Posted by Fixerupper on November 08, 2011 at 22:46:57 from (216.51.181.73):
This afternoon (tues) at about 4:30 in the afternoon my son called and told me he broke both springs on the back drive axle on his semi. He was delivering feed somewhere around Hinton on a road under construction, hit a big dip and BANG, the spring on the drivers side broke. He got out, crawled under the truck to have a look and while he was under there, BANG, the spring on the passenger side broke on the same axle. He said he darned near had a personal accident. The first spring took out an air line to a brake can so all he had was trailer brakes to boot. He limped it to the hog site and unloaded. It was then that he thought of his cousin who lived on an acreage about 25 miles away, and on this acreage was a shop his truck could fit in. So he called the cousin, he said OK, bring er over. Then he called the truck repair shop in Storm Lake, and he had the springs, U bolts, and two pins with rubber bushings that go under the slipper end of the spring. When he called me I loaded up the compressor, torch, pipe wrench, assorted other tools, air wrenches, pry bars, jacks, port-a-power, blocks and some more odds and ends. Marilyn got in the pickup with me, we headed for Storm Lake, picked up the springs and parts that were left outside the door after they closed for the day, and headed for an acreage south of LeMars, about maybe 70 miles from home.We got there at about 7:00 and by 10:30 everything was loaded back up in the pickup and he was on his way home. He jurry rigged the air fitting so he'd have brakes and it will be fixed in the morning.
So everything lined up OK to get the truck fixed in just a few hours so he could get home fairly soon. His cousin just happened to live close to where he was, the cousin just happened to have a shop big enough for a truck, and I just happened to be home and equipped with enough tools to just load up and go help him. It wouldn't have been a good situation if we would have had to lay on the gravel by a hog building in a 15 MPH wind and 40 degree temp. Sometimes we just get lucky. Jim
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