What did you breake this year?

[LAWNGODFATHER]

OK here is a good one. What did you break or damage this year.

Me, supposedly an invisable fence wire.

Spindle on Lazer, after some dumb azz (not me) drove it though a wood fence.

Tail light on truck (not me) while plowing


Cable wire while aerating at my house.

That's it been a good year.

[odin]

Only thing that happened to us was caused by my 150lb rottweiler ,who killed a pit bull who some idiot sicked on him.we mow one account in a bad area so we always bring big thor with us .the moron had the nerve to try to sue us for his dead dog

[LAWNGODFATHER]

Oh my god. LMAO!!!

I never though I would get this. BTW Thor huh, good name for a rott. They are all Thor to me

[lawnman_scott]

Dead grass on the mower and a oil leak casued a fire, that cost $452 to fix. melted a fan on a blower, ran over a weedeater, dropped a pole saw and bent the pole. Burnt transmission out of 98 ford. Blew engine in 79 chevy dump. Broke a sliding glass door, and a few spriklers. Do we sould like a wrecking crew? lol. Just lots of work, and summer everything gets beat to death, but we are doing lawns every other week now and trying to fix equipment. But it really was a very bad year.

[awm]

odin is your dog open to match:D just kidding
did a little of that before i learned better many yrs ago.
wish i had a big dog for my truck,but i worry that the grandkids might do something around the truck,and get hurt.
the only thing i remember breakin was my yd wagon.
my son loaded a large tree root on it from as high as th e
backhoe bucket would go. it fell off and crushed the wagon.
still dont really understand why the bucket was so high.
oh well hes good kid .

[Bunton Guy]

Yesterday shattered a glass window after the customer had taken it out and leaned it up against the house. I was blowing off the back patio and was blowing under it since it was leaning up against the house it was like a fan blade and flipped rite over...powerfull blower..it shattered she wanted me to fix it saying its a 200 year old french window and its gonna cost me thousands to replace it ...I said ma am im replacing the GLASS not the hole f` en window !. Other than that

Invisible dog fence - Aerating.
7 irigation heads- Aerating (customer said he didnt have irrigation huh ? stupid customer )
3 gator blades- hit bricks hidden under bermuda grass.
blow trans twice on 2000 F-150

[kutnkru]

I stuck a shard of glass in my shin from a broken bottle when trimming an overgrown fenceline. And the typical bumps and scrapes associated with climbing around shrubs, trucks, and the trailers.

Clipped a cable wire that the installer had laid into the shrubs when running a cable wire under their bow window. I guess the client just didnt want it anchored to their brick fascia (understandable). They should have reminded us though so they werent inconvenienced.

Kris

[David Haggerty]

LGF
I've wrecked more than that much stuff in a day!

I guess the worse one this year was when I mowed the top off of a well head and fired it into the front door of the house. It tore out the screen on the storm door and put a big dent in the front door. The homeowner let me off with replacing the well cover for $6

I still don't know if I did it intentionally. I'd been mowing over that well cap for years. I was a little pizzed off. They were having a kid's birthday party in the yard, and just let the kids run around while I was mowing. Like I was going to take five minutes or so..
So I went around to the front of the house and POW! there goes the well cover. They said in the house they thought a bomb went off.

We have an understanding now, I mow only thru the week, when everyone's gone to school or work.

I keep telling these people lawn mowing is NOT a spectator event!

Dave

[trimmer]

Lets see, I broke the rear end in my truck and got in two wrecks.
Ran over a soccor ball, broke some sprinkler heads, other than that I guess I did pretty good.

[rodfather]

LGF,

I broke my azz this year...no, really let's see.

Blew the motor and tranny in my 4X4 Chevy Diesel. That was about $7,000. Blew the tranny in my F-350, 3 more thousand. Backed into someone in a parking lot. $550 out of pocket. Besides all that, nothing that I can think of.

But the year ain't over quite yet...there's still time for something else to break!!!

[LAWNGODFATHER]

I though I had it bad on the trucks. Transfer case went out, but I didn't include it in the things that were broken. I don't cpnt it as we broke it.

Rodfather. How did you blow the diesel engine in the truck?

Dave. You got off easy on that one. Call it a cast iron frisbie.

Bunton Guy. If she didn't know she had an Irr. system, how did she know it was broken?

Damn I though I had it ruff in the past years.

[Chuck Sinclair]

Nope, Nothing, Nada!

[Pauls Mowing]

Nothing. Had a really good year.

Paul

[stslawncare]

only thing ive broken is my grandfathers pull mower on his kubota when i hit a big rock, but he fixed it for cheap, it wasnt mine, wasnt my fault, it was family, so who cares.


how the heck u guys tear up ur trucks so much? i think i might stay with my bikes lol, maybe the tractor too :-)

[Mowingman]

My 60" ATR picked up a brick hidden in tall grass, chopped it into two pieces, and threw it into the side of a nearly new Honda minivan passing by on the highway. Did about $2000.00 body damage. Thank God for liab. insur. And yes, I had the discharge chute in place.:(

[GreenQuest Lawn]

well just the usual stuff

A few flats

a clutch for the lazer

a dampener for the lazer

other than that not much. I have a few things on the trac vac that need a weld or two but nothing bad.

[rodfather]

LGF

The tranny locked up in the Chevy Diesel and with the tork of it being in low gear, it snapped the crankshaft of the motor. Both bought it at the same time. I'm told if it was a gas motor, the crankshaft probably would have survived. Oh well..

[plow kid]

[list=1]
5 mower tires
a $410 pto gearbox
a plastic camshaft
a connecting rod
2 radiators
a 302 ford engine for my truck
a c4 trans for the truck
2 spindles burnt from running doubles
and a ring and pinion in my new truck
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[casey]

Sounds like a poser response "kid".

[casey]

Re:Plowsite

[bubble boy]

2001 dodge ram tranny. 10 000 miles. dont even ask.:angry:

[Bunton Guy]

Lawngodfather...I dont even know I asked the customer " do you have an irrigation system and or any gas lines in your yard "
he replied quickly with NO...so I started the aeration and at the end I had realized the plastic chunks on top of the lawn. I guess he never used the system and must have been farely new to the house. I never asked and I didnt have to replace the heads. He didnt plan on using the system.

[Mowingman]

I can't believe how many people have had major truck problems here. So far, 43% of those responding to this thread have had serious truck breakdowns. I must be lucky. I have not had a serious truck problem since I started this business 11 years ago.(Knock on wood). Of course, I don't plow snow, and I know that is tough on trucks.:)

[Eric ELM]

I plow and I have a 97 F250 HD 4x4 and I must be lucky too. The only thing I broke was the bead on a tire so I could fix a rim leak with a new coat of sealer on the rim.

[LAWNGODFATHER]

My 1/2 ton Dodge love to break. My 3/4 ton Dodge has had only one problem and it was the tranny cooling line came off while plowing a big storm.

[Randy Scott]

Fricken' tires on my enclosed trailer. Out of the four (tandem axle), had to buy one new one, two holes from screws really tore it up. Two other tires had a nail and another screw, and a third is still leaking and I can't find what or where. So pretty much every tire is giving me grief. I've been pulling snowmobile trailers and motocross trailers for the last ten years, every weekend doing one or the other, never ever had a flat or leak. Now, this year, it's making up for it. Maybe I have a LCO enemy? LOL

[Mark]

Well other than having to replace the spindel bearings on my 9yr old Snapper Walkbehind for the first time everything so far is going just fine. Marks Mowing Service Its Amazing what the power of prayer has done for me.

[LAWNGODFATHER]

Edited by Eric ELM 11-19-2001

[plow kid]

Originally posted by casey
Sounds like a poser response "kid".

At least I am not stupid enough to get a walk behind mower stuck in someones backyard and lie to the customer saying that the stair climbing system was broke, If you want to start a pissing match I am game.http://www.unionturf.com/hehehmn.gif

[little green guy]

Lets see,

- 1 section of fence, backed into it with the mower
- got mower stuck in a gate, bent the hinges and took about an hour to get the mower out
- plenty of flat tires and small breakdowns like that
- new radiatior in truck- 500.00
- front end work on truck from plowing

thats all i can think of right now but there's alot more, it was along season and plow season hasn't started yet either.

[MOW ED]

Its funny how the flow of a thread suddenly stops and starts again.


I broke nothing on purpose BUT

the electric clutch broke on the Toro WB $215.00

the fuel pump on my 26EFI took a crap WARRANTY

2 flats on Walker $2.00

1 flat on trailer $1.00

1 empty 6gal gas can flew away $0.00 had an extra

Can't complain.

[kutnkru]

Originally posted by MOW ED
Its funny how the flow of a thread suddenly stops and starts again. ...I wish :rolleyes: that more people would continue to add/make comments about topics already discussed in the older threads. It keeps the topic combined and saves from having to go thru 85 (4 post threads) to get what info your looking for -LOL!!!

Kris

[Got Grass?]

OK, heres the list of what I broke this year....

Bead on castors a few times, sucks to reset w/o decent compressor (hope santa brings me one).
Orig. shocks on 93 F-150 (only bought 1yr. thay gave me about 2.5 topsoil)
Ground a bunch of times (odviously)
Skin (hands, legs, head (when I walked into open window on a sunday trimming lotta blood.))
A lot of stuck bolts (repairs on the F-150)
A few sticks/branches (cleanups)
Knocked a stone off a old brick wall (2ft high, planting arbs. and junipers)
Cut a metal/steel pipe cover in 1/2 (mower sucked it up)
Side of trailler light (my leg cought it)
Pin on trailer gate latch came 1/2 off (poor install weld)
Bracket on catcher came 3/4 off (bounced and hit trees's to much)
Saw Chain (old chain on Stihl 029, luckly not injured)
A few bottles (running over with truck/mower)
Customers gate latch (bolt came out, rotted wood)
A dead Squirl into many little pices (ran over with mower, did that ever smell)
A customers picknic table bench (fell apart when moving, was rotted).


I'm sure there is a lot more but cant remember right now.... Heck I had to list the little things to catch up to some of you people.
:p

[Jerrys Lawn Service]

Ok let me say up front that it has'nt been such a good year breakage wise anyway, so here's this years list.

clients rear window in her car (weedeater)
clients tempered glass fullview storm door(weedeater)
clients rear storm door glass (walkbehind with doubles on it)

clients drain cleanout pipe and cover(walkbehind)
my own tail light(weedeater)

Maybe we got most of our breakage out of the way this year, better luck next!
Jerry

[65hoss]

1 Lazer HP belt
Trailer light lens


Thats it. Good year.