Thing's That Go Bump Under the Seat

RBnSC · Apr 8, 2015

The other day I hopped in one of our excavators to move it
out of the way. It has been sitting at the shop waiting to
he worked on. Has several leaks and have a new seat
installed. Sat down and fired it up that's when momma cat
decided it was time to leave. I felt something pushing up
on my right butt cheek and immediately gave her all the
room she needed. I believe we went out of the door the the
same instant.
Ron

rrlund · Apr 8, 2015

At least it was under the seat and not in the fan belt.

RyaninKS · Apr 8, 2015

coulda been a pack rat!

souNdguy · Apr 8, 2015

agreed.

i remember starting up my NH 7610s one time and piece of rat flew out, tail landed in the operator platform.

drove to the field to mow, got out to open the gate, then the smell of cooked rat hit me.

ugh...

old · Apr 8, 2015

A few years back I went to start a riding lawn mower and had a opossum come out from under it.

cole in mo. · Apr 8, 2015

Overhauled the engine in a chevy station wagon for this woman, took it for a test drive, go around a corner, and rump rump clunk. Did it turning both ways, looked under the seat, an there was a 2/5/8 trailer ball. I left it there, she picked it up, and about 20 minutes later came back asking what I did the her car, said it makes a horrible thump now when she turns a corner. I told her to take the trailer ball out from under the front seat and the noise would stop, never heard back from her.

Mike (WA) · Apr 8, 2015

We put tree branches, prunings from the orchard, brush, etc. on a pile all winter, then torch it in the spring. One year I started my fires all around it with newspaper and diesel- just as it gets going, the pile starts moving, and out came the biggest possum I've ever seen- and his back was steaming. He headed smartly across the road into the woods. All three of my kids were helping- the two boys laughed hysterically, daughter said "poor thing". Good thing we've got the fairer secks to keep us all from becoming heathens.

gtractorfan · Apr 8, 2015

Years ago a older factory worker was heading home from his late at night second shift job when he felt something brush the back of his head. Nearly jumped out of his skin. His cat had got in the car, rode to work with him, and he didn't know it-- til then.

37chief · Apr 8, 2015

I have sat on our cat a time or two. My cat rode to work with me one morning must have been sleeping in the back of my VW.
while we were out for breakfast I saw a cat in the parking lot that looked a lot like our cat. It was. Another time that same car jumped into the neighbors motorhome and rode 30 miles to San Diego. I put an add in the San Diegeo paper that went to all areas. Some one called and said I think I have your cat. They did. Stan

Anonymous-0 · Apr 8, 2015

Several years ago my brother said sumthing is sounding odd under the hood of car, lifted up the bonnet and thar was a cheekin sitting on top of generator and had laid and egg that vas hard boiled.

CKain(MI) · Apr 8, 2015

This wasn't under the seat. One day I backed up to the garage and connected my utility trailer, to go to Home Depot. No sides or rear gate, May have had a front board. Hooked on my pickup(with cap), I can barely see the trailer. Wife & I pull out and go 14 miles, two stop signs and then at a long stoplight, I notice, in my outside mirror,-- a Jack Russel on the street, looked like mine, but I thought mine was shut in at home. OOps, hey he is mine ! 'Toby' had jumped on the trailer as I pulled out of the drive. I was so thankful he could stay on the trailer ! and tried to imagine any people seeing a trailer go by, with a terrier 'surfin' in the wind !
ckain

donjr · Apr 8, 2015

One of our installers where I worked opened a rear door on his van one Monday morning to have a cat come screaming out of the back of his van. It scared the hail out of anyone nearby because we weren't expecting it. Apparently, on his last job on the Friday before, the homeowner's curious cat had climbed into the van to explore it, and had been penned up in it all weekend. The homeowner was notified and came up to get the cat, but it took them a few days to catch the critter. One more reason I like dogs better.......

Dick2 · Apr 8, 2015

BIL was attacked by Bumble Bees that had built a nest in the seat of his old truck; had to evacuate fast!

JerryS · Apr 8, 2015

When I fire up a brushpile I always start on one side and let it burn itself through the pile. That way the creatures have an opportunity to escape on the other side. I'm no bleeding heart animal activist, but I don't want to be knowingly responsible for burning anything to death, even a possum. (OK, fire ants and yellow jackets are an exception.)

keh · Apr 8, 2015

Was combining soybeans years ago that had a lot of cockleburrs in them.I stopped to check something and heard a cat. Looked in the back of the combine and there was our cat sitting on the sieves. She was covered with burrs and dust and looked very glad to see me.

KEH

notjustair · Apr 8, 2015

I drove a VW bug in high school. Got half way home one day and a horrible racket came from the front end. A friend of mine was riding in the truck.

One time we hauled hogs to the sale. Suddenly some woman passes us honking and mouthing somehing about the back gate. We knew what we would find back there. Ham doesn't do well at 60 miles an hour. We stopped and everyone jumped out. The back gate on the trailer was wide open. All of the hogs in the back section had their butts pressed up against the center divider staring at the pavement. None of them flinched as we closed the gate. They were still in a trance when we got to be sale barn.

MARK ROBKE · Apr 8, 2015

My son drove to work 1 winter night,not too cold out,but cold enough.Any way he worked his 4 hr shift,drove to waffle house,ate,came back to his car,and saw a familiar looking cat walking around the parking lot.He went to it, called it and found it was 1 of ours,the only tame 1.It had rode all that way to work and then to waffle house in the engine compartment-no harm-just scared.Mark

IowaJohn · Apr 8, 2015

I had an excavator here last week loading rip-rap to fix washouts along the creek. Anyway the first scoop out of the pile we caught a big ole' 'coon between the thumb and bucket. The 'coon got dumped in the truck still alive but unable to move it's back legs. before I could get my gun to put it out of it's misery it crawled off the tailgate and in between the track and sprockets, the guy running the excavator and I had to laff that 'coon musta' had a death wish.

farmerwithmutt · Apr 8, 2015

Neighbor fired up the old grain truck had a wild cat in there it started to make laps I don't know who was happier when the cat found the window. My dad drove to town discovered the dog was on the roof of the truck. The best was working 3rd shift in downtown dubuque old creepy warehouse and first shift guy like to put feed out for cat's they also had a curtained off room they keep heated for the forklift always fun to send the new guy over for the forklift least little noise and it would be a bunch of cats headed for the door

Richard G. · Apr 8, 2015

Ron, Years ago when I worked at Clemson, I was out at the farm with our 4 door Dodge. Left the door open for a while and when I got in the truck and shut the door, a cat woke up in the back seat. It was bouncing of the windows and scared the stuffing out of me. I was trying to open the door with one hand and trying to open the window with the other. I don't know who was more scared, the cat or me.
I will try to remember to post the story of the muskrat in the truck tomorrow.
Richard in NW SC

BANDITFARMER · Apr 8, 2015

Cutting soybeans one fall I got done one night and left the combine sitting in the field. Next morning I came back started it up fueled it up and went to greasing and oiling chains and clean the windows. Time to cut beans as it was about 11am, I engaged the machine at an idle and herd a blood curtaling scream! Oh GOD DAD! I shut it off and jumped down to see dad standing by the truck? I looked at him and he at me and at the same time said WHAT WAS THAT! I herd something from the front of the combine, In the feeder house. I rolled it back a little and opened the feeder house door on top to see what was going on! As I flung that door open 3 huge coons come flying out of there looking to get away! I needed clean shorts after they made there get away. Bandit

old harv · Apr 8, 2015

When we moved on to this farm 27 years ago it had been vacant for four years and the wild animals had claimed it as their own. The plumbing had to all be rebuilt, but there was an outhouse behind a shed. My Father in law was the first one up that first morning and went out to the outhouse for a dump. He was still basically asleep as his cheeks hit the seat and the thunder began. Unknown to any of us a red squirrel had claimed the downstairs as his home, and came flying up the second hole voicing his displeasure at a very high volume. Both the squirrel and my father in law got the crap scared out of them that day!

Ohio Case · Apr 8, 2015

Years ago my brother was running the self propelled windrower thru some really tall first cutting hay, all of a sudden the crimp rolls stopped turning and the slipper clutch let loose. Backed it up and there was the biggest coon I had ever seen half way through the rolls. Wasn't dead and was really ------ off.... needless to say a 22 ended things

Paul from MI · Apr 8, 2015

Ba k in the early 50's dad had an old guy help vaccinate chickens. He drove a big old Buick car that was parked in the pasture where we were working. When he left dad saw chickens falling out of the engine area. We tried to catch up with him but dad's old chevy was no match for the Buick. He left about 1 chicken every mile until we finally caught up.

SweetFeet · Apr 8, 2015

Well Mr. RB, now everybody's going to chuckle when you call, "Here, kitty-kitty-kitty", each time before you climb into the cab.

Great story!

2x4 · Apr 8, 2015

your son had a cat engine!

2x4 · Apr 8, 2015

happened to me too. Cat came across the seat onto my lap, up to the top & across the top cloth of the cab 3 times before it shot out thru my window, which had been open all that time. I didn't dare move.

Gchase24 · Apr 8, 2015

I mow one pass with my zero turn lawnmower on each side of my fence so when I bush hog it makes it easier . After making my one pass on the zero turn behind my pasture , stopped the blade then I cut across the middle of the pasture. The grass was about 1 foot tall just even with the floorboard of the mower. About half way across a small King snake was sunning on top of the grass and ended up on my feet. I started kicking and flailing one hand slipped from the handle and the mower took a sharp right hand turn and nearly threw me off. Luckily the seat safety switch shut it down. I don't know who was more scared me or the snake.

2x4 · Apr 8, 2015

half-grown skunk came out from under mine. I sat very still.

notjustair · Apr 8, 2015

I ran a coon through the combine like that one day. It was farther back on the walkers. The chopper made short work of it.

omahagreg · Apr 8, 2015

When I had my FedEx Home Delivery route thru ------ Iowa, several friendly dogs would get in the truck while I was out! Some would not leave easily. Fortunately they were friendly...!

NEKS · Apr 8, 2015

Was at the barber shop the other day when a guy come in that I went to school with 52 years ago. Said he was going to live a lot more years because he had his heart tested. Has a box van on blocks that he stores thing in. Lifted the door and went in to look around. Was pulling the door down when a big black snake fell at his feet. He said the ole heart revved pretty fast.

DeltaRed · Apr 8, 2015

I,ve run both a coon and a skunk through a corn chopper/forage harvestor.The skunk came out as a 'red mist'. the coon got stuck in the (2 row) header

phil_n · Apr 8, 2015

Funny how that stuff works. I was working late one night in a factory, only one in a small office. We had a scrap bucket with one of those triangular lids that swings back and forth so you push one side to open it and throw stuff in it. As I was working at the desk I heard this rustling noise and couldn't figure where it was coming from so I got up and pushed open the lid on the bucket and a mouse came straight up out of it like the cats do in cartoons. Scared the daylights out of me. Nearly jumped up on the desk. I don't usually tell the women that story. Not too good for the image.

sms · Apr 9, 2015

This happened many years ago and I think all concerned have passed on so it is safe to tell. There was some animosity between a couple of guys at work, so first one live traps a possum and puts it in the cab of the second guys truck, guy leaves work possum comes out from under the seat and around they go. Next day the original prankster gets in his truck and starts home and after a while starts to smell something bad, pulls over, pops the hood, and there is the dead possum wired to his exhaust manifold. This would have been in the late sixties so no hood locks and people left there cars and houses unlocked around here.

Blackhole49 · Apr 9, 2015

My first golden retriever loved to ride with anyone. She would get in anybodies car. Even tried to go with the UPS man once.

ObsoElitist · Apr 9, 2015

About 20 years ago i went for a ride in a Cessna with my pilot cousin. We landed for fuel at a small strip in the Central Valley of California, and had lunch while they filled the plane. We took off andgot to about 2000 feet when a cat came screaming out from under the seat and began tearing around the cockpit, flipping switches and making us bleed trying to grab it. My cousin opened the window and the cat jumped out. We couldnt see it hit the ground.

Some years later i read that a NY Vet did a study concluding that cats that fell from the 4th floor and anything higher stood a much better chance of landing un-injured than those from lesser heights, as they relax and flatten out during the fall, slowing the descent.

Imagine you are having a BBQ on a peaceful Sunday under a clear and open sky on your farm. MrrrrrroooooooooWWWWWWWWA WHAM! WHOOSH, and a cat lands on the table and blasts across the yard

T in NE · Apr 9, 2015

If a water bottle gets under power seats in a Mitsubishi eclipse it will stop up the mechanism causing replacement of the entire seat. Don't ask my cousin how he knew to tell me that....

Mowing hay one evening years ago. Had a skunk cross in front of me on my second round. Third round one came out of the hay between the tires. Same spot. Stopped and watched it waddle by under my feet and went on my way.

If you walk into a shed where an owl lives it can fly by the back of your neck, ruffling up your hair, without you hearing it. As many as 3 times.

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