Friday's Fotos (mo pics added)
- Thread starter the_jersey_lilly_2000
- Start date
Help Support Ranchers.net:
gcreekrch
Well-known member
Yanuck said:
C'mon girls, it's not THAT wide. With a good run at it and the shredder running and creating a hydroplane effect...not much of a jump at all.
Do it every day, doncha Lilly?
I know,. I'm tired :roll:
the_jersey_lilly_2000
Well-known member
Yeah but doin stunts like that cause problems like this.
Soapweed
Well-known member
gcreekrch said:Yanuck said:
C'mon girls, it's not THAT wide. With a good run at it and the shredder running and creating a hydroplane effect...not much of a jump at all.
Do it every day, doncha Lilly?
I know,. I'm tired :roll:
One time back in the late '70's, Dad had a young guy hired for the summer. It was an expensive experience. :roll: This kid was using a 4020 John Deere with a loader and picking up bales along a deep ditch. He was supposed to pile them just right, and I was hauling ten at a time to a bale yard, using a 1066 International tractor pulling a Lehman stackmover. There were bales on both sides of this ditch, so Brainboy grabs a 1300# bale and decides he needs to get a run at the ditch to get across (he could have gone a couple hundred yards to a bona-fide crossing with a culvert). Anyway he put the tractor in high gear and went like heck. As you would imagine, the front axles and wheels stayed in the ditch even though most of the tractor made it to the other side. It was quite a project getting things put back together.
This is the same kid that went to work for another neighbor and tipped over his truck, the reason being, "the heifers were frolicking in the back." :? Sometimes it is just easier to do things short-handed. :wink:
the_jersey_lilly_2000
Well-known member
Haha....nawwww I didn't do that crossin the creek. Just wear n tear in that rough pasture. Hog roots are plentiful. It worked it's way out. But at least I felt it before it was completely gone. Kinda felt like I was in mud....but I wasn't. So when I turned I just felt the urge to stop and check things out. That's one of the first things I look at when havin front end trouble. It's happened to me before on our own tractor while diskin up hog rooted pasture.
We found a low water crossin where it was only about a foot deep. So it wasn't bad crossin it at all. Only problem was..after we got to the other side. it's a small islandish area, with two more creeks. This is bottom land....in an area where the water gets way outta banks. Causes all kinda sloughs and ditches. So now we got that lil jag mowed, and hafta figure out where to cross again. He has an arial photo of this place hangin on his wall at the ranch office. I looked last night and looks like I'll hafta go maybe a mile down that creek before there's another crossin.
We found a low water crossin where it was only about a foot deep. So it wasn't bad crossin it at all. Only problem was..after we got to the other side. it's a small islandish area, with two more creeks. This is bottom land....in an area where the water gets way outta banks. Causes all kinda sloughs and ditches. So now we got that lil jag mowed, and hafta figure out where to cross again. He has an arial photo of this place hangin on his wall at the ranch office. I looked last night and looks like I'll hafta go maybe a mile down that creek before there's another crossin.
gcreekrch
Well-known member
the_jersey_lilly_2000 said:Yeah but doin stunts like that cause problems like this.
Looks like someone should have been using a greasegun and now has a line-boring job to do.
the_jersey_lilly_2000
Well-known member
gcreekrch said:
I agree....prolly hasn't been greased in years...if ever. but when your workin with other people's equipment, you can't always control how well maintained they are.