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DeltaRed

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Told this (true) story today. One morning several years ago I walked up to the tractor to check the oil to check the oil before the day's work. Set down my lunch box,water jug,and coffee thermos.Pulled the stick,looked and put it back in the hole. Then walked around and climbed the steps. fired it up and put it in gear and let out the clutch. Crunch.Yep,ran over all of it.Smashed flat. The water jug was crushed flat. A large puddle of water surrounded it. The lunch box mashed was too. the stainless Stanley thermos was unscathed!It was standing up. It simply got pushed over and pushed into the dirt.The Chips were sawdust,chocolate cookies were brown saw dust,the apple was applesause. The sandwich was..well,mush.I went ahead and ate what I could of it.LOL Airhead of the year award,right?
 
Snacks and a water jug are cheap and easy to replace. I thought you were going to tell us you lost or ran over the dipstick!

(Been there, done that!)
 
Will you share the award? LOL My neighbor ran over his stainless steel thermos and the thermos ended up kind of oblong. He claimed it was easier to grip that way. An old glass lined thermos would not have fared that well. By the way, are glass thermos bottles still made?
 
(quoted from post at 22:32:39 12/16/19) I did the exact same thing only I ran over a brand new five gallon bucket of hydraulic oil
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LOL!

Battery chargers and "torpedo" heaters seem to be on the "Squashed" list, as well!
 
A site landscaper with a D7 ran over my Stanley on hard clay. Smooshed the body right down to the liner. (never leaked) had hot coffe in it for lunch. I took it to a stanley dealer and the clerk said "dozer?" I said yup. He said here is the new one, It is not that model, but has a better cork (his words). I still have it. A fine piece of workmanship. Jim
 
At my mature age we RV a lot. One thing I?ve learned to do is a complete walk around just before moving. It has paid off over and over. Sometimes minor, things, like an open door. Sometimes major things, like forgetting to unhook the shore power.
 
Buddy took a break cutting wood and put the saw under the truck since it was raining a bit. Decided it was raining too much so started home. Ran over saw and crushed it. Then did the same thing 3 months later to the replacement saw.
 

I ran over one corner of my brand new creeper last summer. However, the repair is still holding.
 
Ran over my Sacks Delimar saw over a year ago when it fell off the trailer; finally located where to find a new fuel tank handle section through Macita which bought them out. Good little saw but never used it much.
 
DeltaRed, glad you posted this. All this time, I thought I was the only one who did things like this. What a relief to know others do it to.
 
Was helping dad cut wood and had my 4230 with the loader in the woods. He told me to push the push the brush out of the way so I did. He left his 661 stihl in the bucket. I had the climb on top of the brush pile to get it back. Luckily it only need a few plastic parts to get it going .
 
Just a week ago I welded on a company trailer and when I backed the truck out the welding helmet was underneath and is now junk.
 
Co-worker hit the battery charger at work years ago and hammered it back out. Still worked. From then on, if we needed it, we'd ask out loud "anybody seen the wheel chock??!!". Henry would look up and give you the bird!!
 
Don't feel bad you are not alone.

Pulled the roof panel off a tractor a couple of weeks ago so I could fix a sticky heater control, finished the job and topped up the rad but I did not run the engine.
Knowing it may need a little more coolant after it warmed up I left the new 2 gallon jug of antifreeze on the ground at the step to the tractor so I would not forget to top it up.

The next day time to feed the cows, climbed into the tractor and started it up then realized I forgot to put a few of the screws back into the control panel.
By the time I was done putting the screws in it was getting pretty smoky in the shed so I decided to drive the tractor out.

As soon as I rolled forward I heard a loud pop and knew exactly what happened.

Only good that come out of it was that the mangled jug still had a few cups left in it which was about all I needed to top off the rad.
 
When my wife and I were dating we stopped by my mom's house. My wife had a Christmas present for my mom and it was buried in the trunk under her luggage. I dug it out and carried it to the house. When we left I commented how rough my mom's driveway appeared to have gotten. When we got to my house my mom had left a message on the machine about two suitcases smashed flat in her driveway?..
 
I ran over my tool box with a tractor. I think I'd been working on some minor problem getting it started and had the toolbox setting on the ground by the engine. Tested to see if it would start. It did so I drove away. Right over the toolbox flattening it. Tools were ok but the box was flat. I got to practice my metal shaping skills getting it to look like a tool box again.
 
Went to ranch close to Dalhart Tx years ago. Breakfast at local cafe had great looking but dumb waitress. Asked her to fill Stanley thermos with hot coffee. I stated that yesterday I used it for ice water. Said I did not know how to switch between hot and cold. She went back asked cafe owner, then some of the locals. All played along having her look all over the thermos.
 
My pressure washer was sitting outside the stable door in front of my truck. Neighbours came in and said lets go check the coon traps. We all got in my truck and I pulled ahead and there was some terrible crunch noise, I had gone over it. The plastic casing snapped back in place,there was some gouge marks on it but it worked fine and is still going 15 years later. You feel really stupid when you do stuff like that.
 
(quoted from post at 22:39:30 12/16/19) The thermos bottle, a wonderous thing. It keeps thing hot, it keeps things cold - but how does it know ?
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That is actually an example used in Computer Science 101 when discussing how a good function should be structrured. The goal is for the function to work as desired regardless, and the example is the thermos.

As an aside, at the aircraft plants here, at shift change, the security guards who man the exit turnstiles take the thermos bottles and give them a bang. Any tools hidden in the older glass-lined ones will shatter that glass loudly so the worker loses his thermos, and his job at the same time. The new ones just make a clatter. Still loses his job though.
 
few years ago I took my 22 hornet to the field with me to pick vegetables. Was hoping to see a ground hog but didn't so I propped the rifle against the tractor platform and picked for a couple hours . Climbed upon tractor from the opposite side and stated going, crunch, I broke the stock but nothing else. Another stock and it is still a good rifle. Still feel stupid .
Phil
 
About 15 years ago my son left my chainsaw on the back of an old strip down 50 Chevy flatbed we used on the farm.
Turned to drive up steep driveway and it fell off.
Later a friend ran over it and I went and picked up the pieces and put them in a box.
Took to saw repair shop and jokingly asked could they fix it.
Guy said yep.
Went back a few days later and got it and used it a few more years.
Richard
 
It was 1977 and my new chevy pickup was about 1 month old and I was going to load something (??) heavy into the pickup with the tractor & loader. Didn't want to risk harming the tailgate so I took it off and laid in on the ground. Hopped in the pickup to back it in place and ran over the tailgate, bent the crap out of it.
 
I was in the barn putting hood back on cih 585 before mowing,I put my toolbox down right in between mower and wall,and when I came back a couple hours later,I backed in the barn and didn't take notice to the toolbox,dropped the 800lb alamo mower on it,I heard it of course,so I pulled forward and checked it out,and surprisingly nothing nothing was wrong with it,still opened and closed,speaks well for dewalt............but not for me!
 
Back when I worked road construction, the girl running the tandem breakdown roller dropped her Stanley thermos between the rollers. She stopped, picked it up, then handed it to me. It was about 2" thick, but the lid was still on it. That evening, I worked the plug cap off, and the coffee inside was still hot! Ended up sending it to Stanley a few days later with the story. Around 3 weeks after that, I got a brand new thermos in the mail.
 
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