Piss & Moan Table

[Apparition]

We used to get passed all the time turning into our driveway with equipment. Had to have follow cars when possible if pulling loaded hay racks. Never had an accident there but plenty of near misses.

Further down the road my dad got hit by a bus which broke the tractor in half (think V not fully detached). He walked away but never fully got over the impact.

 

[Farmergreg]

We have fields on two US Highways and one state Highway.
using 4 way flashers and the turn signal confuses people. We usually crowd over using only the turn signal and they normally get the idea.

On the Ag forum folks talk about the offender Passing on the left saying: I thought you signaled me to go around” seriously? Find that in the rules of the road!

 

[freedom_in_4low]

a former receptionist at my company (probably 19-20 years old) apparently had never noticed all those placards that trucks wear warning other drivers that they make wide right turns, or at least never considered what they mean. On her way to work, at a slightly tighter than average intersection literally 5 blocks from the factory, she encountered a truck turning right, from the left lane, and decided to pass him on the right and make the turn. She ran into one of the rear axles on the truck as he turned in front of her. She worked there for a couple more years and never heard the end of it.

 

[Zorba]

...a truck turning right, from the left lane, and decided to pass him on the right and make the turn...

I've had this happen too when pulling a trailer. Despite turn signals. Had to stop once and wait for the fool to back out.

Then there's the classic bumper sticker <——-Passing Side Suicide ——->

 

[Phil Younger]

Auger on tractor FTW

Well that I too thought would be awesome having grown up in red clay land with limestone and gravel for soil. Regular post hole digger for 30" hole was about 20 minute job if soil was moist but impossible if not. Dad finally decided a tractor mount auger was the thing and behold-—- sheared first pin 6" into first hole. Life remained difficult.

 

[Phil Younger]

At that point I would just not build a fence.

Mine ended up 330 feet including the 60 I had already ran. Rented a 1 man auger from home depot. Out of 27 holes attempted with the auger, it worked well for about 6 of them. Another 6 or so it worked ok if I ran it for a bit, filled the hole with water, did some other work and came back to it after soaking. Some required a few soaking cycles because 30 minutes after pouring 3 gallons of water into the hole, 6 inches below the surface was still bone dry. The rest it would hit a root and just spin and not make progress, or would grab it and take me for a ride. Twisted my right arm pretty good on one of them; took me a good 30 seconds for the pain to subside enough for me to decide it wasn't dislocated. Had to cut a few roots with a sawzall. All of them had to follow behind with the clamshell diggers for the last few inches. Had a couple times where I had to disconnect the motor and screw the auger bit back out of the ground. All in all I'm not sure it saved me any time over the clamshell diggers, it just used different muscle groups.

All the holes are dug at least, but I have 3 more posts to set. I miscalculated my length and came up short by 2 line posts, but I have 2 extra gate posts because I was able to re-use the posts from the gate I took out. Just have to drill through the post to make holes for the rails but my drill battery only made it through 2/3 of one post.

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I counted 48 trees inside the fence.

Hmm - where I grew up we'd just nail the wire to the trees LOL

 

[Phil Younger]

Farming on a state highway has its perils. Being passed while turning left has happened countless times and normally we catch it before completing the turn. Not today. Nobody hurt!
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Been there done that — grew up farming south of you in the hills my friend. Lost count of the times this happened to me on a tractor on US 50. Of course our tractors at the time were small. (E3 Coop, IH 350, IH 656). One- I'm about to turn left and the car behind is coming too fast and she seems to not notice my hand signal (no cab of course). I stand up to make hand sign more apparent and she swings out to pass just as i am sitting down to make my left. I straightened back up (not cool on a trike type front end) and she went sailing past me doing her makeup in her sunshade mirror.

 

[Squatch]

P&M

2020, in general, sucks.

Night before last, I decided to fire up the furnace for the first time this year. Well, it's blowing nothing but cold air. After a couple of hours checking things out, I determined that it's suffering "flame roll-out", and is tripping one of the two switches. The P&M part of this is that it's a two year old, big-name furnace. It's supposed to be a quality unit. It replaced a still-working 30+ year old furnace, based on a recommendation from a professional HVAC friend of mine. I'm now waiting to get him out here to take a better look at it.

After dealing with the furnace, the wife and I get ready to head to the daughter's house to celebrate her 25th birthday. Fired up the old Dodge diesel, and it's chugging to beat the band, with blue smoke just billowing out the tailpipe. Acts like an injector issue, which is what happened a couple years ago. These injectors are refurbished OE units, and only have a few thousand miles on them. WTF? I'll deal with it next weekend. The furnace takes priority.

Screw 2020.

 

[Phil Younger]

We had two farms along US Hwy 50 in Indiana. The road time was brief and always scary. Indiana had a 1' gravel shoulder and then 0-4' into a ditch or bridge abutment. Where we had to enter the highway had less than 300' visibility and the semi's were generally using this valley between hills to make steam for next hill. They usually were doing 70-80 in a 55 but I don't blame them - they'd be down to gear 5-6 on a Fuller 13 by next hilltop. I would pull up to the intersection-turn off engine and listen--if i did not hear anything I would start the engine- put her into road gear- pull back the torque and try to get rolling quickly without killing it. 5 seconds later I would have no recourse- I would either have a bluff on each side or going the other way a 70' drop off with no shoulder. Going the later way one day with dad hanging on (Bad move)— we got onto the highway and here came the local feed truck. He was driving a cabover and I saw him closing the gap fast. He was standing upright on his brakes (midsize truck- hydraulic type brakes). All there was between us was a empty hay wagon and watching him close seemed as eternity. He got her down to prolly 5 mph difference when he hit and I was able to keep the light old IH 350 straight and dad held on for dear life. Wagon tailgate busted. There IS A GOD ! I have no idea other than that how dad and survived at least 10 such close calls each.

Always thought I wanted a nice SS pistol to shoot groundhogs and the like while driving tractor but after being called "number 1" in sign language enough I decided a pistol on the tractor might be more trouble than worth.

 

[Rick Flair]

If you followed my other thread on appliances and my rotten luck.....


But if not, recap to piss and moan some more.


Microwave died.
Oven died.
Toilet broke.
Upstairs jetted tub leaked water through the ceiling.


All happened in a week.



Last night, fridge stopped working.


WTF.

Yeah 2020 can suck cock by choice.

 

[Zorba]

Wow Rubi! That's almost 2X the "usual 3". Let's hope its not going for a square (9)!!

EDIT: I just went and looked it up - Mercury retrograde begins tomorrow, which means we've been in a "shoulder season" for the last week or 10 days or so. I didn't used to believe in Mercury retrograde - until I started paying attention!

 

[Farmergreg]

Yesterday I was watching my semi pull into our drive making a lefthand turn off US52. One car stopped behind our truck, my gun-shy driver looked in his left mirror prior to executing the turn and dammed if another car did it again....came up on our signaling truck with a car behind it and passed both. Fuck nuts!

 

[Farmergreg]

Sunny Saturday southbound with the semi, signal left, check mirror, see car 200 yards back, start to turn into the drive and contact.
Guy (Joe Dirt) gets 3 tickets, we get none.
He bought the car months ago but hasn't titled or plated it. (covid excuse)
He has State Farm who calls me yesterday to say that Joe Dirt claims your signal wasn't on and you turned it on after contact, therefore we are only going to pay 65%.

So I asked the gal if she was sure about that? We have operated on that road / farm since 1991. Probably our 40th load in and out of that drive this year.
Did you know that turn signals on semis don't cancel automatically?
I can see why you trust your client, seeing as his vehicle wasn't titled in his name, registered, plated and in fact got 3 tickets for this incident.
Are you sure you want to only offer 65%?
Yes that's all we're offering.
I only carry liability on the trailer, so my company isn't going to bat for me.
Sent all info to attorney yesterday.

 

[Zorba]

Which will end up costing State Farm a butt ton MORE money by the time the attorney gets through with them. They're too busy trying to total perfectly good cars to be able to pay legitimate claims. Bastards.

 

[Phil Younger]

Obviously Jake from State Farm worries more about his pants than potential future clients or potential lawsuits.

 

[reddvltj]

P&M

2020, in general, sucks.
After dealing with the furnace, the wife and I get ready to head to the daughter's house to celebrate her 25th birthday. Fired up the old Dodge diesel, and it's chugging to beat the band, with blue smoke just billowing out the tailpipe. Acts like an injector issue, which is what happened a couple years ago. These injectors are refurbished OE units, and only have a few thousand miles on them. WTF? I'll deal with it next weekend. The furnace takes priority.

Screw 2020.

Hoping this doesn't jinx you in any way but, have you pulled the oil fill cap since the chugging started? Sounds all to similar to what mine has been doing... It started as a leaking injector (that got neglected until it was too late)... Too late happens to be broken compression rings in #6 The new engine just got ordered today... I just got home from 30 days in Dinsmore on the August Complex Fire. Time to start throwing some money at the tow pig!!!

 

[Thunderhead]

Hoping this doesn't jinx you in any way but, have you pulled the oil fill cap since the chugging started? Sounds all to similar to what mine has been doing... It started as a leaking injector (that got neglected until it was too late)... Too late happens to be broken compression rings in #6 The new engine just got ordered today... I just got home from 30 days in Dinsmore on the August Complex Fire. Time to start throwing some money at the tow pig!!!

A huge THANK YOU for fighting the fires. That’s my backyard. We haven’t been able to go up the M2 or M4 since it started.
How bad is it ? Where you on the North or South?
We camp up there all the time usually

 

[reddvltj]

A huge THANK YOU for fighting the fires. That’s my backyard. We haven’t been able to go up the M2 or M4 since it started.
How bad is it ? Where you on the North or South?
We camp up there all the time usually

I was up by Dinsmore, which would be the "North West" Quadrant. The Southern half is all in "Rehab" now, there is still some active fire in the North Eastern Quadrant but for the most part it is all internal. There is a Type 3 team that took over and they sent home or reallocated approximately 1000 people/resources. They were sending water tenders and hand crews back down to the southern half to aid in rehabbing before winter really sets in. Highway 36 still has closures due to timber removal and possible wind/fire events.

 

[Squatch]

Hoping this doesn't jinx you in any way but, have you pulled the oil fill cap since the chugging started? Sounds all to similar to what mine has been doing... It started as a leaking injector (that got neglected until it was too late)... Too late happens to be broken compression rings in #6 The new engine just got ordered today... I just got home from 30 days in Dinsmore on the August Complex Fire. Time to start throwing some money at the tow pig!!!

I did a fairly firm "tap" on each injector, and it cleared right up. Promptly ran down to the parts store and got some diesel injector cleaner/treatment, and poured that in the tank. The ol' boy sits more and more these days, and I suspect an injector just got a little gummed up, or something. It's been doing fine ever since. Here's hoping it stays that way!

Glad to have ya back, my friend. I was beginning to wonder if'n you had traded off your TJ for a Miata, or something, and was just too embarrassed to let us know!

 

[reddvltj]

I did a fairly firm "tap" on each injector, and it cleared right up. Promptly ran down to the parts store and got some diesel injector cleaner/treatment, and poured that in the tank. The ol' boy sits more and more these days, and I suspect an injector just got a little gummed up, or something. It's been doing fine ever since. Here's hoping it stays that way!

Glad to have ya back, my friend. I was beginning to wonder if'n you had traded off your TJ for a Miata, or something, and was just to embarrassed to let us know!

Nope!!! NO Miatas in my future and the TJ will not get sold or otherwise depart my ownership any time soon!!!
I had the opportunity to make the money I needed to get my engine replaced and I couldn't pass it up... In the last 2 months i've been out on fires for a total of 48 days. So needless to say I'm playing catch up with my online communities. 16 hour days don't leave much time for social media or reading emails