WOW!!!

[big tee]

They were talking about hauling a mattress on top of a car on Ag-talk and when it falls off and a truck runs over it. What a mess.---Tee

 

[Hoofer B]

spring loaded driveshaft

 

[Case Nutty 1660]

Yikes!!! they have a lot more damage than they know yet,, seen this before when people have went through fences,, man that wraps TIGHT and does damage in a hurry
cnt

 

[Repski65706]

I did a mowing job one time with a Ford flail mower, similar result.
Asked the guy before hand anything out there? No,
good to go! After that I just headed to the trailer, he asked where I was going. I said I was done, he was like but your not finished. I said yes, yes I am. He asked what he owed me, ( I had been there an hour and had hit other things in the tall grass) I told him if he thought he could lose my number, no charge! We have gotten along great ever since.

 

[fixerupper]

Would a fiber cut off saw work in that mess? I'd hate to tackle it with a snips.

 

[John in Nebraska]

It is amazing they didn't loose the driveshaft. I once wrapped 50 ft of barbed wire on a driveshaft, finally had to use a torch on it. When wire gets pulled, it gets HARD.

 

[Farmall plowboy]

While pulling my 3pt. disc thru some tall grass for a friend, I found some old woven wire fencing, took me several hours with a snip to remove all the wire....Craig

 

[Steve@Advance]

I ran over a big rusty roll of chicken wire laying in the road one night, wound up around the drive shaft.

I stopped to look at the damage, here comes the driver that lost it...

He had them stacked on top of a pick up with side boards, not tied.

Was he apologetic? Noooo!

He had the nerve to tell me I was going to have to pay him for his roll of wire!

Told him I would call the sheriffs department, let them decide what to do.

He made a hasty retreat. Don't think the price of the wire was worth the ticket and DUI he was about to receive!

I had to drop the drive shaft, luckily the shaft was free to turn inside the wire, it slid right out, no damage.

 

[4520BW]

Wrapped up some long fescue on my brand new truck once. Wrapped so tight it killed the truck. Took a sawzall to get it off. Learned never to cross a windrow again!

 

[dhermesc]

I was about 7 years old and riding in the truck with dad while he checked cattle we had "pastured" on a wheat field. We came across a hunter that had tried to drive over the single strand of barbwire electric fence. He wrapped about 100 yards of it around his drive shaft before he stopped. I remember my dad explaining in no uncertain terms to the trespasser that he was going to unwrap the barbwire WITHOUT CUTTING IT and put his fence back in place. The guy did it - unwrap some, back up, unwrap some more, and back up more.

 

[coshoo]

I managed to get into a discarded parachute at the edge of a hayfield that had served as a helicopter landing area for military maneuvers. Taarup disc mower blades can sure get wound up fast!

 

[Kirk-NJ]

They probably could have avoided it if they don't have that wide black electrical tape over their eyes.

 

[Crazy Horse]

I met a guy once who said he used his International Scout off road a lot without a winch. When he got stuck, he would jack up his vehicle and wrap a thick rope around his driveshaft and anchor the rope to a tree, etc. Put 'er in gear and the driveshaft acted like a winch spool, said it worked really well. Not sure if that is true or not, just what he told me.

 

[JF in MI]

Many years ago I once had a vehicle in my shop with the exact same thing except it was a chain link fence. Lots of work with an abrasive wheel to get it off.

 

[Leroy]

I could not even get to the driveshaft let alone drop it.

 

[pete black]

WOW is right. In the eighties i drove my jeep through a kudzu field and the same thing happened. Took a while to cut those vines off.

 

[ETxJohn]

Barb wire will totally stop a D-9 Cat. Mechanics with acetylene torch and bolt cutters were NOT happy(around 100deg and no shade). ETxJohn

 

[Butch(OH)]

I wound a wad of high tensile fence wire around my Brush Hog spindle that looked much like that. That was a no fun day with the torch.

 

[farmerwithmutt]

One guy i know wrapped hay around the driveshaft he got the bright idea jack up one wheel cut a little and spin it off. It was coming of off real good then he had a second bright idea give her a little more gas thats when it came off the jack .

 

[jon f mn]

My machanic has had either that pic or one very similar to it in his shop for 20 years. He has several of them showing things wrapped around various car parts.

 

[Denny K]

I might be able to go one worse! Brother in law was making the first round combining. I was driving truck and wondered why he wasn't coming around. Drove over the hill to find him and the air was blue (from him)
He had wrapped old barbed wire around and around the combine cylinder. Had to reach into the combine and cut with a pair of pliers. there must have been many feet that went in.

 

[Dave O'Brien]

I'd be leery of trying to cut that with a grinder or torch because there is enough flammable material wrapped up mess to start a fire. What a mess!!!

 

[4520BW]

You might want to wear gloves and get a hepatitis shot before you touch that. Never know where it came from.

 

[rlp in Co.]

Tell me about that grass! I had a Baler plug up. Only took 8 hours of hard work to unplug.

 

[Steamboat]

When I worked for a Soil & Water District, I laid out a water system in a pasture in which farmer fed whole cotton bales that were wrapped in wire. There was wire all over the pasture. Really had to zig-zag around the clumps of wire when driving my pickup.

 

[ditchwitch]

Was going to say also i have seen that same picture year ago

 

[juniur]

That pic has been floating around on the web for years......

 

[sms]

We made the mistake of driving over windrows when we were younger. Hay wrapped around driveshaft and ruined the pinion seal.

 

[K Effective]

Friend of mine drove "limo" for the World's Largest Appliance Manufacturer nearby. Lots of car and van trips to Chicago airports, he has tons of road stories. Almost looks like him in the blue jacket...

One of the other drivers had the choice to hit the box springs or the blue tarp lying across the lanes, he chose poorly. The tarp removed the rear axle from the vehicle when wrapped around the driveshaft.

Shortly after that, they broke even, as a truck heading the opposite direction on the wall-divided section of I-94 south of Chicago lost the rear axle retaining clip, the axle and rim and tire walked out of the housing and bounced across the wall, hitting the company van axle-first right in the A pillar at the edge of the windshield. Driver was lucky not to get speared

 

[farmboy48]

Denny k, same thing happened to me about 35 years ago with super 92 Massey, Sund pickup snagged about 50-75 feet of old barbed wire, wound around auger, feeder chain and cylinder, had to pull feeder house and header, and about ten hours with snips to get it all out.

Dick ND

 

[Goose]

When I was a Ford Service Manager, a farmer called me and said his pickup was sitting out in a hayfield and wouldn't move. He thought the trans had gone out.

I sent a tow truck out to get it. When the tow truck operator lifted the pickup, he saw a huge ball of alfalfa wrapped around the driveshaft.

 

[coonie minnie]

Wow!

The phone company here was really procrastinating on putting in a new buried line, and so had one laid on top the ground for about half a mile. Our local township mower guy (a great man and farmer)snagged the wire laying the weeds with the rotary mower. You guessed it- a lot of wire to cut of the mower, and there went the phone and internet!

 

[Ozlander]

(quoted from post at 11:26:50 04/04/17) When I worked for a Soil & Water District, I laid out a water system in a pasture in which farmer fed whole cotton bales that were wrapped in wire. There was wire all over the pasture. Really had to zig-zag around the clumps of wire when driving my pickup.

What kind of animal eats cotton?

 

[Steve in VA]

boll weevil?

 

[T.R.K.]

My guess is one or more of those guys were in the truck when it happened. And the want to deny any involvement.

 

[oliver power]

I had a scary experience this one time. Was brush hogging a field, and an old electric fence wire got caught under the mower. Wire was whipping all around me, but could not see it. Didn't know if I were going to sliced into pieces any second, or not. When the mower finally stopped spinning, I looked under the deck to find lots, and lots of electric fence wire wrapped around the shaft.

 

[700KK]

When you look back & see grass on when both sides of your mower moving & your motor starts two pull down real bad ,you know its not going to be good. Thank god for bolt cutters & a blue tip wrench.

 

[Dr. Walt]

Did very similar to that about 40 years ago, except mine was with old rusty Barbed Wire. Spent most of a day removing it with a cutting torch; in fact that's how I came to have my Victor "Journeyman" Oxy/Acet Torch Set. Never want to do that again; had to go and get Tetanus Shots when I was done; that was like trying to stuff a Wildcat into a burlap sack.


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