Cell phone in grain wagon tire..

MSS3020 · Nov 4, 2014

Buddy called me the other night was telling me that he was hauling grain for a friend and they blew a tire on the wagon.. this wagon I guess is huge.. Anyway they called the coop to come make the repair.. The guy did and they were back to work in very short order.. The next morning friend noticed that tire was going flat again so he called the coop to come see what the problem was.. The guy from coop finished the job and when my friend came over to see what had happened the coop guy told him that after fixing the tire the first time he was on his way home and wondered where he lost his cell phone.. couldnt find it..until he came out on the second visit to fix the tire and had found the phone inside the tire between the tire and tube.. it had rubbed and or made a hole on the tube which caused the flat.. LOL I couldnt believe it.. thought it was worth sharing...

Dalex · Nov 4, 2014

hahahah good story !!

Stan - Florida · Nov 4, 2014

Well, at least we never had that problem back in the day.

Wheatfarmer · Nov 4, 2014

Years ago Dad had new rear tires put on a WD9. Just got back in the field and a small bar came out the sidewll. COOP was not real happy with themselves.

David G · Nov 4, 2014

The tire guy dropped his phone and the dog stole it, we never found it, only pieces of the leather case.

rrlund · Nov 4, 2014

I wonder if they charged for the second service call?

redforlife · Nov 4, 2014

3 of us were farming one day. Well kinda driving around crop checking really. At one of the stops, one guy noticed his cell phone was missing. After looking around for it there, he decided he must of dropped it at the last stop. We drove back to there and looked around and couldn't find it anywhere. So the other guy said, maybe we just aren't seeing it, and called the number and listened for the ring. Low and behold it was laying on the back bumper of the truck the hole time. It made the trip from there to the next place and back without falling off the bumper. Bet that wouldn't happen again.

in-too-deep · Nov 4, 2014

I dropped mine on the hay rack whilst baling small squares. Walked and walked and called and called that night after dark in the field. Found it the next morning when I unloaded the rack. Other times I haven't been so lucky.

texasranger · Nov 4, 2014

I'm not so lucky I put mine in my pocket of my swim trunks and then proceeded to go into the ocean. Now its at the bottom of the sea.

Bob Bancroft · Nov 4, 2014

Things sure were different at a dealership in the 70's than they are now. We used to do a lot of tire work. Mixed calcium chloride and pumped it into the rear tires on most of the new tractors we sold. Took new wheels off combines and had rims widened, and put on bigger tires, etc.

We had a short handled sledge hammer, which was quite handy in places. It came up missing, and no one could account for it. A few years after we sold one of the tire upgrade combines, it had a flat. Guess what we found?!

Brian Schmidt · Nov 4, 2014

I thought you were going to say when he went to call the guy to come back and fix it, he heard the tire ringing.

NEKS · Nov 4, 2014

One Saturday morning got a call from this lady on the highway with a flat tire. Get out there and the whole sidewall is eat out. Said mam you are going to need a new tire. She said somebody is going to buy me a new tire. I said whys that? "I had the air check Tuesday morning at my local station and they said they were all OK."

dcarp · Nov 4, 2014

I like it, "the calls go round & round".
I dropped my phone and the round baler gobbled it up, never did find it. It's probably in my mulch pile by now.

kansas45 · Nov 4, 2014

I lost mine while burning brush one evening. Found what was left of it, a blob of melted plastic and electrical parts the next spring.

farmerjohn · Nov 4, 2014

Last fall someone dumped an old sofa along a back road near me the way I travel home from work. I got tired of seeing it there so loaded it up and took it home and burned it. There was a cell phone remains in the ashes.

donjr · Nov 4, 2014

On the BTDT circuit, I lost one while cultipacking one afternoon. I know within about a half an acre of where it is, but have never found it. So I no longer wear it on my belt. Same as my fire pager.

On the repair job, I hope they replaced the tube rather than just putting a patch on it.....

ss55 · Nov 4, 2014

The screen on the cell phone was cracked or broken after all that?

hrRoss · Nov 4, 2014

my wife had a $10 trac phone in her jeans pockets while working cattle, didnt take it out before throwing in wash. found it when going to dryer. i dryed it out on the furnace register. to my suprise it still worked butwouldnt take incoming calls

Bill Radford · Nov 5, 2014

We were at a Harley Rally at Asheville NC several years ago. We were at the hillclimb event out in the country and there were several hundred bikers served by only 2 porta-johns.
One of the guys with us was in the can a long time and we got worried about him. I knocked on the door and asked him was everything ok. He opened the door and was looking sadly into the tank.
He said he had taken off his leather jacket and it had fallen in. He had found a stick somewhere and was trying to snag the jacket.
I told him that he had just as well consider the jacket gone forever. He said that he knew that but he had a Moon Pie in the pocket and sure hated to lose it....
Belated Happy Halloween!
Bill

johndeerefan · Nov 5, 2014

I have a pair of Oakley sunglasses and a Kentucky Wildcat hat down their also.

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