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37 chief

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I have been hauling my mowing tractors around for over 25 years. Sometimes I have little warnings about doing things wrong. Then it's the bigger
wakeup calls. Like when my tractor rolled off my trailer at a stop sign. Now I chain all four corners every time. Going down a road I traveled
last month. My trailer skid marks are still as plan as they day it happened. Not paying attention to someone turning left in front of me.
Another good one is
not standing next to my tractor, and starting it, then watch my tractor roll away from me. Mowing along, and see a oil streak from the previous
pass. That time I didn't tighten my drain plug immediately after installing it. I will do it later didn't work, but I caught it just in time.
Found the drain plug, and added oil. No motor problems. Forgetting to engage my mower, and see only flattened weeds from the previous pass. Still
working on that one. Stan
 
Forgetting to shut the door on a gravity wagon the first time you dump into it....you are reminded about that for as long as the spilled grain sprouts....

Ben
 
I've done the drain plug thing. When I think of all the important things I have forgotten...but I will remember the drain plug incident for the rest of my life.
 
The mistake that aggravates me the most, is forgetting to secure the gooseneck hitch on my trailer. I almost did it again yesterday. It makes a big mess when you load a tractor and the front of the trailer goes up and then the trailer falls back into the truck bed.
 
(quoted from post at 16:18:59 08/26/21) I've done the drain plug thing. When I think of all the important things I have forgotten...but I will remember the drain plug incident for the rest of my life.
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e, too, wasn't even 20 yet, so not old age CRS and the first quart didn't make it all the way thru engine before I remembered & hurriedly installed plug. It was cold weather....thick oil. :roll:
 
I have learned to never ignore that little voice that is in my head. To many regrets from not listening to myself. But the one that get me almost ever time is not having a rag with me when I remove the oil drain plug. I always get oil on my hands.
 
Stan,
What you have is going around, Grandpa has it too. Senior moments. I've been having them them for years.
Trust me, they will come faster and faster the older we get.
Count our blessing no major mishaps so far.
Keep learning for our mistakes. Learn form others so we don't make mistakes.
Happy trailering happy mowing.
 
Yeah, did one like that only it was the elevator door on the combine clean grain elevator. Had shut the return elevator but wasn't room to get to the clean elevator the way it sat in the shed, so I'll do it when we get it out. Left a trail all the way around the field on the outside round doing oats!
 
(quoted from post at 14:57:41 08/26/21) I have been hauling my mowing tractors around for over 25 years. Sometimes I have little warnings about doing things wrong. Then it's the bigger
wakeup calls. Like when my tractor rolled off my trailer at a stop sign. Now I chain all four corners every time. Going down a road I traveled
last month. My trailer skid marks are still as plan as they day it happened. Not paying attention to someone turning left in front of me.
Another good one is
not standing next to my tractor, and starting it, then watch my tractor roll away from me. Mowing along, and see a oil streak from the previous
pass. That time I didn't tighten my drain plug immediately after installing it. I will do it later didn't work, but I caught it just in time.
Found the drain plug, and added oil. No motor problems. Forgetting to engage my mower, and see only flattened weeds from the previous pass. Still
working on that one. Stan
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I had to laugh when I read the one about forgetting to engage the mower (it hit a little close to home).

The one that gets me all too often that I assume is the same on your JD 401 is the lever by your right leg for lowering the 3 point, the back of my boot continuously bumps the lever raising the mower a few inches which of course I don't notice until the next lap.

Finally I made up a chain hook with a few links attached that I hang on the lever to keep it held in the down position.
 
If an employee did those things would you have a talk with him or consider firing him?
 

Cant tell you how many times I have fired that employee... But the next morning, looking in the mirror, the face is familiar, but I cant quite remember the name.
 
I don't like trailers and do not get along with them. Two times with two different trailers I have bent or destroyed the tongue jacks. It doesn't help that I don't hear well enough to hear something dragging.
 
How often have we all thought or said: I'm so glad that it was the boss (or my dad) did that and not me, I would be in big trouble if I pulled a stunt like that. Now-a-days I have to remind my folks that if their parents, their kids or their grandkids did the things they are doing they would correct it in a flash. The response is usually: Well it's different when I do it, or I know what I'm doing, mind your own business, LOL.
 
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