How many never told dad?

bruster · Jan 4, 2010

Did you ever get hurt doing something with machinery, and never had your pap find out?

I (being 14 and in a hurry)jumped down from our JD A, leaving the sickle bar mower running. My foot hit the oily drawbar and slipped in towards the PTO. The PTO thought my pant leg was a stack of weeds, and proceeded to remove it. Thank god my jeans were about worn out with no knees, and had additional holes all over. Took off the right leg to the knee, carved a groove up my calf (5"x 1/4" bolt was the shear pin)and I was able to jerk my leg out of there. I was more scared to tell him (never hit me, just yelled and never would have let me forget it)

Never told him. Never will, but I remember this every time overconfidence starts to make me careless. I count myself lucky.

Anonymous-0 · Jan 4, 2010

I fell out of a bunch of trees when I was a kid. Thought I pulled one (or a bunch) over on Mom & Dad. Turned out they knew about everything that happened and just never told me until I had a wife to hear the stories also :roll:

Dave

Fergienewbee · Jan 4, 2010

When I was in high school, I took Dad's car to the drive-in. As I pulled away from the speaker post, I turned too quick and dished the door. The post matched the yellow on the forklift at the construction site where I worked. I told him the driver must have backed into it when I took his car to work. The company paid and I never told anyone.

Larry in Michigan

fixerupper · Jan 4, 2010

Too many times to take up space here. Now my SON is telling me stories. Stories like "that Plymouth Satellite we had when I was in high school sure was a tough car"Jim

Bspauld · Jan 4, 2010

I tipped our CO-OP E4 over but he couldnt help but know,the muffler and aircleaner stack were bent over and alos the sterring wheel. I never did tell him about using the TNT.

MSS3020 · Jan 4, 2010

Thank goodness we didnt grow up with facebook.. My kids are boys 14 and 16. Their Friends will rat them out on facebook everytime...and with cells usually before they get home.. with video and photos to boot.. HA HA HA

larry@stinescorner · Jan 4, 2010

i had a bb gun when i was young, he thought the hawks were getting all the pidgeons

rrlund · Jan 4, 2010

The statute of limitations won't let me comment on things like that.

Sam from WA · Jan 4, 2010

I dumped my dad"s 4-wheeler over on the right front corner. Dinging around and spinning brodies and whatever, hit a dry spot in the dirt and over she went. Turned the throttle box a little on the handle bars and broke the right front fender. Dad didn"t notice until after I stitched it back together with black zip-ties (the little Polaris Trail Boss 325 is white). He thought I hit a truck or fence or something. Never did tell him I rolled it.

flying belgian · Jan 4, 2010

The folks were gone one day and me and my sisters were chasing each other around the kitchen table. Someone pulled a chair away from table and got pushed into window smashing the glass. I found a piece of glass from a barn window and cut it down to fit and calked it into kitchen window while sisters cleaned up broken glass. Got it all done before folks got home. We finally fessed up about 20 yrs. later.

Walterdavies · Jan 4, 2010

I can true-fully say that have told my Dad anything. He's dead Good.
Walt

Sorry to be so nasty but he left me and never even came by to see if I was a boy or girl.

Rabbit Holler Flash · Jan 4, 2010

Watched dad and moms stepdad crank fish with a cranktype telephone. Everybody went to town and left me "home alone" never told dad how i found out you dont stand in the water while you crank.

Zach Bouchard · Jan 4, 2010

Crashed a buddies Honda Spree 50cc moped in the school parking lot one time. Brakes didn"t work and put a dent in a kids car. Smashed my finger and it puffed up likea balloon. I told him I smashed in in Metal Shop.

Got the wire wheel on the grinder wrapped up in my sweatshirt and put a few holes in it. I told him that i got battery acid on it and it must have ate holes in it.

Ripped the trans plug out of an old toyota camry jumping it over a steep set of RR tracks. It drained all of the atf out. Had to explain how the car got back to the parking lot at the school when there was no fluid on the ground. Towed it back put a new plug in, filled her up and ran like a charm.

I got pages of oops moments, Im only nineteen so i"m sure there will be more to come haha.

Anonymous-0 · Jan 4, 2010

I was working summerfallow not too long after a rainstorm and started up a small rise and got the tractor and duckfoot stuck. I walked home and got the other tractor and went back to try to pull it out, no luck. I was able to unhook the duckfoot and then hook the second tractor to the first with a long cable. I put the stuck tractor in low gear, turned the front wheels to the side, started it, and engaged the hand clutch. I then jumped on the other one and engaged its clutch and pulled the stuck one out, unhooked from the puller and ran around and jumped up on the back of the other one and disengaged the clutch and then hooked onto the back of the duckfoot and pulled it out.

Don-Wi · Jan 4, 2010

I didn't tell him until a few years later, but I had the old farm truck airborn about 5-6 feet. It was my only mode of transportation and I did all the repairs to it. Since then I haven't been able to use the rear tank (88 F150).

I still have it and run it when I need it, but my daily driver is a '03 passat now.

In High School I brought in my brother's car to replace the thermostat in the auto shop. It took me 3 or 4 tries to get it, and one of the times I was backing it into the first stall by the door, I cut the wheel too soon and nailed the front drivers side bumper on the cement block wall. Left some pretty deep gouges, but didn't break the plastic. I told him that a student must have hit it in the parking lot. He died almost 2 years ago, so I don't think he'll mind anymore.

There's a few other things, but I've forgotten them myself...

Donovan from Wisconsin

RandyB(MI) · Jan 4, 2010

Nothing wrong with telling "Dad" he was right about all those warnings he gave you through your life. Don't let him cross over thinking it was all for naught. Some of the best times a Dad and Son will ever have together are the "come clean" stories you will share. Your time with him on earth will , in hind sight , be very short , relatively. Have some fun with him while you both can still laugh. As you can tell by my post , my Dad has gone home.

730 virgil · Jan 4, 2010

i don't know i ever did that.
i do remember my uncle chuck telling us how he killed grandpa buck sheep. seems the buck liked to sneak up on someone carrying pails and knocking them down.
one day unc had two pails going across the barn yard when his shoe came untied he knelt down to tie shoe and saw the buck sneaking up on him. about the time the buck was going to but him he jumped out of the way and the buck hit a cement water tank breaking his neck.
the next morning when grandpa went to milk there laid the buck dead.
unc told grandpa the story when i was about 14 or 15 years old 30? years after the fact.
grandpa said i always wondered why that buck died.

Ralph wd45 · Jan 4, 2010

I was the dad that was not told for many years. When my boy fessed up, he was 40 yrs old, and it still peed me off, even though I hav not been an angel myself. I had a 2 yr old 76 Dodge Warlock, and while I was working evenings at Boeing, my 15 yr old son took the truck, and while riding his friend's around in it, he aparently ruined a chrome rim, and tire, went to a salvage yard, found a simular tire, and rim, and had it on and parked in the yard when I got home at midnight. At least that was what I was belatedly told. Hey Rabbit Hollow something, Your the first person, that I have heard of that have talked to catfish, on one of old Ma Bell's crankers. We called it Bugging, and it was highly frowned on by the Ill. dept of fish and game. Ill bet that I have thrown at least 5 of those old mag units overboard, while being pursued. They hit the water at high speed, then the warden couldn't be sure where to drag for it. They always could outrun me, so thats all I could do! No evidence!! Always got a good tounge lashing, and threatened though.

karl f · Jan 4, 2010

(quoted from post at 14:10:37 01/04/10) Did you ever get hurt doing something with machinery, and never had your pap find out?

got my arm in the new round baler belts trying to rub the built up hay from the roller the easy way--with baler in motion. good thing tractor was at an idle speed and i yanked my arm out fast. Had pretty severe rug burn on my arm in about 3 places, there was an indentation in one spot for a few years. all in the course of 1 or 2 seconds.

hard to miss the damage since it was summer and i was wearing t shirts. hid it from my dad a few days, but my grandpa asked me in church the day after how i burnt my arm.

always follow the NEVERs on the safety warnings.

karl f
ps and what happens in college stays in college

440roadrunner · Jan 5, 2010

There's lots of things I never told Dad, rest his soul. But I've found out there's a few things he didn't tell me, either.

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