Dumb things you have done.

[Wangel]

I was down at equipment dealer picking up a few parts yesterday when Jim the parts manager told me about a fellow who bought a John Deere last year. A white collar businessman type. He has refused all services. Anyway, he called a few times complaining about not being able to start his mower this season. Of course, he made no preparations last fall. Seems he left the gas tank half full. Anyway, appears he tried starting the mower with starter fluid and it would start, run for about 30 seconds, and quickly die. Desperately needing to cut his grass, he had his wife walking behind his mower with a can of starter fluid, giving the engine a quick squirt each time it felt like it was going to die. After a while of cutting, the engine developed a backfire, and shot fire out the carburetor catching this womans hair on fire, along with slight burning to her face.:angry:

Have you done anything dumb lately?

[grassyfras]

I hit a mailbox last week, it didn' fall down or anything like that. Then, I got caught in a swing. Then, I also got caught in a chain link fence. The swing and the fence happened with the mower handle bars. Maybe I should get the new ECS from Exmark.

[jeffyr]

Lst year I used a come a long to lengthen pull strap in a pinch to pull out a shrub. My strap wasn't long enough to reach the truck so I added the come a long. I wound up blowing the thing apart and the whole ratchet part shot like a line drive down the street and across a busy road . Luckily nobody was hurt and nothing was damaged.
Last time I do that. Could have been messy.

jeffyr

[scottb]

I took out a loan with American General man did it hurt.

[jdseven]

I changed the blades on my 36" but I put the washers in the wrong place on the shaft so one blade was lower than the other. Then I did not put the wrenchs back in my truck had to drive 5 miles back to my house. Guess who lines up the blades now.

[ron]

Cutting 8 ft shrubs that were 35 ft long just finished cutting lost balance falling to the ground spliting back of my head on pool deck,having a compressed fracture to my T-12,no work for 8 weeks lost 98% of my 43 clients,will start working again in July.....

[Got Grass?]

On sulky, forgot to duck under a 4 inch branch I've been cutting for a year or so. Didnt relize it untill 5 min later when I woke up laying on the grass. Wondering why my head hurt and the mower was in some buches 10 ft ahead & shut off. Took 10 min shook it off, finished the lawn and went home for the day. Man that hurt, luckly I cary pain killers in the truck. Customer wasnt home neither were the neighbors. Never hit that branch again.:o

Yesterday I left my pruners & gloves on the trailer, let just say someone walking down the road was happy.

Ran over a dog chain 1st cut of the year.

[jeffyr]

That reminds me....I wrapped up an electricians fish tape 12 ft long around a spindle.

The guy I bought my ztr from told me he was watching the deck and a tree branch pinned him against the catcher.

[CSRA Landscaping]

Let's see ... I'll just talk about a new commercial accoutn that I got. I spent an hour cutting stuff that he didn't want cut, had a belt pop because I was cutting stuff too heavy for the mower, no extras in the trailer. Went and got the backup mower (JD 318) and was very disappointed in the job it was doing. Started to rain so I left, the place looked awful. Came back on monday after getting my $58 belt, all set. So happy to have my main mower back in commission that I ran over a sprinkler head, careless. Went to cut the grass at church just after thath and destroyed the water meter cover. Talk about a ding in my blades. :(

Ditto the American General loan. Ow! Ow! Ow! :eek:

[leeslawncare]

well I put my blades on up-side down lst time i changed them an ddrrr....it took me half the lawn to relize something want right .....!!!!!

[mdb landscaping]

i was mowing a nice lawn yesterday and they have one rock that juts up around a tree. its about ground level. i was coming around the corner with my lazer. i had my foot on the foot pedal ready to raise the deck. i raised it a little thinking it would clear the rock. WRONG! a huge shower of sparks shot out like the fireworks sparklers. that set of blades needs sharpening as you can imagine.

[dmk395]

I didnt put loctite on my blades once, one shot off like a rocket and smashed into someones garage!

[Lawn-Scapes]

I cut the wrong lawn once...:confused:

[CLC]

Originally posted by leeslawncare
well I put my blades on up-side down lst time i changed them an ddrrr....it took me half the lawn to relize something want right .....!!!!!
I did the same thing lawn look like !@*&

[jones]

Cut the wrong lawn for one month, 4 cuts, big property lotsa trimming.
Customer says "82 Sunnylea", I thought he said "82 South Kingsway". He was on holidays and didn't know I didn't cut till he got back and saw the foot high grass. Was the son of one of my oldest customers and was told I was very reliable. Finally found out it was the wrong lawn when I saw some mail with the wrong last name. Left wrong house a bill but he never did pay it. Go figure.
The real customers house was broken into perhaps due to the fact the house looked deserted with foot high grass. Lost 3 accounts, two were friends of the original customer.

[CLC]

Originally posted by leeslawncare
well I put my blades on up-side down lst time i changed them an ddrrr....it took me half the lawn to relize something want right .....!!!!!
I did the same thing lawn look like !@*&

[oneEXMARKfan]

Was going to a yard yesterday, and saw a big Ryder truck going down the highway (about 55MPH) with the aluminum ramp dragging.

[Metroman]

I was cutting the plant that i work at the other day(been cutting it for 2 years) and turned around to fast near a fire pole and hit it. This pole is about 4ft. high and has some type of switch on it.I thought just the cover broke off of it so i just put it back on and went on cutting. The next morning the maintenance guy called me first thing and asked me if i got a little close to the fire pole, just jokeing i said i dont know what your talking about. He said i was just asking since the fire dept called him at 3am and said that they had a alarm going off. The switch was one of three that goes to the sprinkler system.

[lawnman_scott]

First time i used a walk behind the cotter pin for the pistol grip came out and i tried to stop and went in circles, ran over a brick, sprinkler head, and the small mower that the person with me was pushing. the trailer stopped me. The other day the guy weedeating ran out of string, so i tried to help out and get really close to the water, well i got close alright. an old stump stopped the mower from going in the water, when i hit it with the left side the right side tires came off the ground, it was a close one. Good thing grassyfuz wasnt driving by when we were pushing it up the hill.

[CLARKE]

Was about 1 block away from my account and thought
i would have a cup of coffee before i mowed my next account
so i when to pour up the coffee i looked away just for
about 3 seconds when i looked back up i took out the
neighbors gabage cans and there recycling bin that was full
of aluminum cans, splattered them all over the driveway and
then had to mow the grass next to these peoples back yard.
thought they were going to call the police but as it turned
out they werent home and no one else saw what i did. I know
that i should have picked them up but i did'nt. The next day
every thing that could go wrong did and i felt that was my punishment for splattering the cans and not picking them up.
:blush:

[AVRECON]

I like the American General one best!

[Esby]

Forgot to set the brake on my belt drive when it was on the trailer. I took off and it flew to the back and smashed into the end gate. Totaled out the Velky, and broke part of the gate-had to weld it the next day. and buy a new velky......ouch

[lawnMaster5000]

well just the other day i bought myself a brand new giant slidding glass door. -- Damn rock hit a customers door so all that i really got out of it is a $1200 bill and i nice big pile of safty glass. I call my insurance company to make the claim and he says "if you make this claim we will drop you and the company will do thier best to make sure you dont find cheap insurance again" Well the homeowner was really nice and said she would claim on homeowners insurance so that problem is solved.

but here for my funny story. Several years ago when i was first learnin how to use walk behind. I was ridding the mower down the side of a pretty busy street when i stopped to talk to one of the guys i was working with. I was not really paying attention to what i was doing and only locked one of the pistol grips. Well the safetys didnt work on this POS and it started spinning in circles while i was still dragging behind on the velke. All the cars in the street stopped and were laughing at me. the mower finaly came to rest on waht later became my boss. The mower knocked him over and cut up his legs pretty good, thankfully the blades were not spinning. From then on i was known as KILLER for that company.

Last year on the same street i was trying to take of my shirt while mowing the lawn which i have been able to do several times w/o to much trouble. well this time i almost dropped the shirt so i reached back to get it and damn near fell off the walkbehind. the mower ended up going into a concrete lined creek bed sparks flying, again all the cars watching it all.

[LAWNGODFATHER]

Hey everbody stay away from scott I got to watch out for him I'm from SLC too

well i had a guy mowing for me on my Cushman and he didn't want to trim under those darn Hawtharn with the hypodermic needles on them and he got to close to them and came back to the truck and have me pull them out of his forhead with needle nose pliers

same guy a year earler was on walkbehind and forgot to duck under tree branch found him knocked out on the ground and mower (with out safty switches) still going across yard.

well I forgot to tie mower down on trailer with no gate and went to next account 5 miles away and missing a mower drove same route back to find mower where i put it on trailer (swore it will never happen again knock on wood)

watched a competitor training a guy who mowed the whole yard without turning on the blades (note he trimmed and blew it too) and left

I'll give some more at a later date I've been doin' this bizz a long time and seen a lot of dumb things!

[Got Grass?]

Reminds me of this one time when I was lawn supervisor for this co. had 2 guys on my crew. Both didnt show up that day. So I got the manager in traning for landscaping to help for part of the day at this nursing home. I had a dr.'s appt. arround the corner to I had to leave for a little while. He knew how to use the blower and trimmer, just had to show him how to use the Great Dane. Showed hime a couple passes with it and went on my way. Well 1.5 hrs later (dr. was slow) I come back only to see a couple acres with nice tire marks but 5in grass (at least he didnt do all 200 like that) The guy forgot to turn the blades on like I said to. Well that was the last day he did any lawns.



About a week later same place one of thoes guys that didnt show up that day. Was turning the truck/trailer arround backed up jacknifed and really messed up the A frame, bent, broken welds. He was fired. And we had to take the trailer back on the bed of the loader trailer.

Both Times these old people were watching & laughing at everyone else. Then walk up to me and tell me thay are sorry.

[CSRA Landscaping]

I had a guy helping me one time that was cutting a small part of one of my res. accounts. Seems he wasn't too sure about those funny blade things, I guess. He came riding around and I was standing there laughing at him. He didn't understand why I was laughing, I guess, so he just grinned and went on. Well, you should have seen how red he turned when I engaged the PTO. :D

[George777]

First time cutting a new customers lawn forgot to raise the deck. (ooops scalp) The customer pulls in the drive way and I felt guilty so I approached him and told him what I just done. I ensured him I would not do it again. The very next week I did the same thing. (ooops scalped again) Now I feel like a real idiot. The next time the customer comes out and said, “ Hey check your deck”. Now that is the first thing my partner and I do for every lawn, in fact we measure the turf before we cut it.

I'm sure we all do dumb things, but what matters is that we learn from them and laugh it off.

[bdemir]

What is american general?

[cutntrim]

Had a commercial account with a steep slope with one wall of the building following the slope down the hill. I used to cut it side to side with a 21" self-propelled but graduated to a 36" WB to get it done faster. Went to turn near the wall on day when the grass was wet and the tires slipped and the mower slid back pinning me against the wall. The mower handle had me pinned about 1" from my right nut! Fearing for my ability to father children, I summoned all my strength and muscled the mower off my leg and finished the lawn unharmed.

[CSRA Landscaping]

Originally posted by bdemir
What is american general?
Don't ask and we won't tell! :laugh:

[CLC]

I was so beat when I first started to do lawns it was the end of the day and my last account i got all dont loaded up and started to pull away OPPS forgot to pick up the gate of the trailer.

[Eric ELM]

bdemir
I think it is a lease company. I think I read that in here some place, but if I'm wrong, someone will correct me. I get corrected even if I'm right sometimes. ;)

[CSRA Landscaping]

It's a finance company. They like to charge interest rates like 10-12% for mortgages and 19% for auto loans.

[Guardian]

I was teaching a guy how to drive a Lazer and thought he was ready so I set him loose. He instantly took off full throttle swerving left and right screaming like a little girl. He narrowly missed an air conditioning unit then took a hard 90 degree turn behind a house. I found him stopped against a fence shaking with tears in his eyes. Now we teach on a LOW throttle level in a WIDE area.
2. My painful lesson was trying to jack the Exmark up with a standard 2 ton jack - I went to set up a jack stand and decided it needed to be jacked just a little higher. With one last pump on the jack everything shifted and the mower quickly fell on to stand - the problem was...somehow my finger was also on the stand. When I got out, it looked like a squashed grape! I still get squeemish at just the thought of jacking anything up!

[Schlepie]

Forgot to put exmark metro in park. Took off up a hill along with a jolting crash to see my exmark on to of my blower, and my 21 jd now in the back of the trailer.
Backing up on a one way street and hit my passengers mirror on a brick mail box.
Speed weedeating around a motorhome and went head first into a metal canopy....DOH!!!!

[summitgroundskeeping]

After it had rained I was mowing a lake front property. Their bakyard has a very steep hill (can hardly walk up it) and my w/b was parked by it. Well the ground gave out from under it, and down it went. Luckily a tree stopped it before it made it half way down. Nothing was brokin' except the tow truck driver's smile when he saw what had happened.:angry: :D :confused:

[Fine Lines Lawn]

Very enjoyable reading fellaz. LMAO at some but very sorry to read about the painful experiences. Seems like a lot of us have done some silly things as we were learning.
I learned quickly how to properly mow pond banks after having a w/b slide sideways down into the pond. I've also had dealings with American General and their million percent interest rates.
My favorite posts were the ones about driving mowers around the lawn with the blades off. LOL

[Double D]

Ditto upside down blade-I will not tell you how long it took me to figure that one out (blush). One time i was pulled straight in a cove, and was ready to leave. Two guys had pulled up in the cove to chat, and had me blocked. I sat in the truck, cranked it up and sat some more. These guys never moved, or even acted like they were thinking about moving. There was a gap between the two trucks just about wide enough for me to back up through, but it would be tight. I got tired of waiting (and wondering how much more rude these two guys could be for not moving when they see a business man trying to sling some grass). I started backing up, and put on a exibition on how to back up a landscape trailer. As I was putting the truck in drive (and patting myself on the back for such a fine display off talent) I started pulling forward and was looking at the two guys giving them a big grin, I noticed that something was not quite right. It was around the corner (out of their site) when I pulled over and raised the gate to the trailer that had been dragging on the groung the entire time. Still laughing about that one.:D

[racerdave]

I was going to my government job one morning during a heavy downpour. The radio was on a station that was not local, kind of fuzzy, but they had a really funny skit going on and I wanted to hear all of it. It's about a 15 minute commute to work, and the closer I get the more static on the radio. (it was stormin ya know) Well I'm flyin to work listening to the radio, passing everybody, then I get to a stoplight about 12 miles from my driveway and as I slow for the redlight I start hear the most gawd awful grinding noise coming from the rear of truck. At first I thought I had blown the rearend, then, to my horror, I realized it's trash day.
You see my driveway is about 300ft long, thats along way to drag the trash cart by hand so I used to, and I mean this now! I used to hook it on the hitch ball and drag it to the curb with the truck. I forgot it was on the truck this time...

At 65-70mph you can drag a trash cart full of trash and only wear off one and a half wheels.

My buddies thought so much of this that they took a trash can and a big wheel tricycle and combined them for my birthday that year!!

My trash man thought it was quite funny also. Especially while he was making out the bill for the cart. ouch!

[Fine Lines Lawn]

Oh Yeah, I forgot to mention the ramp thing. I take of frequently with the box trailer ramp down. Don't go very far that way.
ROFLMAO @ the trash cart incident.

[Samurai WeedWacker]

Several years ago I ran a Honda HRC216 walkbehind mower without oil for 2 minutes. Would you believe it still runs and has needed no major repairs?! Burns some oil now, though. I use it for a spare.

I once saw a kid crossing a street pushing a mower with a can of gas perched on top of the mower. The gas can spilled and a pool of flame sprang up in the middle of the street. The flame died after a minute and the kid continued on his way, with the gas can once again perched on top of the mower.

I always start driving with window down and tunes turned off so I can hear a dragging tailgate or other major screwup.:angel:

[Wangel]

When my seat safety switch went bad, I decided to bypass it instead of repair it. Big mistake. When I was going on an incline, I fell off the mower and it continued on running over an outdoor gaslight. I fixed the seat safety that same day.

[cutntrim]

A local competitor who we see in the repair shop regularly bought a walk-behind from us last summer. Second day he had it, he ran up his tailgate ramp with the blades going, chewed the hell out of the gate, but only minor damage to the mower.

For the next few weeks after that, buddy would call up the repair shop to make sure we weren't around before coming in. Eventually we saw him and had a good laugh at his expense.

[David Gretzmier]

what scares me is I have done many of the things listed here- brakes, ramps, rocks, blades, wrong houses, I is a bad example of pro lawn care. dave g

[Harris Bothers]

The first time I had ever used our JD ZTR I was mowing a small lawn. I was riding along and doing a nice job. I had mowed this lawn many times before but with a trim cut mower. Now, I had always known that there was a dog stake in the front yard, yet this time I forgot. In my concentartion I ran ove this dog stake throwing part of it about half way across the lawn. When the other memebers of crew showed up my boss gave me a total butt chewing. Mild Curising as well. I'm lucky I wasn't fired.

MJH, HBLC

[LAWNGODFATHER]

I've done the dog stake thing twice in the same yard
I for got i had it replaced
my favorite was the customer call to say it was missing and it had been replaced before I got the call

I was training a guy and he was driving the w/b around and was doing well till a car came and tried to go behind the truck and ended up going up the gate and was only half on and half off he ran into the corner of the trailer and freaked out we had to disconect the trailer and jack up the front to get the mower back off


I have some buddy's who are cops and one of them had a call a W/B ran into a car. When he got there the mower had cut into the car with the discharge side of the mower I don't want to know how this happend


A moron I got rid of went to a nother company and he was mowing the grass out side of there shop and ran a W/B up on the top of a FIREHYDRENT I saw the picture they had to pick it off with the BOBCAT
glad I got rid of him

A couple of years ago a guy tried to take a W/B where it shouldn't go and drove it off a 16' high retaining wall it landed upside-down
the crew leader call me to tell me when I got there the employee was crying he thought he was out $6,000.00 for a new W/B luckaly it only cost $3.00 for a new handle grip and some time rebending back the handle bars which he helped with. Yes turf tracers are some tough machines

[Premo Services]

I picked up a new customer and it is a 2 acre lawn, well I was anxious to show the great job the lazer and I could do for them, and forgot to put it out of transport setting before mowing. I was thinking it was cutting the tall grass pretty easy, and kept on striping my a$$ off. I finished in good time, drove up to trailer, stopped to raise the deck, and noticed that I had cut the lawn at 4.5 inches. I started cutting again at 3 inches, and customer asks why am I cutting twice, I had to think fast and told him just going over to get the grass mulched up good for him.It made some real nice stripes though. I have been using this lazer since last may and have never done that, I bet it will never happen again. :o :o

[Jason_S]

I watched one of out new workers drive the WB on the enclosed trailor with the blades still on. He couldn't figure out why I was screaming at him until a tornado of dust and grass engulfed him! Luckily, nothing was cut up!

[lawnMaster5000]

well today i ran over a cable TV line for the second time in 2 weeks. my customer was haveing some work done 3 weeks ago and cable line was cut(not by me) so they had to restring it across the lawn. well a few days later (last week)i came to mow w/o knowing it was there -cut the damn thing. cable company comes to fix it again just a few days ago - today i mowed the lawn knowing the line was there, got distracted by something and just caught a little bit and sucked it under, -- i think that house is destined not to have cable for awhile -------- o well

[David Haggerty]

I watched once when my son dropped the wing deck of the big Howard Price onto a brand new toro 21" self propelled mower.

I was too far away to shout or anything, I just watched that deck come down on top of that mower. It just set there for a minute, then the blades started. That poor little mower just danced around in a circle like it was caught in some kind of whirlwind. That's when my son looked around, but by the time he got the deck lifted, the damage was done.

The Toro looked like it had lost a knife fight. Those blades on the Howard cut right thru the tubing of the handle. It cut off the bail that engages the blades, and warped erything way out of whack.

We didn't even have to change the blades on the Howard.

I only bought enough parts to make the Toro run again. We called it the little crippled mower. We were all more cautious after that.

Dave Haggerty

[jeffyr]

I am geeting several posts in this thread.

My last feat was leaving a dewalt 18volt battery and snakelight under the hood after putting a new starter on my truck. Luckily it didn't hit the fan, but it did bounce out while I was driving. $100 down the drain. Although the mechanic I go to told me he left a $200 cordless telephone under someones hood once--he got me beat.


jeffyr

[mdb landscaping]

i was using a scag walk behind and i caught the edge of a blueberry net that goes on the blueberry bushes. well, it reeled all up under the deck and ripped the net down. took quite a bit of cutting to get it off.

[1145JohnDeere]

I was mowing a factory I had two guys on riders and a newish guy on a w/b mowing the narrow lawn area between the plant and driveway. Plant employees had parked their cars along the drive parallel to the lawn. I was mowing with the wing mower in the field area and I looked at the guy mowing with the w/b and went "oh crap". It was in the morning and the dew was still on and he was mowing along the parking lot and blowing wet grass on the sides of the cars. I jumped off the tractor and ran the 250 yards to the plant waving my arms. By the time I got to him the security people had notified the plant employees of the situation and they were boiling out of the plant like bees in a hive to check out their vehicles. One guy had just bought his brand new Chevy two days prior. There was a inch and a half deep by 4 inch wide grass stripe on the sides of about 11 cars. I couldnt believe anyone could be so careless. Luckily I was well known at the place and on good terms, I did not lose the account and no one took me up on my offer to clean their car.

[1145JohnDeere]

Had a shopping mall we mowed. Went to the mall and unloaded the trucks. I had to go down the street to look at another job. Came back 10 minutes later and saw a car stopped in the mall entrance, people standing around and my employee sitting on the curb with his head in his hands. Oh no. Seems my employee unloaded and headed across the drive without looking for traffic and drove the John Deere 915 into the side of a lady test driving a new Lincoln Continental from the dealership down the street. That cost me about $1800. The employee was throwing up and apologizing profusely. He was a newbie so I patted him on the back and told him things happen and gave him a second chance. Three weeks later he (figuratively) put a knife in my back.

[Redmowers]

While trimming under a dwarf cherry tree with netting to keep the birds away from the cherries,I got a little close to the netting with the trimmer.Must have taken 15-20 min to untangle and remove the net from the head of the trimmer.My father used to have a habit of of stopping the mower to pick up something in the yard and forget to engauge the blades after.But when loading the mower on the trailer leaving the blades on ,making a nice bevel in the wood bed.Good thing it was not steel coming off the ramp,that be one hellva noise!

[CandJ]

I was mowing an account with a large pond out back. The slope to the water's edge wasn't severe, so I was able to mow relatively close. One morning I was stung in the ankle by the pond and I stopped to see if I could find the nest to spray it. I turned around just in time to see the mower roll into the pond (while running) and had no time to stop it. Had to unhook the truck from the trailer and pull it out. Luckily it was my old backup toro 52" belt drive. The shop was able to get it working again within a week with no residual effects.

I also have pulled away from accounts to hear a crash of the gate falling, or screeching from the gate dragging on the cement.

[Rodney Johns]

Great stories to everyone by the way.
Here are my 2.
First my most embarrising moment. Typical June 15th we have not mowed our yard yet call. Triple the price and load up the Walker to bag it. Well spring rains had apparntly flooded the basement early that year. My problem wasn't with water but with a 50' section of 2" black hose the was running from the sump pump in the basement. Needless to say I managed to suck up about 20 ft of this hose through the GHS system before I was able to get the blades shut down. I realized after spending 25 min untangling the mess just how good the vacumn sysytem worked. Believe it or not this yard was in a nice neighborhood and I had a full audience.
Employees star moment. I worked in the golf course business for nearly 10 years. One time while mowing greens I had an employee come strolling over the hill wet from head to toe. Hadn't rained....no irriagtion running......I was puzzled to say the least. When he took me to the "scene" of the accident. And god do I wish I had pictures. The fellow had driven the tee mower over a 15 ft ledge and landed in a 4 ft pool of stinking scummy water which had settled in a pool at the end a a drain. I had no idea the hole was that deep. Poor kid damn near drowned himself. All I could see were 3 reels sticking up out of the water. Mower was completely under. Anyway very vivid picture in my mind to date.

[GreenQuest Lawn]

I have done some hair brained things in my life but I will share a story about one of my crew people when I worked at a LC (before being self employed)

We were mowing a large condo place, I was about 1/4 mile away from the truck.

Well apparently he filled the trimmer(t-270) with gas, and in the process spilled gas all over the trimmer. the spark plug may have been loose or mabey there was a slice in the wire, cause when he pulled to start it (see where i'm headed :eek: ) up in flames it went.

So as I am mowing along I see him running towards me. He yells THE TRIMMER IS ON FIRE!

So we head towards the truck and what do I see. He laid the burning trimmer in the middle of the road. Cars were stopped watching. and here is a trimmer with flames 4' high.

Now the thing that seemed funny to me was there was a fire extinguisher in the truck and 2 - 5 gal water jugs. He didnt attempt to put it out. Instead he spent 5+ min. comming to get me.


Well I put the fire out. I guess on the bright side, We had a parts trimmer then:D .



The other one I cant forget was the guy that sneezed when he went to grab a trimmer from the rack. Yep! WHACK smacked his head on the trailor!

[AltaLawnCare]

Bid and Mowed the wrong property twice. In the mean time got way behind on the property I should've been mowing!:mad:

Ate that, and it didn't taste too good!

Took off with the trailer gate not fastened - wham!

Scalped too many times by not paying attention to the ground contours.

[LAWNGODFATHER]

well I loaned a mower to a freind in the biz.

he was mowing a hill with my mower and he got a little cocky cause he thought the mower was sticking to the hill like glue well lost his footing and pulled the mower over
It rolled down the hill he said it rolled 5 times

his mower doesn't have and OPC thank godfather mine does or he would have wathed the mower take out a few realy expensive cars

but any how it only cost him $218 in parts for him to fix like new

by the way that was this morning fixed by noon and back to work