Re: Snow plowing Incident

Posted by LenNH on February 20, 2010 at 09:22:25 from (24.60.236.239):

In Reply to: Snow plowing Incident posted by Daniel OH 13655 on February 11, 2010 at 17:43:04:

When I was old enough to reach the clutch (about 8 years) on our F-12, I would do ANYTHING To get to drive it, INCLUDING (listen to this) help the hired man shovel out the manure in the barn (a six-hour job by hand in the winter time). I think the hired man probably thought I was nuts to want to go out in the field at 20 degrees and freeze my (supply any word you want) off while the wind blew manure on my back. One snowy day, when I was maybe 11 or 12, I took off across the field, wide-open, manure flying all over the place, when I felt this enormous jolt and the entire front of the tractor dropped to the ground, flinging me against the steering wheel. I had hit a washed-out underdrain. The hole was big enough for both front wheels of the F-12. The shock was so great that the post snapped off and left the wheels in the hole, while the tractor moved forward until it dug into the ground enough to kill the motor. I walked back maybe a quarter mile to the barn and (I remember these words from 60-odd years ago), "I broke the front wheels off the tractor." My father said absolutely nothing, but the next day when I got home from school, there was a new post and the front wheels were back on the tractor. I guess anybody COULD have done this, because the hole was pretty well camouflaged by the snow. This is the kind of thinking that makes us feel better about stupid things we do, I guess!
A couple of years ago, I had the back door of my Dodge Caravan open, getting ready to load something from the house. I started backing and did not see the tree that had decided to move forward at the same time. Very thoughtless move on the part of the tree. Well, a local body shop guy said he couldn't straighten the edge of the door, but that he'd find me a used door, and $400 later, I had her on the road again. You all know the Voyager, Caravan and Town and Country are the same car. Turns out all the guy could find was a Chrysler Town and Country door, ALMOST the same color as the car. For the next couple of years I went down the road driving a Chrysler in the back and a Dodge in the front. Clever repairman, stupid driver. Well, don't forget the old saying, "To err is human...." and we"re all human, maybe sometimes more than we'd like! I think it's probably good for us to be able to look back on our errors and laugh just a little bit at them. I'm not TOO crazy about laughing at myself, though.

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