Snow plowing Incident

Anyone ever do anything this dumb? I was plowing snow in our lane two days ago, after we got another 8" and the wind finally died down. In the barn yard, I was pushing snow and having a good time on my ol", dependable H, and backed up into the rear of my wife"s car! Jeez! Almost no damage -- just a few scratches where the draw bar hit the painted bumper. Must"ve hit just as I was braking to a stop. Am I the only idiot out here?

no i was backin up in the drive to make a nother pass of course the wind was in my face and i went to grab my hat and hit the brakes and then WHAM hit the ol ladys suv in the drivers door man still hearing about that THEN hit the barn door trying to hurry back in to get off to pee!

If you plow snow for many years you will eventually hit SOMETHING. I can chalk up one garage door, a propane tank, a stair rail, a pickup fender, several trees (they grow up instantly while you are not looking), and a stone Buddha that was hidden under a snowbank. It has taken me fifty years to rack up this score, and the last thirty years have been commercial snow plowing, so my chances have been higher than most people's.

took the left side and the roof off a 1973 ltd country squire wagon stuck in the ditch with a 10 wheel louisville ford and a vee plow with a wing. never ever plow down hill our boss used to say. he was right!!!

You guys have better stories than I do! Thanks for the great laughs! So far, my wife hasn't seen the damage to her car, so maybe I can convince her that some jerk did it in a parking lot!!

I damn near took the steps off of my travel trailer. Bent them up real nice. A face-palm moment for sure.

Yea, just hit a big chunk of broken concrete I had for fill. It must have been frozen to the ground cause it didn't move when I hit it with the corner of the front blade on my Super C. Bent the heck out of the push arms on the snow plow. I just about ate the steering wheel. Felt real dumb.

Gotta get the welder out this weekend and rework the frame with new push arms this weekend. The snow keeps coming....

Just now getting healed up from pushing snow with a M 2 weeks ago. Was a enough ledge to catch the blade where two roads intersect, tractor stopped dead my head, mouth and lips stopped when they hit the top of steering wheel.

My buddy plowed my driveway while I was gone. The muffler on my tractor did not clear the basketball hoop. Both are bent now. The muffler was $250 and I have not worked on the hoop yet.

Was cleaning the parking spaces in my driveway last winter, had my grandfathers car nosed up to the road, and my cruiser back to back with his, so the front of my car was facing down the drive. I was backing up the drive, to take another pass across in front of the house, forgot totally there was cars behind me...I was just climbing onto the brakes when I 'felt' something. Slammed down the brakes, and turned in time to see the loaded, weighted and chained rear tire of my Super-C rolling up the pushbar on the front of the cruiser. Had enough weight on the pushbar that my grandfather, watching from the sidelines, said the bottom of the bumper guard was on the ground. Didnt deflect or damage the pushbar, only scratched the powdercoat. Had the pushbar not been there, I'd have been into repairs for at least a new headlight, bumper cover, grill, and hood...if not rad/rad support, etc. That pushbar paid for itself that day!

The only other impact I can take credit for is my skull against the garage door header...but that story writes itself...

AR

This isn't snow removal related, but...

A few months ago I backed into the power pole next to one of the barns with my 340. Hit it hard enough to pull the lines, causing the next pole to jerk, snapping those lines hard enough to blow the fuse on the pole at the road. We were without power for a few hours.

I haven't hit a vehicle yet (thankfully) but I have a barn door that needs repair come spring. There's not a lot of clearance and I hooked it on the way out with the blade.

Well, thanks, guys! I don't feel so damn stupid now. You got some great stories there, just not the kind you like to tell!

I haven't hit anything yet.....my brother in law did take out the power lines to one of his silos blowing snow with his 1066 with the loader all the way up.....

Peeled the vinyl siding off one side the garage with the blower, that stuff gets real brittle at -20F.

We all start admitting our mistakes after someone starts the ball rolling. Like others have said, it's nice to know I'm not the only one.

I have a 1300 lb. cement weight hanging on the back of my loader tractor and through the years it's knocked over a few gateposts. I pinned a stock cow to the wall with it once when I was trying to back up real close to the wall and she decided to try to run between the tractor and the wall at the last moment. Bossy wasn't hurt but it scared me.

Put a grapple claw tooth into the picture window when I was bucking snow up to the house foundation. It only broke the outside pane of the thermopane glass. I told Marilyn it was precision breakage. She didn't laugh. Jim

We used to pass a "dumb" trophy around, but it kind of got krunched up in a snowblower..

This year the corncrib "moved" over 4 feet and I backed into it. Another incident a few years ago I was plowing with my 77 Oliver when I hit something. I was backing up and noticed the right fender was moving. It finally fell forward and was nearly hanging from the bottom. Yep, broke the axle housing. A friend of mine was getting his WD45 out with a rear boom attached when the boom hooked the overhead door which brought the door down on his lap. He got it stopped in time but it was hard to reach the key or the gear shift to put in neutral or reverse. So he paused for a while to assess his predicament as he coudn"t open the door with the boom still hooked to it. Finally he struggled to reach the gear shift and got it in reverse and opened the door as he backed up.

Since we're on a roll, I have another story. Years ago, when I was VERY small (too young to remember, but I have some old photos), my uncle ran a Case VAC through the open front door of our bank barn . . . and out the back, dropping about 10 feet. Broke the tractor in half, but he lucked out. The cause? He forgot the hand clutch!

I was about 14 came in from disking one night, dad was gone to a meeting, when I pulled into the yard and tried to turn around the last blade of the discswung out and cought the guy wire for the power pole. ended up with three single strands of wire in my lap. Just about bailed off the tractor when I realized I had better stop it first. Got kinda lucky when the pole snapped it pulled the wires out of the transformer first killing all of the juice instead of me. Took down the meter pole and every line attached to it going in three different directions. Dad wasn't real happy when he got home needless to say. Power co was there until 1:00 in the morning fixing things up.

Last Sunday afternoon I was plowing snow with the MF 180 I had just bought, I decided to make one last pass for the mailman to reach the mailbox. I put up the new mailbox this afternoon. lol doorman

I forgot about two years ago, when I took out a couple feet of privet hedge. It was at the end of the hedge run, so it ended up not being too noticeable. I think it was just before this photo was taken.

plowin in front of garage, backed into garage with jd 60 with chains, pulled back on hand clutch, clutch was a little out of adjustment, clutch was over center aand continued backward hitting wifes chevy trailblazer. lotsa damage before getting it stopped. called 'farm bureau' insurance' and they covered the farm tractor accident with no deductible.

But the tractor was OK, right?

When I was old enough to reach the clutch (about 8 years) on our F-12, I would do ANYTHING To get to drive it, INCLUDING (listen to this) help the hired man shovel out the manure in the barn (a six-hour job by hand in the winter time). I think the hired man probably thought I was nuts to want to go out in the field at 20 degrees and freeze my (supply any word you want) off while the wind blew manure on my back. One snowy day, when I was maybe 11 or 12, I took off across the field, wide-open, manure flying all over the place, when I felt this enormous jolt and the entire front of the tractor dropped to the ground, flinging me against the steering wheel. I had hit a washed-out underdrain. The hole was big enough for both front wheels of the F-12. The shock was so great that the post snapped off and left the wheels in the hole, while the tractor moved forward until it dug into the ground enough to kill the motor. I walked back maybe a quarter mile to the barn and (I remember these words from 60-odd years ago), "I broke the front wheels off the tractor." My father said absolutely nothing, but the next day when I got home from school, there was a new post and the front wheels were back on the tractor. I guess anybody COULD have done this, because the hole was pretty well camouflaged by the snow. This is the kind of thinking that makes us feel better about stupid things we do, I guess!
A couple of years ago, I had the back door of my Dodge Caravan open, getting ready to load something from the house. I started backing and did not see the tree that had decided to move forward at the same time. Very thoughtless move on the part of the tree. Well, a local body shop guy said he couldn't straighten the edge of the door, but that he'd find me a used door, and $400 later, I had her on the road again. You all know the Voyager, Caravan and Town and Country are the same car. Turns out all the guy could find was a Chrysler Town and Country door, ALMOST the same color as the car. For the next couple of years I went down the road driving a Chrysler in the back and a Dodge in the front. Clever repairman, stupid driver. Well, don't forget the old saying, "To err is human...." and we"re all human, maybe sometimes more than we'd like! I think it's probably good for us to be able to look back on our errors and laugh just a little bit at them. I'm not TOO crazy about laughing at myself, though.