Almost an expensive oops

cj in wisconsin · May 4, 2009

Saturday I'm plowing a cornfield, enjoying my seat time in the Oliver, as I'm finishing the ends I fortunately had slowed down to turn around when a flash of something white caught my eye. Stopped immediately and right in front of the right rear tire was a shed antler off of a large whitetail just inches from the tread of the tire. As I turned the front tire went around it, the tines were all about 8 to 10 inches long and sticking straight up. It will make a nice ornament but dont need five holes in a loaded 18.4 x 34. Must have been my lucky day!

pmf son1 · May 4, 2009

We had a rash of tires lost to deer horns over the last few years. It seems no matter how hard we look we always miss the big one.

Nancy Howell · May 4, 2009

James wasn"t so lucky. He spotted the antler as it was sticking out of the front tire on the Ford. At least it was the front and not the back.

A couple of weeks ago, I was walking down in the bottoms of our property and spotted an antler. Picked it up and carried it to the house.

nickg · May 4, 2009

Last year was a bad year for antlers on our farm. We had just put 2 new tires on our 8870 new holland and two days later one was flat from an antler tine. A week latter in a different field got my disk tire with one. Sure was a really nice shed just wish Id found it walkin in the woods and not with my disk tire.

fixerupper · May 4, 2009

Along the same line, my neighbor hires a really nice, hard working town boy, to do odds and ends work around the farm. The young lad was going down the road this morning with their 4630 Deere when a rear tire blew out. It did not have duals. He got it stopped OK but somehow during the commotion the lower right front cab window ended up laying shattered on the road. He called up my neighbor on his cell phone with his voice shaking, and said "I just had something really horrible happen" to me. My neighbor instantly thought the boy had hurt himself badly, but was somewhat relieved to hear it was (only) a rear tire. When my neighbor told me about this over the phone a couple of hours later he said the boy was still shaking. Jim

Ultradog MN · May 4, 2009

Reminds me of last Saturday.
I turned over all the gardens for my brother, cousins and neighbors again this year. Also turned over about a 1 acre deer plot. Afterwards I hooked up the disc and disced everything I had plowed. When I went to put the disc away I noticed one of the pans was broken and about half of it was missing. I told my kin to watch for it when they are planting or weeding. Half of an 18" pan would take a pretty nice slice out of a tire.

Fordfarmer · May 4, 2009

Only had one stick in a tire so far, and luckily it was in the lug on a dual (didn't go all the way through) Had a couple close calls like yours... 2 years ago, plowed, disked (2x) and pulled the grain drill across a field and THEN found one side of a nice 8-point rack, when I was walking across the field.

olgentdc · May 4, 2009

Deer Antler Happened to Me once in the hay feild , And My brothers serveral times.... serveral monthes back . Ran a 1"stick thru the sidewall of my truck back in 0 temp weather..

GordoSD · May 4, 2009

WHo wants to rent a shed antler dog? I have trained a Brittany to search for them. I took him out Saturday to search as I was planning to disc Sunday. He found a skull with both antlers on it,in the standing corn food plot; small basket rack 3x2. (East neighbor is a trigger happy idiot)

GW

KIP in MX · May 4, 2009

Had that happen while coyote hunting in 1999.
Driving along a tree line in 4" of snow and heard a bang, bang, bang. Stopped and found an antler sticking out of the right front (almost new) tire hitting the fender well on my pickup. Some guys I was hunting with pulled up behind me and almost ran over the matching antler.

Drew · May 4, 2009

Grandpa caught one several years ago in the outer dual on his 1566. Beating a rear tractor tire off the rim back then when I was a little kid wasnt fun, and I'm no more fond of it today

RBnSC · May 5, 2009

We use to do a lot of bush hogging before they invented gyro tracks and mowers on excavators. We always tried to keep old hard tires on our 4430 that we used for that. One time we were bush hogging on an old military base my brother drove up on an old building foundation that was never built on and completely grown over before he got off of it he had flattened all four tires. The blades didn't like those bolts sticking up either. Never had deer horns flatten tires but have run over a few of those old long toothed rakes.

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