way back in college, i was helping a guy put in a new corral at his "ranch." I say "ranch" b/c he was an engineer by trade and decided that he wanted to be a cowboy. The corral posts were big 'ol juniper posts that he wanted to replace with rail ties and powder coated panels. He went out and bought himself a brand new little john deere with a loader.
I think he had hired too many of us kids to help, b/c i ended up standing around for a bit, watching him try to pull these massive posts out of the ground with the loader, occasionally lifting the front wheels off of the ground. I went to my truck and grabbed a hi-lo jack and tow chain and started at the other end pulling posts by myself. I think i had 6 or 7 pulled before he even noticed me. He got a little peeved that i was out-working a tractor, but he kept at it. I ended up pulling well over twice as many posts as he did.
Then came the fun part. he put pallet forks on the loader and wanted us to stack these posts on it to haul to a burn pile. Well, they put way too much on there, i told them as much. he then drives off and starts to go up and over a berm that was diverting water away from the corral. When the tractor peaked over the top, the back end came up and dumped most of the load off the loader, and the back end came crashing back down. He was lucky that he didn't end up with any logs in his lap.
He was definitely a book smart guy, but had to learn to respect his machinery the hard way. I had to chuckle a bit at the thought of an engineer being oblivious to weight and leverage.
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