Went to shred a small ranch that I've been doing for more than 3 years now...
Got there with my pickup, roaded my tractor and shredder over and started shredding. Once while shredding I heard a "bump...bump".... I looked at my rear tires and saw nothing. (A deer antler stuck in the rear tire will make that sound.) Since it stopped, I kept going. Everything went fine. Parked the tractor for the day and looked at the tires... Nothing visible. All good.
Grabbed my stuff and started for my pickup and about laid a log, right there!
Seems the cattle had gathered around my pickup at some point, and evidently one of them saw it's reflection on the passenger side and decided to fight it. Dents and scratches on both passenger side doors from horns... Truck only has 3k miles on it. Still smells new...
If I'd seen which one, I'd be eating ribeye as we speak.
Next morning I called my ins. agent and told him. He said I had $50 deductible comprehensive. Just go get it fixed and tell them who to pay. OK I feel a bit better now.
Took it to the Ford Dealer body shop. $2330 in damage. They have to replace the rear door completely. Oh well. I'm only out $50.
Go out to that ranch and finish the job... (I parked pickup in a pen and shut it in.
) Tractor has two flats on right side! Damn! I look up under the fender on top, and sure enough there's a deer antler broke off, sticking up. Rear tire had that hole the antler was in, and another about 6 inches from it. Plugged both holes, and they held. PITA to air up that much tire, and try to push a wad of plugs into a hole.
Got done shredding the place and got down from tractor to leave and do my usual walk around. RF tire on the inside has oil all over it!
Damn again!
Got my tractor mechanic out there and it was the wheel bearing and bushings alright, but taking the hub cover off, the internal bolts were all loose. WTF? He said it wasn't the first time he's seen that problem. I'll be calling Case on this BS in the morning. About a $700 fix.
I didn't make enough money to cover the extracurricular expenses on this one!