Posted by Straw Boss on July 16, 2014 at 21:48:02 from (66.35.116.45):
In Reply to: Close escapes posted by Bernie/MA on July 16, 2014 at 15:57:10:
My first I remember as a wee little lad was when I noticed that my sisters bobby pin looked like it would fit very nicely into a wall socket. Learned mucho respecto for electricity that day.
Closest brush with death was maybe back in the 1980s the time we were flying through a black night about 80 mph with a one ton dually crew cab service truck with a load of people, fuel, tools and parts, heading back to Oklahoma to resume custom harvesting the next morning after a 4 day break from heavy rains.
We popped over a hill and somebody had a truck on the shoulder of the highway in the oncoming side with his lights blinding us. We knew it was a truck because we could see the clearance lights.
As we gained on him in no time at all he started flashing his lights from dim to bright blinding us. My brother was driving and backed off the throttle a little but we were still moving right along. Just that quick we were already nearly on him and he starts flashing his lights from bright to off. Now when someone flashes their lights from bright to off your blinded worse than ever.
From full bright to completely dark we couldn't see anything but spots in front of our eyes like a camera flash. My brother let up on the throttle a bit again and as we flew past him we then saw on our right the azz end of a John Deere 8820 as he was diving into the road ditch. I can still see in my mind today the fins of the chopper spreader as they somehow cleared the big mirrors on that one ton pickup literally by inches. His unload auger was still going as he peeled away from the truck, dumping wheat on the highway.
So, because of heavy rains, trucks couldn't pull into the fields so they would bring the combines out of the fields and load the trucks on the road. Only this joker thought it was ok to do so after dark. You have to remember back in the 80s, nobody had a grain cart and a John Deere combine only had one rear light and it was on the unload auger, which we couldn't see since his auger was out. There might have been some little red reflectors on that combine but we couldn't see them since the trucker kept blinding us. It all happened within a few seconds time. We didn't have time to figure out what was going on until after it was over.
It happened so fast, we didn't even really slow down, just gave it the throttle and kept rolling through the night. I think somebody said "Jesus!". Somebody else said "Fu--!". And that's all was ever said. After being nearly snuffed out by ramming a one ton up the azz of a JD combine at about 70 mph, there just isn't anything else to say but a silent prayer. But for the grace of God go I.
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