Anyone's Neighbor...

...dead?

http://denver.cbslocal.com/2013/06/1...e-tree-stumps/

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AURORA, Colo. (AP) – Police say one man has died after an accident while trying to remove tree stumps in Aurora, and another is injured.


Police say a man was using a tow strap connected to a vehicle to pull stumps from the front of a house Monday when the strap disconnected from the stump. The tow strap’s hook shot through the vehicle’s rear window and struck the driver in the back of the head. The vehicle then traveled across the street onto a front porch, striking an elderly man who was sitting there.


Police say the driver was pronounced dead at a hospital. The man on the porch was taken to a hospital but is expected to survive.


Police say they don’t expect to pursue charges.

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And that is the exact reason why you use these:

http://www.shrockworks.com/files/products/t_16258.jpg

And these:

http://www.okoffroad.com/gifs/stuff/shackle-1.jpg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...;v=upKu5jo4Occ

Ah man! I so feel for those involved as this was an accident that ended a life and no second chances, also solidifies the line: "Live each day as if it was your last." Hug your kids and wife every morning just because.

It can be that simple. :(



Back in my early hard core wheeling days, (always a off road enthusiast) I saw this picture below, got rid of my metal cable on the winch, chains for recovery, and the cheap cheap brand tow straps with the hooks sewn in. Went straight high end synthetic rope modern and wont whip back at you. The old heavy bag over the line doesn't always work either.


(That isn't even a metal line. Imagine your head in the drivers seat.)
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h1...ve/TowHook.jpg

They were doing this in Pueblo West a few years ago. The ball on the hitch broke off, the nylon strap with the ball attached hit his 10 year old son in the head killing him instantly.

Damn. What a way to go.

Hey, how was the pig at Stage Stop Pook?

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Originally Posted by GilpinGuy

Damn. What a way to go.

Hey, how was the pig at Stage Stop Pook?

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Okay, is it me or was that the weirdest transition to a different subject matter I ever heard?


Guy gets killed in accident with tow hook to the back of the head, ...............Hey how was the Pork? [Coffee]


Saying; stage stop Pook multiple times is funny as hell too........................

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Originally Posted by Skully

Okay, that was the weirdest transition to a different subject matter I ever heard?


Guy gets killed in accident with tow hook to the back of the head, ...............Hey how was the Pork? [Coffee]


(Heavy sarcasm)


Saying; stage stop Pook multiple times is funny as hell too........................

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Yeah, not to suave of me eh?

Totally did this when I was young and dumb. Snapped and hit the top of the tailgate then the roof just above the rear slider.

Had the shakes for bit after...

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Originally Posted by GilpinGuy

Damn. What a way to go.

Hey, how was the pig at Stage Stop Pook?

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I had to work as usual but I did get a care package. It was good. [cigar]

I watched an EB do this, while trying to pull a Jeep out of the river, at the bottom of Caribou. Luckily no one had their occipital lobe pierced.

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Originally Posted by Skully

Ah man! I so feel for those involved as this was an accident that ended a life and no second chances, also solidifies the line: "Live each day as if it was your last." Hug your kids and wife every morning just because.

It can be that simple. :(



Back in my early hard core wheeling days, (always a off road enthusiast) I saw this picture below, got rid of my metal cable on the winch, chains for recovery, and the cheap cheap brand tow straps with the hooks sewn in. Went straight high end synthetic rope modern and wont whip back at you. The old heavy bag over the line doesn't always work either.


(That isn't even a metal line. Imagine your head in the drivers seat.)
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h1...ve/TowHook.jpg

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I remember an article on this guy, only reason he wasnt dead was he was leaning out the door looking back at the time.

Saw something similar to that Jeep, ironicallye nough it was another Jeep. Guy was attempting to unstuckify someone in the great snowstorms of 2006 in boulder. It was a civic that high centered, the Jeep pulled up and was all, I've got a winch!

I was down at Folsom and 28th, they were at like 23rd (that stop light that enters into the Safeway parking lot there), I slowly started rolling up, watching this guy attach the winch, then hop back in the truck. I was like, okay, lets see what he's gonna do. Then I realized he was starting to backup his jeep and use the winch line as a freaking tow strap! I started honking at him (no other cars around really) and then it was too late. The winch snapped and flew through his windshield, though he got lucky and it was more underneath the rearview mirror. I pulled up and first off, told him how a winch is supposed to be used, then showed him my 3"x30' snatch strap and shackles. Hooked them up to the civic (from my lifted for offroading not show, xterra) and slowly started pulling forward. I could see the strap stretch and then the civic started moving towards me. Unhooked, and watched the civic drive off and the jeep drive away too with his head held low.

That sounds like something my neighbors brother would try.. My neighbor would at least watch it happen.

We all do stupid stuff from time to time. Most of the time there are no deadly consequences. Sometimes there are.

Sucks for his family and friends to lose him that way.

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Originally Posted by BuffCyclist

And that is the exact reason why you use these:

http://www.shrockworks.com/files/products/t_16258.jpg

And these:

http://www.okoffroad.com/gifs/stuff/shackle-1.jpg

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Even with good quality gear, you should still throw a jacket, or something over the middle of the line to deaden it, if there is a failure

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Originally Posted by cjmore

Even with good quality gear, you should still throw a jacket, or something over the middle of the line to deaden it, if there is a failure

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that right there is good advice...

That's a sad story. It is amazing how quickly it can end.

This is a little bit of an aside, but you can pull any type of post (but probably not a tree stump) straight out of the ground using a truck (as opposed to pulling them over with the forward motion of the truck). You can create an upward force, and it's much much easier. Say if you hooked up a truck to a fence post and tried to pull it, something would snap or it wouldn't work at all (especially if it's a sturdy post). A crane would work better and with little force, but who has a crane?

When I was a kid we were in Australia and we had 15-20 large wood fence posts to pull out of the ground. Not little fence posts, they were like 8-10" diameter trees cut down, debarked, and planted a couple of feet in the ground. This guy told us how he could pull them out with a truck, and we thought he was crazy. I never would have believed it unless I saw it. He took a chainsaw and put a little notch in the post, about a foot off the ground. Then he took a little piece of 2x4 and kick-wedged it in the notch between the post and the ground at a 45 degree angle, and then he took a chain and hooked it to his truck above the notch. When he pulled forward, it lifted them straight up out of the ground with very little forward motion. It was a tiny little truck, pulling huge fence posts out of the ground. And I remember us all standing back in case the chain broke, but didn't consider that it could have hit the guy in the truck.

Now we have a bulldozer and we just push them over. But sans bulldozer, this is the way I would always pull a post out of the ground in the future. The 2x4 makes it impossible for the post to bend towards the truck without first moving up and out of the ground.

I also used this trick to pull a metal basketball hoop straight up out of the ground, and it had a few-bags-of-concrete cone stuck on the bottom of it. It would have been impossible to pull it over without the post breaking, and would have taken forever to dig it out. We had it out in 5 minutes.

Who the Hell was PD going to charge? The poor guys dead.

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Originally Posted by cofi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=upKu5jo4Occ

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Good Lord.....buncha drunken inbreds or what?

yeah... I learned real quick never to use chain.. the force at work is insane. same with the small tow lines with hooks in em..

a little know how will go a long way...

Had a strap fail similar to that using my F650- Came around the passenger side and busted my fuel tank.

Thank God no fire... Agree with above posts...use a high quality strap

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Originally Posted by rondog

Good Lord.....buncha drunken inbreds or what?

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WTF are you calling drunken!!! [Mad]

The old jacket/blanket trick was for wire cable/chain/straps to cause a damping effect in the event of failure. Modern winch rope releases energy differently.