A good reason to always close equipment doors.....lesson learned.

[Southside]

So Saturday evening at the end of a long, annoying day, without realizing it I left the door open on my processor.  My wife and I had plans on Sunday and things turned to mud so I never went back over to the farm where the machine was parked.  Had a bit of a surprise waiting for me when I went to step up into the cab, from the looks of things it was a good thing I opened up the battery knife kill switch before leaving, who knows what their intentions were if they could have gotten it started. See for yourself in the photo, dang free range chickens.   :laugh:  

[Alcranb]

Now if you can get the goose that lays the golden egg.......  ;D

[Jeff]

Glad to see that instead of what I thought I might see.  The doors on the w-14 case loaders we had were split. You could open the top and latch it open, and leave it there no problem. However, if you left the bottom door open, or the whole door, and turned, because the cab articulated with the front end, you could smash the doors against the back of the machines. Those doors were around $1000 a piece just for the lower half if I remember right. Even if they got slightly tweaked, it created problems and it didn't take much to tweak one.

[Part_Timer]

She just wanted to leave you some lunch!

[g_man]

The way you going on I didn't know what to expect. That is a nice surprise gift. It is even a clean one.

[treeslayer2003]

Glad to see that instead of what I thought I might see.  The doors on the w-14 case loaders we had were split. You could open the top and latch it open, and leave it there no problem. However, if you left the bottom door open, or the whole door, and turned, because the cab articulated with the front end, you could smash the doors against the back of the machines. Those doors were around $1000 a piece just for the lower half if I remember right. Even if they got slightly tweaked, it created problems and it didn't take much to tweak one.

yep, allis chalmers 940 is the same way. I welded a stop on so the door wouldn't open that far..........after dad bent the door up.

[clww]

I've never seen a chicken lay an egg in/on the equipment before. :D

[Corley5]

Good thing you looked before you sat down   I left the glass out of the cab door on the old harvester and we had a lake effect snow event that night.

[Dave Shepard]

It's better then what our cows do when they see an opportunity.  :D We used to use a McCormick-Deering W-4 to pull a hay trailer through the barn every night to put hay over the manger. The W-4 has a seat that's about 3 feet off the ground. One night a particularly mischievous cow backed up to the seat and made a deposit. Thought it was a fluke until she did it again the next night. >:( :D

[Ed_K]

I expected a porky and everything all chewed up.An egg is better than a rattler sitting there trying to warm up.

[Nemologger]

One morning while working along the Mississippi River I opened the door on my cat loader and there was a snake skin coming out of the  defroster and down onto the floorboard. I carefully got it out intact and laid it out so I could measure it... 6ft. 7 inches!  I still don't know how that rascal got in there.

[KyLogger]

Yeah.......fat chance of me gettin' in that thing till winter!

Tom