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The other day my tractor developed a clunk. Going down the road i though I had a flat tire but didn't. I could hear a noise coming from the left rear tire area. It was there going slow or fast. I have three cast wheel weights and one on the outside of the rim and two inside. The one next to the rim on the inside had come slightly loose. Not really enough to notice but I could hear it. Finally I saw the dust and chaff had moved. I tightened up the three bolts and the noise went away. What a relief. :D
 
several years ago i was doing some farming and started hearing a rattle and bang quite frequently so i immediately figured with my luck, it was bound to be something major. i get out, look up, down, around and back again but see nothing apparent. i go back to farming and start hearing it again :mad: so i get out, repeat step one but come up with the same results. after about the 15th time of stopping to look things over i see a harrow tooth that was stuck in the inside dual that was banging on the fender as the tire was going around. i was happy that's all it was and a tire repair was probably all that would be needed but…..it never punctured the tire. :)

what a relief :D
 
Last summer the boys and I were full bore haying. Get a call from the hoot colony out of sunburst - jake on the the phone. He asks " you got black cows over by da crick der by so and so's". Ya. Well you got cows all over he// and back. They are in our peas and spring wheat and looks like we will need to get insurance involved as they are doing damage. Ok, be right there. Sho up and about 20 hoots are scattered out amongst the cows no rhyme or reason on foot. A few pickups bahaaing thru the cows honking the horn. Looked like organized caos. Anyhow turns out they were someone else's cows. What a relief!
 
I was about seven or eight years old, and Dad sent me down to the barn to check to see if a cow had calved. It was dark, and I was spooked about the whole project. I took off on a dead run trying to get the deed done as expeditiously as possible. There was a funny noise accompanying me; actually it wasn't as funny as it was scary. If I slowed down the noise slowed down, and if I stopped the noise stopped. My powder was getting damper by the minute, so again I took off on a dead run. The noise was as rapid as my heartbeat. Again I stopped, and the noise stopped. This time I took off my hat, as it seemed to be the source of the sound. Amazingly, I discovered that the whang leather hat band hat two knots at the very end. The knots were beating on the hard felt, causing the sound. What a relief!

As breakdowns go, this wasn't expensive, but it almost caused a nervous breakdown and possibly took ten years off of my expected lifespan. :-)
 
A few years ago I was roading our baling tractor JD 4650 with our 3x3 baler down the road. One of the wedges that hold the tire and center cast on the rear axle had split in two. The tractor started to wobble but before I could get stopped the wheel came off and decided to go on with out me :shock:. Luckily I was close to a neighbors driveway when it happened that I kind of slide into it. It wasn't a very fun ride but thankfully I was in a spot without a steep ditch. Then when we got that side fixed, the other side broke when we where bailing in the hay field the next night :roll:
 
Many years ago (when I was still young and fearless) I was planting corn in an isolated field on a farm some distance from home when a large coyote came out and inspected the job I was doing. He was a bold rascal who was not intimidated by my presence and just hung around for the afternoon.

Late that night, I stopped at the end of the field by the woodlot to check the seed boxes. As I turned away to go back to the tractor, my heart stopped when something moved RIGHT beside me. I turned to face whatever it was and it moved at the exact same time.

It was my shadow.

What a relief.

Cuz I didn't have a binder roller handy... :lol:
 
burnt said:
Many years ago (when I was still young and fearless) I was planting corn in an isolated field on a farm some distance from home when a large coyote came out and inspected the job I was doing. He was a bold rascal who was not intimidated by my presence and just hung around for the afternoon.

Late that night, I stopped at the end of the field by the woodlot to check the seed boxes. As I turned away to go back to the tractor, my heart stopped when something moved RIGHT beside me. I turned to face whatever it was and it moved at the exact same time.

It was my shadow.

What a relief.


Cuz I didn't have a binder roller handy... :lol:
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That's a good one! :lol: :shock: :lol:
 

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