"Not to do" tip of the day

[TreeDaddy]

Cavey's thread got me thinking of this

Foggy posted one recently: Run the No till drill backward

A personal favorite that I'm good at: running a heavy implement( shredder, dump trailer) with the jack stand down

Any others?


bill

 

[Bill]

Don’t forget to put the locking pin in the trailer coupler when you lock it over the hitch ball. Trust me they can break loose…..

 

[bueller]

When felling a tree, don't wait until your chainsaw is pinched to get the wedges ready

 

[Telemark]

Don’t forget to put the locking pin in the trailer coupler when you lock it over the hitch ball. Trust me they can break loose…..

Yeah this one got me last year. Drove an ATV into the trailer, and it quickly became a disaster.

 

[Mortenson]

This probably isn't advised. Camera caught my son and I moving a blind with him sitting in it.

 

[cavey]

When you get the bright idea to use your atv to drag your buck up to the logging trail and you also have a high degree of confidence that the tiny sapling in the way will just fold over with a little bit of throttle.....

 

[Telemark]

Yikes. You ok?

 

[PatinPA]

Ooh I have a good one for this but I'm not sure where my pics are from it. Don't leave your bow hanging from a hook in the center of your blind and get out to rattle and thrash the brush, then climb back in with your hat off and your head down. Just felt a boink on the the top of my head as I climbed back in and thought Oh shit I just walked into my broadhead. Thought for sure I was going to pass out from blood loss. Looked like a horror movie on the ground in the blind. Somewhere I have a video of me holding a shirt on top of my head walking by my camera on the way to meet my dad after I told him I was going to have to go to the hospital. Got to the truck and it was already done bleeding.

 

[cavey]

Yikes. You ok?

ya... me and the buck hung out for a bit underneath the 4x4. It was cozy leaves and all - my browning took the brunt of the blow; after my safe landing on the ground all sprawled out I had just enough time to think about what was coming next... You get an extra boost of adrenaline when your pinned and gas is pouring down on you.

There was this moment when I realized things had gone south.... just before gravity took full effect I was able to utter "Oh... no no no......." and There was just enough time when the Polaris was 100% vertical and my arms and legs were fully extended - (which prevented my from leaping off) - to know I was F#$!@#

It was opening morning 830 and the buck was down; In the end my morning just got worse - Skid steer had a flat, I ended up grabbing the atv, did the whole top gun inverted thing, flipped it back over and waited a bit, fired right up.... beyond the split in half back rack what sucked most was I snapped the thumb throttle off. All I could do is listen to it idle. Rigged up a pulley system to drag it out of the ravine with my truck.... The whole morning kind of sucked. But the rack didnt get busted and I wasn't dead or impaled (which was one quick thought I had as I was looking straight down at the deer under me).

So tip of the day, just gut and drag the deer out by hand..... my original thought was I still wanted to hunt the stand and didnt want a gut pile below it - I just intended to drag the whole deer out to the logging road and to the field edge. Ya - just keep it simple and hunt.

As a side not the A bolt took the blow like a champ and didnt need to be re sighted - I just had a limp for a day or so.

 

[TreeDaddy]

you are lucky to be alive and not quadriplegic

Praise God from whom all blessings flow

bill

 

[Foggy47]

Dont' pee into the wind. Trust me.

 

[Turkey Creek]

Man you were lucky that you didn't get impaled in some area of your body. I have healthy respect for backing a 4 wheeler off the back of a pickup. Luckily when I flipped it over on top of me there was a 25gallon tank strapped to the back rack. I ended up with a hell of a bruise on my chest from the handle bars but that was it. The tank probably saved me from much worse.

 

[b116757]

Bought a new truck in 04 had a B&W ball put under the bed for my gooseneck trailer wasn’t six months before I raised the trailer over the ball and was going to pull away needed to walk to the other side for something and put the tailgate up to walk between truck and trailer and guess what I forgot to drop before pulling away!!! Still have that tailgate out back bent like a horseshoe.

 

[T-Max]

Bought a new truck in 04 had a B&W ball put under the bed for my gooseneck trailer wasn’t six months before I raised the trailer over the ball and was going to pull away needed to walk to the other side for something and put the tailgate up to walk between truck and trailer and guess what I forgot to drop before pulling away!!! Still have that tailgate out back bent like a horseshoe.

Isn’t that a right of passage for a pickup? I think every one of my neighbors has a tailgate like that.


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[Turkey Creek]

My Grandpa always made us take the tailgate clean off the pickup for that reason when hooking up the trailer! LOL

 

[Snoop]

Bought a new truck in 04 had a B&W ball put under the bed for my gooseneck trailer wasn’t six months before I raised the trailer over the ball and was going to pull away needed to walk to the other side for something and put the tailgate up to walk between truck and trailer and guess what I forgot to drop before pulling away!!! Still have that tailgate out back bent like a horseshoe.

I was going to post the same thing. But I’m so stupid I did it twice with two different trucks.

 

[jsasker007]

Dont' pee into the wind. Trust me.

Or on an electric fence. My buddy did that when we were kids at my uncles. Don't think I've heard a person make that same noise to this day.

 

[Foggy47]

Or on an electric fence. My buddy did that when we were kids at my uncles. Don't think I've heard a person make that same noise to this day.

I did that on a double dare when I was about 8 years old. YIKES!

 

[b116757]

I was going to post the same thing. But I’m so stupid I did it twice with two different trucks.

I cut a board out of walnut to use as a tailgate I’m still using it

 

[Feelslikefar.]

Run the No till drill backward

Does that mean it till'd but didn't drill? ;)