Lack of proper education

I rototill gardens in the spring (for extra "play money") with my Ford 1210 compact diesel and 50" Befco tiller. A few years back I was doing a garden for a new customer in an area that was a little overgrown. What they FAILED to tell me was that there was a fence down in that area. I spent almost an hour trying to get that mess out of my tines. I never bothered to call them back the next year when they wanted me to till their garden again.

I can imagine what a mess you had with your tracks & undercarriage. I recently was pulling a big tree limb with my D2. I drove over the chain and it got pinched between two grouser pads. Luckily I saw it in time and was able to just back up and pull it out.

[quote="zootownjeepguy"]I rototill gardens in the spring (for extra "play money"😉 with my Ford 1210 compact diesel and 50" Befco tiller. A few years back I was doing a garden for a new customer in an area that was a little overgrown. What they FAILED to tell me was that there was a fence down in that area. I spent almost an hour trying to get that mess out of my tines. I never bothered to call them back the next year when they wanted me to till their garden again.

I can imagine what a mess you had with your tracks & undercarriage. I recently was pulling a big tree limb with my D2. I drove over the chain and it got pinched between two grouser pads. Luckily I saw it in time and was able to just back up and pull it out.[/quote]

Been There done that, old sheep fence in my 48 inch rototiller, chain fell off the back of the tractor into my bush hog and everyone's favorite the D2 I had into a coil of barbed wire buried in an old hedge row I was cleaning up for the neighbor. Man what a job! I feel your pain

[quote="zootownjeepguy"]I rototill gardens in the spring (for extra "play money"😉 with my Ford 1210 compact diesel and 50" Befco tiller. A few years back I was doing a garden for a new customer in an area that was a little overgrown. What they FAILED to tell me was that there was a fence down in that area. I spent almost an hour trying to get that mess out of my tines. I never bothered to call them back the next year when they wanted me to till their garden again.

I can imagine what a mess you had with your tracks & undercarriage. I recently was pulling a big tree limb with my D2. I drove over the chain and it got pinched between two grouser pads. Luckily I saw it in time and was able to just back up and pull it out.[/quote]

Been There done that, old sheep fence in my 48 inch rototiller, chain fell off the back of the tractor into my bush hog and everyone's favorite the D2 I had into a coil of barbed wire buried in an old hedge row I was cleaning up for the neighbor. Man what a job! I feel your pain

My dad loaned his D4 to a neighbor so he could level out a ditch back. When he returned it oil was pouring out of the final drive seals. After removing the seals you cold see several cuts in the seals. The neighbor never offered to pay for the Cat service truck to come out an pull the sprocket off to replace the seal. All the ditches around there were covered with wire I am sure he pulled it off and did not think anything of it.

There is no better education than learning the hard way, as you never forget. Been there, done that. I was hauling a diesel show truck For Tyrone Malone and his diesel drag trucks and "Little Irvy" the frozen whale(ask Big Gas Tractor, he knows, Little Irvy). Any way I pulled up to a toll both on a turn pike, about a 1000' past the toll booth, the truck hit the skids. I almost went through the wind shield. I opened up the belly box storage compartments on this costume bed on the "Mama" haul truck. The drive shaft went through the middle of this storage bin that was open all the way across the truck. In it I stored hoses and all the washing supplies, chrome stantions with chrome chains to keep people away from the trucks on display. It had multible ropes with flags every foot for atractions we set up at. So, when I stoped at the toll booth this flag must have got caught in the u joint. It slowly wrapped all the hoses around 300' of them, the chrome stantions, the chains, I mean the drive shaft was four feet thick with everything in that storage bin wrapped around it. Then it cut all the electrical and air hoses to the back of the truck, making the spring brakes to come on. It took me two days to get down to the drive shaft again.

Learning the hard way. I surely loaded the storage boxes different from then on.-glen

I've done the barbed wire thing in the tracks. It wasn't near as bad as the time I brought up an old bed spring in a D6 track. I had to run 10 miles down the valley to get a cutting torch for than one!

Reminded me of this genius...😆
http://www.ifish.net/board/showthread.php?p=2301054

Nice driveshaft! My old mercedes 190Dc lost a u joint soon after i got it that came loose and it grabbed the P-brake cable and barber-polled it. It wound up skidded sideways across the road and stopped traffic on a narrow mountain road for an hour. Kind of embarassing in a small community.

been there, backed over old barbed wire fence with old d7-7m which had a open master clutch. i can still see the rusty wire and old posts headed for the dozer, the sparks and the floor plates bulging up and my dad jumping up and down waveing his arms😆