Do as I Say, NOT as I Do. We break stuff too :-) 

Putting the “mess” in Messick’s

Good judgement comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgement. - Will Rogers

Great video - anyone who's operated equipment has these stories but most won't admit it. Great seeing Brian - purchased a lot of equipment from him in Abbottstown before we moved out of state.

I am very good at hiding my mistakes. Worst part is looking to see if my neighbors saw me !

It’s cool to see videos like this that take over a year to film all the pieces, finally come together

I can say one thing for sure, Dont piss off a Messick...you'll have an ARMY of em pissed off at the same time...big family!

Jeez-Louise, there is a whole passel of Messicks! :D

Great video. Often times people forget wisdom usually comes via trial & error 🤣 No shame in admitting things like these! Make for great stories

Well done. Enjoyed meeting the rest of the guys.

I vote for this being the best video from you EVER! Thank you! Love the bloopers!

What integrity to admitt to your own mistakes. An a good laugh now

@Lucas Messick, I can add one more thing to your Trailer unhooking story... that I learned by experince: Never unhook the safety chains from the tow vehicle until you have the hitch clear of the ball and the trailer has not moved. I had a WHEEL CHOCKED camper trailer move on a thin layer of mud that was on the pavement as soon as my trailer unhooked from the ball. If the chains were not hooked up, the camper trailer would have slid on the mud back into a tree, probably completely smashing my camper. Unhook your safety chains LAST.

One thing I learnt from this video: there's a LOT of Messick boys! 😄 😁

Love it!! Do as say not as I do. Okay, first time learning how to drive a Massey Ferguson 1979 tractor, I drove it through the barn wall bent the frame; my boss wasn't happy on that day.

🎵If the Messick's are wrong I don't want be Right !🎵As always Great and honest video. Nice to see you all. 🙏

Many years ago we used our old Ford tractor to tow a minivan up the hill at our farm. After we got it up and pulled the chain off, my uncle set the chain on the brush hog of the tractor and my grandfather decided to turn the PTO on to cut a swipe on the way down, and the chain got sucked through the hole in the top of the brush hog and jammed it up.

Neil this video is great. Your family members talk about mistakes with equipment that operate. I hated the stuff that jammed up in the side boom ( Flailing mower) on Road farming. The carpet is a huge piece that people just dumped in the ditch ( long grass covers it up) I would spend half a day removing that carpet jam. Even having to use a torch. The strands all rapped around and around ( cutting knife) a one Accident I had in 1979 was not watching a guy carefully and telling him, get your arms off outside of the bucket, he got in my bucket to come out of ditch, we were finding side sewer stubs. He put his ARM on OUTSIDE of the bucket. He broke his arm.

I have never done any of the things that y’all described as far as the wife knows

My brother's father-in-law just gotten a Mahindra eMax 25. He wanted to move something, maybe pull a small stump. He rapped the item, ran the strap over the bucket top and over a cross beam of the arms and hooked the strap onto the frame on the tractor. Well on that beam was the metal lines for hydraulics. When he lifted the bucket, the 1 line got kinked and the others linds have a slight bend. No leaks or noticeable effect on the bucket.

@Kevin Messick - do NOT keep the clevis on the drawbar! I thought it would be ok to leave it on, but while lowering my ballast box I found that it would drop low enough to clear my quick hitch. I lifted and lowered the 3 point a few times and finally got off and looked. The clevis had turned and was under the stabilizer bar in one side, so each time I lowered the 3 point it was bending the stabilizer more.

Do you get the feeling that the service guys roll their eyes when they see you guys loading up a trailer on Friday afternoon?

Great job. These are very good examples we can use in our safety talks with our teams concerning equipment safety. Thanks

Thank you for all of the stories and advice.

Hi Neil, it’s about time for a new Neil’s Deals, sort of a Messick’s Black Friday offering.

So good! Loved this. I feel better now. Thank you!

I break stuff all the time.... how else am I going to learn (besides watching RU-vid). It is also one of the reasons why I have a fully stocked shop.... to repair all the things that I break. It isn't embarrassing, until you take it to the mechanic.

Spectacular video. Always loved reading the after-accident reports at the end of Flying magazine, too. Not to be macabre or anything. Pilots learn from the mistakes of others, lest we recreate them ourselves! Good job on the video. Would love more like this in the future.

My most recent oops was not tractor or equipment related. I recently purchased a camper shell for my old pickup, so the shell was used. Great condition except the rear hatch hinge is pulling apart from the hatch frame. I removed it off the shell and figured I'd drill holes through it and rivet it back on since most of the rivets had pulled out. I drilled some holes to install new rivets...first hole I drill, I hear a crack and look down as the whole glass shatters....ooops, and a $500 repair bill soon to be ugg LOL...hey good news the new rivets in the hinge work LOL.

Thanks for showing you guys are human... I strive to be safe and protect my life and my equipment, BUT, I end up 'on the fringe' and I have gotten close to some of the 'Do as I say, not as I do' or creating my own. Thanks for ALL the videos. I learn every time I watch (some several times)

Fantastic video, thanks for making this one. I know it sucks to admit your failures but this was both entertaining and informative. It was AWESOME to meet all of the Messick family, I really enjoyed that!

I don’t know if this is good news or bad news, but, if you mow over a 3/8” log chain by mistake with a 60” mower deck on a BX 23, the damage will be to the chain(cut in half) and not much to the blades( a little extra sharpening during the annual maintenance visit). About $0.00 to $5.00 to repair the chain depending on what you have lying around versus buying a repair shackle.

Must be nice to have service department to fix stuff. I caught high tensile wire with brush hog seen it was down didn't check where it was wrapped enough wire up to trip slip clutch.

Great video! Thanks for sharing Guys!!!

Great information, easy to relate to!!! Thank You

That's got to be one of your very best videos. Cool to see the whole family. Also, makers me feel pretty good about what I've gotten away with over the years. Only dropped one dead tree backwards on me and my tractor. Got out of that with just a split lip. Walenstien skidder would have kept me out of that issue.

Hi, Awesome video! It's nice to know that we are all human. Anyone who says they have never made a mistake likely has something to hide! Hopefully when it does happen, that the damage is minimal, and no one gets hurt! I bet you have a great bunch orf outtakes!

Nice to see the whole Messick family! I had a bush-hog with a loose rear wheel; it was not retained properly where it pivots. I MEANT to do something about it but never seemed to get around to it. One day the entire assembly fell off, while I was mowing in reverse. It was destroyed. Just mangled beyond belief. It cost me several hundred dollars to replace it. The bolt that should have held it in place was only worth about a dollar. Stupid.

I think were related! Great video. Thanks for the honesty. I’m guilty of working too hard and fast, so a nice reminder that it’s okay to do that if the Messick’s also do it.

It happens to everyone especially off road with unexpected events! I recently got a new L3902 HST and was eager to use it ….I had maybe a half our on it and was cleaning up some dead limbs and brush out back of my place….there was a rotten stump 8” diameter about 2 ft high I’ve been meaning to remove….so I bumped up to it with the bucket and it moved easily being the tree had been cut down years ago….I proceeded to push it over and instead of backing up I tried driving around it…in the process the front wheel caught the stump and somehow sucked it under the tractor and wedged it under the drivers step bending it against the rear wheel! I’m like REALLY? No real damage other than a bent step which I bent back and is still useable…I’ll probably straighten it out better but for now I left it the way it is as a reminder to quick being lazy!😅

Nice that you guys (& TTWT) admit your mistakes so we can learn from them.

Cool family!. The Messicks boys!

Right tool for the job!

There are just a few of the Messick family around eh? Thanks for sharing your stories. We've surely all done something "brilliant" as well!

Great video Guys Thank you all for being honest about our days out in the field Keep plowing and GODSPEED EDWARD MARTIN

I was mowing with my L4701 and Landpride brush hog... on a side hill I had not had trouble mowing the tractor started to slide.. wet grass. Fortunately it stopped real quick! Scared the heck out of me. Don’t mow in the wet anymore! The next day I was mowing the perimeter (grass here grows a foot and a half a week (or more) in rainy season), a hog had rooted up the hill and dislodged a rock that slid down and was hidden in the grass. I had the loader set to protect the oil pan so the rock went under the blade and snapped a brush hog blade in half through the pin. Needless to say that gets your attention in a hurry! Now I never assume the many times mowed path is clear of rocks and I set the blade about 3”. I have collected several hundred pounds of “new rocks” this way. If I can’t see, the blade is going to be down and low now.

When I visited the US for the first time, one of the things that I found peculiar was all of the warning stickers and flags on mowers... there was no space for all of the stickers so they added flags... now I know why. Thank you.

If you've got water in the tires there's no point in not hanging a few clevis around on the tractor too.

Best video yet - I wish you guys were here in Australia

Fun to see all the various Messick's family folks!

If you don't mess up, you ain't doing anything.

The 3 I’s of safety/ equipment issues. I didn’t think I didn’t see I didn’t know

Sometimes I have had that feeling that its a bad idea or I shouldn't be doing this, seconds before everything goes South. Yep well all get lazy ,rush or when your tired. None good.Great video and reminder for all of us.

I like the honesty stuff actually really happens in life....unlike tv

I'm just glad I'm not the only one that does stupid things sometimes. Lol!!! Thanks

My view of it is any mistake you walk away from can’t be all bad and if you get away with no damage and just have to spend some time on it, that time is worth the learning experience.

I recently forgot to disconnect the mid pto shaft and then drove back into the garage. The noise I heard was the shaft being destroyed by the edge of the concrete. And it tried really hard to get out the back under the tire.

Great video! Glad I've never done anything like that! Yeah right!

I bet everyone feels better for confessing their carnage... but how do you know equipment limitations till ya break it?! Great video guys!

I ran over a chain of that size with my ZD 1511 . It cut it in half, spit it out and barely put a nick in the blades. .

Im always paranoid about making sure my gas is mixed! As soon as I'm home i get the oil in that gas pail..

I enjoyed this video because I got the chance to see the Family 😁

We've all done stupid stuff with machines. My worst was taxiing my airplane into my husband's brand new pickup truck.

Mistakes can only make you better at what you do 👍

Key takeaway: don't get a zero turn, they make you lazy!

Remember guys...."All statues have clay feet!". Awesome video! 👍👍👍

My dad did a lot worse to his chainsaw this summer. He took the tractor out with the brush cutter to mow the roads on our land, and as usual, brought the chainsaw along to clear fallen trees and limbs. After cutting one tree, he set the saw on the front of the mower and got back in the tractor. As you can expect, the saw ended up under the mower, in about 20 different pieces. Later that day he also tried to pull the tractor into the garage with the cab door open. Tempered glass doors and immovable objects do not mix well.

You folks are awesome. thanks L2550!!

If you run equipment at some point the main CPU is going for a fart....lady luck there after determines the mess

been there , done that

A very cool video where we see several members of the family ! and the topic is also very cool, because everyone make mistake. but admitting it in video is something. bye

Note: do not let anyone from the Messick family run a zero turn mower.

The owners kids will keep the shop in over time lol

Also, please don't jerk things with chains that's not just a good way break equipment but a quick way to get injured or killed.

If these items were the worst you guys have done, you are doing just fine.

I broke my brand new Kubota B2301 Swift-Tach loader the first time I rolled the bucket back. Wasn't my fault this time, either it's a poor design or the dealers don't know how to assemble the kickstand assembly. It wasn't in my driveway for 15 minutes.😂

I had a hard time believing Lucas wasn't Neil. Everything from looks to subtle body movements, there is no doubt you two are related.

I mowed over our chain thinking it’d be fine and it wasn’t it scared the hell out of me and I had untangle the blades and chain and stalled mower

Neil, I did the same thing to my chainsaw.

I rediscovered a stump I have avoided for years with my zero turn a week ago hidden under the piles of maple tree leaves that just fell. I was rushing but that sure slowed me down. Had to regrind my blades but no other damage.

What New Holland tractor was that?

How many Messick's are there?

I got too close to a newspaper with my toro titan. Bad bad bad mistake. I’ve broke plenty of things in my life but that was my most recent stupid moment.

Taking short cuts

If you never do anything you'll never break anything.

Ok, I’ll ask... what’s the difference between a skid loader & a track machine?

If you're using machinary, your going to break machinary, but it always happens when we know we are doing something we shouldn't:--)

Happens to the best of us. Did you ever get the stolen skid loader back?

It’s only a mistake if you can’t fix it. Otherwise it’s just a learning experience.

your supposed to mow up and down the slope, not side to side. having said that i jammed my finger in the car door today.

🤦🏼