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The last two pictures and post is what I call f****** stupid I usually keep one or two people on the farm employed and 20 to 30 on the heavy equipment side . Pics on the last two
post I was instantly fire! !weather they be it a a 10 day or 30 year employe doing something that stupid.

It isn't just novices who screw up. In the short six years I worked as an excavator I saw my share of screw-ups, thankfully none of which were mine. None of the screw-ups on my job sites involved serious injury, but there was a fatality on a big job near where we were working. The other company was digging a sewer trunk line with a big Koehring 1066 excavator. The operator backed up right over the foreman. That was before back-up alarms. I had previously worked for that company but didn't know the people involved.

Barry, hate to hear about the screw-up. Something like that is bad anytime, but especially at this time of the year. Hope you get the rig back soon.

Lord what a mess
This topic could go for many pages
The border jumpers just shrug and start removing
the exploded hydraulic hoses letting oil run everywhere
The white guys say " I dun bin runnin' ' quipmunt like
this all muh life " then if you were to look at their
personal equipment the sides and deck of their
shredder is all bent up and the PTO shaft has a bow,
and their lawnmower looks like it fell off the trailer
at highway speed. Won't even start in about
backhoe buckets and cylinders

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Reputation I earned over the years always return it in better shape. Uncle would call and ask if I needed to borrow something. Just went and fixed it for him when I didn't need to use it.

An engineer should never be trusted with anything of value, or anything made of metal, pencils ,paper and laptops limit the damage they can do to reasonable levels, and limited down time.

I also don't borrow other people's stuff. I can use my own stuff forever without issue. But as soon as I borrow something it'll break!

-Jake

Yep....

I can honestly tell you me and deflave are trustworthy and won’t mess up your equipment. We are semi professionals

I don’t loan anything of my mechanical things to anyone, been fuuucked a couple of times

20 days and that damn tractor is still in the shop!

Growing up, my father always had hired help.

I guess I'm used to others operating our machines.

Any farmboy knows all about turning too quick with equipment.
Either because he did it, or saw it.

In my case, both.

Still can't believe how easy it was to get the old WD-45 into the tongue
of the rake. Lucky, I stopped at the thumb-thump of the tire tread hitting.


People have been hurt bad when the brought the rake up over the tires
on the old tractors with no fenders.


Hmmm. Often wondered why so many are missing the fenders?
Maybe tight turns? And tire chains.

Will they make your payment for you?

Barry, do you know if they have the parts. Severe parts shortage around here. Had a 5 month old battery go bad. Took it back to NAPA to exchange it and they didn't have one exactly like it. I needed screw post and all they had were the solid one. Bought two adapters and took what I could get. Asked the parts man about shortages and he went to naming them off..... oil, filters, antifreeze, batteries, radiators, freon, tools, and I dont remember what else. I asked if it was the china flu causing the problem and he said he wasn't sure. Probably a combination of the china flu and embargoes.

Hope they got your needed parts and they get it together soon.

that ship that was stuck in the canal messed up a lot of shipping in the world. we are having prob. getting common steel like angel & flat bar

Dealt with a tractor battery shortage awhile back here as well.

Talked to Chris in Service today... You might remember him... the BIG guy.

Anyway, he's just slammed. Haying season, shredding season, no new tractors to replace broken ones, so he's having to repair more. Just busy as hell.

Glad I have my backup tractor, and it's going strong... (knock on wood).

Tain't one of those.

Just the downtime is my penance.

Hope you get it back soon.

Friend of mine killed this way 3 years ago,new rake. 47 years old...