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    Quote Originally Posted by Skully View Post
    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.)


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

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    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.

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

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    Default Anyone's Neighbor...

    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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    Quote Originally Posted by BuffCyclist View Post
    And that is the exact reason why you use these:



    And these:


    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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    Quote Originally Posted by cjmore View Post
    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
    that right there is good advice...

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    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.
    Last edited by generalmeow; 06-18-2013 at 12:13.

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

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    Quote Originally Posted by cofi View Post
    Good Lord.....buncha drunken inbreds or what?
    There's a lot more of us ugly mf'ers out here than there are of you pretty people!

    - Frank Zappa

    Scrotum Diem - bag the day!

    It's all shits and giggles until someone giggles and shits.....

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    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...

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