Dirtman2007
Senior Member
- Joined
- Sep 30, 2007
- Messages
- 1,202
- Location
- Raleigh, North Carolina
- Occupation
- Heavy Equipment Operator
I just took over an hour to read all the posts on this topic and all the problems that people had. Guess I have a few to share too.
1. Landed the kobota tractor into a drained (thank god) pond. It was the hydrostatic style so you just push the pedal down to go forward or reverse. Well I managed to hit the "gas" instead of the brake, sending the tractor over the 30 degree edge. I managed to keep rolling the bucket and sticking rocks under the tires to get out.
2. Went over a bump on the 955 track loader and smashed my head into the windsheild causing several spider web cracks to form
3. rode the trailer down the hill with the mini excavator on the trailor until the bucket hit a tree and stopped. Chock those wheels !!!
4. Almost got my legs pinned between a backhoe and a fuel tank. Managed to jump in the bucket out of danger, roll kinda slow, but still would have screwed me up.
5. Best of all, there was a phone line in an area that I had to dig. I dug down with the shovel to find it. After I find it I dig around it witht eh excavator and get the trench dug. Dug around it for well over an hour with the excavator on never touched it. I get off and walk in the trench to check the grade and I tripped over the line an broke it:Banghead :Banghead man was I pissed.
6. more to come when I do some more thinking!!
1. Landed the kobota tractor into a drained (thank god) pond. It was the hydrostatic style so you just push the pedal down to go forward or reverse. Well I managed to hit the "gas" instead of the brake, sending the tractor over the 30 degree edge. I managed to keep rolling the bucket and sticking rocks under the tires to get out.
2. Went over a bump on the 955 track loader and smashed my head into the windsheild causing several spider web cracks to form
3. rode the trailer down the hill with the mini excavator on the trailor until the bucket hit a tree and stopped. Chock those wheels !!!
4. Almost got my legs pinned between a backhoe and a fuel tank. Managed to jump in the bucket out of danger, roll kinda slow, but still would have screwed me up.
5. Best of all, there was a phone line in an area that I had to dig. I dug down with the shovel to find it. After I find it I dig around it witht eh excavator and get the trench dug. Dug around it for well over an hour with the excavator on never touched it. I get off and walk in the trench to check the grade and I tripped over the line an broke it:Banghead :Banghead man was I pissed.
6. more to come when I do some more thinking!!