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: Crikes!

texican
10-24-2006, 07:57 PM
I reckon an Angel was riding along, or it was not their time .........
Butch


http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/showthread.php?t=520463
I thought I'd share a recent experience I had. Last weekend was our 4x4 clubs yearly invitational. We invite 60 trucks plus all of our club rigs and we tour the Bohemia Mining area east of Cottage Grove. You can read more about this at www.ot4x4.org/forum

On Friday night I was leading a group of trucks up the Noonday and speared my truck. The tree was laying down horizontally pointing right at us and we just didn't see it. The log poked out my headlight embedding the steel from the headlight bucket in the wood. It kept going through/under my battery and then the metal on the end of the log cut my engine wiring harness. It cut 23 of the 27 wires in the harness. It went right on past my intake and through the firewall, through the dashboard and glanced off Allen's left arm. It then hit the back of the truck breaking the end off and then hitting my arm really hard and pinned my coat to the back of the truck. Finally the truck stopped moving forward and everything was dark. It took a while to get oriented again and figure out what had happened. We are lucky to be alive. We pulled the log out that night with a winch. The next morning Allen worked diligently to rewire the harness and we went up the hill to meet up with the rest of the group! Great weekend at the Jambo!


http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=269032&d=1161635750
http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=269033&d=1161635750
http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=269034&d=1161635750
911SMIL
10-24-2006, 08:30 PM
Holy Crap!! I want to know how fast he was going..??? :eek:
fenderbmxer86
10-24-2006, 08:37 PM
Holy Crap!! I want to know how fast he was going..??? :eek:

15mph

The whole thread is in the toyota forum.
NORCALFJ40
10-24-2006, 08:44 PM
Holy Shit! what are the odds of that happening again. Good to hear noone was seriously hurt, or killed. Kodi
fenderbmxer86
10-24-2006, 08:47 PM
Heres the thread http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/showthread.php?t=520463
warpdriv
10-24-2006, 09:00 PM
You should never wheel faster than your angels can fly. Happy to hear everyone made it out ok.
mean man michael
10-24-2006, 09:16 PM
Holy Shit! what are the odds of that happening again. Good to hear noone was seriously hurt, or killed. Kodi

X2! thats crazy. glad to hear no one was hurt.

mike
ranger
10-24-2006, 09:38 PM
That's completely bizarre!
TOAdisco311
10-24-2006, 10:02 PM
That could have been REAL bad, glad no one was seriously hurt. That passenger was lucky.
treerootCO
10-24-2006, 11:57 PM
holy s#!t is all I can say as well....
orangefj45
10-25-2006, 07:41 AM
lucky bastid!
orangefj45
10-25-2006, 07:42 AM
i'd go to the next convenience store and buy some lottery tickets.....
Kelly O'Connor
10-25-2006, 07:48 AM
Son Of A Bitch !!!!!!!!!!
JRS
10-25-2006, 11:32 AM
Damn and I was pissed when I had a stick go through my radiatior. You guys are wicked lucky. Glad to hear that no one was hurt.
RJ40
10-25-2006, 01:40 PM
Good thing the seats are already brown! Congrats on still being on the top side of the grass.............
eshelbyk
10-25-2006, 02:08 PM
I was on this run and got to hang out with them while they were resplicing wires the next day (thanks to a caliper in the 62 blowing).

This is a great event and I encourage anyone in the area to attend next year. Space is limited but this is a great group of folks and a club that has it together. No man left behind.

It was an amazing spearing to see in person.