This seems to be contest week over at ACME, and to be fair added this here, it has been a lot of fun watching the contests. Here is my contest.
I will give a 22 parts tractor/restoration,motor is free, missing a few pieces, but mostly complete to the person that can document their biggest machinery related screw up. The only stipulation is that you have to verify you are the one that was actually at the controls when the screw up happened, pictures are worth a thousand words.
Winner to pay shipping costs. The winner will also be treated to a BBQ if he picks it up personally. I can help load the 22. Thanks, Don
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Dang, That looks to be a striaght 22 Don. Sure you don't want to sell it versus us having public confessions?

I have never screwed up, but how about sending that BBQ:o could use a little free lunch here!!!!!

I'd have to say that my entry involves finding myself heading downhill in first gear being chased by an oak stump the size of 2 volkswagens. It started when all we wanted to do was see if we could break it free. It broke free after breaking the chain 3 times, then it started rolling, and never really picked up much speed. I couldn't manage to get out of the way at what is it 1/3 mph the D2 does in first gear! With all my friends yelling at me to jump off, all I could think about was how to keep it from rolling down the road and through the house at the bottom I let it run into the back of the cat. Thankfully it isn't a seat tank model! We managed to stop the stump, and to this day I look at the tractor and wonder what was I thinking! I'm an engineer, I should know better. Maybe I'm destined to screw something else up even bigger some day, this was just a warm-up. Maybe I don't want to sell it after all, or, maybe I should hold out for a blade!

I'm not a candidate, but it's an interresting story of a friend of mine. I was over at Denny's Restaurant when a friend walked in desperately needing a drink.

Said friend was a machinist for McDonnell Douglas. One day he was milling a couple of very large titanium bulhead forgings, for F-15 fighters. $250K for the raw forgings. He was using a CNC machine and the work order specified where the clamps went to hold the pieces to the very large mill. He put the clamps in the wrong places. Turned the machine on and let it do it's work.

Since the clamps were in the wrong places, the mill machined them off. Parts moved and the mill destroyed those very expensive forgings. Like I said, he came in desperately needing a drink. Kept his job, though.

It's not me, and not a Cat story, so I can't win.

David

tractor don, i sent you a PM.

thansk
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YANCY here when I was a pup just starting out on scrapers my boss just bough a new chevy 1 ton drove it from the dealers to the job site it was 16 miles and backed up to the off side and backed up to the air cleaners and changed them and jumped down and came around to where we were standing getting ready to start work and gave us our jobs for the day and I jumped up in the seat and being a young pup I put her in gear and turned hard to the right and drove that 657 right up in the middle of that new 1 ton but no cab area it was about 6 ins thick I though I was done fore but the boss told me he should have learned because the week before his son did the same thing we were buddys in high school that's about my biggest screw up in 35 yrs of running and owning equip i have allways looked back at that and made sure i all ways gave some one the benefit of there screw up and its made for some good ones over the years thanks yancy

King of Obsolete has sweetened the pot. He will donate his best selling new book for the winner of the 22. Thanks for sharing so far. Don

Don, wanna post the dead-line for submissions? Me, I never screw up...so I only have boring stories to tell

and tractor don forgot to mention the book will be autographed. so the resale value on ebay will be very good to cover some of the transportation costs on the cat 22, LOL

since i'm donating goodies to this contest, i'm not allowed to show all the big screw ups in the KINGDOM, LOL

thansk
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