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1. Jason Baker

   

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   6/17/2013 7:06 AM

   A couple of years ago I was sitting in my cart watching the electrician wire the fountain I just installed in our lake. On my front seat I had a box of extra cable. For some reason my cart was in reverse. as I sat there the box slid off and landed on the gas pedal. Cart and I both flew backwards into the lake. That sucked cause I had to get half the crew to pull the submerged cart out.
   
   Many years ago I had an assitant running a backhoe during a tee renovation (I was first assistant he was the 2nd Assistant) I was showing him how to operate the loader on a slope, he "knew everything" already though, So last thing I said was "What ever you do do not dump while on that slope." I got off machine and walked 10 steps before he dumped while on the slope and flipped the backhoe down the slope on to it's roof!". As it was going over he bailed out and ran down the slope in front of it!!
   
   I have had two aerifiers end up in lakes, seen tri-plexs flipped, I have backed a dump truck into the hole I was dumping, seen bunker rakes in lakes, Had a guy run into the big green electrcal box while on a Steiner and nock it off the pedastal causing a blackout to half the club house............I got a few more but will save them for the book.

   
   
   
   
2. Jamie Pavlas

   

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   6/30/2013 6:06 PM

   Drove up to the 18th hole where some crew were working. Parked the truck just past a satellite. Of course when I backed up to get out of there the satellite got crunched!!!

   
   
   
   
3. Tyler Broderick

   

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   8/7/2013 7:08 AM

   I was coming down a hill looking the other direction and I rear ended two golfers just as they got back into their cart from the tee box. Wasn't going that fast but I still felt like a complete idiot.

   
   
   
   
4. Barnett Chad R

   
   8/17/2013 5:08 PM

   I was driving around on a course one morning watering frost off the greens with the osmac radio and the front windshield was frosted over as I was typing the last number on the radio wham I ran right into a granite piece showing the hole and almost took it out of the ground. Luckily they were no witnesses but I did have take a couple goody powders later that day

   
   
   
   
5. Jacob Silva

   

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   9/19/2013 4:09 PM

   Hmmmm, easier for me to figure out which piece I havent crashed. Attention span of about

   
   
   
   
6. Steven Huffstutler

   

   11 posts
   
   9/19/2013 5:09 PM

   Jacob Silva said: Hmmmm, easier for me to figure out which piece I havent crashed. Attention span of about

   
   
   That is fing hilarious

   
   
   
   
7. Jamie Pavlas

   

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   10/6/2013 7:10 PM

   Thought of another.....Friday afternoon, crew gone, found some rough that was missed. Went out on the toro 223D. I was flying as I was a little upset this rough was missed and it was Friday afternoon. One of the wheels fell of the deck so I grabbed it and put it down by my feet. As I was pulling into the garage I took my foot off the pedal but didn't slow down at all. The wall stopped me.....and the paint locker. The cans of paint we're falling on me. It being Friday I left it there. Mechanic called me later and we had a good laugh!

   
   
   
   
8. James Smith

   

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   10/13/2013 7:10 AM

   you guys makes me wish I had one to share, how about this one, One morning when I was coming into work (I live right down the street) I got a phone call from my assistant basically saying don't be mad but he hit a tree in on his way to the shop. Being I was already half way there it did not take me long to see the front of his truck totalled sitting next to a very large pine tree with half of its bark removed from about 2' to 4' up. Thankfully no one was hurt but the facts were that he picked up another worker in the paring lot and was trying to show off how powerful his truck was by flooring it and when the pavement went from concrete to rock he lost control. All I could say was the truck doesn't seem to powerful anymore does it. He learns his lesson over and over again every day when he drives by that same pine tree missing its bark.

   
   
   
   
9. Dennis Cook

   

   1 posts
   
   11/14/2013 8:11 PM

   While working on Hilton Head Island when i was 21, i fell asleep driving a steiner with a triplex reel system on the front and crashed it right into a tree. Woke me up real fast and did a lot of damage to the unit.
   
   While I attended a superintendents golf outing one year the crew was out dragging the dew off the fwys as all the supts were heading out for the shotgun, just as we came onto our hole a worker was flying down the fwy with a three wheeled cushman with the hand throttle set. He made a quick turn around at the end of the fwy and flew right off the cushman. That sucker was in third gear wide open and kept going. It managed to jump and launch out of the ditch and cross the highway a total of three times before it finally smacked a tree and stopped. That thing musta been going with no operator for a good 3-4 minutes with everyone chasing it and trying to stop it. When it crossed the busy highway there was mass skidding by the traffic each time it crossed but fortunately never caused a wreck. Since no one got hurt, this by far was one of the funniest thigs i have ever experienced at a golf course