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I was pulling our Dodge farm truck home from the other farm with my old Ford truck and was going nice and slow cause i knew it was icy in the driveway, as i turned in the dodge started pushing the backend of my ford around. I hit the gas hoping to pull it around but to no avail and ended up with the front end of the dodge and the back end of the ford in a pine tree. Guess i was lucky, no damage or scratches to the ford, broke the headlight and a small dent on the hood of the dodge. Got out of the truck when happened and wondered what would have happened if i hadent been going slow and careful.

Sorry if i bored you, just venting a little. Im betting that headlight will cost $300 +.
 
Don't know where you are, but here in southern MN, this ice is getting pretty miserable & old. Haven't had this in over a decade. Won't melt away, won't coat over with snow, just ice ice ice.

We all are doing the penguin walk all day long, shuffle shuffle slip shuffle.....

See a lot of dinged up vehicles on the road, drove across most of southern MN a few days ago and say 'impacts' in the snow off the road about every 2 miles on average, also saw a car on it's side. Here at home the following day I saw a semi stuck in snow/ on gravel road iced over; saw a vehicle rolled into a field; saw a car being towed out of the road ditch. All within 3 miles of travel.

It's unreal.

--->Paul
 
In the early 90's, a local dairy farmer and his hired man were pulling a 2 ton truck with no brakes home behind a small tractor. They started down a hill and the hired man couldn't stop the truck. It hit the tractor and killed the farmer. A tragic situation.
 
..you Lived!! Therefore you can't get the darwin award;-) But you DID survive, learned a valuable lesson, and hopefully you're tale here will make several more people aware of what can go wrong when you least expect it. Thanks for the heads-up!!
 
One time in the Marine Corps, we were debarking from an LST. To those who haven't been there and done that, offloading from the main deck of an LST involves going down a rather steep ramp close to 100 feet long.

A Staff Sergeant started down the ramp driving a Jeep with an equipment trailer hooked onto the pintle hitch on the back of the Jeep. About half way down, it became apparent the trailer weighed considerably more than the Jeep. After a wild ride down the ramp, the whole works came to a stop at the bottom with the tongue of the trailer sticking straight up, holding the rear end of the Jeep several feet off the deck.

No damage was done, but I suspect the Staff Sergent driving the Jeep had to change his skivvies at the earliest opportunity.
 
We drove Hwy 14, I-35, & I-90 from new Ulm to Lacrosse & back the day after the last ice mess. In a 2-wd diesel powered pickup hint - no traction on the rear end...). That was kinda exciting.....

--->Paul
 
Darwin award? My son and I pulled an old Int. two ton home that a friend gave us for parts. We always run a chain in side a pipe,(to be safe) ya right, anyway it was a hot day and as we went down the road he kept getting out on the running board then back inside several times? Just crazy I thought his mother's side of the family! When we got home he jumped out and ran BUMBLE BEES!
 
how about going down the ramp and into the drink with the hull plugs out of a lvt.... Bilge pumps just a cranking like a rooster tail(s). Semper Fi
 
Thought I was the only one that knew those things existed. Busted the final drive out of one when I misjudged the swell while boarding an LSD. All 4 pumps were working that day!
 
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