My expensive day

[Buzzinhalfdozen]

So I got some gravel today to fix up my driveway. Got the first 5 yards home without issue except while unloading a lift cylinder on my loader decided to start puking hydraulic oil. Huh, well that's annoying.

Go get the second load and park at the end of the driveway. I come back a few minutes later to a puddle of coolant and a split side tank on my radiator. Really?!

So it's starting to rain, I'm annoyed, calling it a day. Well that metal fence post I sheared off with the plow truck over the winter...found it.

[Wild and Free]

I have had those days. Usually in the dead of winter though.

 

That sucks though.  , the leaks are unavoidable on some stuff but nothing makes you ticked off like the things one causes like the tire.

 

I ruined a tire on my 05 last fall, took a wide turn out of my yard with my 30' gooseneck and tire slipped off the edge of the 18" galvanized culvert and sliced the sidewall open but I didn't think much of it didn't get out and look, oh yeah it didn't let go until I was a mile up the road, so I got to change front tire in middle of road one mile from my house. There was a quick 200 bucks on a tire that still had 60% life left.  

[Buzzinhalfdozen]

I agree. I can deal with "stuff happens" at a crappy time. But 2 tires, that were brand new, because of a $3 fence post and my own stupidity....I need a beer.

[flagmanruss]

That really sorks!  Please STOP before you bust something else!   (Some days are like that.) 

 

Long ago in a previous life...  To turn my stock trailer in the driveway, had to come up the left side & hang a tight U turn with the trailer on...  Then get straight & back the trailer along side the garage.  Tight turns scuff the trailer wheels in opposite directions.  I realize I have a flat on the front driver's tire.  I jack it up, get it off & get it fixed.  Next day I come back to put it on, I put my hand on the back tire & that's now flat too.   

During the winter, we'd had to get the horses shod in the driveway instead of out back.  The sharp pointed shoe nails had been picked up by the scuffing tires...  in the directions the tires were scuffed.   The farrier didn't believe me but I always used a magnet to recover the tire flatteners after that.  

And we never flattened car or truck tires & we parked right there...  but we didn't scuff those tires because we came straight in. 

Edited March 21, 2015 by flagmanruss

[98whitelightnin]

Wow, thought I had a crap day! You win!!

[IBMobile]

When I have a day like that, I say to myself " at lest tonight I'll be in my own bed".