Who's taking to me?

37 chief · Jun 14, 2023

I finished a mowing job today, and loaded up my tractor. I hear someone talking, no I left my radio on, and my pickup running. The truck was idling for close to three hours. It doesn't surprise me sometimes I forget to close my door, only at home. I wonder how much that cost, running a V 10? Glad it wasn't one of my larger jobs. I remember Dad telling me, one time he did that. Stan

Steve in VA · Jun 14, 2023

I drove to school, locked the truck, and couldn't find my keys at the end of the day. Backtracked with no luck. Went back to my truck to discover them still in the door lock.

sms · Jun 14, 2023

I picked up my dozer one time from a job site it had been sitting on. Battery was low so when I got back to the shop I unloaded it and let it run to charge. Loaded up another machine and delivered it. Yup woke up three o'clock in the morning and realized the dozer was still running. Drove the few miles to the shop and shut it off. Good thing it had fuel

rrlund · Jun 14, 2023

I've done that a couple of times with tractors when I was filling silo. I was chopping, unhooked a wagon and left the tractor running to cool down while I hooked the other tractor to the wagon to take it home. When I got back, it was still running.

Another time, I pushed a load back in the bunker with the loader tractor, I left it running while I dumped another load. I noticed something wrong with the wagon, took it up to the shop, fixed it, went in for supper and when I came back out, it was still running.

Erik Ks farmer · Jun 14, 2023

Wife was helping me move the combine one warm fall afternoon. I pulled the pickup and header trailer in the field and hopper in her car for a ride back to combine. When I got to the field I found is left the pickup running and the automatic transmission in drive. The engine was plenty warm, thankfully I got it cooled down and never discovered any ill effects.

jon f mn · Jun 14, 2023

Back when I was doing lot of custom combining I was on the way to a job with the truck and combine on a trailer. Had a wheel bearing go out on the trailer so pulled into a restaurant to park. My dad came to help, but by the time he got there it was raining hard, so we went home. 2 days later the owner of the restaurant called and asked if I wanted my truck running. Lol. Was 2 1/2 days running.

John in Mich · Jun 14, 2023

That is something like a drag racer brake torquing a car only not with your foot on the gas pedal. Brake torquing too long can overheat a transmission due to the oil sheer in the torque converter. Heat is an automatic transmission's worst enemy.

John in Mich · Jun 14, 2023

Supposed to have been a response to Erik Ks Farmer. Trucke idling in gear.

620 John · Jun 14, 2023

(quoted from post at 18:13:14 06/14/23) I finished a mowing job today, and loaded up my tractor. I hear someone talking, no I left my radio on, and my pickup running. The truck was idling for close to three hours. It doesn't surprise me sometimes I forget to close my door, only at home. I wonder how much that cost, running a V 10? Glad it wasn't one of my larger jobs. I remember Dad telling me, one time he did that. Stan

I was at a tractor show a few years ago and my brother and I got there at about noon right before they had the parade. When we got there we noticed a JD B was running with no one around it. We hung around until about 10 that night when the tractor pull was done and that tractor was still running. I went over and shut it off. Good thing the owner had the clutch engaged while in neutral otherwise he'd have smoked the clutch for sure.

A good one for me is leaving the gravity flow fuel tank on to fill up a tractor and realize about an hour later after getting distracted from something else the tank is still running. That makes a mess.....

620 John · Jun 14, 2023

(quoted from post at 18:13:14 06/14/23) I finished a mowing job today, and loaded up my tractor. I hear someone talking, no I left my radio on, and my pickup running. The truck was idling for close to three hours. It doesn't surprise me sometimes I forget to close my door, only at home. I wonder how much that cost, running a V 10? Glad it wasn't one of my larger jobs. I remember Dad telling me, one time he did that. Stan

I was at a tractor show a few years ago and my brother and I got there at about noon right before they had the parade. When we got there we noticed a JD B was running with no one around it. We hung around until about 10 that night when the tractor pull was done and that tractor was still running. I went over and shut it off. Good thing the owner had the clutch engaged while in neutral otherwise he'd have smoked the clutch for sure.

A good one for me is leaving the gravity flow fuel tank on to fill up a tractor and realize about an hour later after getting distracted from something else the tank is still running. That makes a mess.....

redforlife · Jun 14, 2023

Was the battery charged up? LOL.

Gary Reif · Jun 14, 2023

Did something like that one day. Went to work sat in the parking lot on a cool very windy day heater on, radio on when it was time to go into the plant I got out and went in. Eight hours later on my way to my pickup reached into my pocket, oh no what happened to my keys. Found them in the ignition pickup still running, started that day with a full tank of gas not so much at the end of the day.

redforlife · Jun 14, 2023

I have heard more than one story of somebody leaving a tractor or other piece of equipment running, and get into the pick-up to go do something quick. In the process, decide to quit for the day or just not make it back from doing other things they diceded to do instead. Come back the next day and find they didn't shut it off.

I haven't done this myself. I do pretty good at shutting things off for fuel savings.

SkipperII · Jun 14, 2023

When I was stationed at Ft. Bragg Rage Control, I had duty one Sunday. It was slow in the range office, so I left my partner in charge of the radios and phones, and drove out onto the range area. The engineers had been working on a project for us, so I drove by it. I thought I saw the exhaust flapper moving on one of their crawlers, so I drove over to it, sure enough, there it sat just idling away, since Friday at about 4pm.

Mike(NEOhio) · Jun 15, 2023

I picked up a few items on the way home from work one day. Took them to the garage leaving the truck running, thinking I would go back to it. Then went into the house. It was still running the next morning and I had just put $40 of gas the day before.

fusion1 · Jun 15, 2023

One time got up in the morning and went to go to work
my 1968 Ford Bronco was running
I then figured out that it may have been from me getting home the night before
last place I was before driving home was Daves pub
I remember how good the Pabst Blue Ribbon was that night.

sms · Jun 15, 2023

Had to replace it

DoubleO7 · Jun 15, 2023

Back when I was 20 or 30 something, my full time go-to-work vehicle was a 1973 Jeep CJ5.
Steel cab with an auxillary rad water heater meant for a semi installed in the back,

Anyway, It was bitter cold out and wanted to warm it up before going somewhere one evening. So I started it and left it running while I went in the house 200 feet away and out of sight.

Got distracted and next morning as I was going to work, it dawned on me that it had idled all night and drank half a tank before it quit. Red alternator light and heater blowers were still running.

This post was edited by DoubleO7 on 06/15/2023 at 08:02 am.

Destroked 450 · Jun 15, 2023

After running the composter thru our poultry barns I leave the skid steer running for 5-10 minutes to cool down the hydraulics
It takes about 5 hours to compost all 3 barns so the hydraulics get pretty hot
One time after finishing I pulled the skid steeer into the shed and left it running as usual while I closed up the barn turning off the lights and exta fans
My pickup was setting in the driveway between barn 1 and 2, with other things on my mine I got in the truck and drove home
2 days later I went back to flip the compost piles over and found the battery was dead on the skid steer, yep I had left it running and it set there idling until it ran out of fuel, which was less than 1/4 tank
The bad thing was that machine has an electric fuel pump, running it dry until the battery went dead burnout the pump

This post was edited by Destroked 450 on 06/15/2023 at 08:18 am.

dhermesc · Jun 15, 2023

My son has a habit of dropping everything where he last used it. I have lost crowbars, wrenches, sockets, grease guns (a guy we hay for asked if I wanted my grease gun back - along with my high-lift jack), gas cans, gas can lids, gas caps, freaking everything.... Want see me get mad - I reach for a gas can I had filled and not only is it empty but the pour cap is gone too.

My wife drove by the machine shed one day and saw the hydrant was left on - it was hooked up to the power washer. She shut the hydrant off and let me know it had been on and the hose was still connected. Later that night I went to the machine shed to unhook the hose and roll it up and could hear something running... He had left the power washing turned on too, when the water pressure bled off the electric pump started running. That pump was destroyed after running for hours with no water. So he had left the water on and the pump on when he was done.

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