OK C, you had your little rant.
Now are you ready for my RAVE!?
My wife had been after me to mow the back of the dam. (read damn dam)
So I started, I got down to the bottom and was ready to mow back up. (now this tractor has been leaking a little bit of hydraulic fluid for some time.) When I was ready to start back up, it wouldn't move. I got off, looked all around and couldn't find anything obvious. Hmmmm Maybe it is low on Hydraulic Fluid. Yup, so I go and get the 5 gallon bucket and pour all that's left in.....it still won't move. So we hook the truck to it and pull it up. On the flat is works just fine. So I go to town, 30 mile round trip and get 5 gal of fluid and top it off. It only took 4 of the 5 gals that I bought. Now the tractor is fixed.
This morning my little darlin' is going to bush hog the pasture, behind one of the ponds. ( I am a blacksmith, not a farmer, she does the mowin' and all the farmin'). After a couple of hours she aint back up so I go out to check up on her. She's walking back to the house,,,,she has the 4 wheel drive tractor stuck, I mean STUCK. We take the Jeep down there, hook up a chain and plan to pull it out. Nothin' doin'. Finally I unhook the bush hog. It still aint movin'. I wade in and un hook the bush hog. We hook the chain to the bush hog and drag it out of the way and I'm gona back it out. Nothin' doin'. So I'm using the bucket and the 4 wheel drive to push it back....Nothin' doin'. So we hook the Jeep to the back and we're gonna pull it out.....Finally after about 30 minutes we have it out of the creek. I go back up to the house to check out Knife Dogs and watch the noon news (joke).
After over an hour she still ain't back so I go out to make sure that she ain't turned the tractor over and she is walking back. The drain plug fell out of the d*****ed thang. I find the D****ed drain plug but have to drive into town (another 30 miles) to get oil and a filter. Get back out there and drain the rest of the oil, change the filter and fill er up. I'm done for the day.....She comes back to the house where I'm finally enjoying a Coldbeer. (In Tennessee Coldbeer is one word). There is a tree (2 BIG trees) across the fence. I gotta go cut 'em off. TONIGHT!
Don't forget, being the nice guy that I am, I carried her a Coldbeer, then she told me about the fence and had a pitcher of Margarettas waiting when she came in for supper (she did fix that). I've now finished my 4th Coldbeer and we are working on the second pitcher. I'm now on my way to the BIG TUB with the last of that last pitcher.
Now, you wanna tell me about your bad day?
The good news,,,, she is going off horse back riding tomorrow and I get left alone to watch "Riders of the Silver Screen". A local PBS show with 1930's westerns. I've still gotta change the oil and load the truck before I head into Knoxville (70 miles) Sunday to demonstrate for the Clinch River Blacksmiths.
Ok, I'm done, I'm headed to the BIG TUB. If you want any more information,,,,It'll have to wait.