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localboy
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 Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 1:59 pm Post subject: How NOT to tow... |
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Remember, there is the issue of overhead clearance too!  And I thought my recent tire/rim/curb incident was bad. That was NOTHING.
Click on the pic for a very short video.
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B~C
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| Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 2:11 pm Post subject: |
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pardon my language, but, oh crap
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matt_unique
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| Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 2:17 pm Post subject: Ouch |
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OMG....it looks like the cab in the truck was crushed when it came down.
Napoleon measures 13' from the road to the top of my fixed GPS receiver. Typical highway clearance is 13'6". That makes for some hairy tow's....
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Sneaks
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| Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 2:41 pm Post subject: |
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Admission:
I came within three ft. of doing the same thing while pulling in to gas up at a truck stop towing my 5th wheel RV. That particular lane (and ONLY that lane) had a crossbar prohibiting tall vehicles. Didn't notice it until almost too late. Had I not noticed, we would have had a bedroom with a view. I can empathize with that poor soul.
 
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416rigby
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| Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 4:28 pm Post subject: |
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I, for one, thoroughly enjoyed page two of your photobucket album. Thanks. 
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Papillon
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| Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 4:38 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | I, for one, thoroughly enjoyed page two of your photobucket album. Thanks.
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Rick,
I didn't know you were such a car buff.....or is it just the "seat covers" you liked.
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Rob & Karen
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| Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 4:48 pm Post subject: |
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When I go to that site and move around, it makes both my antivirus and my spyware programs go crazy.
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416rigby
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| Uh, yeah. Yeah, that's it. Seat covers. Right. |
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localboy
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| Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 5:18 pm Post subject: |
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| 416rigby wrote: | | I, for one, thoroughly enjoyed page two of your photobucket album. Thanks. |
Those were posted for another site I frequent that involves air-cooled VWs. An old threat titled "Would you hit her?"...the answer was quite obvious, if only in my fantasies. |
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starcrafttom
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| Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 5:45 pm Post subject: |
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Damm!! I had just tied a 12 ft microwave dish on to the back of another guys truck after transferring from my truck. We where in the parking lot of a hotel in Battle mountain nv. There where three was out of the parking lo that he could have taken, only one goes under a cover. He choose the wrong one and destroyed the dish as he pulled thru the lobby drive way.
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Captains Cat
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| Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:19 pm Post subject: |
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| starcrafttom wrote: | | Damm!! I had just tied a 12 ft microwave dish on to the back of another guys truck after transferring from my truck. We where in the parking lot of a hotel in Battle mountain nv. There where three was out of the parking lo that he could have taken, only one goes under a cover. He choose the wrong one and destroyed the dish as he pulled thru the lobby drive way. |
Tom, I hope he paid you in cash before he drove away!
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starcrafttom
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| we worked for the same out fit. I was just dropping off supplies for the job from Sacramento. I had to go back and get another one. |
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Knotty C
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| Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 7:57 pm Post subject: |
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Wow! That had to have been fatal. Any details on how many people were in the tow rig?
Don |
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Nan-C
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| Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:39 pm Post subject: |
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Tom -- Two of our kids live in the SFB area, so we have driven I-80 from Iowa to SF for a dozen years. Over those years Nancy and I have called Battle Mountain, NV, the armpit of the world. We loved it a few years ago when their misguided Chamber of Commerce capitalized on their obvious strengths and adopted "armpit of the world" as the town's motto, complete with billboard on I-80. By the way is hotel an appropriate term for an establishment in Battle Mountain?
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arniehuff
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| Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2009 9:10 pm Post subject: |
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Speaking of BM - don't overlook the "RV park" hidden behind the truck stop. But they used to have "Dotties Cafe" - great breakfast and the best cinnamon rolls coast to coast.
Marcia
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