View Full Version : what's the weirdest thing you've ever seen while mowing?
david griggs
02-01-2002, 10:51 PM
like sasquatch,ufo's or neked people- i saw a bat flopping around in one yard, musta had rabies, we got the hell outta there!
Bob Minney
02-02-2002, 12:25 AM
I was tilling up a back yard and started hitting a lot of old cans, pans. Came across a pile of bones, I was about to call police untill I figured out it was a big dog. This was several days after cable installers had found a baby burried in a back yard in the same neighborhood. I thought real hard about selling that tiller.
my guys came across a female client nude sun bathing and trust me on this... we all wish we were there... :eek:
JimLewis
02-02-2002, 12:50 AM
About 5 years ago I would take on just about any job for money. And a lot of times in the late spring we'd get these calls from people who hadn't mowed their lawn in like 6 months. So it was like 2 feet tall and we'd come in, weed whack it down, and mow it.
There was one such yard where the owner warned me about the spider problem she had. I said it wouldn't be a problem (what the heck did I care, my employees would be doing the work :D ) She said, "Well, actually it's more of an infestsation." Again, I told her, "no problem, we'll do it."
So my guys began mowing and I was about to leave when my guys called me over to see it. You could spread the 2' grass appart from the top and at any given spot, you could see literally hundreds of spiders. Go over a foot, another couple hundred. I am telling you, I wouldn't be surprised if there were a million spiders in this yard. They weren't big. Just looked like your average house spider. But there were so many! It was more infested with spiders than Indian Jones was with snakes in that first movie. It was freakin' crazy.
We'll they mowed it. I got paid. They all survived. No big deal. But that's definitely the craziest thing I've seen while mowing.
I mow for a guy that buys and fixes up houses to sell. He gave one last summer that was let go for just about all summer. I mowed it first at about 6" and then dropped down to 4" for a second cut. When I dropped down I hit about 5 pairs of sandals that where out there. They were brown and I couldn't see them until they were flyin' across the yard. Don't ask me what the hell they were doing out there. They had a shed that was about 8'x8' and it was full (and I mean full to the top) with clothes. The house was abandoned. Go figure!
HBFOXJr
02-02-2002, 02:30 PM
About 25 years ago I was servicing a bank when I saw a spruce tree 12'-15 tall spontaneaously combust. A bank customer saw it two. We verified what we just saw with each other but didn't make a peep to anyone else because to weird to believe.
The fire lasted seconds, just a poof. I went out, didn't smolder or anything. Just bare branches. It was in a buffer row of spruce and the trees immediately adjacent to it were not touched one bit.
The tree is still standing in the row with the live ones and has hardly deteriorated at all.
65hoss
02-02-2002, 03:24 PM
Saw sex at least twice.
2 years ago one of my residential customers managed a strip club. The girls were always there during the day using his pool. Saw them with bikinis, topless, and a few bare azz'd. :D Hated I lost that job to his friend.
big james
02-02-2002, 03:36 PM
Had some Hispanics doing a clean-up on a yard that had been neglected for a couple of years ,they piled all the old rotten limbs that fell up in a central location ,when them mexican boys started picking them limbs up there was a Copperhead that measured 36 inches hanging out of that handful of limbs . I took him to a taxidermist who insured me he could do reptiles but he screwed it up ,peeed me off big time ,sued him for 1000$ and settled out of court for 500$ ,TRUE STORY :D
LAWNGODFATHER
02-02-2002, 03:51 PM
I was mowing in the "Ghetto" 1 cut a month per each of the 500 places, and ran over a sack of uncancled checks.
Called the police and they said the sack was stolen a few days ago. That was 6 years ago.
Brinks were is my reward?
Ran over a nest of cottenmouth's with a mower, watched all the cute little babies come out, and then ran like hell!!!!
We were mowing a 750thousand dollar home with a big fence and a inground pool and on the side of the pool a white dude and this black chick were getting it on.
It took us about 15mins to get done back there and they never did quit they just kept it up like we werent there.
Never did know who they were ,they were not the owners.
I guess different strokes for different folks.
Also saw two gays who were i guess haveing a love spat.
One was half a$$ naked with his pants down trying to get into the others car and he tripped trying to get on his pants and fell down and the car rolled over his foot.The moron just kept yelling to the other guy dont leave me i love you oooo my foot's crushed
Talking about breaking up and laughing we laughed to we started crying.
FrankenScagMachines
02-02-2002, 03:57 PM
David Griggs - Your message and your signature don't match!
david griggs
02-02-2002, 04:04 PM
bushogboy -what do you mean my signature dosent match?:confused:
olabob
02-02-2002, 04:05 PM
I was too lazy to move this dead squirrel out of the path of my toro 21". It looked real dead like dried out. Well anyways it wasn't and i mowed over it and Bamm guts went everywhere and it smelled and i almost threw up.....
FrankenScagMachines
02-02-2002, 04:45 PM
Maybe you should start a separate thread for perverts who watch customers make out.....how would you like it if someone was being paid to fix something broke at your house and were really watching through the fence while you were makin out???
My point - don't invade other's privacy... and respect it too...
David - You said you ran from a bat ( not really carnivorous human attacking animals, not here at least ) and then your sig. says "life shrinks or expands with one's courage" or something like that. So judging you by your own words, you've got a pretty thin life!
david griggs
02-02-2002, 05:04 PM
bush hog boy- your right,now that i think about it i should'nt have run from the rabid bat that was flopping all over the yard,i should of gave him a big kiss. there's courage and there's knowing when to retreat so that you may live to mow another day.:D :D
LAWNGODFATHER
02-02-2002, 05:13 PM
OK whatever BrushhogBOY.
My point - don't invade other's privacy... and respect it too...
No one said the were Peeping Toms, they said they went to do their normal routine. Not to watch, maby took a few minutes longer. Maby the fence was rought iron or chain link. I did not see that they wrote WOOD fence with little wholes in it.
BTW it is illegal to have sex out side, it is considered public.
"life shrinks or expands with one's courage" mean you set you own limits.
Has nothing to do with running from a BAT, I would run also if it was going to attack me.
vipermanz
02-02-2002, 05:46 PM
just a few dogs going at it heavy:eek:
Bushhog boy
You talking about my post my way of thinking them people were the perverts they were in the cilents back yard. which is completely fenced with a stockcade fence and huge inground pool
They didnt even attemp to do anything not cover up or nothing .They acted like we wasnt even there so we did the same.
So we just kept mowing that back yard
Another thing watch out calling ex airboure dudes perverts a fellow could find himself in some trouble doing that.
A1 Lawn@Landscapes
02-02-2002, 10:29 PM
I was just finishing mowing a customer and the mom of the house comes out frantic. She tells me and my crew that she had just gotten into a fight with her son before we got there and he ran into the woods upset crying with a gun. She asks if we will go into the woods and find him. We must have had too much coffee that morning because we took a few steps in the woods and called for him. We heard a gun shot. I am not afraid to admit I went in my pants. It was kind of hard to hide wearing tan shorts and all. She called the cops. Come to find out It was a guy out back hunting. Her son had a caulk gun that He was returning to a neighbor. Never went back.
I GOT A GOOD ONE! NEW TO BIZ LAST YEAR, HAD LADY CALL SAYING HER AND HUSBAND SPLIT UP AND SHE HAD NO MOWER. SO I WENT OVER GAVE HER AN ESTIMATE AND MADE A DEAL. TWO DAYS LATER I GO OVER THERE IN THE MORNING TO DO YARD AND SEE 2 CARS. KNOCKED ON DOOR TO TELL HER I WAS THERE, WITH NO ANSWER.
HEARD SOME YELLING BUT WENT ON AND STARTED YARD. 15 MIN. INTO JOB I SEE A GUY RUN OUT OF HOUSE GETTING THE SH#! KICKED OUT OF HIM BY BASEBALL BATS FROM HIS WIFE AND KID! I HAD A MILLION THINGS RUNNING THROUGH MY HEAD BUT IN A STATE OF CONFUSION I LOOKED FORWARD AND KEPT MOWING. 10 MINUTES LATER COPS ARRIVE AND HAD TO TELL WHAT I SAW. WELL GUY HAD RECORD OF ABUSE AND LADY HAD ENOUGH. HE ALSO THOUGHT SHE WAS BANGIN THE LAWN GUY (ME)! OH MAN ALMOST DECIDED TO CHANGE PROFESSIONS AFTER THAT DAY. WELL AFTER THAT INCIDENT HE WAS GONE FOR GOOD AND I GOT THE JOB FOR SUMMER!
--KV
Currier
02-02-2002, 11:39 PM
Wow Bushhoggy, you sound wise beyond your years!
You tell them old farts....get em into line.
big james
02-02-2002, 11:40 PM
most if not all people who choose to do that want an audience ,so if he wanys to watch ,GO FOR IT!!!:D :rolleyes: :o
The two morons were out in the back yard banging what the hell could we do about it.As long as we could get that lawn done and get the hell gone they could have used cattle prods on each other for all we cared.
They seemed like they didnt know or care we was back there .
They were in the homeowners back yard and there was not one thing we could do about it.
Dont know who they were or what their relationship with the cilent was .
Like i said different strokes for different folks and its quite clear these two people did not have what is called self control.
_GUNNER_8
02-03-2002, 02:23 AM
Originally posted by jimlewis
About 5 years ago I would take on just about any job for money. And a lot of times in the late spring we'd get these calls from people who hadn't mowed their lawn in like 6 months. So it was like 2 feet tall and we'd come in, weed whack it down, and mow it.
There was one such yard where the owner warned me about the spider problem she had. I said it wouldn't be a problem (what the heck did I care, my employees would be doing the work :D ) She said, "Well, actually it's more of an infestsation." Again, I told her, "no problem, we'll do it."
So my guys began mowing and I was about to leave when my guys called me over to see it. You could spread the 2' grass appart from the top and at any given spot, you could see literally hundreds of spiders. Go over a foot, another couple hundred. I am telling you, I wouldn't be surprised if there were a million spiders in this yard. They weren't big. Just looked like your average house spider. But there were so many! It was more infested with spiders than Indian Jones was with snakes in that first movie. It was freakin' crazy.
We'll they mowed it. I got paid. They all survived. No big deal. But that's definitely the craziest thing I've seen while mowing.
Like you, 6or7 years ago we went to mow fellow that hadnt mowed his yard in couple months and i was doing trimming around back of house and had to use bathroom so i went behind this old shed and while im taking leak this huge copper head snake slithers over my boots and i loose it and start scream for 1 of my guys to bring shovel well old man hears me screeming and flies out back door with a pair of boxer shorts on and his ****** was hanging out and he had a pistol in his hand.We finnished up fast as we could and got the hell out of there.LOL to this day will never forget that!
Lanelle
02-03-2002, 11:29 PM
KV
Please lose the CAPS, it implies 'shouting'.
Mowingman
02-03-2002, 11:50 PM
Two years ago, I went out early on a Sat. morning to mow at a large industrial property. It was the place I worked on my "real day job". As I went around the back of the large metal building on my ztr, I saw a large amount of smoke coming out of a vent fan. This building housed a walk-in dryer and lab, so I figured something in dryer got too hot, no big deal. I unlocked the building, went into the lab, and found one whole wall of the building in flames. Talk about scared and surprised. Called 911 on my cell phone, fireman saved the building with not too much damage. I didn't get too much mowing done that day.:(
BRIAN GALLO
02-03-2002, 11:55 PM
I get this call from a lady who wants to have some plants she bought installed. I get an address and go to give an estimate. As I get closer I notice that I'm not in a very good part of the this neighborhood. I was just about to turn around and head out when I found the place. I figure what the hey, I'm here so I'll give an estimate. I knock on the door and some guy comes staggering out swearing, while holding a liquer bottle in a brown bag - and by the apperance of his pants, he didn't make it to the bathroom in time! I said I must have the wrong address and hauled tail outta there!
plow kid
02-04-2002, 12:09 AM
I have seen accidents.... trees fall over, with no wind or anybody around, saw some guy hit a curb with his johnboat & trailer only to have it bounce 4 or 5 feet high and flip over:Dseen single axle trailers hit speedbumps @ 20 mph and everything fall off, saw a guy with a e-z dumper trailer at the local dump forget to open the doors on the back of the trailer before he raised it( full of concrete) and the trailer flipped over backwards , it was connected to a gmc s-15 and it picked the ass of that truck almost 5 feet in the air:D , while cutting a nice property we saw the mailman deliver mail to a box, drive off and he must have fergotten a piece and went to backup and backed over the mail box:D at a rest stop on a freeway while we were hauling mulch we had both tires just blowout as we got out of the truck:confused: :~NaTe
Duncan IN
02-04-2002, 12:45 AM
Began to mow an apartment complexe that I do maintenance at during the winter and I had a lady come up to me in a big panic. Said she thought her family member had commited suicide and she wanted me to get into the apartment since I was the only one around with a Key to all the apartments. My heart was pounding as I opened up the door and went in to see. I was lucky the lady had ran away for a few days. The thought of of findind a lady dead is scary, I think
LAWNS AND MOWER
02-04-2002, 01:31 PM
80 year old lady asked me if I would help move her mother from a chair to her bed. Lady must've been pushing 100. As I tried to move her into the bed I could hear her whispering "ow, that hurts" Finally get her into the bed. Talk about dead weight. Lady died 2 days later.
LAWNS AND MOWER
Wangel
02-04-2002, 05:15 PM
My new man was pulling a cart of mulch for a new client. Well, all this weight was a bit too much for the septic tank. Yep, it was a real messy job after that. I don't like thinking about it.
Donald R. English
02-04-2002, 08:18 PM
a few years ago while mowing with a toro 520h, a squirrel fell off a limb and landed on the hood of the tractor scaring me half to death,got up and ran off.
skyphoto
02-04-2002, 08:46 PM
Chased and mulched a sewer rat as he came out of a sewer drain....He stayed ahead of me for about 30 ft then I caught him!:eek:
MuskTurfKing
02-05-2002, 01:27 AM
Thought I posted this but oh well.
Was out mowing one day and I see a 'thug' running down the street with a big ol' German Shepard at his heels, I chuckle and go about my business. I glance back and watch in slow motion as he pulls out a gun and fires at the dog, I think he hit the dog, it ran off. I'm scared to death, hop off the mower and run to call 911....
Scared me pretty good.
Hank
65hoss
02-05-2002, 01:49 AM
Originally posted by MuskTurfKing
Thought I posted this but oh well.
Was out mowing one day and I see a 'thug' running down the street with a big ol' German Shepard at his heels, I chuckle and go about my business. I glance back and watch in slow motion as he pulls out a gun and fires at the dog, I think he hit the dog, it ran off. I'm scared to death, hop off the mower and run to call 911....
Scared me pretty good.
Hank
Is this after the dog beat up the van?
J/K. couldn't resist.
PrimeGreen Lawn
02-05-2002, 09:09 AM
I've got a fairly good one. One of my residents homes corners to a high school ball field. We were cutting and had to break for a minute or so. I had brought out the water cooler and set it on top of a wooden post for the guys to take their swiggs at. Suddenly, the varsity high school track team started running by, panting and huffing as they came around the corner. Well, one of the "braver" students just ran to the cooler and took a few swiggs her self and left. Another runner must have been VERY thirsty because she ran to the cooler after seeing her friend do the same and gulped down that water. When I say gulped, I mean she was making sounds that I rarely hear my wife say in bed!!! "Oh..thats feels good, uhhhh, ohhh.." as she's gulping down the water. Now most of my guys are a little "in-experienced" and we did all we could do to not laugh. This girl finally left and we busted out laughing till we cried, kept immitating her the rest of the day getting the same kick out of it each time!
Another one:
A new guy, had him for a week just trained him on the lazer that day. Went to my favorite yard and let him go. This yard has a really nice above ground pool. You see where this is going....:D Anyway, yes, he hit the pool. He told me he got confused after he bumped it, but moved the controls the wrong way, and RIPPED into the pool! Covered him with thousands of gallons of water, and knocked him off the mower. Cost me my $500 deductable for pool repairs, and a Kohler engine for the lazer. The cool water pounding on the hot, screaming Kohler was too much the the block to take. Split it into 3 pieces.
Scott
Henry
02-05-2002, 09:43 AM
About nine years ago I had an employee with long hair. One day as we're blowing leaves off a lawn I see him freaking out, rolling on the ground with a backpack blower on. I run over to see what happened and his hair got sucked into the intake of the old PB400E.
A couple years later I had an employee who liked to wear over-sized t-shirts. One day as he's blowing off a driveway his shirt get's sucked into that same blower. His shirt went from baggy to skin tight. It was the funniest thing seeing him with a blower stuck to his back and his shirt was so tight he couldn't even put his arms down.
Rodney Johns
02-05-2002, 01:19 PM
Couple of nudes here and there.
My best stories come from the golf course days. We once had a tournament where our "BUD GIRLS" were all strippers from St Louis. Yes a chick can cross a green with 6" spikes and not leave a divot. I saw more skin, perves, etc than I could describe in one post. I am talking girls spread eagle at the hole letting guys put out. Not to mention other drunken naked stupidity. Girls standing on tops of golf carts swinging there tops over there head.
I have seen plenty of strange things in my day but I promise you that was by far the most interesting day ever. I did not drink a bit because I wanted to clearly remember who to black male later on.
MuskTurfKing
02-05-2002, 03:52 PM
LMAO @ hoss
It's so funny cause I can sit here and cleary remember the guy punching that car. Talk about having too much. What's even better is he does that on a regular basis. I think the car wins much too often. :p
Hank
chicks-dig-lawn-guys
02-05-2002, 05:18 PM
I saw a five foot cotton mouth racing toward me. I got my kawasaki weed eater ready to try and trim it up a little when my boss came flying threw the ditch in the chopper and chopped it up...talk about a racing heart. Saw 2 more the same day in the same ditch.
thfireman
02-25-2002, 11:42 PM
Saw a snake eating a rabbit. Then after about 30 minutes it had worked itself out to the road to lay in the warm sun and the snake gor ran over by a car. When I was leaving the neighborhood 2 hours later from other jobs there was a buzzard eating the snake and the rabbit. Life cycles are something.
RLC
Damm all you guys who get to get it on if your good looking customers have all the luck.
Only thing we have seen to come close is two people getting it on in the back yard of a custormers house.
Just as well if we started geting it on with the customers my siclian wife probaly would take a big sileto in the elaina bobbet style to me and my brothers hillbilly wives would take great big browning guns to them.
So all four of us probaly would get pretty dead pretty quickif they found out.
But you guys i still envey your luck
:
ohiolawnguy
02-26-2002, 11:14 AM
o ive got 2 stories.
1. once hit a squirrel with a zt and knocked him silly he gets back up, and begins to spin around and hold his chest like fred B. sanford(redd Foxx). buddt squirrel shows up, and helped push him up a tree-literally.
2. mowing a former account. section 8, or welfare housing. im as far away as i can be from any other employees. look onto 2nd level of apartments, and a guy has an ak-47 pointed directly at me. im like HOLY S...!!!!!!
i turn off mower, didnt know what else to do. said why ya pointing gun at me!!! he tells me that i woke him up!!! was trying to sleep. im like just let me finish, and ill be outta here, PLEASE!! finished mowing area and guy disappeared. went to tell apartment manager who says, he does that to people all the time. i suppose ill notify police this time.
oh i see its no big deal if he wants to use me for target practice, because i WOKE him up!!!
AGG Lawn Maintenance
02-26-2002, 12:05 PM
A friend of mine was cutting an industrial property, when he started mowing the back of the complex he saw something hanging from the tree. He cut off the mower to get a closer look and saw a guy hung himself in the wooded area just behind the complex. He said that the guy must have been hanging for a while, because he looked all rotted.
This past year while at a stop light my workers and I saw a guy throw a balled up piece of paper at the car in front. The driver saw that I caught his friend throwing it and told me f-u. Just after that he crashed into the front car. Him and his boy jump out of the car and start kicking the windows on the front car. The light turned green and we were about to pull over just down the rode, when a cop just passed us. Needless to say both guys got locked up. What the heck was that about?
:eek:
Travis
fastlane
02-27-2002, 07:24 PM
20 years ago I gave a lady price to level garden and plant grass. She gives me OK for Thursday.Says no one will be there. garden is behind big farmhouse. I'm dragging Yorkrake around for about an hour making lots of dust when I see 50-60 people in backyard.I ask whats up? They all came from funeral for wake?
I was gone in 1min.
I findout day1 man dies, day 2 she calls me, day 3 I'm doing job. I think he spent more time in garden then with her.
sweatdog20
02-27-2002, 09:26 PM
mowing a resturant one day and behind the resturant there was a drug infested trailer park. We were steady cutting when all of the sudden we heard these guns shots all around us, a car came screaming around the corner with the back window busted and people running after the car while shooting at it. Oh yeah i stopped cutting long enough to hide behind a dumpster.
kerrigan
02-27-2002, 11:15 PM
I had a contract with a local builder. He had 20 spec houses in a row. It was getting dusk out and I wasn't in the best of neighborhoods. As I was putting my equipment on the trailer 4 guys walk by with all the new gutters from the houses on their shoulders and in shopping carts. I figured that was their crack money for the day.:angel:
Jason Pallas
02-28-2002, 08:10 PM
Couple of years back we were cutting and a guy ran out of the house 3 doors down. His wife/girlfriend followed almost immediately after - with a shotgun. Right after she left the house, another woman (who turned out to be a neighbor) ran out of the house and down the street. As we all stopped and stared and started to snicker, the "wife" leveled the shotgun at the guy and killed him. We just about crapped our pants as we dove for cover under the truck and trailer. It wasn't but 2 minutes later that the cops showed up. The lady swung around (she was on the front porch yelling and ranting) and as she did so, the gun pointed at the cops (looked to be incidental, but...), about 4 cops opened fire and killed her too. The whole neighborhood errupted into a riot (mostly white cops, black perps and a very "dark" neighborhood). As a very white landscaping crew, we beat it and got the hell out of Dodge ASAP!
Oh well - what do you expect, it's Detroit and it's the ghetto. In the years since, nothing surprises me about this craphole of a city (now work mostly in the burbs).
The other day, 2 guys shot 9 times into a car filled with 5 kids and two adults (killed one little girl) - all over what? A car stereo that they bought from the people that wouldn't work. And Michigan doesn't have the death penalty - what a joke.
LAWNGODFATHER
02-11-2003, 12:01 AM
This, it's that kid again
greenman
02-11-2003, 07:19 AM
Ah, its pimp daddy mower king, He got him a new pimpin plow for his ranch king.
crawdad
02-11-2003, 08:10 AM
The wierdest thing? Lemme see, the dog humping the cat was fairly wierd.
Crawdad
turfman33
02-11-2003, 08:31 AM
Driving to my next location I looked out across the street as I was pulling out on to this main road, (Very large busy road). I see a guy on a mountain bike pulling all his equipment behind him on a little trailer. This thing must of had some big time weight on it too. He had what must of been either a partner, wife or girlfriend in front of him on another bike. I had to do a double take on that one. I thought I was seeing things.
Steve
A 10 ft python in my yard one morning before I left for work. Called a bunch of people to come get it. No one would. Finally called the police who helpfully suggested I leave it alone and it would crawl away. I informed them when they came this big they sure didn't crawl away in my neighborhood and I was about to chamber a round and blow his head off. Police dispatch responded, blow his head away. One round later my neighbor came out to see what was going on. I called him over to show him my trophy where upon he asked why I shot his boys snake. Right back at him I asked if he didn't think they had a responsibility to inform everyone there was a fricking ten foot python sightseeing in the area. I told him I wouldn't have shot it this time if I had known, but the second time I would have had a real nice belt.
Swampbeast
02-11-2003, 09:47 AM
Weidest thing? Okay, I live real close to Ellington AirForce base right? Well, I am mowing a yard with my crew, great big yard, huge, about 5 acres I am guessing, we are happily mowing away, when the ground starts to shake. We all look up, and there is an Apache Attack Helicopter landing in the freakin back yard! The chopper set down, the dude shut the engines off, two guys hopped out, and they ran into the house. We all looked at each other, shrugged, and kept mowing. All in a days work.
Another time, we were mowing the front yard to another property, and moved to the back yard. Right there, in the middle of the yard, was a guy and THREE girls going at it! (lucky SOB) I yelled to him that we were mowing, and he just hollered back to go ahead....so we mowed about halfway, then they moved over onto the part we had already mowed, and kept going at it. ????
Another time, we were in a very redneck part of the neighborhood, mowing the back yard, when an old ratted out F-150 burst through teh fence and charged across the yard and busted through teh other fence (both of them wooden) this truck was shortly followed by another truck, with two guys in teh back shooting at the truck in front. We left.
Another time, this is just kinda funny, there was a squirrel on a medium as I drove past in my big diesel pickup truck. I swerved close to him and gunned the engine, he threw the acorn he had in his paws straight up, and shot off about 10 feet, then he spun around darted back, CAUGHT the acorn, and took off again.
A lady called us over one time, she said she had a cow loose on her property. So we go over there, she said it was in her swimming pool. We go back there, and there in her swimming pool is a 10 foot alligator! (this gets better) Since I have grown up playing in the swamps of Texas Louisianna and Florida, and I have wrestled Alligators before (hence the name Swampbeast) I decided to catch him! To make a long story short, after nearly two hours of tussling tackling grappling and clawing, me and my 3 crew managed to get him out of the pool. In the insueing struggle, the gator threw up, we could identify what had been a dog not long ago. We tied his head up and put him in the back of the truck, and took him down to an alligator farm, and let him loose.
And of course, I have seen all the usual humping dogs, sunbathers, trucks on teh roofs, basketball goals through the windsheild type of things.
:cool:
Gravely_Man
02-11-2003, 10:26 AM
The strangest and dumbest thing I have seen is a guy that got the bid to mow 4 different softball fields. The strange part is that he was doing it with a 21" mower. I had to stop and ask him about it and he stated that he always mowed it entirely with the 21" mower. Just goes to show there are many people who have dived into the shallow end of the gene pool.
Gravely_Man
LAWNGODFATHER
02-11-2003, 06:08 PM
Here's a better pic.
troblandscape
02-11-2003, 08:37 PM
is that BHB on his tractor, with that new plow he built:confused:
lawncare3
02-11-2003, 10:01 PM
here are some!
BTW LGF, that is one BLING BLING mower you have.
nelbuts
02-11-2003, 10:39 PM
All mine have to do with reptiles.
1. Had an employee weed eating a lake bank get chased by an gator. Chased him about 25 feet then ran back to the water. He would never go to the back yard again.
2. One day chased a rattler along a wall finally shot him out the deck. Well one of the guys was watching and you guessed it the darn thing hit his leg. Thought the boy was going to die right there.
3. A few months after the snake I went to use the bathroom in my shop. There coiled up was this fake black snake about four feet. Well I just knew one of the guys had put it there for the boy I threw the snake on. So I kicked it to the side and it then jumped up and was crawing all over the bathroom. So I called my snake boy over to get something. After that he would stand way back when opening the door!:D
Boycea
02-11-2003, 10:54 PM
I was mowing one of my commercial properties this past spring and in front of me up popped a rabbit. I stopped the mower and the rabbit went down its hole right in front of my mowing path. I decided I would just trim around the hole, so I went around it with my mower. What I didn't know was that the other end of the hole came out about ten feet in front of me. The rabbit came up right as I went over the hole. Ended up throwing rabbit parts all over the building. I felt so bad for the rest of the day because their were small baby rabbits in the hole that came up after the incident.
greenman
02-11-2003, 11:04 PM
Mikey, whos initials are those on the bottom of that plow? P.K.?
Crawdad-a dog humping a cat? OMG. Even the animals are getting freaky now.
LAWNGODFATHER
02-12-2003, 03:39 AM
As you can see from my attempt to add a plow I am no good, I had to have some one do it for me.
LC3, is that you on a cow?
Swampbeast
02-12-2003, 08:35 AM
Boycea, if I was you, I wouldnt feel to bad. those baby rabbits are incredibly hardy, and they can adapt to nearly all situations, including having thier dear poor sweet mother cruelly hacked to bits by the evil lawnmower man! J/K :D
One time I was mowing, and a baby rabbit hopped up on the deck of my 48 inch WB. it was scared to death obviously, and of course the mower is vibrating and roaring beneath it, it scared it so bad that when I shut it off, the bunny just sat there, so I scooped him up, and let him go on the other side of hte fence.
:cool:
CMLLawnServices
02-12-2003, 09:33 AM
There was an all week end tournemen tat one of my ball diamonds, when i left friday nite they had 4 kegs and about 20 60`s of whiskey there , i came back monday morning to do the main diamond and i looked out and there was a large white puff on second base, so i walked over 4 a closer look and there was a guy with a white blanket curled around him useing second base as a pillow and an empyt king can of bud beside him, I whent about 150 yards away and started up the trimmer and started to do some brushcutting up near the acces road and about 10 minutes after he got up and left.
G. Moose
02-12-2003, 12:29 PM
Originally posted by Swampbeast
Weidest thing? Okay, I live real close to Ellington AirForce base right? Well, I am mowing a yard with my crew, great big yard, huge, about 5 acres I am guessing, we are happily mowing away, when the ground starts to shake. We all look up, and there is an Apache Attack Helicopter landing in the freakin back yard! The chopper set down, the dude shut the engines off, two guys hopped out, and they ran into the house. We all looked at each other, shrugged, and kept mowing. All in a days work.
Another time, we were mowing the front yard to another property, and moved to the back yard. Right there, in the middle of the yard, was a guy and THREE girls going at it! (lucky SOB) I yelled to him that we were mowing, and he just hollered back to go ahead....so we mowed about halfway, then they moved over onto the part we had already mowed, and kept going at it. ????
Another time, we were in a very redneck part of the neighborhood, mowing the back yard, when an old ratted out F-150 burst through teh fence and charged across the yard and busted through teh other fence (both of them wooden) this truck was shortly followed by another truck, with two guys in teh back shooting at the truck in front. We left.
Another time, this is just kinda funny, there was a squirrel on a medium as I drove past in my big diesel pickup truck. I swerved close to him and gunned the engine, he threw the acorn he had in his paws straight up, and shot off about 10 feet, then he spun around darted back, CAUGHT the acorn, and took off again.
A lady called us over one time, she said she had a cow loose on her property. So we go over there, she said it was in her swimming pool. We go back there, and there in her swimming pool is a 10 foot alligator! (this gets better) Since I have grown up playing in the swamps of Texas Louisianna and Florida, and I have wrestled Alligators before (hence the name Swampbeast) I decided to catch him! To make a long story short, after nearly two hours of tussling tackling grappling and clawing, me and my 3 crew managed to get him out of the pool. In the insueing struggle, the gator threw up, we could identify what had been a dog not long ago. We tied his head up and put him in the back of the truck, and took him down to an alligator farm, and let him loose.
And of course, I have seen all the usual humping dogs, sunbathers, trucks on teh roofs, basketball goals through the windsheild type of things.
:cool:
Since I know you quite well, I will state that all of the above is bullsh**. But so that everyone here can read about something that you've actually done, I will post the incident with the bunnies. One day Swampbeast was mowing a fairly large property in a more rural setting. When he made a pass behind the barn at this property, a whole litter of little rabbits exploded from the tall, neglected grass in front of him. One of the suckers jumped straight in the air and the mower deck slid right under him. The thing just sat there on the thundering deck terrified and breathing about 200 breaths/min. Swampbeast shut off the blades and idled down the engine to shoo the the thing on its way when it hopped off and hauled a** outa there. 20 minutes later he's trimming up against the barn in the same spot and as he passes the spot, he notices another rabbit hunkered down in the grass just a 1/2 inch under the trimmer line. Swampbeast was able to pick this little fellow up and show him to me. We have a picture of the rabbit and Swampbeast with the Scag. :blob4: :blob3:
lawncare3
02-12-2003, 12:58 PM
Originally posted by LAWNGODFATHER
LC3, is that you on a cow?
No, it's just a smart #%& at school.
Btw: who is that on the mower?
Swampbeast
02-12-2003, 01:07 PM
Originally posted by G. Moose
Since I know you quite well, I will state that all of the above is bullsh**. But so that everyone here can read about something that you've actually done, :
What? Who the heck are you, and how the heck do you know that the above things never happened? Bullsh** my azz! I have pictures of the Apache, and the alligator! I would post them, but I dont have a scanner. Who are you and what are you talking about? Live in La Porte huh?
The bunny that I weedeated over was the one that hauled azz away, the one on the mower deck was the one that I picked up. Are you the guy that I fired a few weeks ago? That would explain the maligning me.
:cool:
LAWNGODFATHER
02-12-2003, 05:29 PM
Originally posted by lawncare3
No, it's just a smart #%& at school.
Btw: who is that on the mower?
BrushHogBoy.........;)
greenman
02-12-2003, 09:57 PM
Originally posted by LAWNGODFATHER
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LC3, is that you on a cow? [/B]
No, a jackass!:D
Yeah, I think that is BHB on the mower!LMAO:D
crawdad
02-13-2003, 06:44 AM
Originally posted by Swampbeast
Weidest thing? Okay, I live real close to Ellington AirForce base right? Well, I am mowing a yard with my crew, great big yard, huge, about 5 acres I am guessing, we are happily mowing away, when the ground starts to shake. We all look up, and there is an Apache Attack Helicopter landing in the freakin back yard! The chopper set down, the dude shut the engines off, two guys hopped out, and they ran into the house. We all looked at each other, shrugged, and kept mowing. All in a days work.
Another time, we were mowing the front yard to another property, and moved to the back yard. Right there, in the middle of the yard, was a guy and THREE girls going at it! (lucky SOB) I yelled to him that we were mowing, and he just hollered back to go ahead....so we mowed about halfway, then they moved over onto the part we had already mowed, and kept going at it. ????
Another time, we were in a very redneck part of the neighborhood, mowing the back yard, when an old ratted out F-150 burst through teh fence and charged across the yard and busted through teh other fence (both of them wooden) this truck was shortly followed by another truck, with two guys in teh back shooting at the truck in front. We left.
Another time, this is just kinda funny, there was a squirrel on a medium as I drove past in my big diesel pickup truck. I swerved close to him and gunned the engine, he threw the acorn he had in his paws straight up, and shot off about 10 feet, then he spun around darted back, CAUGHT the acorn, and took off again.
A lady called us over one time, she said she had a cow loose on her property. So we go over there, she said it was in her swimming pool. We go back there, and there in her swimming pool is a 10 foot alligator! (this gets better) Since I have grown up playing in the swamps of Texas Louisianna and Florida, and I have wrestled Alligators before (hence the name Swampbeast) I decided to catch him! To make a long story short, after nearly two hours of tussling tackling grappling and clawing, me and my 3 crew managed to get him out of the pool. In the insueing struggle, the gator threw up, we could identify what had been a dog not long ago. We tied his head up and put him in the back of the truck, and took him down to an alligator farm, and let him loose.
And of course, I have seen all the usual humping dogs, sunbathers, trucks on teh roofs, basketball goals through the windsheild type of things.
:cool:
Ya, but have you ever seen anything unusual?
Crawdad
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