Dish almost hit with falling branch !!!

[chapelrun]

When I got home on Friday evening my daughter said "You better go look at your dish". Of course, that got my attention and I went out and looked.

A fairly large branch had fallen out of the tree closest to the dish and was hanging almost over the dish - - - so that if it fell it would most likely hit the dish.

I pulled the tractor up behind the dish and put the bucket over the dish and then tried to make the branch fall somewhere besides on top of the dish.

As "Get Smart" would say "Missed me by that much!" Dish is safe!!! I think I would have been very sad if the branch had crushed my dish.

Here are some pix.

 

[Magic Static]

That's a big stick! Thankfully it didn't fall on friends or family too.

 

[T4Runner]

I like the tractor more than the dish.. Dishes I have plenty....

 

[Tron]

Dodged a bullet there!

 

[RT-Cat]

Wow! Just missed. Good thing. You would not want such a nice painted dish get krinkled. I like the tractor too.

RT.

 

[turbosat]

Yes, John Deere rules. Didn't do the fence much good , did it? As George Carlin said "Near miss-my @$$, that was a NEAR HIT! "

 

[chapelrun]

I must say - - - I'm partial to John Deere tractors - - - used to have a 1969 JD-820 which had about 31 HP - - - but traded that one for this 1979 JD-2040 which has about 40 HP and power steering! After you have power steering on a tractor it would be hard to go back. Also, I have an axiom that states that any tractor built before the advent of high speed computers is far superior to those designed and built after. In most cased the engineering factor applied to the slide rule was 2 - - - thus if all your calculations said to make the connecting rod with a cross-section of 0.5 sq. in - - - you would double that and make it 1.0 sq. in. Now the engineering factor may be around 1.02 of what the computer tells you.

Don't even get me going on my 1983 Volvo Wagon 240DL and how well it was engineered!!

 

[toucan-man]

I'm partial to John Deere tractors...

Great tractors. I have a friend who works at Deere. However, I'm partial to Rumely Oil Pulls...



I think even a Deere guy could get excited by these old horses going about their work.

 

[chapelrun]

WOW - - - now that is impressive!!! Wonder how many bottom plow that is being pulled by those 4 tractors?

 

[turbosat]

great video! Never heard of a rumely lol. I think we are getting far 'afield' with these tractor posts, haha.

 

[Conky]

Point that C band to RFD tv for "Classic Tractor fever"
there, back on topic

 

[Wescopc]

WOW - - - now that is impressive!!! Wonder how many bottom plow that is being pulled by those 4 tractors?

66

 

[Dishman Dan]

66

66! WOW!

And I only have a 6 bottom rollover plow!

Maybe my grandpa should of bought a Deere because it was hard getting the old

Farquhar going!

 

[bowtech]

Nice tractor! and thankfully, your dish lives on!