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electical Cords

jodywy

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Years ago Sue was Sub teaching about 20 miles away at an elementary school. Well she drove the one morning in the suburban and when she got to school she found the block heater extension cord hanging from the bumper. I made a little song about Susie taking her extension cord to school something like Mary had a little lamb. Well yesterday Sue was helping me feed ( she was my automatic gate opener) :D at the first gate she didn’t get right in , looked back she was untangling the two extension cords that plug in the tractor at night. She said I can’t tease her any more :cry:
 

Denny

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I fed three bales of hay here this winter before I ran over my battery charger booster $200 mistake I drug it around the yard before I ran it over.I even made sure I unhooked it but the cords were so stiff they flopped back over and got hooked on the hitch.
 

Doug Thorson

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In the late 80's I picked up several extension cords on the streets while living in Rapid City.

The best one was my downstairs neighbor had her car plugged in and her big dog must have got tangled in the cord overnight and unplugged it. While I was jumping her car, she was explaining all this and ended by saying"and my cord has been out here leaking electricity all night!" :shock: :shock: :shock:
 

Aaron

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Denny said:
I fed three bales of hay here this winter before I ran over my battery charger booster $200 mistake I drug it around the yard before I ran it over.I even made sure I unhooked it but the cords were so stiff they flopped back over and got hooked on the hitch.

Good to know I am not the only one. Only mine was less expensive and still works, albeit in a more compacted fashion. Now I am a walking salesman for Shumacher battery boosters.[/b]
 

Soapweed

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Doug Thorson said:
In the late 80's I picked up several extension cords on the streets while living in Rapid City.

The best one was my downstairs neighbor had her car plugged in and her big dog must have got tangled in the cord overnight and unplugged it. While I was jumping her car, she was explaining all this and ended by saying"and my cord has been out here leaking electricity all night!" :shock: :shock: :shock:

That is pretty funny. :) :) :)
 

Denny

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Aaron said:
Denny said:
I fed three bales of hay here this winter before I ran over my battery charger booster $200 mistake I drug it around the yard before I ran it over.I even made sure I unhooked it but the cords were so stiff they flopped back over and got hooked on the hitch.

Good to know I am not the only one. Only mine was less expensive and still works, albeit in a more compacted fashion. Now I am a walking salesman for Shumacher battery boosters.[/b]

Mine was old so I'd got my use out of it but it looked like Flat Stanley after the fact.Mine was a Shumacher also.
 

Soapweed

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Denny said:
Aaron said:
Denny said:
I fed three bales of hay here this winter before I ran over my battery charger booster $200 mistake I drug it around the yard before I ran it over.I even made sure I unhooked it but the cords were so stiff they flopped back over and got hooked on the hitch.

Good to know I am not the only one. Only mine was less expensive and still works, albeit in a more compacted fashion. Now I am a walking salesman for Shumacher battery boosters.[/b]

Mine was old so I'd got my use out of it but it looked like Flat Stanley after the fact.Mine was a Shumacher also.

Speaking of "Flat Stanley" reminds me of several years ago when a hired hand put his Stanley thermos in a twine carrier on the front of my baler tractor. He then got in the tractor with me to ride across the meadow to where the pickup was parked. His nice steel round thermos fell out of the carrier right into the path of the big front tire. It became Flat Stanley fleeting fast. :roll:
 

JF Ranch

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Denny said:
I fed three bales of hay here this winter before I ran over my battery charger booster $200 mistake I drug it around the yard before I ran it over.I even made sure I unhooked it but the cords were so stiff they flopped back over and got hooked on the hitch.

I hate to admit it but this happened to me too. My two or three year old charger was also of the $200 type and I had given a tractor some help on a cold morning. After starting the engine, I let it warm up while doing something else. The battery is located on the off side of the tractor, so when I returned, I didn't see the charger setting right in front of the right rear wheel. I really flattened it out good!

I bought a new one the next day of the same quality. Within two weeks, my hired man squashed this brand new one exactly the same way I had! Needless to say this was one of those moments when there was really nothing I could say except that we BOTH need to be more careful.
 
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