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Post by purple95 on Jul 6, 2005 18:20:27 GMT -5
 Here's what happened.Last winter the day after it had rained and melted the snow me and a buddy deiced to take out my 95 kicker for some mudding.Well the ground was to frozen to get any mud up so i told him to turn on the camera and we would find some hills to climb.We drove around for a bit and i tackled some pretty good climbs with moderate ease. One hill takes you up to a set of electrical power poles wile i was up there i saw it! the most cherry of hill climes.A hill to steep to stand on without difficulty.Now there was a trail going up this hill and i would say it was about 150 feet to the top.I put my kicker in 4 low and 1st gear and proceeded to go up.everything was going according to plan until i reached the summit and thats when i powered out and started to spin to the left.I came to a stop just to the left of the trail in some thorns. At that point after trying to go forward a bit i knew i was in trouble.The only other way was down( backward).Well i kept the truck in 1st hopping to slow my decent with forward tire movement trust me that doesn't work.I started to pick up momentum and slide to the right I only had an split second to cut the wheel hard to the right and stomp on the gas in hopes to bring the frontend around and facing down,fortunately this worked because un knowing to me the rain from the day before had left a sheet of ice all the way from the top to the bottom of the hill,and that is wy i was unable to make the summit in the first place.Well i went back in the spring and climbed that hill twice without any problems.Rollover averted this time lol.Oh i got the whole thing on tape.
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Post by louthepou on Jul 7, 2005 6:00:00 GMT -5
Thanks, good one. I wonder if my underware would have suffered some... damage if I had been a passenger...  Louis |
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Post by truckman on Oct 20, 2008 2:57:21 GMT -5
Good save-that's kind ofan "All or nothing" play though. Glad it worked for you! So--you gonna give us a link to the film??
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Here's what happened.Last winter the day after it had rained and melted the snow me and a buddy deiced to take out my 95 kicker for some mudding.Well the ground was to frozen to get any mud up so i told him to turn on the camera and we would find some hills to climb.We drove around for a bit and i tackled some pretty good climbs with moderate ease. One hill takes you up to a set of electrical power poles wile i was up there i saw it! the most cherry of hill climes.A hill to steep to stand on without difficulty.Now there was a trail going up this hill and i would say it was about 150 feet to the top.I put my kicker in 4 low and 1st gear and proceeded to go up.everything was going according to plan until i reached the summit and thats when i powered out and started to spin to the left.I came to a stop just to the left of the trail in some thorns. At that point after trying to go forward a bit i knew i was in trouble.The only other way was down( backward).Well i kept the truck in 1st hopping to slow my decent with forward tire movement trust me that doesn't work.I started to pick up momentum and slide to the right I only had an split second to cut the wheel hard to the right and stomp on the gas in hopes to bring the frontend around and facing down,fortunately this worked because un knowing to me the rain from the day before had left a sheet of ice all the way from the top to the bottom of the hill,and that is wy i was unable to make the summit in the first place.Well i went back in the spring and climbed that hill twice without any problems.Rollover averted this time lol.Oh i got the whole thing on tape.