ParrotHead
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Let me guess... florescent pink?
Nice. This thread would have only gone this direction here. Tan actually
This hobby tried to kill me today...
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Nice. This thread would have only gone this direction here. Tan actually
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shilmover
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Thanks. Actually, the trailer was empty... I had not picked it up yet. Not sure what would have happened with the extra weight...
pmichelsen
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It must be a California thing. Everyone has them out here
Let's not try and bring the rest of us down with you. It is definitely NOT a California thing.
mdrago
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Nice. This thread would have only gone this direction here. Tan actually
With the fur? Hah, I worked at journeys for 5 years and hated every single sale I had of these shoes. Do you also have jibbitz in the holes?
http://www.journeys.com/product.aspx?id=62816&c=1148&m=SM
cadillacman
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omfg i got a story for ya..
back in the day i was snowmobile crazy.. at one point i had 7 lol. well one day i was out with my buddies, a little intoxicated and having too much fun. The sled broke down in a small town about 50 miles from home.
Some nice folks let me in thier house, let me use the phone etc.. my old man picked me up.
The next morning im hung over from having too much fun the night before and all pissed off my sleds broke... i load up my sled on my tiltable trailer and hit the road..
About a mile down the road im up to 55 and all of a sudden i feel some violent rocking back and fourth. I looked at my rearview mirror to see my trailer tilted DOWN and swaying violently side to side..
I started to slow down when the trailer jerked hard, the tounge of the trailer ripped off the trailer, the trailer then passed me up in the oncoming lane as i was slowing down and lodged itself into a large snowdrift(thank god we had alot of snow that previous night..)
I looked at everything trying to figure out wtf happened and laying there on the top of my rear bumper was the tilt pin for the trailer that i forgot to reinstall after i loaded my sled!!! D'OH!!!!!!!!
My old man and i were able to dislidge the trailer from the snowbank, we then shoved the ripped tounge back into the trailer and used the tilt pin to hold it all togther. I then limped the whole mess home, with my tail in between my legs heh..
ill never do that again
im very lucky it didnt damage my truvk, and VERY VERY VERY lucky that there was not oncoming traffic.. it couldda been a whole lot worse thats for sure
back in the day i was snowmobile crazy.. at one point i had 7 lol. well one day i was out with my buddies, a little intoxicated and having too much fun. The sled broke down in a small town about 50 miles from home.
Some nice folks let me in thier house, let me use the phone etc.. my old man picked me up.
The next morning im hung over from having too much fun the night before and all pissed off my sleds broke... i load up my sled on my tiltable trailer and hit the road..
About a mile down the road im up to 55 and all of a sudden i feel some violent rocking back and fourth. I looked at my rearview mirror to see my trailer tilted DOWN and swaying violently side to side..
I started to slow down when the trailer jerked hard, the tounge of the trailer ripped off the trailer, the trailer then passed me up in the oncoming lane as i was slowing down and lodged itself into a large snowdrift(thank god we had alot of snow that previous night..)
I looked at everything trying to figure out wtf happened and laying there on the top of my rear bumper was the tilt pin for the trailer that i forgot to reinstall after i loaded my sled!!! D'OH!!!!!!!!
My old man and i were able to dislidge the trailer from the snowbank, we then shoved the ripped tounge back into the trailer and used the tilt pin to hold it all togther. I then limped the whole mess home, with my tail in between my legs heh..
ill never do that again
im very lucky it didnt damage my truvk, and VERY VERY VERY lucky that there was not oncoming traffic.. it couldda been a whole lot worse thats for sure
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shilmover
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That's exactly what mine did... Luckily, the chains where tight enough that when I applied the brakes, it did not come close enough to my SUV to wreck the bumper...
cadillacman
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with mine, chaine were in the touge still so they didnt do me any good
Robotron Jon
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I have all kinds of boat stories:
1) My boat sprang a leak about 15 miles offshore.
2) My boat caught on fire when there was an electrical short while it was parked in the slip.
3) My boat lost an engine while coming into the marina. The boat went out of control but somehow did a big loop and ended up in the slip.
1) My boat sprang a leak about 15 miles offshore.
2) My boat caught on fire when there was an electrical short while it was parked in the slip.
3) My boat lost an engine while coming into the marina. The boat went out of control but somehow did a big loop and ended up in the slip.
CrazyKongFan
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I'm sorry but nobody in their right mind would pull a trailer without safety chains. You could have killed another driver with a stunt like that.
Glennon
Not exactly in line with this thread but sort of - shortly after I met my current (and final) wife but before we were married and WAY too early in the relationship for this kind of thing I was on my second warehouse raid with a fellow collector about 90 miles from my home.
I only had a single pickup truck and bought a DK UR, Berzerk, Tron UR, Tron cabaret, Metro Cross (a game I still love) and another JAMMA cab - needless to say, things were hanging off the back of the tailgate. Plus the fact my spare tire for the truck was unsecured so I ended up ratchet strapping it to the front of the Berzerk - hanging in midair off the back of the truck like a bumper car bumper.
So, here we are, driving on old long unused roads, and we hit the "Old" Mississippi River Bridge in Louisiana.
Here - an idea of the bridge:
The supports - they looked like this back then - and now
The incline - look to the far left
So back to the story. I am coming back, pedal to the floor trying to get this broke assed pickup to climb a 30 degree incline up a rusted 2 lane ancient non maintained bridge with 2 too many games and a spare tire ratchet strapped to the tailgate and with a clear foot of two games' bottoms hanging into mid air with one brightly colored red ratchet strap holding the whole shebang on.
That was OK, my lady was nervous, but we were doing OK until about halfway up the stupid incline some waterheaded inbred redneck in a white Corolla decided they were in enough of a hurry to tailgate me within 20 feet at 50 MPH.
So we spent the rest of the drive on a rusty bridge with only two pylon groups over the mighty Mississippi at its almost widest point doing a 15 degree incline at its slackest with some yo yo riding my tail and one thin strip of strap holding on 6 games and one spare tire (full sized) looking like Cousin Eddy from Christmas Vacation, and leaving fingerprints in our dashboard like Trains, Planes and Automobiles, while some dude sat on his horn behind us.
I casually looked over at my then-girlfriend and said, "Well, at least if the strap breaks, he'll end up in the river."
The thing about this that sticks with me is this. How stupid do you have to be to tailgate a rig like the one I was hauling, over an obsolete bridge with only 2 lanes and no shoulder, at a max 30 degree incline???
At one point, in my rear-view, it looked like my games were sitting on his hood.
I only had a single pickup truck and bought a DK UR, Berzerk, Tron UR, Tron cabaret, Metro Cross (a game I still love) and another JAMMA cab - needless to say, things were hanging off the back of the tailgate. Plus the fact my spare tire for the truck was unsecured so I ended up ratchet strapping it to the front of the Berzerk - hanging in midair off the back of the truck like a bumper car bumper.
So, here we are, driving on old long unused roads, and we hit the "Old" Mississippi River Bridge in Louisiana.
Here - an idea of the bridge:
The supports - they looked like this back then - and now
The incline - look to the far left
So back to the story. I am coming back, pedal to the floor trying to get this broke assed pickup to climb a 30 degree incline up a rusted 2 lane ancient non maintained bridge with 2 too many games and a spare tire ratchet strapped to the tailgate and with a clear foot of two games' bottoms hanging into mid air with one brightly colored red ratchet strap holding the whole shebang on.
That was OK, my lady was nervous, but we were doing OK until about halfway up the stupid incline some waterheaded inbred redneck in a white Corolla decided they were in enough of a hurry to tailgate me within 20 feet at 50 MPH.
So we spent the rest of the drive on a rusty bridge with only two pylon groups over the mighty Mississippi at its almost widest point doing a 15 degree incline at its slackest with some yo yo riding my tail and one thin strip of strap holding on 6 games and one spare tire (full sized) looking like Cousin Eddy from Christmas Vacation, and leaving fingerprints in our dashboard like Trains, Planes and Automobiles, while some dude sat on his horn behind us.
I casually looked over at my then-girlfriend and said, "Well, at least if the strap breaks, he'll end up in the river."
The thing about this that sticks with me is this. How stupid do you have to be to tailgate a rig like the one I was hauling, over an obsolete bridge with only 2 lanes and no shoulder, at a max 30 degree incline???
At one point, in my rear-view, it looked like my games were sitting on his hood.
My story is not that exciting... but in CT on a lake we were returning to the boat launch, and we were waiting for another boater to launch theirs, it was about a 24 foot boat. They had taken the tie-down strap off, then unclipped the front clip and were heading down... they did not get very far when the boat just slid off the trailer onto the pavement...
There was nothing we could really do to help them, and luckily they left enough room on the side so we could get our boat out and go home...
There was nothing we could really do to help them, and luckily they left enough room on the side so we could get our boat out and go home...
CrazyKongFan
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Cool bridge Droler. Can't be too bad if they still let trains run across it though, at least structurally. Those approaches do look pretty wicked though. I didn't realize they had 2 Huey Long bridges down there (I thought you were talking about the other one until I compared pics of the two)
Tighe
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Could have gone wrong...
I don't have a bad story, but this could have turned out bad:
That is the propcycle I bought off chas010 and drove it home from Syracuse. I was so glad we took the monitor out of the cabinet! I was worried that the empty cabinet would act like a wing at high speed. BTW, that is my dad in the photo, I ain't that old.
I have it home and all together (missing the control panel hood and seat pad) and it is FUN!
I don't have a bad story, but this could have turned out bad:
That is the propcycle I bought off chas010 and drove it home from Syracuse. I was so glad we took the monitor out of the cabinet! I was worried that the empty cabinet would act like a wing at high speed. BTW, that is my dad in the photo, I ain't that old.
I have it home and all together (missing the control panel hood and seat pad) and it is FUN!
