No Joke ----- Engineer

John B.

Well-known Member
This is an addition to Jile's post about the Engineers and the car not starting.

I have 3 cousins that are all brothers and all 3 work(ed) as engineers. They grew up on a very hilly farm, their back yard was so hilly their dad ran sheep on it so he didn't have to mow it. Anyway here's my story.

The second oldest cousin was mowing part of a hill in their front yard. The mower started to spin and he couldn't get it to move due to the center of gravity on the mower had shifted due to the slope. He analyzed the situation and decided to just push the riding mower over sideways. He said it rolled over a couple of times and ended up in the driveway. He said he rolled it back up on all 4 wheels and let it set for 30 minutes then restarted it and finished mowing... He told me this story 2 years ago. No one has lived at the farm for years and he just came out to check on things and mow.
 
There was a true story during the WW2 battles for Attu or Kiska where the engineers had to rig a tow line to transport equipment up and down a snow covered mountain slope using bulldozers to power the operation. There was no safe way to get the dozers down the slope so they came up with the plan of rolling about 3 or 4 dozers down the slope then using the surviving parts to build one working dozer at the bottom of the slope. After they did it most if not all the dozers still remained in running condition.
 
I won't name any names or places in this story to protect the guilty....
I was supervising a independent contractor working on road improvements. He needed to offload small dozer off his old truck with no ramps or bank to back up to. So he merely twisted the dozer in place on the bed and turned the truck on its side, driving the dozer free. By the looks of this haul truck, it was not the first time he had accomplished this feat and survived!
 

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