Re: Speaking of Snakes

Posted by The tractor vet on May 12, 2015 at 22:45:49 from (104.179.81.68):

In Reply to: Speaking of Snakes posted by spudm on May 12, 2015 at 17:39:42:

Snake storys ya say , Well here is one for ya . Years back i get a call from a guy way soth of me as he heard i worked on tractors and that i could usually fix them where they sat . He had heard about me thru a friend of a friend of a friend and so on . He had a 706 diesel that was dead in a field way back in the hills about two hours drive from me . Told him up front that there would be travel time charged plus hourly rate . He said that would be fine by him as he could get nobody to come out since where the tractor was at and as he put it your going to need a four wheel drive to even get to it. Well i told him when i could come and get started on what it was going to need and how long it would take . So one morning i set out to go find this dead tractor in the back country way down in the old coal fields . He was not kidding about needing four wheel drive to the point that i was just about to put the tire chains on . well i made it to the tractor and wright off i could tell that it had been setting for a long time . Decent old 706 with a year round cab on it decent tires but the paint was a bit weathered . So i get my tool boxes open dig out the jumper cables and get them plugged into my truck and walk over to the tractor and stepped up on the step and went to open the door and just happened to look at the seat and there were two copperheads layen there and one on the floor by the door . Needless to say i did not open the door and just backed away from the tractor looking more at the ground around the tractor . Unplugged my jumper cables and put them away and closed up the tool boxes and got back in my truck and started to move the truck around packing down the tall grass many times over while waiting for the owner to show up. when he got there i was still setting in my truck . He pulled up along side of me and asked me what i thought about what was wrong with his tractor . Told him i did not know and i would not know till HE got rid of the new owners of said tractor . He looked at me kind of funny and what are you talking about , i told him that i saw three copper heads in the cab and untill they were gone along with any aunts uncles cousin, brother, sisters mom and dad and both sets of grand parents i was NOT working on that tractor . He did not believe me and he had to go see for himself , yep he saw them and he was faster about getting back into his truck then i was . Handed him a bill for time waisted and told him that once HE got rid of them to call me and THEN i would work on his tractor . Three weeks later he called me and said that the tractor was NOW SNAKE FREE and all tall grass was now well ground up brown dirt . So back down i go and this time i took along my one revolver with snake shot , Bet non of you ever worked on a tractor while packing a side arm. Yep i fixed his tractor it was a broken input shaft on the injection pump , Hew had been working the tractor hard and he got caught in a down pour and the cold rain hitting the injection pump caused the head to seeze and it twisted the shaft off . A rebuilt pump solved the problem and he as back in business . So word to the wise LOOK BEFORE YOU JUST JERK OPEN THE CAB DOOR , one never knows what maybe layen in there.

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