Yup, any oops will do
You know Dougster, we arent going to let you off without posting the story now!
Well, the funny thing is that there really isn't much to tell about the incident itself. While I still kick myself in the butt over the amateurish stupidity of it, the story itself is really quite boring...
It was on that infamous "
rockscape" job last summer (a job which I hope is
NEVER repeated by moi). After we had two monster granite rocks...
16,000 lbs and 11,000 lbs... busted up by the rock splitter guys and after I had hauled the pieces away to the waste pile, we suddenly discovered
another 8,000 lb granite rock had been hidden right under the 11K one. The rock splitting guys were already gone, and the rock was too big to haul out of it's hole with the 509 backhoe... so we decided to bury the rock deeper rather than try to remove it. We initially tried some Dexpan (non-explosive splitting compound) to bust it up into smaller pieces, but the Dexpan turned out to be useless... so off I went, digging a big hole
around and under the 8,000 lb granite rock.
Well, the good news is that I was able to rebury that nasty rock several feet deeper and well below the desired grade, saving another $500 rock splitter guy fee. The bad news is that while digging
under the rock, I managed to scratch the bucket curl cylinder rod all to heck... not once, but twice!
I eventually managed to finish the
rockscape job without further incident, but the scratches in that chromed cylinder rod later started to rust and peel... and now the rod needs to be replaced.
The whole thing made me feel like a complete idiot.
So you see, the "oops" part itself is really rather mundane and boring. Where things get complicated and ugly is in my
subsequent dealings with my old (i.e., original selling)
Mahindra dealer and
Bradco on the replacement part... another much
L-O-N-G-E-R story for another thread and another time... and a battle that still isn't over yet!
Dougster