Thread: Lets See The Transport havn a Oops moment

I know it's a little windy but one numpty put a sail on his scooter.

This one shows the sail a little better, I try to upload it from my phone but the ratio of thumb to screen was to great.

Two car pile up....but only got one the towie dragged the other away.

Should buff out aye?

Originally Posted by Dundee

Two car pile up....but only got one the towie dragged the other away.
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Should buff out aye?

It wasn’t much before the crash.

Me....phone was ringing....silly move

The snow above home was just a bit deeper than I was expecting
Good thing I always have a small shovel in the back
Belly plates eventually held the tyres off the shingle road when I hit this drift
Quite a bit of shovelling later I got just enough traction to skid it out

I wish I had evidence of the worst whoopsie I did - I was in one of my old company work utes, just popped up to the tank that supplied the plant area with water and gave the ballcock the obligatory thwack to unstick it as you had to do with that one when the supply stopped...

All good up until that time, but the farm track that I drove up on was on one of about 4 little hillocks - and you sidled around the four before you came to the farm track. And, all good up until I mistook a cattle track for the farm track being a young dumbarse and not looking properly. Now this was about a 40m drop over the side at about an angle of 40deg off vertical with cattle tracks around the side of the hill every meter or so, steep enough that you can't get out of the vehicle and expect it to stay on handbrake but with the odd cattle trail that you need to get a bit of power on to roll over. Real nice stuff, very close to arse end falling over the top of the bonnet Barry Crump level sh1te.

So just to set the scene a bit more, this was a fairly new 05 Courier High Country - first of the push button 4wd systems and suicide door extra cabs with all the bells and whistles for the time. And the boss had just turned up in time to see me roll over the edge of the hill and go Fu...

So there I was, virtually suspended not being able to see the ground below the bonnet line (apart from terra firma 40-odd meters away). I couldn't reverse, couldn't get out, and was rather suddenly less than brave. I think the phrase is "at that moment he knew he f-d up...". But the ute actually handled it brilliantly, careful use of the brakes and only the odd touch of throttle to get over a particularly deep cattle track and 10minutes of driver's seat cushion plucking later and I rolled off the bottom of the drop like a boss.

The boss disappeared as I rolled around the corner, not a word said - ever. I made a point of marking that farm track drop with a hivis post the next day!

Watched a guy go to sleep in front of me on Thursday night, drift across the road and do some full on Dukes of Hazard shit before hitting a tree.
He was ok(ish), and walked into the ambulance after waking up. A bit bloody, but I was expecting a corpse.
Quite the advert for airbags.

Good thing you were there probably, I'm assuming you called the fire service and ambo's?

There was a car behind me - I asked her to call while I got the door open and checked the guy.

Had to commandeer a tractor today to pull the Punimog out of a ditch, its a ditch I've driven through a number of times but not recently, I was trying to find a Hare that I'd just spooked so was just crawling along and not really paying attention to the track. Had I have hit it with a bit more power it would have been fine but by the time I had realized what was going on it was too late, beached on the rear diff and very slippery clay that wasn't giving any traction. Once I figured out the controls on the tractor (it's been a long time!) It was all easily sorted. Gonna have to look at portals I guess

A hand held battery powered winch, or a turfor if time isn't an issue. Portals create more issues than they solve for the one time in a blue moon when they actually help you.

On the factor of not watching where you are going, well on that I have no comment!!!

Originally Posted by No.3

A hand held battery powered winch, or a turfor if time isn't an issue. Portals create more issues than they solve for the one time in a blue moon when they actually help you.

On the factor of not watching where you are going, well on that I have no comment!!!

Whats a portal?

Originally Posted by Tahr

Whats a portal?

A portal hub puts the centre of the wheel lower than the centre of the axle with a gear ratio drop aswell. Brilliant for true extra ground clearance under the diff. Most unimogs have them.

Originally Posted by Tahr

Whats a portal?

A doorway in time used for crossing the universe AKA wormhole