Re: What is the biggest mess you made with machinery?

Posted by dhermesc on March 20, 2023 at 13:48:03 from (12.149.56.202):

In Reply to: What is the biggest mess you made with machinery? posted by Michael Soldan on March 20, 2023 at 07:25:47:

I was unloading a grain cart onto a 2 ton truck. The truck was parked on a bit of a hill - but nothing two steep. Brother parked it there and jumped in his car to go run around on a Saturday night and left me to finish unloading the grain cart and then I was to drive the truck home and unload it into drying bin (I was about 12-13 so I was stuck at home).

Pulled up to the truck with the 400 bushel cart and started unloading. Got towards the end of the load I crawled down into the grain cart to scoop the last little bit of the sides down as it was supposed to rain and I had been warned to get it good and clean or it would be my a**. Got the last little bit of grain out of the cart and crawled out only to find the truck was gone and the last little bit of grain had gone out onto the ground. It was dark and no lights were working on the tractor - in my 12 year old mind I thought Some SOB came and stole the truck while I was in the cart!

Took a minute and shut the tractor off and then started walking - found the truck about 150 yards away sitting in a waterway with the back tires in a ditch. Got in it and figure out my brother had parked the truck in 4th gear instead of 1st and the engine didn't hold it - even on the mildly sloping ground. Unhooked the grain cart and luckily there was a chain in the truck and I had to first dig out the ditch because it wasn't coming out by just pulling. Finally dragged out of the waterway fighting for every inch as I only had an 886 to pull a fully loaded 500 bushel truck out. Then I had to scoop the grain off the top of the truck as it had rolled back very slowly and a bushel or two milo were on top of the cab and the engine hood.

By the time I got the tarp rolled across the load it was midnight and starting to rain. Fought my way across the field then down the dirt road (now 100% mud) just in time to meet my dad coming out to the field looking for me. I got chewed out for wasting so much time and wasn't I smart enough to check the truck before unloading and then it just what he needed was another dumb kid breaking his machinery be beating it up playing in the mud and bouncing it through ditches... Then I got chewed out and beat up by my brother who (naturally) claimed he didn't park the truck in 4th gear and who was I to tell dad that he did.

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