As I mentioned in another post we had quite a few large boats come into our cove and I noticed one gentleman fishing out in front of my place quite a bit for a couple days. Well yesterday I had to put a new bilge pump in my boat so I decided it would be easier if I just that the boat out of the water and bring it up to the garage which is very easy to do with the tractor since I have a hitch attachment that I made up for the front bucket. While I was getting ready to take it out this gentleman showed up to fish and I noticed he was using a spinning rod which is fine in the spring but not much good for this time of year. When he got close enough I hollered to him and asked him if he had a flyrod he said no so I told him I would lend him a one and a few flies and that he could give it back to me later when I got back on the lake. Well after I got the boat on the trailer and made it back up the steep hill I decided to take the tractor out of 4 wheel drive to go a little easier on my lawn. With that I proceeded to the garage and installed the pump all the time wondering if Dan was getting any fish. Well I decided to throw the boat right back into the lake but without thinking I forgot to shift the tractor back into 4 wheel drive before starting back down the steep hill, big mistake!! Right away after starting down the hill the tractor started picking up speed even though I was hard on the break at this point. The rear started bouncing and half way down the trailer came off the hitch from all the bouncing and took off down the hill even faster. It was just luck that it veered to the right into the bank instead of going over the steep bank on the water side. After the boat and trailer came off the hitch I was able to get the tractor stopped before running into the boat or going over the bank myself. It was kind of a slap in the face after preaching to other people to keep your mind on what your doing and not get distracted by something else. Anyway all turned out fine and sorry about the long story, now time to go shopping for some new undies.
