Whats the worst Accident you ever got your mowers into?

[Phil Egnatz]

Just Wondering Whats the worst accident you ever got your mower into, rollover driving into a lake (ETC):(

[Phil Egnatz]

if any but be honest i flipped my walk behind in a hill that was too steep it took 3 guys to plip it and i wouldn't sart for a week i sold that on not too long after

[1grnlwn]

Old trailer with steep ramp. I was loading my 42" dixon on trailer front first. Somehow pulled a wheelie, the reaction when a wheelie is pulled is to pull back on the sticks to hang on, this slams the front down, which throws you and the sticks forward. Repeat violently several times. The second time this happened the trailer toung stuck in the expanded metal ramp and I went so far back my legs were against the sticks and I couldnt stop the wheels from spinning. If the sticks had not pinned my legs in, I would have flipped of the back. Same house both times. Undulating rock drive. Try looking cool after something like that happens.

Mark

[JR LeGer]

Had just bought another $10,000 walker about 3 days prior--one of our guys was under a tree with it and a branch caught on the Grass Container (catcher) and nearly ripped it clear off and bent the frame of the mower.

[TJLC]

Knock on wood, the worst for me so far has been sliding my w/b partially into a canal when it was real wet. It took a couple of people to get it out. More embarassing than anything.

[Tony Harrell]

My trailer is tongue heavy (not balanced like it should be) and I thought because of that, I could ride my stuff up the back ramp without it being hooked up to my truck. Well.......we all know what happened. I did manage to get on the trailer but, I wounded the tailgate on my truck. First thing I did was look around to see if anyone saw me!

[ProMo]

i had a close call on my scag 10 years ago a pin broke off the lever mowing next to a highway and forced it into high speed if i was going the other way id be history,before that a guy i worked for just bought a ne wb and the girl using it parked it on a slope at an apt complex to take a break and it rolled into the retention pond it was so deep it took an hour to find it 20+feet deep needed dive gear and a tow truck to retrieve that one

[SIG]

10 years ago had a Toro 52" go into a sediment control pond, was left unattended while my helper was opening the gate. Took a tow truck and winch to get it out and up the hill. 3 weeks ago my helper slide my 60" Lazer into a pond, pulled out with my truck, 300.00 dollars to repair.

[awm]

this may not be my worst ,but my latest .
couple days ago im backing the z onto the trailer on a side way grade. no where else to pk. the ramp pins slid out ,and left me tottering on the edge of the traiiler.
think i strained my back putting the front end on the trailer. a welder put a little block on t he trailer to keep this ,from happening again.live an learn,or else:)

[LAWNGODFATHER]

awm don't forget the gas line!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[awm]

oh i dont think i will. like to of met my maker that day.:)

[Grass_Slayer]

recently while cutting the local newspaper yard, i slid off into the ditch in the front of the yard. nothing hurt but my pride, push the handles, you guesses it i was stuck. took the truck and some rope to get it out. i have a problem with getting my mower stuck at a job. did the same thing once before. later the same day i got it stuck on the same yard (at the other end).

the gas station here in town that i mow has a very muddy yard when everything else is dry. finally learned my lesson last time i mowed it, i only got stuck once. one time there i buried it up to the axle. no wait maybe i did that twice, no i hink it was three times, maybe that happens every time i mow there?!:confused:

[FrankenScagMachines]

Well lets see.....:D :( ..... when dad first let me on our old snapper rear engine rider, I was about 7 maybe? well I accidentally ran it into a little small greenhouse type starter box for flowers, it was plywood sides kinda stuck in the ground, didn't have the mower blade on, just putting around, nothing happened really, i found the clutch and stopped it. reverse never worked on that thing. we always had to get off and push. don't plan for reverse LOL mow straight forward only. next thing i probably did was scraping our aluminum v bottom boat with the hood of a garden tractor (parked close quarters in the shed). No biggie, both were already scratched up. left a red streak on white boat that's it. next: hmmm... got mowers stuck many many times... can't recall any certain one, but my old Bush Hog tractor's tranny is getting worn out and occasionnaly going uphill at my house it slips out of gear. did i mention i need a new brake band on it too? You guessed it, it's a long ride down hill fast on a 665 lb. hoss. no control except a tad of braking and steering. If I'm lucky I can jam it into gear but don't count on it. This once happened while I had the 6x12 single axle trailer behind me. Almost to top of the rise and whoops- had to slam on what's left of the brake and do some smart steering. It was a small hill and only had two push mowers in the trailer but that's alot of weight behind a GT and let me tell you how lucky I am it didn't jacknife or I wouldn't be writing this- i'd be in the hospital with a concussion! So I gotta remember to hold it in gear going up hill. Another time I drove our Wheel Horse GT over about 8 or 10 3/4" x 3/4" x 8" long solid tent spikes. Bad bad bad! Didn't know they were there... also run over rope occasionaly. Also have run over some 3/8" thick x 2' long chain with the Wheel Horse. Not good either. Have also ran over bicycle brake calipers laying in high grass and little odds and ends. And small hidden stumps also. And as mentioned in the thread about the Kubota ZD28, I have run over a thick big heavy rubber mat with a JD M655 Z trak mid mower, sucked her right up and stalled the 25hp Kohler. I've run over all sorts of stuff, but it is all honest accidents, I didn't know that stuff was there :blush: :o except the rubber mat and I underestimated the suction on that 7 iron deck.. much more than my garden tractors! Duh!.... About the only damage other than blades has been I busted the aluminum spindle housing on the Wheel Horse. That's about it. Well we did have to replace the bearings in that deck but I doubt all that **** had anything to do with it?:p ;) :p :rolleyes: :confused: :alien: :blob4:
Happy (and safe!) mowing,
Eric

[TFL]

did the same thing tony harrell definatly embarasing. luckily it was in the privacy of my own backyard. the tail gate on my truck was definatly wounded.

[Parrothead]

I was mowing a bank side to side with the Lazer, as I'd done a dozen times before, when for some reason it just broke loose on the second pass up from the bottom. It got faster and faster and I had just enough time to slap the blade switch before it hit bottom. The bottom was a washed out drainage ditch with about an 8 to 10 inch straight drop off from the bottom of the bank. I thought it would just straddle it and be stuck, but as soon as that big tire went off it, it bounced one good time and I was upside down. Turned around just in time to see a 2 foot flame shoot out of the muffler as it shut down. There was just enough room between the armrest and the ground to wiggle out. If I hadn't bought the Liquid-Cooled I'd probably be paralyzed cos that seat wouldn't have held the weight. Flipped it back over with a tractor bucket and a chain, changed oil and air filter, straightened drive levers, and 700 hours later, no problems. I don't cut that bank with it anymore. All you have to do is flip one once.

[yardboyltd]

I had the same thing happen to me. Thank god I recovered it in time. I had to park the mower and walk around to get my senses back... I can still imagine what would have been for 1200 pound to topple on to you on a concrete bad. All I can think about is teeth grinding into pavement...

[Albemarle Lawn]

F250 4X4 racing to beat a red light plowed into the bed of my pickup at 45 MPH.

Enclosed Trailer had 2 ZTR's and WB + hand tools.

Mowers held up OK except the W/B was right at the point of impact and suffered crushed handle bars.

JX85 was crushed between wall of trailer and a ZTR.

F250 Totalled
My truck (GMC 1500) totalled, had just installed a 383 stroker and new paint.

New 6-week old trailer totalled.

Helper injured, no seatbelt. I was belted and unhurt.

Ken

[Dennis E.]

After reading about your accident I'm not even gonna' post mine.
Wow,that is really the pits. Glad no one was hurt real bad.
Only good thing I guess is that you got to go shopping for all new equipment again.
Still a huge accident tho.


Friend of mine over in Tampa had a flat on I-75 just north of Brandon years ago. LM owner also. Stopped on the roadside to change the tire on the trailer. Well he stopped in some high grass on the roadside. It covered a culvert!
By the time he got to the rear of the trailer it had started going over. It pulled his truck over also.Rolled completely.
Two new DC's and some new handheld equip.
Everything was wrecked.

[Pelican]

I had an incident a few years ago I wish was on video tape. I was mowing an account which had a number of flower gardens and was cutting around a circular iris garden with my walk behind. My leg was burning, I looked down to see a white faced hornet at work on it. Brushed him off, looked forward just in time to see the calvary coming, a whole swarm of hornets on the attack! I let go of the machine and took off running screaming a few choice explitives.

Earlier in the season I had disconnected the safety shut down so the mower was still under full power and went straight through the iris garden, mowing a path through it and exposing the hornet's nest that had been built there. The machine continued down the hill until it hit a tree and stalled, I stood a few hundred feet away until the hornets cooled down. I only received the original sting, I had outrun the rest of them.

If this had been taped, I'm sure I'd have won the grand prize on America's Funniest Videos, or at least had proof I had set a new record for the 100 yard dash!

I called the customer that night to apologize for the damage, he was real cool about it and laughed at my story.

[Phil Egnatz]

Local Accident (http://www.thetimesonline.com/index.pl/article?id=20804773)

Thats a local accident fromJune 8th 2002

i guess hes still in the hospital fighting for his life everybody i know pointed the article out to me

FULL STORY


Lakes of the Four Seasons police Officers George Thomason and Craig Philp and Indiana Conservation Officer Jim Weeks try to determine how Chris Markovich and his mower ended up in Lake Holiday on Friday. (John J. Watkins / The Times)

Lawn Mower pins man underwater

Worker could have been trapped for 10 minutes

BY CAROLINA PROCTER Times Staff Writer
Posted on Saturday, June 8, 2002

LAKES OF THE FOUR SEASONS -- An 18-year-old maintenance worker lost control of a riding lawn mower Friday and plowed into Lake Holiday, where he was stuck underwater for as long as 10 minutes, police said.

Chris Markovich, a student at Boone Grove High School and a LOFS resident, was listed in critical condition Friday afternoon at the University of Chicago hospital. Medics airlifted him by helicopter from St. Anthony Medical Center in Crown Point, said Joe Dejanovic, a St. Anthony spokesman.

Markovich was on the job for his stepfather's lawn care company, LOFS-based Elite Lawn Care, when the accident happened around noon in the back yard of a home in the 2400 block of Lake Shore Circle.

The yard slopes downward as it approaches the lake. Markovich probably lost control of the front-heavy mower as he turned to mow a new column of grass, said Indiana State Police Detective Rick Bonesteel. Instead of making the full turn, the mower plowed down the hill and across a cement seawall, and plunged into the lake.

Markovich was strapped into the mower seat and probably didn't have time to undo himself before hitting the water, Bonesteel said.



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Ron Bedwell, a Lakes of the Four Seasons maintenance employee, prepares to hook a chain so the lawn mower that veered into Lake Holiday on Friday can be lifted out of the water. (John J. Watkins / The Times)
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"Once you start downhill (in those types of mowers), you can't stop," Bonesteel said. "He probably couldn't jump off because he didn't have time to react."

The mower could have traveled as fast as 10 miles per hour, Bonesteel said.

Calvin Pierce, another lawn care employee who was mowing a neighboring yard, told police that he and Markovich's stepfather, Carl Alberson, found the mower flipped over in the water about five feet from the seawall, with Markovich underneath. They unstrapped him, pulled him to shore and performed CPR until medics arrived.

Markovich had a pulse but was not breathing when medics put him in an ambulance, Bonesteel said.

According to police, Markovich's co-workers realized they no longer saw him mowing, so they walked to the yard he had been in. That's when Pierce and Alberson saw his mower floating in the water. They didn't know Markovich was underneath when they flipped it over.

Markovich could have been underwater as long as 10 minutes before his co-workers pulled him out, police said. No one knew if Markovich sustained cuts, bruises or other external injuries.

Two of Markovich's fellow employees, Pierce and Ross Fitzgerald, were in tears as the ambulance left. Pierce said he's known Markovich for 10 years.

"He's a really great kid," Fitzgerald said. "He's got a lot of friends. He's a popular kid."

An hour after the ambulance left, police and Indiana Department of Natural Resources officers examined the accident scene, which still reflected the earlier events.

The mower floated in the water. Markovich's T-shirt, which medics had to cut off, laid crumpled on the seawall. The edge of the seawall was chipped where the mower plunged in the water. And the path of Markovich's mower from the yard to the water was evident in the grass.


Carolina Procter can be reached at cprocter@howpubs.com or (219) 662-5325.

[beck]

I had two incidents within one week of each other.
1) cutting in the front yard of a well to do neighbourhood The yard has a culvert and I have always used the dixie to cut this culvert leaving 6"s to trim on each side. This particular day the yard was wet so you guessed it I ended up in the culvert. I had to go borrow some straps from another LCO in the area and pull it out with the truck.
2) Cutting a new yard(common ground) with a big hill and one tree about 65" from the top of the hill(where a fence is) With a 52" wb there should be no problem going between the fence and the tree right? i ended up getting lodged inbetween two tree branches. I cut one off but we were still stuck I talked to the homeowner then proceded to cut the tree down.

[Pelican]

Sad story. That mower is a Skag Super Z (SSZ), I recently sold mine. They are terrible on slopes, I believe due to a high center of gravity. I had one employee lose traction on a slope and slam in to a deck post, luckily only bending the front spindle arm, no one hurt. If the operator was unfamiliar with the machine, there's your cause of accident.

[Grass_Slayer]

we should all keep this guy in our thoughts and prayers. even if u do not know him, a little prayer cant ever hurt. keep us posted on his condtion Phil.

[Doogiegh]

Using a small trailer (8' by 4'), I was only traveling a short distance from my house to my moms to cut her grass as a favor. I didn't secure my w/b down with the straps as I usually do.

Mower rolled backward on the trailer, all the weight is behind the rear wheels of the trailer.. By my moms house there is a dip in the road, which I knew was there, but I didn't know it would cause the trailer hitch to come off of the ball..

I hear a scraping noise and I see the underside of the trailer in my rearview mirror, with the trailer hitch up in the air like a dart.. I of course hit the brakes on the truck, (safety chains were on), the truck stopped, the trailer didn't, and it rolled forward right into the back of my tailgate. Made a dent in the back of the tailgate, son of a gun.

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Cutting some lady's house, got wrapped up in a tree branch/ivy thing with thorns on it next to the house, lost control of the mower's left pistol grip, only hold I have on the mower now is the right hand, so I grabbed it hard, which of course puts the right brakes on, so it does a 90 degree turn right into their central A/C unit. Let go of the unit entirely so the machine shuts off, but still had enough forward power to damn near push the a/c unit off of it's concrete base.. Yikes! Lady's had the a/c unit on many times now since then, and no problems. I was able to push the unit back onto it's base with no problem at all, it was a small house unit.

[anythinglawns]

Before I was a "professional" I had a Murray rider in the back of my truck, that I had just purchased from Wal Mart. I was too cheap to buy good ramps so I went to Lowes on the way home and bought 2 2x8s for ramps. I got home put my new ramps on the tail gate and started backing down. Both boards slid from under the wheels and the mower pivoted on the tail gate and flipped over backwards on me. I still had one leg straight out and that caused the mower to fall to the side of me. None the less it hurt. Bent the brackets on the deck and had to pull it back over with my truck. I would have probably been seriously injured had I not pushed it to the side as it fell.

[Lorge]

This thread is old but I found it on a search and I think I'll add to it.

I was demoing a brand new "never cut a blade of grass" Bobcat ztr. I had only operated a ZTR once in my life. One of the yards I cut with the Bobcat was a lot with steep grades and sloping hills. It's actually my inlaws place. I got to the bottom of a narrow hill with a concrete retaining wall on the left and a 2 foot drop off on the right. I tried to back up the hill because I was afraid to turn around and drop one of the tires into the drop off and get stuck. The mower wouldn't go backwards. The tires were just spinning in the St. Augustine. So I tried to do a zero turn radius turn, well it didn't work out. Somehow I worked my self into slipping the back tires of the mower into the drop off. I was STUCK. I put my truck in the driveway which was at the top of the retaining wall and hooked up a rope. My father in law pulled the truck forward as I tried to get traction on the ground. The rope busted. We re-rigged it. It busted again. I think we finally got it out on the 4th try. I was shook up and mad and happy all at the same time.

You thought the story was over didn't you.

I still have yet to finish my inlaws yard. I'm mowing there back yard which is a really steep hill that levels out beyond where I can mow because it gets too steep for a mower (or to stand on without falling) near the bottom of the hill and there is a barb wire fence. On my first pass with the new ztr, I'm mowing across the hill and the back tires start to slip on the grass. Somehow I ended up panicing and I drove the front of the mower right into that barb wire fence. I even ran over a landscaping light with the blades engaged to top it off. I wanted to jump off a tall cliff at this point. I did'nt know if we could get the truck to the back yard so I got my exmark walkbehind and thought by hooking up a rope from it to the ztr, I could get enough assistance to get the ztr out. I had my father in law operate the walkbehind (which he had never done before) while I was on the rider. We tried it and he lost control of the exmark and it ended up slamming into some trim under and a window on there back porch Tore it up. So then we manuver the pickup in the back yard and pull it out with a rope just like before. I felt like the biggest idiot. I returned the demo the next morning and it didn't have a scratch on it. My pride was definitely damaged though.

[ProCare Lawn Service]

When I was working for someone else one of my coworkers ran a ztr off in a lake. Pinned him with his back to the bottom, he had flipped around. Luckily this guy worked out 7 days a week and his arms were as big around or bigger than my thighs. He pushed the mower off him. Another co- worker cut 3 of his fingers off with a w/b. Not the sharpest knife in the drawer.

[METRO 36]

When i was abought 16 my buddy made a deal with his neighbor to cut abought 3 acre's. and he wanted my help my dad had a club cadet but i wasn't supossed to leave the neighbor hood with it well any way we backed billy's truck into the ditch. dropped the tailgait drove the mower right in.when to the job backed into another ditch and backed out the mower got off shut it off and procided to fill up with gas. Meanwhile billy thought i had moved (his dodge had a bull rack on it and the front agains't the cab was solid so bull's couldn't get there horn's threw)So he couldn't se me behind him and thought i had moved.well he fired up and started out of the ditch no big deal well he got stuck so he threw it in reverse to rock the truck back and forth to get out. then it became a big deal as he rocked backward's it caught traction and jumped out of the ditch. well the tailgate as still down and it hit the mower low in the front end and broke the fiber glass hood.TO make a long story short we took the mower home and parked it in the barn.well the corner were we parked it get's a little muddy when it rain's a lot abought a week go's by and my dad decide's it's time to moe the yard.My brother jump's on the mower, I was already on the tractor mowing the front yard(are yard was 4 acre's we had to cut it twice a week)my dad come's around the corner cussing and hollerin at me to get over there. I thought here we go so ask him what's the problem and he said that the mower got stuck in the barn and when they were trying to push it out they broke the hood. Talk abought lucky
so we fiber glassed it back on.

Last christmas me and billy got to reminnissen and told my dad abought ditch how we broke the mower, he just laughed and said boy's will be boy's BUT IF EVER CATCH YOU BY MY LAWN MOWER AGAIN AND ILL KICK YOUR A%&*&%^%$ and we belive him lol:help: :help:

[lawn_pro]

had an employee hit a bump? with a scag walk-behind, lost it into a creek...took 4 of us to get it out of there, while 4 association homeowners watched...not good. A couple of years ago I heard about another local lco, employee using a walk behind, mowing on top of a retaining wall lost the mower while the blade was running, landed on a parked car...the car was totaled, hope he had good insurance.

[chopsticks33]

when i was 11, i was mowing my backyard, and a knob came off so I bent down (while still going full speed) to pick it up. While I was down, I ran STRAIGHT into a huge oak tree. the front of the garden tractor was bent almost to a v. took me and my dad a few hours to get it straight again.

[AintNoFun]

Old trailer with steep ramp. I was loading my 42" dixon on trailer front first. Somehow pulled a wheelie, the reaction when a wheelie is pulled is to pull back on the sticks to hang on, this slams the front down, which throws you and the sticks forward. Repeat violently several times


after doing something similiar years ago, and then a mental picture of you doing i laughed for about 10 mins thinking about it...

[topsites]

damage-wise I've been lucky in the equipment department, most of my stuff has been personal injury, some due to stunt mowing...

Probably worst liability to equipment happened the day I ran over my backpack blower with the trailer... Used a jack to lift the trailer so I could pull it out, then it was like 70 dollars to replace one half the turbine shroud.

The skirt of the mower got caught on a fence, stopped on a dime, I flipped over the handlebars but not before my chest hit the fixed bar SO hard it broke the assembly at the weld... I suspect cracked ribs, it hurt for months...

Hit myself in the leg a few times with the weed-eater string... That smarts, but the pain is not as bad as Wb-induced pain.

Once while stunt mowing, I thought I could ride on the deck while sitting on the motor (incredibly stupid, I know) and that one hurt my feelings as well.

Put a few light dings in the truck while jack-knife turning, also a few times I opened the door into a solid object.

The front of the trailer is dented from my early days of learning to drive, when I'd slam on brakes or stop too fast, not realizing I had forgotten to tie down the mower, SLAM !

Caught my own 10-tine pitchfork with my mower... Bent one tine around the center spindle, stripped the bolt and nut... Still, nothing big in cost, luckily I was able to bend the tines back in order, the pitchfork costs between 50 - 80 dollars.

Still, most of it dings and scratches, nothing ever cost me too much, I do feel fortunate.

[TClawn]

I've been fairly accident free, but when I was first learning to use my Z, I slipped down a hill and hit a vynil fence. no real damage, just snapped it back together, and no problem.

I also ran into a tile walkway at full speed on my walkbehind. threw me right into the controls, and stopped on a dime. took my breath away for a bit, but no real damage to either the mower or me. I had to bend the discharge chute back straight. I mow with it up now.

[milo]

i was on my lazer zhp 44 and thought i could make it through a tiny flat spot next to a steep cliff. well i did not make it. life started going in slow motion. i flew down the hill doing a 180 degree spin and thinking it was gonna flip over on me i opened the steering arms and jumped off of it, but did not jump far enought and my foot do cought between a curb and the deck. i broke a small bone in my foot from this and learned a lesson. dont try this again. ride around the building. lol;)

[lawnrangeralaska]

i always seem to get my walkers stuck on grass piles or in the gravel. but one time i was trying to go around the gravel pad at a property and i went to the other side and there was a lil slab of ashault and my mower wasnt small enough and one wheel dropt down off of it and i slid it into the ditch. i had to get my hustler out an it took about 30 minutes to pull it out.
one time i was backing up a lil hill to dump my grass with my walker and i was standing up lol and it started bouncing and i flew off in front of my mower and it ran towards me an i jumped on b4 it ran under someones deck.

[GLADULANDSCPING]

i was mowing aroound a head stone, on a 48' exmark wb, and caught the corner of a misshaped stone. i was thrown of the wb,and as i was lying on the ground the mower came back around and finally stopped b4 it ran me over. Because i was whipped off the blades were still engaged, i think i hit my head bc i was a lil wousy. Nobody saw it happen, so i got back on and finished the section.

[impactlandscaping]

Back in the day of belt drives, I had my share of busted knuckles and bruised hands from cornering too closely to houses and trees. Nothing really serious for us....

However, a few summers ago, we were at a red light in town. We were watching a local competitor's crew mow a local business to the right of the light. The one guy was walking behind a Snapper hydro, mowing along a top of a creek channel. We used to mow it, and knew that was a no-no. About two seconds later , the left inside tire slipped over the side, and the guy went with it! He didn't let go of the loops, and followed the mower about 8 feet into the creek below. The water was probably 2-3' deep where he went in. As I was getting rady to pull aside to go check on him, 2 of the other guys there in front saw it, and came to his aid. He looked OK as they helped him up to the parking lot. I saw the owner a few weeks later, and he said it was the guy's first day on the job. They had to pull the mower out with a wrecker, and it did about 800 bucks in damage to it. He quit the same day.

[mike lane lawn care]

the worst...and only incedent i've had with the mowers was, with my old simplicity regent, i over estinated it's traction and hill limbing ability. i made a sharp corner on a big up-winding rock with grass growing on it, and i fliped off the mower, the tractor didn't flip over, but the safty had been disabled and the blades and engine were still running. good thing it was the hydro and not the gear, it would have flew right off the edge of the rock and fell about 30ft.

[dlr1]

My trailer is tongue heavy (not balanced like it should be) and I thought because of that, I could ride my stuff up the back ramp without it being hooked up to my truck. Well.......we all know what happened. I did manage to get on the trailer but, I wounded the tailgate on my truck. First thing I did was look around to see if anyone saw me!
same here, then the guy i was with said go ahead, it's locked on the hitch now, guess what? BAM, second time is even more embarrassing

[Jacob's Yardworks LLC]

I think my worst was the end of last summer. We were cutting some town houses and the grass wasnt too high but just lots of weeds and mess and some lady had her hose out in the yard. Well I didnt see it obviously because it was green and I ended up hitting it jerking the whole spicket. I got off and threw the hose in the garden and didnt really think much of it. So i turn around and go by for another pass and I see a little water coming out from where the hole in the house for the spicket is. I get off and go over and grab the spicket to see if its loose and sure enough it busted right off from the force. As im standing there the women comes out and goes "I heard this huge cracking sound and now theres a wet spot inside on my carpet". Im like oh ^*&% so I hurried and and ripped the sideing off back outside on the wall and tried to get the water directed so it wasnt flowing on her floor while I called the maintence guy who luckly was right around the corner. I was pretty embarrassed/shaken up about that one lol. I looked inside and there is like a 5 foot area of carpet that was wet. Luckly there wasnt any damage to anything and the maintence guys got it fixed up.

[topsites]

if any but be honest i flipped my walk behind in a hill that was too steep it took 3 guys to plip it and i wouldn't sart for a week i sold that on not too long after

LOL I've done that one, mine flipped end over end completely and landed on all 4 at the bottom, blades and engine still at Wot... Only thing happened was it spewed dust out the sides like some M4-Abrams tank during dirt-track training. It really looked ultra-cool and was a Kodak moment but first I had no camera, and yes it shook me up.

The scariest part was when it first happened, the front kicked up and I knew I had to MOVE out of the way (and I did) but not before I saw the underside of my own mower with all 3 blades spinning (by this time in slo-mo) coming towards me.

And no, the operator presence switch never worked on that machine, so ON was ON.

[KS_Grasscutter]

My trailer is tongue heavy (not balanced like it should be) and I thought because of that, I could ride my stuff up the back ramp without it being hooked up to my truck. Well.......we all know what happened. I did manage to get on the trailer but, I wounded the tailgate on my truck. First thing I did was look around to see if anyone saw me!

Same EXACT thing happened to me, only i THOUGHT it was hooked up, but the ball wasnt latched...well, the Ranger has had a boogered up tailgate for a year now, and I still wont spent the money to fix it LOL.

[KS_Grasscutter]

Thought of one more thing. One time I was mowing the back yard at our house, and it was like 10:30 at night. I had two flashlights duct-taped to dad's 311 Dixon (remember, i was 11 when this happened). Well, I musta hit a golfball or something...because i hear a loud crashing noise, so i just though the mower sucked up something into the catcher. Seconds latter, dad comes running outside, because he heard the crashing noise in the house. We then notice that a window by our back patio door is shattered...you guessed it, it was a golfball LOL. Luckily, my parents insurance paid for the window, but that was the last time i mowed when it was THAT dark.:hammerhead: :hammerhead: :laugh:

[B&M]

last week I was putting my kubota up, I pulled in the main shop door in high gear spun around right into the small shop walk door. I knocked door off the hinges the result the door is laying in the shop floor, we fixed it later that night.:hammerhead:

[Tinkerer]

My truck was broke down so I rented a U-haul 1/2 ton Chevy with a bedlinger. I had a Wheel Horse 12hp lawn tractor and aluminum ramps. For some reason this time I got off the tractor while I backed it off the truck. The mower deck hooked one of the aluminum ramps and pushed it from under the right rear wheel. I jumped out of the way and was unhurt, but the Wheel Horse flipped upside down. I was at the lawn all alone but was able to flip the 500+ pound tractor right side up. Nothing was damaged but it scarred the crap out of me.

[greasy_gun]

was cutting around an 27' above ground swimmin pool, the ground sloped toward the pool on 1 side, was early and heavy dew......

whhosh,slid the ztr right into the side of the pool.

besides scarin the snot outta me(as i was slidin, it seemed in slow motion, i visioned a ragin river)....hit the side of the pool...made a huge dent in pool metal....

the ztr sumhow bottomed out on ground...i was stuck n waitin on that water to drown me..

thank goodness that pool was full of water,helped to strengthen the side i slammed..

anyhow, owner heard the rukus n cum to check...

he laffs, said wish it wooda knocked a hole in pool n emptied,cause he hates cleanin n chemicals/maintenance...

helps me push/pull/lift the ztr to grab traction n move...

said the huge dent in pool was best thing/funniest he'd seen 4 awhile...

i was damn lucky i didnt git drowned :cool2:

[Planet Landscaping]

We took a chunk out of a $$$$$$$$$$ 70' sattilte dish at a tracking staition company lol (NOT)

[PGA]

Brand new 52 inch Bunton ZTR down a rock wall that was about 15 feet high. Boss wasnt to happy with that one. (When he got back in town from Vegas and saw it)

Makes me rethink having employees in the future.

[Daner]

[FONT="Comic Sans MS"]Being a farmer as well as a LCO I have had alot of close calls...Those watson gloves have save my fingers a few times...Going up hills on tractors in the tall grass heck yaa feal safe untill yaa hit that bump that puts the front end to a wheel stand.
Ido remember one sat morning I was working on a ole b14-IN Tractor when i lifted the 3 point hitch arms by hand the front bucket came smashing down to the ground...T he worst part was my little dog was in the wrong place at the wrong time...right under the bucket of the loader...everything came outa this little guy... i lifted the bucket by hand and pulled him out...to my surprised he was just fine thank god there was alot of sand where that bucket dropped

[Daner]

[FONT="Comic Sans MS"]Being a farmer as well as a LCO I have had alot of close calls...Those watson gloves have save my fingers a few times...Going up hills on tractors in the tall grass heck yaa feal safe untill yaa hit that bump that puts the front end to a wheel stand.
Ido remember one sat morning I was working on a ole b14-IN Tractor when i lifted the 3 point hitch arms by hand the front bucket came smashing down to the ground...T he worst part was my little dog was in the wrong place at the wrong time...right under the bucket of the loader...everything came outa this little guy... i lifted the bucket by hand and pulled him out...to my surprised he was just fine thank god there was alot of sand where that bucket dropped

[RedWolf]

this happen a year a go.I was running my old yazoo cutting the side of the road for a friend of mine.well there was a drop off that i found the hard way.I slid out of the seat and my right ankle was draging the ground.I killed the blades as the mower pins and bust my ankel to hell.I layed there for two hours till another LCO saw me and stoped to help.took them 10 mins to get the mower off my ankle and they drove me to the ER.then i had a fuel line let go.that was one hell of a BBQ.

[zim bob the landscaper]

READ THIS YOU WILL GET A KICK OUT OF IT.

well some of u may of read this already. this was not mowing and it was mt tractor. well one day i was moving dirt/fill with my brother and two friends. well we were using a wheelbarral and the tractor and trailer. well we took 4 loads of it and it was going by slow and we decided that we were going to make bigger loads with the tractor. and so it was full about 500 pounds or so and then i went over to a inbankment that we were leveling and so it was about say 50 to 100 feet down. and so i was talking to one of my friends and and my brother which directed me to the hill was patting my friends dog and so i decided i would just go over by myself. so i stated to back up and i went to far and i thought the tractor would beable to handle it so i put it in third gear(has 6 in all) i let go of the clutch and the tractor had enough power but had bad traction and so the wheels sliped and i went down the hill. im lucky to be alive. i got but had a 6 to 10 inch cut on my back and a bump bigger tan a golf ball i had many other cuts and bruises. my brother ran over and i was in a whole and i got up and yelled f***. i pulled the strength to walk up the hill and i was worried more about the tractor than me my dad didnt care about the tractor he just cared about me. and this is the best part THE TRACTOR WAS A CRAFTSMAN SO THAT PROVES THERE A SOLID MACHINE I WAS SHOCKED IT RAN. and my brother and friends and his dad and two kids helped them bring the tractor ad the trailer back up. in three days i was back working.

[PROCUT1]

Just demoed a new scag Ztr with that rollover bar. Guys have never used one with that before. I wasent on site when it happened but he was cruising across a lawn at full speed and went under a tree. The bar caught the tree limb, flipped the machine on its back which then rolled on its side.

They called me and I flew over there trying to figure in my head how the hell you can roll a ZTR. They just naturally want to stay on their wheels, its like trying to stand a pancake on its edge...lol

Guy was not hurt thankfully but different story for the machine, gonna be fun when we return it to the dealer

[ChadA]

Last week I was mowing next to a pond got a little to close and the WB started to slip, fast. It was me or me and the WB. So I turned hard away from the pond held on and jumped in to keep it from going in. It didn't go in but I was soaked from mid thigh down and from the ankles down it was all mud. The best part was It was only the 3rd yard of the day.

[REENO]

Last week I was mowing next to a pond got a little to close and the WB started to slip, fast. It was me or me and the WB. So I turned hard away from the pond held on and jumped in to keep it from going in. It didn't go in but I was soaked from mid thigh down and from the ankles down it was all mud. The best part was It was only the 3rd yard of the day.
smart, very smart!! a shower and a new set of work clothes,and another shower is less expensive than fixing the wb!!

[whoopassonthebluegrass]

Started out with just a 21" Toro. Decided to upgrade and went for the cheapest thing I could find: a 36" Pistol Grip WB Lesco. (And I got what I paid for - what a POS).

Anyhow, not wanting to be exposed for the rookie I was, I pretended I knew how to drive this thing. The guys at the Lesco store fire it up and let me try. I throw it into 5th gear and immediately am yanked off my feet and end up plowing straight into the propane tanks for the forklift. It was like LCO Bowling. A perfect strike! Bent propane tanks rolling around while I'm red-faced and trying to figure out how to stop the tires from screeching as they peeled out. Man I'm cool.

Thank goodness they were the drained tanks... I probably should've taken this little experience as an omen and left the store. But noooo, I felt obligated to buy it... and what a waste of money it has proved to be.

[Sandgropher]

The most common accident in western australia is in the use of cylinder mowers, the guys are out the back and stop to pick up grass catcher and take the clippings to the front, unload then come back no mower :confused:

What has happened is its engaged itself (bit of metal has worn between drive/stop) and its funny but of all the places to go the mower always head for the pool, its a bugger getting them out (180 kg) but a quick strip down at the mower shop sees them going again (cant beat those 9 hp honda motors). :clapping:

Think of all accidents are a free lesson in safety. :drinkup: