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farmall43

02-09-2001 22:32:20

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Tonight on my way home from work I came across a guy in the ditch. The roads are a sheet of ice and there has been flooding on most roads for the better fart of the day. This guy must have hit one of the flooded areas doing about 55mph. He was about 10ft off the road and his little blazer was in water over the hood. So I stopped and asked if I could help. Now mind you it's about 15 degrees and the wind is wipping at about 25mph. He says his uncle is on the way with a 3/4 ton truck. I tell him that the truck will not move his blazer and that I will come back in about 20-30 min with a tractor. So I head home and start up the good ole 400 deisel and let it warm up while I go put on some warm clothes. I get back there and here is this guys uncle trying to pull him out. he is sliding all over the place and going nowhere. He keeps at this for about 10min while I sit there at an idle. Finally I tell him to unhook.(Iwas getting cold) I hook up and put the old girl in first and leave her at an idle and walk right away with the blazer. I seems to me that some people have no common sense. First the roads are icy and covered with running water in places. I would think that that would make you want to slow down. Second why continue to use a truck when it obviously will not do the job and you have a tractor right there. Maybe I'm just bursting with common sense to,right. But atleast I had an excuse to get the tractor out and show off.

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Alvin

02-11-2001 17:46:41

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Re: Some People(need to learn how to drive) in reply to farmall43, 02-09-2001 22:32:20

You mean that cowboy left you hook your old tractor on his suv??? I know I wouldn't have sat around there watching them putz around and get cold.. Leave then get a tow truck and pay the $75 or more to get pulled out.After a few bills like that they slow down!!! Why should you pull for a $10 bill??

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Alvin

02-11-2001 17:46:15

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Re: Some People(need to learn how to drive) in reply to farmall43, 02-09-2001 22:32:20

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Azjbird

02-11-2001 05:58:42

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Re: Some People(need to learn how to drive) in reply to farmall43, 02-09-2001 22:32:20

Hi 43, If I had A nickel for every one of these scenes Iv`e come across, I would have been retiered long ago.! I can`t help wonder, that if in my father`s day people had more driving sense. I have made my living out on the nations highways for the last 25yrs. now, and I`m tellin`ya I`ll never see it all!

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Bill C

02-10-2001 21:18:06

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Re: Some People(need to learn how to drive) in reply to farmall43, 02-09-2001 22:32:20

Funny story. I like to make the guy hook the chain up himself, that way when the 'H' rippes some cheap metal, or mickey mouse plastic off of it I just look at them and say "Hey, you'r the one that hooked it up,don't look at me." That really torkes them off!!

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Charlie

02-10-2001 16:02:06

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Re: Some People(need to learn how to drive) in reply to farmall43, 02-09-2001 22:32:20

Someone had a similar story about a month ago and a lot of us are still giggling about that one too. Don't be surprised if you find the same people needed to be towed again the next time the weather goes bad. Apparently the commercials aren't telling us the truth that SUV's can go anywhere.

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nodak

02-10-2001 22:11:20

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Re: Re: Some People(need to learn how to drive) in reply to Charlie, 02-10-2001 16:02:06

they can as long as its on the road if even that

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burnsy

02-10-2001 13:28:52

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Re: Some People(need to learn how to drive) in reply to farmall43, 02-09-2001 22:32:20

I can't believe all the suv's going in the ditch, these people ought to drive farmalls for a few years, then they'll have a feel for the whats underneath them, and learn how to drive them right.

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Charles Norwood

02-10-2001 19:53:02

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Re: Re: Some People(need to learn how to drive) in reply to burnsy, 02-10-2001 13:28:52

I have 3 Farmalls a 4x4 GMC pickup, and a 4X4 Jeep Grand Cherokee. Never slid off the road in any of them. 4x4's are more stable on snow and ice than any RWD or FWD -- You just need to remember that they do slide and don't stop any faster.

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Jim Becker

02-10-2001 09:16:00

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Re: Some People(need to learn how to drive) in reply to farmall43, 02-09-2001 22:32:20

Sounds like you made one mistake too. After 10 minutes of observation, it should have been obvious that a length of chain wasn't enough distance between you and those two characters. It probably would have been best to just turn the tractor around and go home.

It's not like they got any brighter for the experience.

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Poor Farm Jim

02-10-2001 12:25:20

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Re: Re: Some People(need to learn how to drive) in reply to Jim Becker, 02-10-2001 09:16:00

Jim,

Just have to tell you your comment made my day, I laughed out loud. Great story Farmall43. After a storm here in December, with 3-5 foot drifts, idiots with 4-wheel drives were trying to blast down side roads. A neighbor with a tractor and loader would come upon them and ask if they had $20 for a pull out. If they didn't he just drove on.

Jim

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Dave G

02-10-2001 07:21:39

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Re: Some People(need to learn how to drive) in reply to farmall43, 02-09-2001 22:32:20

Great Story - It amazes me how people drive. I see people speed by my place on ice in dense fog. It really makes me wonder. It also makes me wonder why SUV's are often in the ditch. People are in a hurray going nowhere.

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The Red. Great Story!

02-10-2001 06:47:11

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Re: Some People(need to learn how to drive) in reply to farmall43, 02-09-2001 22:32:20

You would sure stay busy around Indy on a bad weather day. Folks around here drive like lunatics in bad weather. My Indy H got used a couple of times to yank out SUVs when it was still here in town.

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Dave BN

02-10-2001 06:20:32

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Re: Some People(need to learn how to drive) in reply to farmall43, 02-09-2001 22:32:20

Good story. Did you stick around to see what shape the Blazer was in? Dave BN.

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speed bump

02-10-2001 03:38:03

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Re: Some People(need to learn how to drive) in reply to farmall43, 02-09-2001 22:32:20

Hey 43,I never get tired of these kind of stories. seems people today know the price of everything ( new cars and trucks) But the value of nothing (like farmalls)!!!

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