Combines Embarassing Moment on the Farm

[OHscooter]

I had delivered my first new combine with another 18 yr old guy from our dealership. Neither one of us had ever driven one on the road and that was more experience than we had in the field! Well , as luck would have it, the customer wanted us to take it a round in the field to make sure everything was ok.We were getting pretty proud of ourselves as we took off up the corn field until we realized we were leaving a trail of corn. We forgot to shut the clean-out door at the base of the vertical unloading auger.I still hear this story told from time to time 17 yrs later.

 

[JoJoBean]

i remember last summer i was driving the farm pickup down the dirt road alone and a fly was annoying me so i was trying to swat it when suddenly i swerved off the dirt road and into a field a few feet from runnin over corn stalks luckily nothing broke.

 

[Oedie86]

No, not embarassing. I just saw a goose land neighbor's house top yesterday. It was perched on the ridge, destroying their 7 month old roofing job, if you know what I mean. I found that kind of funny.

 

[sri]

Well once when I was shelling corn for my brother ,it was late at night and the ground was wet so we were unloading at each end of the field,he would park the truck and I'd unload whatever was in the tank.he would then drive to the other end and wait. Well I unloaded a tank and started for the other end when I got there I swung out the unloader and went to turn it on,only to discover it had been running from one end to the other.Needless to say we both just looked at each other,we dumped about 100 bushel on the ground.We had a good laugh about it later.The deer were there all winter.

 

[whitecattlefarmer]

Once parked the combine after dark unknowingly alongside an electric fence. I climbed down the ladder backwards and landed against the fence. The jolt to my backside made me jump foward and when I did I sprang back off the ladder. Where did I landIJ Why back against the fence. Then the whole process started over again. I guess I got shocked about three times before I thought to grab ahold of the combine ladder. The other combine operator and a truck driver where almost rolling on the ground with laughter.

 

[taffy]

i belive some one has a photo of me driving a john deere combine HOW EMBARASSING

 

[John]

Which one would you likeIJ The skunk in the AC190 corn picker, the CII grain tank that burst at midnight, the racoon stuck in the M2 snapping rolls and using the chop saw to cut it out, or the N6 hyperizing a skunk,(skunks don't run 6 mph thru the soybeans)IJ Not sure that they are embarassing but funny a year or two after the fact.

 

[Kaye2]

Our local Deere dealer had a service man driving a 6620 deere back to the farm it came from after some repair and less than a mile from the farm a delivery truck approached very fast and the mechanic got over and dropped the right drive tire off the shoulder into an approximately 8 foot ditch with about three feet of water. The machine slid right off the road, the delivery truck kept on going and it took two wreckers and a caseih tractor to free the combine.

 

[dakota]

The following story happened to a custom harvester once, years ago and I accidently caught it somewhere. A custom harvester had his combines cutting a wheat field. His daughter was part of the crew, operating the grain cart. One of the combine operators was in love with her. As she pulled up to unload his combine, she also lifted her shirt right quick. The combine operator got jerked the steering wheel while starring at what the T-shirt uncovered. As a result the combine header jerked to the left and the grain cart ran over it. At the same time the boss happen to come down the highway seeing his grain cart running over one of his wheat headers. Quite upset he slammed the brakes right there. Two of his trucks were following closely. The first one crashed into the bosses pickup. The second one rearended the first truck. Within a few seconds the unlucky custom harvester had a combine, a grain cart, a pickup and two trucks wrecked, all because of a pair of hooters.

 

[jr]

This has probably been done many times before but for me it was tree vs. unloading auger on F. The tree won!