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While my MF is down with the gasket problem I had to use my JD with my Flail mower to get a couple mowing jobs done today. I was just about done when I snagged a bed spring laying in the weeds. I just loaded up and came home. The whole spring is all wound up tight my blade shaft, what a mess. I will need to use the cutting torch to remove all the spring wire. Last year in that same field I hooked a cargo net someone tossed out. I was able to unwind that one from my rotary mower. Anyone ever have this happen? Stan
 
it is amazing what choppers can find. Posts, metal, stuuf you were looking for and things you wish you had not found....
 
i had that happen on a semi truck hauling waste into a landfill by the amount of wire around the driveshaft i think it was a kingsize mattress, it sure was a kingsize mess
 
No.. Not a bed spring, But a few years ago I did some brush-hogging for a long time friend of the family.

My first question (while looking at the 6 foot tall mess) was "Is there anything buried or dumped out there I need to know about?" "No, just vacant land I want to start building on next month"

I get started, get about half mowed down of the 8 acres.. hear a loud bang.. look back and see the blade assembly of the mower laying on the ground.. I figured maybe just the bolt came out or broke.. NO SUCH LUCK. There was a huge chunk of concrete/asphalt/rebar laying there.. and half of the shaft still hooked to the blade of the mower. Luckily (I guess) I didn't get it with one of the tractor tires.. Still don't know how I didn't run it over with at least one tire.

Find out a few days later.. "Well yea, we had a bunch of broken out roadbed/parking lot hauled in for fill last year" .. WOULDN'T THAT HAVE CLASSIFIED AS"Anything I need to know about?".. Well, it was supposed to be buried *I roll eyes at this point*

Done with my ranting now.. lol

Brad
 
Brings back an old memory. Some fool threw an
old bedspring in one of our hayfields. Hay grew
threw it and I spent enough time digging it out
of and fixing a New Holland haybine.
 
I once had a strand of rusty barb wire to somehow wrap around the u-joint in the open steering knuckle of a Chevy 4X4. All I had was a pair of pliers. I spent an hour or more getting the wire out so I could get home.
 
When I am running a hog along a fence with them yellow plastic thingys on the posts and I see the grass a twichin ahead a me I knows I'm in trouble.....ya know what I mean Vern...
 
My neighbour had an old bedstead caught up in a brand new combine. Now that was nasty!
Slightly off topic but it reminds me of something I nearly hit whilst mowing hay. I almost hit a dead body, a naked lady faced down half hidden in the (very )long grass ! OMG! I stopped just in time just to see it was in fact a dummy, a mannequin probably from a clothes shop that someone had thrown over the hedge. I tell you what though, for the next two or 3 rounds my heart was still racing. I shudder to think what it must feel like to find a murder victim or suicide.
 

Fished more than my share of constantino wire from axle and driveshafts and track/roadwheels of military vehicles.

At least we had repair parts on hand if needed andaccess to plenty of tools/extra hands.

Dave
 
The staging area for the helicopter rescue effort after Mt. St. Helens blew in 1980 was a field across the street from the fire station in Salkum, Washington.

I hayed the field in July, after the military had left. Managed to get into a discarded parachute with my Taarup disc mower on the back side of the field- That parachute material is tough stuff! Took an hour with a pocketknife to get it unwound.
 
neighbor was flail mowing around the edge of his garden when he thought thats odd why is the sprinkler out in the middle of the garden twitching,next thing he sees is the sprinkler flying at the mower at about 100 mph.pocket knife and an hour later he now had 30 foot of garden hose in 6" pieces.bill m.
 
Worse than that. Years ago we mowed over a roll of 1/2 inch cable mowing levees in waist high weeds. Talk about a heck of a mess, cutting cable loose from under the deck on a 7 foot mower. I still can't believe nothing broke. Thank god for slip clutches.
 
I did hit one, sorta! I just couldnt stop in time. I was able to lift the bushhog in time to not do any major damge, but the front wheels did crush this guys legs. He had been hit by a car, and knocked him over in the ditch I was cutting. He had been reported missing about a week or so before that. They still havent caught the person who did it that I know off.
 
Years ago Uncle ran a tine off an old dump rake thru the brand new Gehl chopper that was just delivered the previous day. Destroyed the knives in the head and 1/2 a wagon of haylage. We took hay off that field for years, must be the new Gehl was sweeping cleaner.
 
Subject: A Blonde, a Car and a Mattress - -


Not a Joke -- Pictures Included


A Blonde ran over a mattress on the highway, and decided not to worry -- and kept on driving. The ensuing jumble finally whipped around enough to tear a hole in the fuel tank. The Subsequent Lack Of Fuel Is What Finally Brought Her Vehicle To Its Knees..

She Had Still Managed To Drive 30 More Miles With A 60-Pound Tangle of Stuff Wrapped Around Her Drive Shaft.

She Had it Towed To Her Dealership And Complained That The Vehicle Had A "Sort Of Shimmy" When She Was Driving At High Speeds.

Below Are The Photos Of What They Found At Her Dealership..................... The Last Photo Is By Far The Best.



"Sort Of A Shimmy" -- I'll Bet It Did !










Is This Just The Best Or What?

They Still Can't Believe Their Eyes.

And Still Wondering How To Remove It!


...hand me that long screwdriver, Earl...
wire1.jpg

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wire2.jpg
 
I'll bet she also had the radio(oops, sound system) and air conditioner blower turned up full blast.
 
Years ago somebody stretched some chain link fence across the road.When I drove over it my truck picked it up and it wrapped around the drive shaft so tight it brought me to a screeching stop , I had to get a cutting torch and cut it off so I could get going again.What a pain some persons terrible idea of a joke.
 
When I bought this place about five years ago I figured I should knock down the five plus foot high grass in the back field. Hooked up the shredder and went to work. In the middle of the field was a stump with a McCormick Deering 7 horse drawn mower, converted for a tractor and jammed against the stump. Somebody hit the stump with it and just left it there, I almost ran over it before I saw it, the grass was very thick and tall. That mower would have really messed up my old tractor and new shedder.
 
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