tape for Christmas. Then went to work in the woods.
Measured a log. Told the other fella "right there". As he lifted the tape
it moved forward a couple inches. It was 2 inches shorter in an instant.
I wasn't there so I don't know the verbage.

GlenIdaho · May 14, 2016

He could always say the aliens did it with their lasers when they tried to kidnap him.

D beatty · May 14, 2016

It cost $50.00 in parts but figure in your time and running after parts it still cost you more than fifty dollars. And if your not a body man you will be lucky to match paint.

Anonymous-0 · May 15, 2016

(quoted from post at 08:55:31 05/14/16) Wonderful world of plastic.

More like wonderful world of stupidity.

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