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Roland (AL)
09-20-2007 16:55:57
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This past Saturday I went to my hunting club to get my 9N that I left there 3 1/2 months ago when it grabbed my left hand and twisted it and my arm so bad I missed 6 weeks work. Should have left it alone but thought I would give it one more chance ( needed to clean hydro pump out). Soooo got to the club and backed up to the trailer, thought I better see if it would crank before I hooked up the trailer,Would not even click. Turned truck around in the tight spot, pulled up to tractor, jumper cables hooked up, cranked up on one rev ran good. Unhooked cables start to turn truck around tractor goes dead. what the oh right I had turnd gas off when I saw the batt was dead. Got truck back in the right spot hooked up cables TURNED ON GAS fired right up again. Backed truck up to trailer and hooked them up. Went to tractor and it was running so good I thought I would do some blade work to warm it up. Ran great 20-25 minutes, Said to my self better load it or something will go wrong. Turned tractor up hill to go to the truck And just as I started over the last water bar it quit. Choke, it cranked but would not pull my shadow down a greased hill. Old batt now dead again, I did not want to unhook and rehooked the trailer again, I looked at the truck hooked to trailer, looked bahind me down hill (Should have stoped here I know better) Decided to park the truck at the bottom of the hill where it is almost level and let the hill load the tractor on the trailer. Real smart on my part, I now better but I can do this. Park truck (2006 Z71) Get on tractor let it roll back cross ways the road turn it down hill push, push push got it going slow, jump on, front end goes on good, the back tires go up the ramp, stoped dead when it started up trailer, not enough speed. I decide to pull the truck out from under the tractor and park it at the very bottom of the hill. Park truck, push tractor over the last water bar, jump on and away I go. It will go on the trailer this time I bet. It did, but as the back tires started on the trailer, ( have you ever had that dream where you were falling off the edge of a high place and had no control) I watched as the back truck tires cleared the groud enough so the tractor, the truck, and me went for a ride. Trucked headed to the woods,trailer jackknifed, lucky it stoped just before the trailer hit the truck or the truck hit the trees (3" from grill). Still no tractor loaded I see sawed the truck straight, pulled it down the road to a wide spot and un hooked the trailer. Pulled up to the tractor and gas was running out of the carb, turned off the gas and got the jumper cables hooked up. Took a bit to get it to crank but it finaly did . Got the cables put up and as I was letting the trailer down on the truck the tractor died. Jacked trailer back up and pulled up to the tractor TURNED THE GAS BACK ON jumped it again, hooked up trailer and loaded the tractor. As I chained it down I saw the back tire on the trailer was FLAT. Un hooked trailer and pulled the truck close to the tire and hooked up the air compresser. As I aired up the tire I said to my self not to forget to unhook the compresser and put on the cap. When the tire got aired up I unpluged the compresser and pulled the truck to the trailer and hooked it up. By this time I was very hot, tired, and needed water. Jumped in the truck and headed home. When I stoped to lock the gate to the club I heard a hissing sound, and looked at the black hose that was still on the valve stem of the tire, compresser still in the woods, I took the hose off and the tire was almost flat. At this point I got in my truck and drove real slow to an air station that cost 75cents. It took my mony and gave no air. Finely got some air and got it home.Moral of the story:
Don't leave a tractor alone in the woods to plot more mischief.
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