Combines Embarassing Moment on the Farm

Ole "Joe Bloggs" is in the field cutting barley on his brand new NH TX64+ RWA going well, he's pleased as punch. After dumping in the trailer at the end of the field he does a couple of runs up and down, then the going gets really tuff at a certain part of the field "must be a sticky patch I'll use RWA" Then bossman "Bloggs" looks to his left to see the unloading auger wrapped like a banana round a telegraph pole!!

When I was young (30 years ago),our neighbor had a local guy come in to cut some wheat. This cutter had a semi, and parked it at the edge of the field, and started cutting with two CII machines, just about sundown. After filling the semi, they found that they couldn't budge the load. They had forgotten to close the traps in the bottom! Had 500 bushels dumped out on the ground. A lot better story because I wasn't the one that did it!

The time Dad told me to take a load of manure to the east end of the field and start spreading west. Of course being the wise old age of 14 I knew better that Dad so I started spreading west to east.....can you guess which direction the wind was blowingIJ Yup, when I came back to the yard the tractor and I were covered with what I was supposed to leave in the field. Dad just looked at me and calmly said "You didn't do what I told you to did youIJ" I guess Dad was smarter than I thought. Pete Hinrichsen

Years ago our river was high from too much rain. The volunteer fire department had to guard the dike 24_7. As usual by the time they have to do that the sun comes out and things are drying up while the river stays up for some time. I new we had to get the liquid manure out and were just waiting for the ground to dry up. One morning I saw the neighbor going with his slurry tanker. I looked at our field and it seemed to be dry, too. So I hooked up the tanker and went. I didn't bother to ask my uncle because he was sleeping from spending last night guarding the river dam. I got to the field pulled in and ... was stuck. I had to walk home and totally embarassed woke up my uncle to get the tanker pulled out. Of course he was asking me, what I was thinking. So I mentioned the neighbor. Than my uncle pointed out to me that the neighbors tractor was about twice the size than the one we were using, while his tanker was only half the size of ours.

In the early 70s we leased a IH715 with one of the salesmen from the dealership. We ussually used it during the day and he used it at night, which wasn't always the best. One night he plugged it up but was only a couple of miles from the shop. So he threw the latch on auger and swung it back and took off down the highway. Well one semi passed him and the next one wrapped the auger right around the cab. Needless to say he forgot to hook up the stay rod. He never stopped until he got to the shop and neither did the truck. Even though I couldn't combine the next day I just glad it was him and not me!

I wasn't around either of these, but two moments I heard of was a local cutter many years ago somewhere in Nebraska. They were running 7720's and one was opening up the field. He was cutting along a railroad track and overlapping just a touch when all of a sudden the header and feeder house were no longer on the combine. A train came up from behind and the cow catcher caught the header instead. He wasn't hurt, just shook up. Another one was when I was in Australia and the neighbor has a 9600 with an inexperience operator at the wheel. He had the dummy head while roading it. He was on a dirt trail and going a bit fast when he came down a hill and a narrow gate appeared. Rather than pull back on the hydro he hit the brake, not brakes. Combine spun 90 degrees and ladder hit fence post. ladder spun up 180 degrees. That was all the damage until they decided to straighten ladder. Pulled on it with chain and pickup. Started to bend when it gave and the shock shattered the windshield. Ran combine for a week in 100 plus degree temps with clear plastic as windshield until they could get one.

When i was on harvest back in about '86 we cut for this guy in Colorado that had so many acres he hired about 20 combines to come in and cut his wheat.. He usually had the bulk of the combines in tha same area but he asked us to take our machines about 10 mile over to another place to cut.. Well we roaded over there to where he told us to go and there wasn't any wheat. So the boss man went back over the owners instruction on how to get to the field (back tracked and counted miles),he thought were at the right place so he goes and find the owner and asks him for instruction one more time.. He drives back out there and were at the right place but ther ain't no wheat.. so he goes back and gets the owner and brings him out to where we have been sitting for a couple hours now... And He can't believe it.. we are trhe right place but they had never planted the wheat.. We all had a good laugh while roadding back 10 miles to the "planted" fields..

one time years ago my dad was hauling some logs out of a soft field to have them cut up for lumber, well the logs were longer than the old truck and as he tried to pull out of the soft field it started to sink and as the old truck kept lugging the front end came up and up and up till the logs hit the ground I was laughing so hard I was rolling on the ground Dad on the other hand was cussing up a storm tring to figure out how to get it down with out breaking the truck in half. I quit laughing long enough to tell him to back off the throttle a little and ride the clutch to ease it down. it worked lOl

I was swathing wheat this last fall, and the air conditnor stoped working in tractor, so i had all the the windows open, and wouldent you know it, i hit a skunk, well, i just wounded him, and he went back into the uncut wheat, well the next time around i got him agian, still dident kill him, but the next time around i got him, needless to say, i dident go out and dig him out of the windrow, i just warned the combine operators to be carfull for the dead skunk laying in the windrow. The next day, we charged up the air condinior and put alot of air freshners in the cab

OK Jonesy you have had plenty of responses where is your story you said you would postIJIJIJ