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Arrrgh...I can't get a break...or I did get a break

  • Thread starter Thread starter COramprat
  • Start date Start date Jul 26, 2009

COramprat

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Well it's been a frustrating 2 weeks. I had a pulley go bad about two weeks ago so I pulled the tensioner thinking that was the problem since I'd already changed the idler but it turned out it was the idler. So I fixed it, cranked it up for the test run. Drove it around and proceeded with a burnout in front of the house...blew the heater hose. So I had to order it. Picked it up Friday, and did a flush and refill with fresh fluid while I was at it. Finished up, took the test drive. Got on the hwy near the house and started blasting gears...get to third....WAAAAHboooww...oops....missed third. Tried again and there is that sinking feeling as the shifter sits loosely in the gate. Move it to 4th...same thing. Damn....broke another shift fork...

Then I get home and decide to cut the grass. Made one pass and ran over a spring from the kids trampoline I didn't see. Tore up the mandrel that one of tha blades attach to. So I broke the Stang and my mower in 15 minutes...I came inside, took a shower and went to bed.

Ever have one of those days?
 

FoxRod87

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Well I didn't have that bad of a day a couple of weeks ago, but it wasn't pleasant. I was leaving work and got in my car and pushed in the clutch to start the car and something didn't feel right, so I let it back out and pushed it back in and the clutch cable broke. But luckily I was at work and not somewhere I didn't have any tools. So I pushed the car in the shop and removed the old clutch setup and quadrant and called my wife and told her to go by advanced auto and get the Zoom cable and quadrant that they had. She brought it to me and I put that setup in and hopefully this setup will last a long time.

Then there was another time when I had my coupe car, I had just got back from my Honeymoon and took the car for a spin and broke 3rd gear out of it, and then that Sunday I was riding my ATV and flipped it and ended up in the Hospital with bruised ribs and a piece of my spine broken off. That was a pretty bad week.
 

Brute03

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tell me about it....

last week a guy backed into me while i was on lunch, his hitch punched a hole in my bumber. went back to work only to come back out and see that somebody hit it again in the parking lot and broke the headlight!

so yea, i've had one of those days.....
 

mustang50v8

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We have the standard 6ft. fence in the backyard, and a few months ago, I heard about burglaries increasing dramatically in the entire city. To make sure this never happened to me, I got an electric fence and ran a single wire along the top of the fence. Actually, I got the biggest cattle charger Tractor Supply had, made for 26 miles of fence. I then used an 8 ft. long ground rod, drove 7.5 feet into the ground. The ground rod is the key, with the more you have in the ground, the better the fence works.

One day I'm mowing the back yard with my cheapo Wal-Mart 6hp big-wheel pushmower.

The fence' s hot wire is broken and laying out in the yard, but I knew for a fact that I unplugged the charger.

I pushed the mower around the wire and reached down to grab it, to throw it out of the way.

It seems as though I hadn't remembered to unplug it after all.

Now I'm standing there, I've got the running lawnmower in my right hand and the 1.7 gigavolt fence wire in the other hand. Keep in mind the charger is about the size of a marine battery and has a picture of an upside down cow on fire on the cover.

Time stood still.

The first thing I notice is my balls trying to climb up the front side of my body. My ears curled downwards and I could feel the lawnmower ignition firing in the backside of my brain. Every time that Briggs & Stratton rolled over, I could feel the spark in my head. I was literally at one with the engine. It seems as though the fence charger and the POS lawnmower were fighting over who would control my electrical impulses.

Science says you cannot poop and pee at the same time. I beg to differ. Not only did I do all at once, but my bowels emptied 3 different times in less than half of a second. It was a Matrix kind of bowel movement, where time is creeping along and you're all leaned back.

It seemed like there were minutes in between but in reality it was so close together it was like exhaust pulses from a big block Ford turning 8 grand.

At this point I'm about 30 minutes (maybe 2 seconds) into holding onto the fence wire. My hand is wrapped around the wire palm down so I can ' t let go.

I grew up on a farm so I know all about electric fences ... but Dad always had those POS chargers made by International or whoever that were like 9 volts and just kinda tickled. This I could not let go of. The 8 foot long ground rod is now accepting signals from me through the permadamp Alaska river bottom soil.

At this point I'm thinking I'm going to have to just man up and take it, until the lawnmower runs out of gas.

'Damn!,' I think, as I remember I just filled the tank!

Now the lawnmower is starting to run rough. It has settled into a loping run pattern as if it had some kind of big lawnmower race cam in it. Covered in poop and pee, and with my balls on my chest I think 'Oh God please die... pleeeeze die'.

But nooooo, it settles into the rough lumpy cam idle nicely and remains there, like a big bore roller cam EFI motor waiting for the go command from its owner's right foot.

So here I am in the middle of July, 104 degrees, 80% humidity, standing in my own backyard, begging God to kill me. God did not take me that day ... he left me there covered in my own fluids to writhe in the misery my own stupidity had created.

I honestly don't know how I got loose from the wire ... I woke up laying on the ground hours later. The lawnmower was beside me, out of gas. It was later on in the day and I was sunburned. There were two large dead grass spots where I had been standing, and then another long skinny dead spot were the wire had laid while I was on the ground still holding on to it. I assume I finally had a seizure and in the resulting thrashing had somehow let go of the wire.

Upon waking from my electrically induced sleep I realized a few things.

1 - Three of my teeth seem to have melted.

2 - I now have cramps in the bottoms of my feet and my right butt cheek (not the left, just the right).

3 - Poop & pee when mixed together, do not smell as bad as you might think.

4 - My left eye will not open.

5 - My right eye will not close.

6 - The lawnmower runs like a spotted ape now. Seriously! I think our little session cleared out some carbon fouling or something, because it was better than new after that.

7 - My balls are still smaller than average yet they are almost a foot long

8 - I can turn on the TV in the gameroom by farting while thinking of the number 4 (still don't understand this?)

That day changed my life. I now have a newfound respect for things. I appreciate the little things more, and now I always triple check to make sure the fence is unplugged before I mow.

The good news, is that if a burglar does try to come over the fence, I can clearly visualize what my security system will do to him, and THAT gives me a warm and fuzzy feeling all over, which also reminds me to triple check before I mow.
 
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Drew0318

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Keep in mind the charger is about the size of a marine battery and has a picture of an upside down cow on fire on the cover.
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lol!

In all seriousness, electric fences, of all power levels, hurt like hell. They're made to zap 1000-pound animals, not 160-pound people.
 

COramprat

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Damn...now thats just funny
 

TheSalad

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Wow, I had a hard time from completely losing it over that story.
 

trombonedemon

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You should really write a book b/c that was funny as hell, sorry it had to happen to you, but its a learning experience none the less, I'm still crying from this as I type, damn dude, hows life after death, well keep on trucking, and tell that story to pick up women, that will be a sure way to make'em laugh, whew!!!!! Glad you are o.k. You are meant to live, thats for sure.
 

slonlow2000

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Thats horrible, and hilarious at the same time... sorry it happened but at least ya got a great story to tell.
 

Pearl02

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slonlow2000 said:
Thats horrible, and hilarious at the same time... sorry it happened but at least ya got a great story to tell.
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I'm sorry that happened to you. Not to make fun of you but I laughed my ass off! Glad your ok and can see the humor in what happened. Pearl02.
 
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Kilgore Trout

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COramprat said:
So I broke the Stang and my mower in 15 minutes...
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Damn dude, that sucks!

Also the stuff about the electric fence is just copy and paste weak sauce...
 

DocG

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COramprat said:
Well it's been a frustrating 2 weeks. I had a pulley go bad about two weeks ago so I pulled the tensioner thinking that was the problem since I'd already changed the idler but it turned out it was the idler. So I fixed it, cranked it up for the test run. Drove it around and proceeded with a burnout in front of the house...blew the heater hose. So I had to order it. Picked it up Friday, and did a flush and refill with fresh fluid while I was at it. Finished up, took the test drive. Got on the hwy near the house and started blasting gears...get to third....WAAAAHboooww...oops....missed third. Tried again and there is that sinking feeling as the shifter sits loosely in the gate. Move it to 4th...same thing. Damn....broke another shift fork...

Then I get home and decide to cut the grass. Made one pass and ran over a spring from the kids trampoline I didn't see. Tore up the mandrel that one of tha blades attach to. So I broke the Stang and my mower in 15 minutes...I came inside, took a shower and went to bed.

Ever have one of those days?
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Good thing you didn't try to have sexy time with the wifey. You might have broke her too.
 
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bboylobo

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HAHAHAHAH omg that story is the funniest thing i read all week.
 

98COBRA281

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mustang50v8, i almost cried reading that, that is the funniest thing i have read in a long time
 
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