Monumental Discovery

[backhoeboogie]

Tractor battery is dead. No problem Chain the truck to the tractor, rev up the truck motor and put it in gear, get on the tractor and put it in high gear, release the brake and let the truck pull you across the hill top. When you get up to speed let out the clutch and start the tractor. Put it in nuetral. Brake the tractor and stop the truck. Lock the tractor brake. Get off the tractor and get in the truck and back it up. Unchain it. No problem. I must have done that 100 times.

The last time I did it was in about 1990. The chain came loose when I was stopping the truck. The truck took off (remember the rev up thing?) and I was chasing it across the top of the hill. Off the hill it went down the slope until it climbed a cedar tree. There it was with the tires spinning when I got to it. I climbed the bed, reached through the back glass and turned it off.

It was a good thing the tractor started first. I had to use it to pull the truck out of the tree.

 

[cfpinz]

It's not exactly flat here, but if I tried to pull a tractor by myself you'd be reading my obituary for sure. Think I'll stick with sticking my tongue on frozen stuff.

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[Jeanne - Simme Valley]

I'm always doing things around here by myself. So I have pulled my lawn mower & other things out when they were stuck by myself. But pull a tractor with an "unmanned" truck - Oh NO!!! I'm definately not brave (or stupid??) enough for that What if the tractor brake quit working? Now that would have been cute! I can see it now, hanging on til the truck ran into the trees, than you ran into the truck!

 

[rkm]

Had a freind who was Extention Sheep Specialest at WVU. He thought he would show off, and show everyone he could carry a 100# bag of feed on his shoulder. They let him get half way across a electric fence before they turned it on! :shock: :lol: :lol:

 

[cfpinz]

Had a freind who was Extention Sheep Specialest at WVU. He thought he would show off, and show everyone he could carry a 100# bag of feed on his shoulder. They let him get half way across a electric fence before they turned it on! :shock: :lol: :lol:

I don't know which part is funnier, the electric fence or the Sheep Specialist at WVU! :lol: West Virginia, where the men are men and the sheep are scared.

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[chrisy]

Had a freind who was Extention Sheep Specialest at WVU. He thought he would show off, and show everyone he could carry a 100# bag of feed on his shoulder. They let him get half way across a electric fence before they turned it on! :shock: :lol: :lol:

I don't know which part is funnier, the electric fence or the Sheep Specialist at WVU! :lol: West Virginia, where the men are men and the sheep are scared.

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are the Men from WVU, decended from the Welsh, as that is what is said here about the Welsh men.. :lol:

 

[rkm]

The men from West Virginia decended from Virginia. Just a chip off the old block.

 

[cfpinz]

The men from West Virginia decended from Virginia. Just a chip off the old block.

There is a distinct difference in "decended from..." and "were banished from..."!

The really sick ones were sent to New York.

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[sidney411]

BHB - That is too funny!! I could never imagine doing that. I have a real problem with starting engines in general, though. Heck I can't even roll start a truck / tracter by myself, or do the starting end of pull starting something. I can on occasion start something with a string but I really like things that start with keys, on a warm day, after it was already run by someone else. LOL!