Biggest screw up you have ever done at a customers home.

[ccondie]

so yesterday i was out mowing one of my largest accounts and blew off the drive and everything but totally forgot about blowing off the pool deck and area. Customer called me this am and said yeah i just spent 3 hrs cleaning out my pool and the surrounding area. anyone else ever pulled one of these?

:hammerhead:

[KrayzKajun]

Been there done that! Now i always make sure i blow off the back decks and pools first!

[DLAWNS]

When I lived in Florida, I was digging a hole for a small palm tree and hit a water pipe. Needless to say the hole started to fill up and overflow. It was about 8:30 pm as I was finishing up an all day job. Once I got the water off and the hole empty, I got a friend of mine w/ pipe and glue to help me patch up my mess up. I left at 10:30 and had to finish the job the next day. Man was I ticked off at myself.

[RedMax Man]

How about if you face the deck discharge chute towards the pool by mistake. looks almost like a floating lawn:hammerhead: I've done that once or twice and had to spend extra time cleaning up. Hasn't happened in a while though since i usually am using the Walker.

Once i spilled mixed fuel and oil on a stone wall and concrete drive. Think i cleaned it fast enough with a garden hose.

I've damaged a few things with the trimmer.

I think i punctured a irrigation line when i planted a couple trees. I'm not positive though but it was in the area which was very likely.

I'm sure there are others that havent come to mind yet.

[lawnman_scott]

I broke 2 windows in about 5 minutes at an apartment complex.

[carcrz]

a couple windows @ different times. Knocked a few boards off fences over the years. Ran over a dead crow today. Ewwww. That thing stunk for the next 15 passes.

[KeepOnCuttin]

Somehow my co-worker gets a 52" Turf Tracer stuck in a side yard...he comes walking up and gets me off the ztr to help push it out. In an idiotic attempt to avoid going ankle deep in the mud, I reach my hand out and grab the muffler....Oops :hammerhead:

[PLM-1]

SOMEBODY took a walkbehind down the stairs...and i think everybody knows the rest of the story...

[KTO Enterprises]

This one isnt actually my fault but it made me feel so bad i wanted to cry. I was mowing one day and little timmy opened the door and the new little puppy came running down the walkway. I had my head turned the other way and turned it back just in time to see the little pooch run right up under the discharge flap. I never had a chance to react in time. Before i could swat at the pto switch it was too late. I felt so bad because the kid saw the whole thing.

Even though it wasnt my fault I went and got the kid another dog. (I told his parents I was going to) And made up this story about i was cleaning the mower and found him hiding under the seat. I have gotten a ton of referrals from them. I guess having a heart sometimes goes a long way.

[cgaengineer]

This one isnt actually my fault but it made me feel so bad i wanted to cry. I was mowing one day and little timmy opened the door and the new little puppy came running down the walkway. I had my head turned the other way and turned it back just in time to see the little pooch run right up under the discharge flap. I never had a chance to react in time. Before i could swat at the pto switch it was too late. I felt so bad because the kid saw the whole thing.

Even though it wasnt my fault I went and got the kid another dog. (I told his parents I was going to) And made up this story about i was cleaning the mower and found him hiding under the seat. I have gotten a ton of referrals from them. I guess having a heart sometimes goes a long way.


Damn KTO, thats the worst mower carnage story I think I have ever heard!:cry: :cry: :cry:

[Supper Grassy]

This one isnt actually my fault but it made me feel so bad i wanted to cry. I was mowing one day and little timmy opened the door and the new little puppy came running down the walkway. I had my head turned the other way and turned it back just in time to see the little pooch run right up under the discharge flap. I never had a chance to react in time. Before i could swat at the pto switch it was too late. I felt so bad because the kid saw the whole thing.

Even though it wasnt my fault I went and got the kid another dog. (I told his parents I was going to) And made up this story about i was cleaning the mower and found him hiding under the seat. I have gotten a ton of referrals from them. I guess having a heart sometimes goes a long way.

That had to be heartbreaking from both you and the boys prospectives. I would likely have done what you did and bought him another puppy

[KrayzKajun]

This one isnt actually my fault but it made me feel so bad i wanted to cry. I was mowing one day and little timmy opened the door and the new little puppy came running down the walkway. I had my head turned the other way and turned it back just in time to see the little pooch run right up under the discharge flap. I never had a chance to react in time. Before i could swat at the pto switch it was too late. I felt so bad because the kid saw the whole thing.

Even though it wasnt my fault I went and got the kid another dog. (I told his parents I was going to) And made up this story about i was cleaning the mower and found him hiding under the seat. I have gotten a ton of referrals from them. I guess having a heart sometimes goes a long way.

That happened to a buddy of mine a few years back! dog camme running around the side of the house and well you can finish the rest:cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:

[KTO Enterprises]

Im used to hitting the rabbits, turtles, armadillos, squirrels, birds, and even a fox once, all with the tractor, but knowing that the dog belonged to the little boy, tore me up, I had to go back behind the garage to keep him from seeing me bawl. call me a wimp but it tore me up. Fortunately he was young, like 3 and a half so within a few days when i came back with one that looked like the old one and the story the kid had forgotten all about what he saw.

[txgrassguy]

Probably the worst screw up was my soon to be ex-wife calling up my clients.
While she was drunk and extremely belligerent.
But she was so drunk she confused my good clients with two late payers.
I haven't lost a client too this, as a matter of fact I occasionally quaff a few beers with several of my obscenely wealthy clients and we laugh about it now.

[Cooter]

Just last week it was very hot out and I had just topped my mower off with gas. I had this property to do with a long lane. I unloaded the mower and parked it on the yard, so i wouldn't have to once I was done with the edging. When I got back the fuel cap was spewing fuel out of the vent. I will find out this week if it evaporated and leaked onto the grass and killed it. Learned something here.

[carcrz]

Oh yeah, almost forgot about this one. I've got a customer who has a wet area in the back of their yard where everyones lawns drain to. Well, it was hot so I figured it'd be safe to drive on - wrong. Sunk the mower down 6" & had to go get the truck to pull it out. Well, I thought the area I had the truck on was dry (it was to the touch& feel). I guess that Cummins motor must be really heavy because I sunk my truck down about 10"!!! Oops. They understood completely & are taken care of now.

[sweatyclippingcoveredguy]

Was trying to use my mower to blow off to save some time, and accidentally sucked up a welcome mat...

I've decapitated a rabbit when driving over a hole...

Other than that I'm pretty lucky!

[topsites]

Oh yeah the fuel, that reminds me :laugh:

I did the same thing, topped off my Wb at home and went on down the road.
Down this 55 mph zone I'm tooling along, this fellow pulls up alongside and was waving and motioning, I'm like huh?
I had to slow down considerably to hear, finally I could tell he was saying "You have a GAS leak somewhere!"

Man I pulled over like pdq lol.
I looked, and looked, saw nothing, started to wonder if this guy was messing with me.
But no, no, he really didn't seem like the kind :laugh:
Kept looking, I just couldn't see what, where, fuel?
I'm like, I don't even carry fuel cans onboard, but at some point I did catch a whiff, so I kept looking.

Finally I saw it, I had forgotten to put the cap back on the top of the Wb's tank.
Wasn't too bad, maybe a gallon.

Yes, that was embarrassing.
Leaving the trailer gate down can be a hoot also.

[STRINGALATION]

I was asked by a regular client, who i got plenty of work from and through could i level the yard to put up abig pool. i back filled almost a foot of dirt and sand. i started filling and it just pushed the dirt right out from under it.
so i read on here and researched and found that i should have cut and filled instead so now i had to break up this 2 tons of soil. then my helper disappeared and so i could not get the big tiller on my trailor (no gate/ramp
then. she got fed up and said she would get a professional to fix it. ooops

[NCass31]

this one happened while i was snowplowing... i always have a sketchbook with me so i can look at pics i've drawn and remember where the hazards are in the driveway (crubs/planters/steps etc), so when i pull in i know what to watch out for. last season, i pull up into the drive, getting ready to backdrag from the garage.. idling up to i glance down at my book, was at the prop. 4 days prior, no obstructions. drop my plow, only goes down 1 inch. put it up, reverse 6 inches, drop plow. goes down 1 inch. thinking its the hydraulics i reverse....bang! plow hits the pavement. as i move backwards i see that i had just sheared a 2ft barrel planter in half... oops. i got out, pushed it back together and packed snow around the base to hold its form. no phone calls, no late payment, planter wasnt there the next time...

[G.M.Landscaping]

It was fall time, and blowing leaves with the 8HP little wonder . I didn't see the bookkeeper getting in her car. As she opened the door to get in, I quickly filled the inside with leaves. Personally, I never saw what I did but my ex-partner told me what happened. She drove away before I could do anything. She's never talked to me since.

[1cooltreeguy]

My Guys dropped a Toro Recycler mower in a pond a while ago. Two weeks after that One of my guys tripped around the same pond while weedeating and he as well as the trimmer wend right in.

[Eakern & Dog]

Sucked a portion of top of a canvas pergola in to my push mower :nono:

[herb900]

I was working at the local highschool during my college years when I turned too fast and caught the guide wheel on a 12' rough mower smack dab where the baseball fence meets one of the support poles. I put a nice dent in the fence and bent the pole. We managed to fix everything.

My buddy managed to rip a nice gash in the mower my the discharge chute.
He also ran over a log chain, shearing the blade from the deck.

I also think I managed to run over at least 2 rabbit holes every summer I worked there ending many a bunny life.

[Americal Vet]

I was mowing a commercial next door to a Hooters, the same day they were having a car wash. When I was making a pass around a traffic island I looked over to make sure they were doing a good job and ran over a plastic pink Flamingo. It was very noisy which of course caused them all to look and laugh. How emabarrasing:hammerhead:

[DOLMARatOS]

I hit a woodchuck / groundhog today with my 52" Bob-Cat.

WHAT A MESS!

BTW Han Solo had it right, they smell worse on the inside.

45 minutes with the hose and pressure washer and some simple green when I got done.

[cgaengineer]

I was mowing a commercial next door to a Hooters, the same day they were having a car wash. When I was making a pass around a traffic island I looked over to make sure they were doing a good job and ran over a plastic pink Flamingo. It was very noisy which of course caused them all to look and laugh. How emabarrasing:hammerhead:



This is by far the best I have read!!

[LawnBrother]

I sucked up a huge tarp once. I was making a pass, I saw the tarp of course but the edge of my deck didn't even touch it, but it sucked that bastard up anyway. A 10 minute lawn turned into a 45 min cleanup in the blink of an eye. Not so bad compared to the others here, though. I guess I still have a real good one on the way hahaha.

[lawnspecialties]

This one isnt actually my fault but it made me feel so bad i wanted to cry. I was mowing one day and little timmy opened the door and the new little puppy came running down the walkway. I had my head turned the other way and turned it back just in time to see the little pooch run right up under the discharge flap. I never had a chance to react in time. Before i could swat at the pto switch it was too late. I felt so bad because the kid saw the whole thing.

Even though it wasnt my fault I went and got the kid another dog. (I told his parents I was going to) And made up this story about i was cleaning the mower and found him hiding under the seat. I have gotten a ton of referrals from them. I guess having a heart sometimes goes a long way.

Why in the world did I read that?:cry:

[anj]

Ran Over Clients Newspaper. I Dont Know If He Saw It But Guy Next Door Was Yelling Because The Wind Was Blowing The Paper In His Yard.

[DOLMARatOS]

Try knocking down a bird feeder with ROPS and not notice. Then nail it on the next pass.

Bird seed has a LOT of fast-growing weeds in it. LOL

Opps. Luckily this was not one of mine and the names/identities of those involved have been changed to protect the innocent.

[jaybow]

I was mowing around a above ground pool when my mower chucked a rock right threw a vinyle privacy fence. It made a hole about the size of a fist.They have about six kids running around like wild animals so they never pinned it on me.

[Daily Lawn/Landscape]

Last year I went to do a one time cut for someone. When the wife got home she called and asked if we broke the glass in the back door. I went out and looked at it and figured when we were edging the landscape we slung a rock at the glass and it shattered. I payed to have it fixed $161.07. Well I guess the couple felt bad for me so they had us continue to mow the lawn. Well 2 weeks later I get a call from the same customer. The guys were out cutting and when they were edging the landscape, well you can guess the rest. Another $161.07. Now we perform full service landscape maintenance for them also. Hard way to generate more business LOL

[RedWingsDet]

Let see.... Broke 5 Car windows at once, Ran over dead animals, Cut the gas pipe when repairing a irrigation line and didnt know they now use poly for gas feeds.

[americanlawn]

About ten years ago, a customer called in. Said he still had weeds. Sure did. So I ended up spraying nearly his entire lawn with a backpack sprayer (small lawn -- only about 3500 sq ft).

I killed all the weeds..........only prob was, I also killed all his lawn too. Seems one of my guys borrowed my backpack sprayer the day before and used it to spray Roundup. He neglected to tell me there was over 2 1/2 gallons of "Roundup" remaining in the tank (instead of the usual bwc product).

Sinse that happened, EVERYBODY uses their own backpack, and they are clearly labeled (duct tape w/black magic marker).

We sodded the guy's lawn, but he cancelled anyway -- even though his lawn used to be older cultivars of Kentucky blue, yet ended up having the newer cultivars. Oh well.

[Landscape89]

Last year I went to do a one time cut for someone. When the wife got home she called and asked if we broke the glass in the back door. I went out and looked at it and figured when we were edging the landscape we slung a rock at the glass and it shattered. I payed to have it fixed $161.07. Well I guess the couple felt bad for me so they had us continue to mow the lawn. Well 2 weeks later I get a call from the same customer. The guys were out cutting and when they were edging the landscape, well you can guess the rest. Another $161.07. Now we perform full service landscape maintenance for them also. Hard way to generate more business LOL


Same thing happened to me. When doing a spring clean up a few years ago, I was going over the newly made edges with my Redmax, next thing I know the whole glass front door shattered from a rock that was thrown! I offered to pay for the damage costs, but the guy was cool and said accidents do happen and didnt accept the $ offer. When me and my other guys working with me were doing a spring clean up this past year, we didnt know the guy had a dog he took care of every weekend. Sure enough my helper learned that out the hard way. Reached under one of the bushes when we were raking out the beds.. and stuck his hand in a nice big pile of DOG-DUNG! :laugh: . There are some days that go well for you, and some days that dont.. you just gotta keep on working!

[grassmedics]

ok lets see, so far i've ran over a bunch of stuff shirts tarps etc. edged right through 2 cable lines, and a garden hose, trimmed through a couple tree supports(the nylon ones) hit fences with the front wheels on the WB, torn spots in the grass on the ZTR. Thats just to name a few, LOL. Lets see how it goes for 2nd year in business:laugh:

[nmez21]

1st cut with a new client and they were out on their screened in porch while I was mowing their backyard. I got up a little too close to a small woodpile that had a tarp on it. Turned a 40sq. ft tarp into a bunch of confetti, that was embarrasing.

[Sweet Tater]

I can relate some. This is my first year and I've gotton the ZTR stuck, took a full size tractor to pull me out, and back out once with the trailor gate down. ooppssie

[meathead1134]

You know those bouncing things that people rent for parties. Well my customer had bought a cheaper version from Wally World. You hook it up the the compressor and poof a six foot tall water slide they were done with it and deflated it and put it over the fence. Well I was mowing very close to the fence line and I made a left turn and the mower sucked up the hose part and destroyed it no way to fix it. I was pissed I had to spend 10 to 15 minuntes cutting the kevlar type material out from under the spindle and then trying to explain it to the home owner who got pissed at me. He went inside and got yelled at by his wife :laugh: for not putting it away. We ended up splitting the cost something on the aspect of $140.00 a piece.

[Mrs. H]

Let see.... Broke 5 Car windows at once,

I wanna' know how you did this. Do tell...:)

[LindblomRJ]

About ten years ago, a customer called in. Said he still had weeds. Sure did. So I ended up spraying nearly his entire lawn with a backpack sprayer (small lawn -- only about 3500 sq ft).

I killed all the weeds..........only prob was, I also killed all his lawn too. Seems one of my guys borrowed my backpack sprayer the day before and used it to spray Roundup. He neglected to tell me there was over 2 1/2 gallons of "Roundup" remaining in the tank (instead of the usual bwc product).

Sinse that happened, EVERYBODY uses their own backpack, and they are clearly labeled (duct tape w/black magic marker).

We sodded the guy's lawn, but he cancelled anyway -- even though his lawn used to be older cultivars of Kentucky blue, yet ended up having the newer cultivars. Oh well.
Dad was spraying for leafy spurge (in pasture) well he had some mix left over and mom was on him to take care of the weeds in the lawn. He did, seems he "forgot" that there was round up in the tank. You could see where he missed too. For Christmas that year my brother gave dad some grass seed as a present.

[KTO Enterprises]

Oh yeah I forgot that one time I drove the front end loader on the tractor through a privacy fence. What a moron I felt like.

[cgaengineer]

We rented a small trackhoe for laying a pipe here at office. Well at the creek where the pipe was to exit were some very large granite stones...these were about 12"x12"x6' well the hoe would pick them up but the problem was is that I had the tractor facing up grade when lifting with tracks pointed forward. Well I lifted the stone and started to rotate...one of my employees said I wouldnt do that if I were you and I proceeded. Well to my left (This is where I was dropping the stone) was a 6-7 foot drop off to the creek. Well once I turned, the trackhoe violently came crashing towards the creek below only stopping when the bucket and boom hit the ground...keep in mind the boom was extended and I had to release the rock causing the tractor to crash back to the ground violently. Well that was the last large rock I picked up that day...just drug them around after that.

[LindblomRJ]

I drove tractor thought a barb wire fece, totally missed the gate. it was dark and the lights didn't work on the tractor. Feeding cattle after dark. I was fixing fence with the use of headlights on a vehicle.

It wasn't at a customers house though.

[RedWingsDet]

I wanna' know how you did this. Do tell...:)

hit one of those iron water caps, it flew across the street, 5 houses down and struck the Honda crv and ricochet of all 5 windows and broke them all. I was lucky it didn't hit anyone.

[cgaengineer]

Not on my property, but I hit a chlorine tap in a very large water main (Should have been removed upon completion of water line) I was checking my NPDES monitoring stations and returned the next day to a small lake with water bubbling out of the ground. What a mess. I couldnt see it because it was underground a foot or so and the soil was so soft that when tires sunk in the ground my truck tire hit the tap.

[GLLawns]

I was making a pass by a boulder and ran the discharge side too close and bam. Boulder splits completly in half and falls over, I look up and homeowner is staring with her mouth wide open. Thinking that I just destroyed a spindle along with the boulder all I could say was holy sh%t. Lady didn't hear me but she comes up to me and said wow glad that wasn't your foot. Could not believe that there was no damage at all to spindle or deck. The only damage to the mower was a scrape and a trashed blade. She just had me move the other half to different spot and was actually happy to have 2 rocks now instead of one.

[LindblomRJ]

2 for 1 specials are a good thing.

[All_Toro_4ME]

We had heavy flooding in May, June, and July, so I had to mow between storms. I had a 1.5 acre property to mow and it was the first mowing, new account. I mowed for about 15 minutes with the Z and it sunk, both front and back tires. The ground was like a big sponge. Being the quick thinker I am, I pulled my truck around to tow it out. Ended up getting the truck stuck as well. Spent most of the day waiting on the tow truck to come save my day.

[KTO Enterprises]

I wanna' know how you did this. Do tell...:)

He hired David for a day.

HAHA

[Mrs. H]

He hired David for a day.

HAHA

Seriously, David busted the window out at a NAPA and Waffle House in one day...just a few weeks ago! :)

[Breezmister]

:cry: Commercial job, out back of a factory, along a employee parking lot, got cut once every two months just to keep it down. First cut, no problem, second cut, there was a new chain link fence, 8 foot tall.... the guy who put up the fence left a 6 inch by eight foot long scrap on the ground, now with two months of growth over it. All 8 foot around 2 spindles of a 72 inch Hustler:dizzy:

[LawnBrother]

:cry: Commercial job, out back of a factory, along a employee parking lot, got cut once every two months just to keep it down. First cut, no problem, second cut, there was a new chain link fence, 8 foot tall.... the guy who put up the fence left a 6 inch by eight foot long scrap on the ground, now with two months of growth over it. All 8 foot around 2 spindles of a 72 inch Hustler:dizzy:

THAT SUCKS

[Breezmister]

THAT SUCKS

My fault, I should have walked it before I went in there.:hammerhead: The pain was the 2 hours it took to cut the fence out from under the deck :dizzy: Good thing was I was able to cut it with a cut-off grinder back at the shop:cool2: I would have hated to do that with a pair of dyks :)

[GLLawns]

We had heavy flooding in May, June, and July, so I had to mow between storms. I had a 1.5 acre property to mow and it was the first mowing, new account. I mowed for about 15 minutes with the Z and it sunk, both front and back tires. The ground was like a big sponge. Being the quick thinker I am, I pulled my truck around to tow it out. Ended up getting the truck stuck as well. Spent most of the day waiting on the tow truck to come save my day.

This one has always cracked me up. I've seen it so many times, you would think that if the ground was too wet for a Z that you would not put something 5 times heavier in the wet. Unfortunately we all have our brain farts on occasion.

[grassmedics]

speaking of screw ups, just did one today:dizzy: . hit the pvc pipe for a pool pump with the deck of my walk behind, and ripped the pipe right out of the ground, and in the other 2 places it was connected:hammerhead:

[KTO Enterprises]

Yeah I busted a tire on the tractor today. What a way to start the week.

[DillonsLawnCare]

i was using my walkbehind on a small yard 2 days ago, i was cutting real close to the back porch, but stupid me didnt pay attention to where i was going. i took out a little water thing that is usually under the gutter that runs down the house. it was agregate. it costed me a spindle and new blades. luckily the lady was nice. but what i really hate is when the people come out of there house when your cutting their grass to make sure your doing it right. it makes me all nervous cause i think im gunna hurt something. does anyone else feel like that.?!????

[KTO Enterprises]

Hey Dillons, my contracts state that all members of the household must stay inside while I am working for their safety.

[RedMax Man]

i was using my walkbehind on a small yard 2 days ago, i was cutting real close to the back porch, but stupid me didnt pay attention to where i was going. i took out a little water thing that is usually under the gutter that runs down the house. it was agregate. it costed me a spindle and new blades. luckily the lady was nice. but what i really hate is when the people come out of there house when your cutting their grass to make sure your doing it right. it makes me all nervous cause i think im gunna hurt something. does anyone else feel like that.?!????

I only have one in particular that does that, she comes out only when i'm string trimming or blowing. She has the money in hand ready to pay and is just waiting but it makes me go slower cuz i don't want to hurt her. I just do that area now before she comes out the door. If it keeps happening i'm going to ask her to wait till i knock on the door.

[Marcos]

I'll never forget in high school getting busted taking a pee behind a wall by the old lady who was coming out to hand me a tip when the work was done. She played ignorant and pretended she didn't see anything, but her face turned the color of a Dr. Pepper can.

[All_Toro_4ME]

I'll never forget in high school getting busted taking a pee behind a wall by the old lady who was coming out to hand me a tip when the work was done. She played ignorant and pretended she didn't see anything, but her face turned the color of a Dr. Pepper can.


This one wins. Cracked me up:laugh:

[All_Toro_4ME]

This one has always cracked me up. I've seen it so many times, you would think that if the ground was too wet for a Z that you would not put something 5 times heavier in the wet. Unfortunately we all have our brain farts on occasion.


Yea, you would think, but I guess I didn't that day. Just was focused on getting it mowed before the next round of storms hit.

[KTO Enterprises]

her face turned the color of a Dr. Pepper can.

Are you sure it wasnt the color of a Dr. Peeper can?

[steve5966]

A few years back we were busting butt to finish a yard, the customer was having a party to celebrate the finish of the house and yard remodel. People had already begun to arrive and were standing on the deck. The boss an I were in the front of the house waiting for the guys to pick up the tools when we hear a scream " He wet on my house, He wet on my house" I looked at the boss and calmly told him " I'm glad I'm not you". An old man that worked for me snuck around the side of the garage without relising the deck extended to the garage roof. 300$ off the job and a quick wash and we were out of there.

[JT1304]

My father in law got a nice big stomach pain one day. Went out behind this guys shed to "ease" the pain. Guy calls and asks who "defecated" in the yard. We say " I don't know, maybe the guy that delivered the sod" Anyways after a "small" clean up everything was good.
How did he know someone used the back of shed as a toilet? Simple his dog brought up the streaky paper and had some really bad breath. We don't really work for him anymore.

[prizeprop]

Simple his dog brought up the streaky paper and had some really bad breath.
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

[Chilehead]

I've commited several boo-boos: spilled a can of purple primer on a customer's concrete patio; cut down the wrong tree(very expensive mistake); and I know all of you have done this--sucked up the newspaper on the driveway and made a cloud of confetti.

[Chilehead]

Oh yeah, one more--ran over a load of wet doggy doo-doo and sprayed it over a customer's house.

[Tim Wright]

I'll never forget in high school getting busted taking a pee behind a wall by the old lady who was coming out to hand me a tip when the work was done. She played ignorant and pretended she didn't see anything, but her face turned the color of a Dr. Pepper can.

Maybe it was a can of Dr. Pee-per.

Tim

[Big Bad Bob]

Oh yeah, one more--ran over a load of wet doggy doo-doo and sprayed it over a customer's house.

That one, the customer deserved.

[sweatyclippingcoveredguy]

I went out working while feeling a bit sick,

I was using a walkbehind when all of sudden a massive wave of diarrhea swept me. It was unstoppable. If I would have even ran back to the truck I would have shtt my pants. So I ran towards the border of the property where there was a border of trees and a neighbors fence and let it go in that tiny bit of woodland. Being super nervous and feeling horrible, all of a sudden the neighbors dog (obviously a huge monster) comes up to the edge of the fence barking. It scared the shtt out of me... literally. Coincidentally, on the same job the gearbox on my bobcat broke... so all around it was a shtty day.

[lawnandplow42]

one time i was mowing a lawn with the turf tiger and thought it was dry where i was goin. I got the mower stuck reallly bad and couldn't get it out. So me and my buddy thought we could back the trailer onto the lawn and pull the mower out. But it didn't reach so we had to back the whole rig onto the lawn.
To make a long story short, we got the whole operation burrrrried on this lawn and had to bring in my buddies 85 chevy pickup to yank it. We used a long as tow rope and put his truck in 4 low on asphalt and pulled everything out.:drinkup:

another time my buddies dad was bush hoggin a field and ran over a baby deer. It was a bloody slaughter rite there in the person's field:laugh:

[dgZtrak737]

[QUOTE=sweatyclippingcoveredguy;1950193]I went out working while feeling a bit sick,

I was using a walkbehind when all of sudden a massive wave of diarrhea swept me. It was unstoppable. If I would have even ran back to the truck I would have shtt my pants. So I ran towards the border of the property where there was a border of trees and a neighbors fence and let it go in that tiny bit of woodland. Being super nervous and feeling horrible, all of a sudden the neighbors dog (obviously a huge monster) comes up to the edge of the fence barking. It scared the shtt out of me... literally.



I know thats not funny, but it is :laugh:

[jimmyzlc]

This was just unbelieable what happened to me. We where cutting a tree down and it was hanging over the lake and dock at his place. So we tied a line to the tree cut it and yanked it back to land with the hustler, it worked perfect. The problem was one of the nieghbors dogs was running around and in and out of the lake. I was not paying attention to her and as the tree cracked and started falling, she bolted right under the falling tree right on her back end. You could tell she was hurt real bad, she spun around and flipped into the wate,r I got her out. It all happened so fast yet it was like a watching it all unfold in slow motion. She died in my arms:cry: and I buried her for the nieghbor and offered to buy them a new dog he did not want one. One of the worst weekends I had ever had. It took me two weeks to get back up enough guts to go back to the guys house I felt so bad.

[Daddy Joes Lawn Service]

Hit a cast iron mail box it fell to the ground called and told the customer i said we are insured and we will take care of it. Next day she called and said we would have to get a new one ask her the price she said $400.00 well i call my insurance and let them know. she said don't worry about it **** happens and we will see you next week. Pulled up and and they there were putting a new one up and ask so see the receipt sure enough 400.00 receipt!!:clapping:

[KTO Enterprises]

Maybe it was a can of Dr. Pee-per.

Tim

You copying me Tim? read post 65. lol

[KTO Enterprises]

I went out working while feeling a bit sick,

I was using a walkbehind when all of sudden a massive wave of diarrhea swept me. It was unstoppable. If I would have even ran back to the truck I would have shtt my pants. So I ran towards the border of the property where there was a border of trees and a neighbors fence and let it go in that tiny bit of woodland. Being super nervous and feeling horrible, all of a sudden the neighbors dog (obviously a huge monster) comes up to the edge of the fence barking. It scared the shtt out of me... literally. Coincidentally, on the same job the gearbox on my bobcat broke... so all around it was a shtty day.

Let me ask you this. Did you pull your pants up without wiping? Because I doubt you carry TP in case of sudden rushes of Diarrhea.

[JayD]

:hammerhead: This was not at a customers, but in front of my own house.
It was the first day I got my new 52" WB and new trailer, took it to the house to practice and had the truck/trailer parked in front blocking the driveway. Then my wife needed to leave, so because the parking was tight that day, I for some stupid reason unhooked the trailer and pulled the truck up so she could get out. Well, while I was practicing out back with the Wb, it started to rain, so I was in a hurry to get it loaded back on the trailer to get it put up and, yes, you know it, right in front about 15 people who was visiting across the street, I go to pull the Wb onto the trailer and the front of the trailer went flying up in the air and than I over corrected it, trailer comes slamming down, than back up again. Three times up and down before I got control of it. You talk about looking stupid........
I looked over after it was all over to see that every one was watching me, and said..................OK, NOW THAT WILL BE $5.00 FROM ALL OF YOU FOR THE SIDE SHOW.......Laugh about it now, but at the time, I felt like the biggest dumb $ss.:hammerhead:

[JayD]

[QUOTE=sweatyclippingcoveredguy;1950193]I went out working while feeling a bit sick,

I was using a walkbehind when all of sudden a massive wave of diarrhea swept me. It was unstoppable. If I would have even ran back to the truck I would have shtt my pants. So I ran towards the border of the property where there was a border of trees and a neighbors fence and let it go in that tiny bit of woodland. Being super nervous and feeling horrible, all of a sudden the neighbors dog (obviously a huge monster) comes up to the edge of the fence barking. It scared the shtt out of me... literally.



I know thats not funny, but it is :laugh:

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: Now that has me busting at the seams...Sorry.

[JayD]

I'll never forget in high school getting busted taking a pee behind a wall by the old lady who was coming out to hand me a tip when the work was done. She played ignorant and pretended she didn't see anything, but her face turned the color of a Dr. Pepper can.

:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: Man, that is funny......

[Dirt Digger2]

hit a brand new house with a backhoe when i was backfilling a ditch...got lucky and only squished a downspout.

[cgaengineer]

This was just unbelieable what happened to me. We where cutting a tree down and it was hanging over the lake and dock at his place. So we tied a line to the tree cut it and yanked it back to land with the hustler, it worked perfect. The problem was one of the nieghbors dogs was running around and in and out of the lake. I was not paying attention to her and as the tree cracked and started falling, she bolted right under the falling tree right on her back end. You could tell she was hurt real bad, she spun around and flipped into the wate,r I got her out. It all happened so fast yet it was like a watching it all unfold in slow motion. She died in my arms:cry: and I buried her for the nieghbor and offered to buy them a new dog he did not want one. One of the worst weekends I had ever had. It took me two weeks to get back up enough guts to go back to the guys house I felt so bad.

Very sad story Jimmy.

[Runner]

Biggest screw up I've have ever done at a customers home?

His wife.:walking:

(Just kidding, of course)

[WhitakerServices]

Let me ask you this. Did you pull your pants up without wiping? Because I doubt you carry TP in case of sudden rushes of Diarrhea.

This is when your socks get shorter. I would rather walk around in cutoff socks than with the mud butt.

[hackitdown]

In the last 5 years I have:
1. Shot a rock through a glass storm door.
2. Slid a 52"ZTR down a slope and through a new aluminum 8' fence.
3. Backed over a rhodadendron, chopped it to bits.
4. Sank the Z in the mud several times, had to winch it out
5. Backed into a wooden swingset and tore off the slide.
6. Backed into deck stairs, smashed the railing (my own deck!)
7. Lost control of a WB mower, rode into the woods, hit a tree, fell off the sulkey.
8. Sliced a satellite dish cable with an edger.
9. Shot nasty wet clippings into my truck window.
10. and the list goes on...

[Mrs. H]

In the last 5 years I have:
1. Shot a rock through a glass storm door.
2. Slid a 52"ZTR down a slope and through a new aluminum 8' fence.
3. Backed over a rhodadendron, chopped it to bits.
4. Sank the Z in the mud several times, had to winch it out
5. Backed into a wooden swingset and tore off the slide.
6. Backed into deck stairs, smashed the railing (my own deck!)
7. Lost control of a WB mower, rode into the woods, hit a tree, fell off the sulkey.
8. Sliced a satellite dish cable with an edger.
9. Shot nasty wet clippings into my truck window.
10. and the list goes on...

So THAT's why you call yourself "HACKITDOWN"! :laugh:

P.S. I think you need rearview mirrors.

[KTO Enterprises]

This is when your socks get shorter. I would rather walk around in cutoff socks than with the mud butt.

Lol I was just wondering your methods. I personally have been known to have a shorter T shirt at the end of the day than the beginning.

I will poo in the woods before I use public toilets.

[Frontier-Lawn]

In the last 5 years I have:
1. Shot a rock through a glass storm door.
2. Slid a 52"ZTR down a slope and through a new aluminum 8' fence.
3. Backed over a rhodadendron, chopped it to bits.
4. Sank the Z in the mud several times, had to winch it out
5. Backed into a wooden swingset and tore off the slide.
6. Backed into deck stairs, smashed the railing (my own deck!)
7. Lost control of a WB mower, rode into the woods, hit a tree, fell off the sulkey.
8. Sliced a satellite dish cable with an edger.
9. Shot nasty wet clippings into my truck window.
10. and the list goes on...

and how would one pull off #7

[Stillwater]

and how would one pull off #7

a liquid lunch might do it

[Breezmister]

In the last 5 years I have:
2. Slid a 52"ZTR down a slope and through a new aluminum 8' fence.;)
3. Backed over a rhodadendron, chopped it to bits.:rolleyes:
5. Backed into a wooden swingset and tore off the slide.:nono:
6. Backed into deck stairs, smashed the railing (my own deck!):hammerhead:
7. Lost control of a WB mower, rode into the woods, hit a tree, fell off the sulkey.:drinkup:
9. Shot nasty wet clippings into my truck window.:laugh:


And you have a drivers lic ? What does your trailer look like :laugh:

[Big Bad Bob]

So THAT's why you call yourself "HACKITDOWN"! :laugh:

P.S. I think you need rearview mirrors.

And I think you need to put a backup kill switch on your mower. :laugh:

[hackitdown]

and how would one pull off #7

Bought a mower with controls that I was unfamiliar with, tried to get the lawn cut a quickly as possible, had the thing in 4th or 5th gear, and squeezed the wrong grip. Oh well.

[hackitdown]

So THAT's why you call yourself "HACKITDOWN"! :laugh:

P.S. I think you need rearview mirrors.

Well said!

[lawnman456]

i flipped a bobcat at 3 am in the morning. we were finishing now plowing and we getting ready to leave. thew company that i was working with just got a new tilt trailer for a Beach cleaning machine. well this trailer is alot steeper than the older one. so i tryed to get up and i just slide back down. we attach a chain to the bucket and i raised the bucket. about half way up the chain brakes and the wheels were still going forward and the machine wet backwards. and i landed on the roof. so we got our cat and flipped it back and left it there for the night and came back for it in the morning and she started back up.

[Supper Grassy]

i flipped a bobcat at 3 am in the morning. we were finishing now plowing and we getting ready to leave. thew company that i was working with just got a new tilt trailer for a Beach cleaning machine. well this trailer is alot steeper than the older one. so i tryed to get up and i just slide back down. we attach a chain to the bucket and i raised the bucket. about half way up the chain brakes and the wheels were still going forward and the machine wet backwards. and i landed on the roof. so we got our cat and flipped it back and left it there for the night and came back for it in the morning and she started back up.

sound like an adventureous night

[jonlavonne]

Yesterday I was leaving the jobsite and going around a corner real slow and suddenly hear the sound of spikes rolling across my truck bed. I look out the rearview mirror and see my new Landpride seeder doing a flip off the side of my truck onto the asphalt. Talk about that sick feeling.
By the grace of God absolutely no damage. The new APS seeders are really tough. It landed right side up! I forgot to latch the side of the dump truck and of course strap it down. Today was a day of double checking everything!!

[JimH]

Backing off of a tilt bed trailer,but forgetting to pull the pin so it would tilt.Less than a foot,but felt like a mile down.

[justanotherlawnguy]

hit a customers water main going into their house. luckily it was pvc and not copper so it was easily repairable....

[crazymike]

i flipped a bobcat at 3 am in the morning. we were finishing now plowing and we getting ready to leave. thew company that i was working with just got a new tilt trailer for a Beach cleaning machine. well this trailer is alot steeper than the older one. so i tryed to get up and i just slide back down. we attach a chain to the bucket and i raised the bucket. about half way up the chain brakes and the wheels were still going forward and the machine wet backwards. and i landed on the roof. so we got our cat and flipped it back and left it there for the night and came back for it in the morning and she started back up.

next time back on so you can push yourself with the bucket :p

[WALKER LANDSCAPE]

I thought I had bad days. WOW. Everything seems normal now.

One of my guys drove my WB in the lake still runs after a dry out.
Drove over a BP still works after some parts.
Broke straps being in a hurry.
Through a rock through a window and almost killed a customer still with us.
Broke a wooden swing with my ROPS on the Z when I backed up.
You know the average day!!!!!!;)

[Sweet Tater]

Dang Dang double dang Batman.
Mowing today trying my very best to avoid a patch of rocks that use to be a driveway. well I missed all of them, but found one hidden in the grass. Shattered my own drivers side window into a zillion pretty little pieces. Thank goodness for tint, at least I don't have to clean the whole inside of my truck. $90for mowing..... $125 for a new window. not even worth turning into insurance with a $100 deductable

[txgrassguy]

Probably the worst screw up was applying a herbicide to a very well heeled client's yard - and killing the whole yard.
Come to find out the spray rig I was using was "borrowed" by one of my now ex-foremen to do so "off the books" spraying for other customers.
No he didn't tell me, no he didn't up-date the tag on the sprayer indicating the last known sprayed chemical, I looked at the date on the tag, still displaying the tank hadn't been used since the last cleaning, filled it up and away I go.
Three days after I sprayed the customer calls, I go out and immediately become sick to my stomach. To make matters worse the clients' son is getting married at their house and it was a HUGE event - catered gig, band the whole enchilada.
So, I dyed the yard green as a temporary fix, called my insurance company who replied this wasn't a problem as I hadn't had a claim in over three years.
I approached the client, explained the whole thing and told him know was the chance to pick his turf of choice.
Long story short, he is still my client (almost seven years now), and throws more work my way than I or my crews can handle.

[kf4pbm]

when i first started mowing i bought a toro hydro wb with the t-bar. well, since i was used to pistol grips my brain sent the signal to the wrong hand. i made a left turn into a lake. 3 ft drop off. luckily the sulky got caught up on the bank stopping the mower about 6 inches from the motor. that could have been a super bad day, mower was 3 hours old.

i sucked up an iron cap to a gas line with the same mower. got stuck between the discharge and right blade.

ive gotten stuck on about every mower i have owned, except the lazer, knock on wood.

ive cut a few sprinkler lines with the trimmer where they come up the the backflow preventers.

over all nothing to pricey yet. knock on wood again.

[capelawncare.com]

Wasnt a customers house thank god, was my own. I was rushing to get my back yard cut before an afternoon storm, and hit the well head with the ZTR busted it, flooded the yard etc etc.

Then the following week also at my own house, ran over the hose, it got wrapped around the spindle, and pulled the hose bib and faucet right out the friggin wall.

It was real joy fixing those in the afternoon thunder storms!

[SproulsMowingService]

I believe my worst case was actually a near miss incident. I was trimming trees after a bad storm had went through. One of the limbs was slightly over a power line. I was hoping to cut it slowly and swing it down past the line, but it didn't work out that way. The whole limb came down at once, and the tips of the limb brushed the power line, whipping it like a bull whip. Thankfully it didn't snap. I could imagine the bill the power company would have handed me for that one for the large area that would have went black!