Un-Retired …..Again!

[Fat Boy]

It's the scorpions in your shoes that keeps me away from there!

[gotagetm]

....and the heat ond other stuff !

[Raquettedacker]

It's the scorpions in your shoes that keeps me away from there!

  They have to check them every morning. Always 1 or 2 a week….

....and the heat ond other stuff !

 X2.  It’s 74* here and I had the AC on in the truck…😎

[Fat Boy]

  X2.  It’s 74* here and I had the AC on in the truck…😎

I think that they turn the heat on their trucks in Texas if it's 74. 

[gotagetm]

Well I retired early..July 1 of last year been down a bit with 2 spine surgeries knee surgery and 4 weeks ago shoulder surgery for torn tendons...I've been working arm getting back in shape still sore...but pulled lumber Mill out and went to a buddies and cut him some ash up...had him and his neighbor and his tractor helping ....I'm little slow right now but felt great to cut ...headed to Erie soon for afternoon...Have Mill will travel 😆

[Raquettedacker]

That’s awesome Ben.. 👍👍👍👍
 Love that thing. I really need one…😎

[rgfixit]

Spooky foggy morning mowing this morning.

[rgfixit]

Life on a golf course.
This happened today at my Son’s course.



Operator didn’t get hurt, thankfully, just wet. They got the rough mower out and it actually started. They limped it back to the shop for service.

[62 & Done]

Scary thing right there  My father in law rolled his into the highway and was pinned under it  luckily ok, bruised and battered but ok

[rgfixit]

Guess it was a slow slide in and the operator had time to bail. I’ve slid down some springtime slippery slopes, but always managed to stay out of the ponds. It’s a very uneasy feeling.

Not into dumping an $80k machine in the pond. Or me for that matter.

They put seatbelts on all these machines. Totally stupid. None of us use them. If you need to bail the last thing you want to do is fumble around trying to take a seatbelt off ..


When you’re under water.

[jperch]

I mow around a small pond and worry about muskrats tunneling underneath the side of the pond.  The idea of going into the pond and stuck underneath the mower is pretty scary.

[Raquettedacker]

Never flipped a tractor but put a fully stacked hay wagon on its side while my brother and cousin were on top..
 Good thing they were young enough to hit the ground and bounce..🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[62 & Done]

I do some brush hogging of my own and for others.  I am always too close to the ditches for my own comfort. Gotta do what ya gotta do but sometimes wonder about my own decisions

[rgfixit]

Weird Smokey morning again this summer.


Be glad when the Canucks get those fires  out.

[Johnnh]

Old lineman moment that we survived:
2 of us loaded about half a dozen 40' class 2 poles on a trailer and headed out to a pole replacement job near Lagrangeville, NY.  We got to one of those old crossings at the Taconic parkway and came to a stop. The guy i was with said to me " Didn't we bring the pole trailer?"
My answer was yes
He said "Well, we don't have it anymore"

That triggered a terrible feeling.

We turned around and found the trailer a ways back in a wooded area on the roadside and it sure made a mess.
We looked it over and the trailer was toast and a few of the poles didn't do well either. The cause was the pintle hitch mounting plate had broken and took the safety chains with it. Thankfully it was a vacant are with no houses.

We called our foreman on the radio and to say the least, he was not a happy camper.
We went back to the shop and picked up another digger line truck and trailer and spent the day winching the poles out of the woods, loaded everything on the truck and trailer and went back,to the shop.
A surprise to us was our foreman saw us roll into the yard and came out and actually smiled at us and told us he was glad noone got hurt