Wall of shame

[jonyyuma]

Don't feel bad. We've all been there. This is me setting helpless in my Jeep while my cusin pulled me out of the same situation.

Funny feelings about driving a jeep thru water....I had one fall off into a wash on a gravel road..The Horror of it turning up on side as it slid down??Years ago..

 

[mwb]

What I should have done was taken the GPS out of the bed of the truck and put it in the cab, then I would have hit it harder and not worried about damaging the $20,000 GPS system.

Ya! Put that HEMI to work! :cool2: Please take pictures! At least it's not my truck:laughing:

 

[Topkicker]

Funny feelings about driving a jeep thru water....I had one fall off into a wash on a gravel road..The Horror of it turning up on side as it slid down??Years ago..

Speakin of water.....

 

[jeffsw6]

What I should have done was taken the GPS out of the bed of the truck and put it in the cab, then I would have hit it harder and not worried about damaging the $20,000 GPS system.

I have pretty good cases for a lot of my band equipment. I am not saying it would survive falling out at highway speed, but the expensive stuff I have in cases made from plywood, then 1" or 2" of stiff foam, then another floating plywood case inside the foam.

The disadvantage is cases like that are really heavy but in my mind it is worth it to keep valuable equipment safe.

 

[dodge man]

My truck has the Cummins, not the hemi.

We have cases for the equipment, its just when we are using it, we rarely case it back up. This would have been one of those times we should have.

 

[toddbailey]

My truck has the Cummins, not the hemi.

We have cases for the equipment, its just when we are using it, we rarely case it back up. This would have been one of those times we should have.

Been there done that, no Field person wants to make that call to the office saying that they have dropped the instrument, thrown it out the back of the truck, its gotten ran over, or hit by a train ()!

 

[Diamondpilot]

Happens to us all. Imagine doing that witha an air compressor in tow and trying to back out. My truck has the scars to to prove it.

Big difference in weight between your previous long bed 1/2 ton and this beast though. Had the same issues with my father's cummins vs my 1/2 ton. I could walk through just about anything and his truck would sink like a stone. But the extra heft of the truck was a blessing when towing, pulling stuck vehicles out and plowing snow.

Very good point. My current Titan with lockers and factory 285 tires will go though things I would not evern consider with my F-350 Powerstroke. Titan is about 5,600# and the F-350 is 7,600#.

I would say the same about the 6 F-150's I have owned. They would go though mud and snow my 3/4 ton Dodge, 3/4 Ton Ford, my 2 1 Ton Fords, and my 1 Ton GMC would never. All of which were 4x4 and SRW (single rear wheels).

The new 1/2 tons have basically the same size tires but are lighter with much better weight distribution.

Chris

 

[jeffsw6]

I was out with a band once at my home town's fall festival, setup and ready to headline the local bar's beer garden. A local teen band was opening so I left a helper in charge and went across the creek to get some carnival food. Wasn't gone 10 minutes when a heavy thunderstorm came out of nowhere! I thought, oh, no big deal, I had a 10x10 tent over the electronic stuff, a hired tent over the stage, and a ton of tarps too.

Got back and found out that my helper freaked out and put tarps over the speakers (which are basically rainproof, we let them get rained on dozens of times a year) but he somehow failed to tarp a $3000 digital mixing console and a $800 light controller.

It took hours with a hair dryer to get all the water out. Fortunately for the helper all the stuff still worked and I had backup equipment in the trailer that day. But man, the look on his face when I walked back over and he had to tell me he let thousands of dollars of electronics get poured on, was priceless.

 

[powerstroke444e]

We all have been there I had my old 02 dodge with a cummins so deep I couldn't open the doors more than once. My lesson was don't leave it running when your walking for help it just shakes its self deeper.
Oh and I ussually don't take photo's of my nightmares.

 

[dodge man]

My co-worker shot the photo, not me.