Strangest sightings while plowing

[JohnnyU]

I remember a few pretty good stories from last year, anyone want to share them again, or have new ones?

I remember pulling around to the back of a large warehouse I plow last year, and seeing a little toyota or acura? doing reverse donuts in the wide open lot. It's almost pitch black back there, only a little light from the street lights, its on the corner. As soon as he saw me, he stopped spinning and ground it into 1st and bolted from the lot. The funny part was, that he was so scared (I assume) that he took off through the grass and over the curb to get back to the street. I got a good laugh from that one.

Anyone else got a good story? I know there are some that are better than mine....:eek:

[JCurtis]

Strangest Vehicular sighting while plowing....


Ambulabce doing donuts in a hospital parking lot during a storm.

Imagine this big boxed ambulance strobes going full blast doing donuts in the hospital lot at 2:00 am.





:eek: :eek: :eek:

[snowjoker]

Well i was a co pilot with my unckle in a 10 wheeler dump doing fish tails in the lot at his workplace. Maybe someone saw us lol :burnout

[Crash935]

Had a lot that was a frequent "place of business for the working girls". I always had another truck with me so we would sneek up on them from both side and hit all the lights. Nothing but @**holes and elbows heading for the front seat.


Or the apartment complex where you had to be the first one there to get to the last building so you could bang your plow a few times and the girl that lived on the 3rd floor would pull the blinds to the slider open and stand there with nothing on. I think she figured out what was going on when she did it for the last time and there were 6 trucks sitting in the lot. The other guys didnt belive us so we waited to get a bunch of guys together. Should have kept it to myself.

[Chuck Smith]

Probably not that strange, but seeing a herd of about 20 deer running across a half plowed 20+ acre parking lot at 2am. The lot was right on a highway, and the deer were coming from the direction of the highway, like they crossed the road with the divider wall, and heavy traffic..... Then again, in a snowstorm, at 2am, maybe they did?

~Chuck

[digger242j]

Nothing nearly a spicy as that, but it sure woke me up! There's even a Newspaper story (http://www.post-gazette.com/neigh_city/20020301cburbs9.asp) about it. I'd just driven right past the spot not 2 minutes earlier, and turned into the parking lot. As I was getting out of the truck, a city bus stopped and let off a handful of passengers about 25 feet away. I was turned toward the truck, about to climb into the bed to load the salter when I heard, BOOM!! There was a flash of light bright enough to trip off the photocells that turn on the streetlights for a half a block in either direction. It was an explosion in an underground electrical vault, located beneath the sidewalk. It lifted the lid off the vault and threw it four or five feet away. The flames were as high as the second floor of the building for the first couple minutes.

I've heard Fourth of July firewoks that were louder, but nothing gets your attention the same way an *unexpected* explosion does... :eek:

[W-n-K Landscaping]

You're not going to tell the local ambulance corps that I drive for now are you?!?! I thought nobody saw us!!

Seriously though- I did kinda scare a plow truck on the highway once responding to an accident. We had to go past the accident and hit a u-turn to go back to it. It was during a storm and when we got to the u-turn there was so much snow in it you could see where the rescue with 16-18" of ground clearance had gone through and was pushing the snow with thier front bumper. My attendant asked me if we were going to make it- I told her not to worry, dropped it down into 2nd and hammered it. We made it through- sideways, and came out facing northbound in the southbound lane!! I then had to throw it in reverse for a classic highway turnaround and then go to the scene- there was a plow truck about a mile away that saw the whole thing- I'm just glad he wasn't any closer though- didn't need another accident!!!

I have been known to put the ambulance in places nobody else could( and get it out safely) and I have never had an accident to date!

Knock on wood!!

Bill

[digger242j]

Tried to add this to my post on edit, but didn't make the three minute limit: I was referring to Crash's story. Chuck beat me to the next post. Deer are interesting, but I don't usually think of them as spicy... ;)

[seasonscape]

I'm trying to think of a story but I don't think I have any. I guess that's what I get for plowing residentials in almost the middle of nowhere.

I sure love hearing these stories though!

-Tim

[cardoctor]

never had a lady stand naked at the front window when your plowing?

sorry thats my fantasy
:shades







john

[Chuck Smith]

Mick had a good one from last year, LOL.

~Chuck

[Arc Burn]

Had a lady greet me at the end of her driveway at 10 o'clock at night to pay me,Whats so strange about that you ask:confused: ,Well,I'm guessing she was a little intoxicated,she was bare foot and wearing a robe with no underware,how do i know she wasn't wearing her tighty whities?She also neglected to tie the front of her robe!,I politely thanked her and went about my business:p

[Paverchic]

I was driving on a residential street between sites, snow still coming down pretty good. Coming around a gentle curve right towards me was a county police car. I stopped and let him coast/slide into the curb on my right side. The police officer got out of his car and thanked me for not hitting him. He admitted that I was under control and he was not. I just smiled and told him 'no problem' and let him get himself turned around.

[grasshopper]

I was flashed by a lady on a second floor apartment next to a lot I was plowing, and the same season flashed by another girl at another complex. Last year was a good season.:shades

[Mick]

Chuck, I'm not sure which you're referring to, but this was a good one:

Situation - I’m getting ready to sand a road and a lady at the house next to the road flags me down. She was in the process of buying this house. She says she’s from Georgia and knows nothing about snow so could I plow for her? She’ll have her car in the garage that’s straight in from the road about fifty feet. No cars outside. Ok, I explain how I’ll plow it and where I’ll push it. Then she can just open her garage door and drive out. Basically, this amounts to driving up to the garage, backdrag, push parallel to the garage about fifty feet and pile it. Then clean the entrance. No big deal - $20. She half-joking says she is going to buy a snowblower for that much. Now, when she moves in she can’t park her car in the garage because her daughter is storing furniture there. So the car is parked outside with a friend’s car. Her car is at the very end of the driveway. So now I can’t even get into the driveway. So I get the snow from in front of the car so she can pull into the plowed area, then into the street. Then, run the route and come back after she’s gone to work. The other car might still be there. Then I plow as described. She’s on a 3” trigger and I’d explained how that works.

January - plowed twice, billed and got paid. February - plowed twice billed and got a check with a note: “We were getting ready to call you because we did not think you had plowed at all! We realize there have been trucks & cars in the driveway but we saw no evidence of plowing. Please call me xxx-xxxx.”

I was completely baffled because the driveway is plowed, the garage door is cleared, the entrance and where they park is cleared. There’s a pile of snow about six feet high and twenty feet wide from where I pushed. I went up this evening and checked although I’d driven by it at least once a day for the past four days. My wife asked me if I was plowing the right house.

Finally got ahold of her to figure out what the trouble is. Turns out what she is talking about is BEFORE she leaves. She asked when I was plowing. I explained what I was doing and that I came back after she’d left for work. (Remember the car is parked right at the end of the driveway by the street).

“OH, AFTER“.

Talked to her a little more. She admitted she was frustrated that she was paying all this money for plowing and still had to walk in snow and shovel snow to get her car out. Also, she thought I'd get all the snow up. Finally figured she was talking about the packed snow base (this is a gravel drive). She was having a hard time walking on it. Originally, the idea was to go into the attached garage from the house.

I just thought - maybe she wanted me to wake her up at 5:00 to move her car.

I'm going to put some sand on the driveway. Also offered to put her on a 1" trigger but she decided against anything less than 3".

Next year she’ll have a new garage and the cars will be in it.

I just thought it was interesting. I'd never worked with a person who has never seen snow before.

[flatbed]

Originally posted by grasshopper
I was flashed by a lady on a second floor apartment next to a lot I was plowing, and the same season flashed by another girl at another complex. Last year was a good season.:shades

chris... i'm only 200 miles from you... do you need a sub??????????? lol :p

[handyhaver]

We were just finishing up one of my estates. Had my truck all the way up the drive loading the blower & spreader when all of a sudden CRACKKKKK!!!!. This huge evergreen snapped. About 3/4 of the tree fell across the drive dumping a load of snow everywhere. Missed us and my truck by about 15 feet. Scared the crap out of us. Now I not only had to pull the tree out of our way to get out, I had to clean up the snow this thing just dumped. From now on when we get those heavey wet snows, we are always looking up.:rolleyes:

Mark

[Honest Mike]

These are great stories! I cant believe some of you guys got flashed by girls standing in their windows! How come I cant have luck like that? :D Maybe this year my luck will change, hehe. Mike :)

[Plow Babe]

Well, I have never been flashed :eek: so I will stick with Chuck's line of thought. Not strange, but really cool.

One of the areas we plow is an exclusive gated residential community with really big homes and long driveways. One of these driveways is my favorite out of everywhere we plow. It is up at the top of the ridge, and the driveway is about 1/2 mile through the trees, then around a big circle, and up to the house. A big herd of elk just hangs out in there, and often are grazing right by the driveway, or leaping across it. When we were out plowing on Tuesday, the herd was right there on the way in, then on the way out there were three mule deer hopping across the road. Just down a ways, there were two foxes trotting around, with their coats in full winter glory, and big bushy tails. Of course I did not have the camera with me. :mad:

Over the summer, I met with the owner (we have plowed for him for years) because he changed a little of his landscaping and wanted us to see it before it was covered with snow. But I had to apologize to him for always doing his driveway last, because I save it as a little treat at the end. He got a good chuckle out of that.

[sno-mover]

Havent really seen anything cool, definatly no women:mad: , but some times I find it pretty cool to watch how hard it is snowing or some real bad road conditiond, because its not somthing you see often.:shades

[W-n-K Landscaping]

Hey Sno-mover, c'mon up to my neck of the woods! We see bad road condidtions and really heavy snow fall regularly here! It's not uncommon for us to run into times where there is 3-4 inches of snow on the road, and it's still coming down heavy. Ya gotta love lake effect!!! We live off the end of Lake Ontario and above Onieda Lake- so the prevailing wind drops snow 75% of the season!!! I limit my seasonal contracts to about 30% of my business max- everything else is done per push. That way I get some money up front to start the season since it starts anywhere between October 15th and November 30th. I love living in snow country!!!!

Bill

[mikegamb]

hookers working out in the open.i hope they didn't freeze to there customers :D

robberies at gun point out in a blizzard lol

flashers in the apartment building i was plowing kind of fun lol

i think this year i won't see anything good since im not working out in the city anymore thank god i can keep my bullet proof vest at home lol lol

[Crimedog]

I don't know what I'll see this year. Some women would do good to break the rookie in:shades We will have one interesting one- hopefully (lots of :cash ) It is in a lower income part of town, with a very "diverse ethenic background" When we did the bid, I noticed that every trash can was topped off with empty cases of beer. Their dumpster had empty cases of beer laying by it, and there were some of the boxes just laying there in the parking lot:eek: I know who some of the kids that live there are, and they are all the "gangsta" type. I am just expecting to get out of the truck to adjust something, and come back and the plow will have a gang symbol on it, or it may even be gone:eek:

[snowfighter g]

You guys will love this one.

Last year I'm plowing out the entrance to the property which intersects a two lane 40mph road. There is this newspaper box right on the corner so I took my time and cleared around it and in front of it so people could get to it. So after a few pushes I notice this large set of headlights flying down the road towards me, I'm thinking what the heck is speeding down the road at 4 am in the morning? As it gets closer I notice it's a town plow and hes cranking about 60mph with a blast of snow coming off his blade and shooting about 20 feet on the side of the road.So I say i'm backing out of here so he doesn't nail me so I back up about 50 feet to let him go by and he nails the newspaper box so hard it flys through the air and all the change is falling all over the place and on top of my truck.The box ends up landing right side up about 75 feet from where it was right in front of the building facing the road. I sat there in disbelief as the town truck disappeared into the distance.Then I noticed there are quarters stuck in the snow all over the hood of my truck I just sort of chuckled and then I finished the entrance way. When I was starting to leave to plow another area I see this guy come out of the building look at the box put in some quarters in scratch his head then kicked the box because it wouldn't open. By then I'm laughing so hard that I had to stop plowing.The box falls over and he looks around like he's checking to see if anyone saw him jumps in his car and leaves just as that manic in the town truck comes down the other way and buries him in the entrance he jumps out and starts throwing things in the direction of the truck which is long gone by then. He leaves his car there walks back to the building takes out some more change put it in the box after he picks it up rattles the handle and kicks it again. Like he thinks it would mysteriously open the second time so now I'm choking on my coffee.Later that morning while I'm telling the story at the shop someone calls and asks when the paper company put the new box outside ther building but she can't get the paper out could we call and help her out.Now everyone is dying laughing and I said we have lots of change now we will give it a try.That was the biggest laugh of the season! I'm still finding quarters to this day!:D

[Clean Cut Lawns]

A UFO landing:D

[KenP]

I plow a lot next to a Go Go joint and saw the dancers servicing their customers in their cars while I stacked snow next to them. Every so often, I'd motion to put the window down and ask a dum question, like got a match or if they had the time!!!!!!:greenange

[handyhaver]

Hey Ken,

Need a sub for that lot or do you keep it for yourself :D

Mark

[snonut12]

Originally posted by snowfighter g
You guys will love this one.

Last year I'm plowing out the entrance to the property which intersects a two lane 40mph road. There is this newspaper box right on the corner so I took my time and cleared around it and in front of it so people could get to it. So after a few pushes I notice this large set of headlights flying down the road towards me, I'm thinking what the heck is speeding down the road at 4 am in the morning? As it gets closer I notice it's a town plow and hes cranking about 60mph with a blast of snow coming off his blade and shooting about 20 feet on the side of the road.So I say i'm backing out of here so he doesn't nail me so I back up about 50 feet to let him go by and he nails the newspaper box so hard it flys through the air and all the change is falling all over the place and on top of my truck.The box ends up landing right side up about 75 feet from where it was right in front of the building facing the road. I sat there in disbelief as the town truck disappeared into the distance.Then I noticed there are quarters stuck in the snow all over the hood of my truck I just sort of chuckled and then I finished the entrance way. When I was starting to leave to plow another area I see this guy come out of the building look at the box put in some quarters in scratch his head then kicked the box because it wouldn't open. By then I'm laughing so hard that I had to stop plowing.The box falls over and he looks around like he's checking to see if anyone saw him jumps in his car and leaves just as that manic in the town truck comes down the other way and buries him in the entrance he jumps out and starts throwing things in the direction of the truck which is long gone by then. He leaves his car there walks back to the building takes out some more change put it in the box after he picks it up rattles the handle and kicks it again. Like he thinks it would mysteriously open the second time so now I'm choking on my coffee.Later that morning while I'm telling the story at the shop someone calls and asks when the paper company put the new box outside ther building but she can't get the paper out could we call and help her out.Now everyone is dying laughing and I said we have lots of change now we will give it a try.That was the biggest laugh of the season! I'm still finding quarters to this day!:D

LMAO!!!! :haha I just could not stop laughing!! :rolling

Wait, I think I actually know whose manic that might have been driving that truck .... it gotta be ProSno (Bill)!! :grinz :smile3

[sno-mover]

I plow a lot next to a Go Go joint and saw the dancers servicing their customers in their cars while I stacked snow next to them. Every so often, I'd motion to put the window down and ask a dum question, like got a match or if they had the time!!!!!!
:rolling no you didn't did you?:rolling :haha

[phillyplowking1]

Ken thats a good one.For me plowing down North Philly is a story in its self:rolleyes:>but im only down there a portion of a storm.
(thank God)

[KenP]

Yes I did, besides I had to find out how the service was!!!!!!:greenange

[campi]

i plow a shopping center, has alot of islands they have light poles with 8 inch curbs around them, also have 5 ft trees with the same curbs around hers the problem, 1 tree is missing so i plow snow stacked up around it so i know its there , one nite was just getting to that part when tis low rider passes me i am going to slow dont you know it he hits tis curb 35 mph only makes it have way rips out every thing under the car, then gets out yelling many people around, cops come busted dwi should have drove where it was plowed cost him big bucks!! Campi !!!!

[Dan725]

great stories guys hopefully I will have some good ones for you also

[Pickering Snow]

Well i remember typing on this subject last year didnt know how deep i could discribe so ill keep it semi G rated

First one i have plowed a apt complex know for close to 10yrs this place i would do for free if i had to bcause of all the wierd stuff i have seen go on since last years post this same apt came threw with another good one its about 3am when i got there these two girls were butt naked out in the snow making snow angels they were drunk has drunk could be they came running up to the truck and asked if i wanted them to move there cars i said why? so you can plow us silly the girls said i just kinda sat there in a someone dumb founded look remembered i was married and said have a nice night ladys.

Second one plowing a big church parking lot at about 2am see these two cars setting in the back of the lot. the windows on the one car steamed up and the car is running when i started plowing near the car i seen bare butts pushing up the window glass i thought gees a church parking lot so me and my wheel man said lets have some fun we started stacking the snow in front of the car boxing it in that was running and kinda blocked the other car that wasnt running when they finally finished doing the funky chicken the dude yells out we are blocked in i said oh sorry well the problem was that there clothes were in the car that wasnt running so we were nice and cleaned enough away so they could get there clothes out of the other car the guy yells out at me pervert i thought about it a second a yelled your right!

[W-n-K Landscaping]

LMAO!!

Those were great pickering!! Serves them right for being in a church parking lot!!! LOL!!

Hey- does anyone carry their digital camera with them do they? ANy wierd or strange pics ( G-rated of course!! LOL!) How about posting them?

Bill

[wyldman]

I was just pulling into the shop to hook up my blade,and saw a small car parked in front of it.I figured it was a customers car,which had been dropped off for service,so i go check the drop box for keys...hmmm...no keys in the box.Figuring maybe they left them in the car,or under the mat,I head over to see if the car is open.I open the drivers door to find two naked women curled up on the front seats.I guess they heard my truck,and were trying to hide until i left.I kindly asked them to move on,and they did,but man what a sight at 3 am when your only half awake.

[W-n-K Landscaping]

But I bet you were WIDE awake after that!!! LOL!!

What a better way to start your day thatn by being greeted by naked women ( or men for you gals if your interested) caught in some very amusing and compromising positions!! LOL

Keep 'em coming!

Bill

[wyldman]

Oh,I WAS wide awake after that.The only problem was they weren't very good looking. :(

[Rob]

Originally posted by wyldman
Oh,I WAS wide awake after that.The only problem was they weren't very good looking. :(

Honey... I've gone blind:cool:

[JohnnyU]

LOL!!:haha :haha :haha

I carry a camera when I go out, if nothing else to document the site, if there is damage toa curb or something, I'll take a picture. But I've never gotten to take a picture of anything like that!


It never ceases to amaze me how many people decide to do 'dancing' in vacant parking lots, IN THE MIDDLE OF A SNOWSTORM! You'd think they would stay at home and do it, like everyone else!

[BWhite]

Never seen anything crazy like some have . Carrrying a camera would be a good idea to document problems .

[W-n-K Landscaping]

Hey Wyldman- I hope the sight of them didn't ruin your breakfast!! Too bad they weren't a couple of young college coeds- but then we would be crossing into the fantasy land vs REALITY!! LOL!!


Bill

[PSDF350]

old thread i know:rolleyes: but i'm playing catch up. anyway not a plowing story, or as much fun as some of yours. but going home from friends house one night about 1:30am middle of a blizzard heading down this one road enjoying the big flakes when i notice a tree across the road cant go that way so turn around to go the long way home, get about 1/4 mile down the road theres anoughter tree blocking the road:eek: luckly i was able to move it just enough to get truck around. also lucky it did'nt fall a couple minutes sooner.

[Western22288]

this dosent happen often!



last season during the big storm, first storm as well i beleave, we were plowing up a back road. it was around 1am and snowing hard. one of the tree branches had falling on some powerlines and layed them across the road. the powerlines catches the branch on fire, ended up with a line of fire across the road. as we were coming towards the fire before we saw the flames my dad looks at me and says, "hey do you smell something burning" i look out my window and see flames in the road. we looked at eachother in amazment. we blocked off the area with some roadcones and called the fire department. thank god we were able to block it off before anyone could get hurt.

[PSDF350]

thought i share this it has nothing to do with plowing or me but...
i was whatching police wildest videos one day and these cops got a call to respond. pouring rain something aweful they dont know what there responding to. turns out they were responding to a down tree in the road. thing is though they found the tree ran right into it at like 60mph couldn't see very far ahead all of a sudden in the cop cam theres this tree:scramble

[Pelican]

My stangest sight was what I thought I saw. I had been in the truck working about 18 hours, and at 3:00 am going into the second day I was travelling a back road to the next account, it was still snowing. I swore I saw a guy jump from the roadside bushes and run across the road right in front of my truck. I swerved to avoid him and stopped the truck to see if he was OK.

I couldn't find him or any foot prints in the snow! I got to the next stop and immediately laid across the seat for 45 minutes to clear my senses.:zzzz

[snonut12]

Originally posted by PSDF350
thought i share this it has nothing to do with plowing or me but...
i was whatching police wildest videos one day and these cops got a call to respond. pouring rain something aweful they dont know what there responding to. turns out they were responding to a down tree in the road. thing is though they found the tree ran right into it at like 60mph couldn't see very far ahead all of a sudden in the cop cam theres this tree:scramble

I saw that video on TV too. It all started when a motorist was stopped by downed tree in the middle of t-storms so he walked out to one of house near the mess and knocked the door (to report about downed tree). It scared the homeowner thinking it was a burglar so she frantically called 911 for cops. :rolleyes: So that's why the cops was travelling at such high rate of speed in this storm. Just a second before the impact, the dispatcher sent a message through the radio to cop that there is a report of downed tree on road near the location where he were responding to. Immediately after the end of radio message, cop looked up to his windshield and saw a huge tree trunk right in front of him. He had no chance to slow down at all. Just crashed head on. Fortunately he survived but boy it gave me some chills when I saw the impact on video. :zoinks

[PSDF350]

thanks wxmn6 i couldn't remember all the details:confused: but i sure as heck remember him slamming into that tree:eek:

[Mustang]

Last year we had storms two days in a row. We plowed all night the first one then went home to get a little bit of sleep. I'm driving back to work during the next storm when, on the side of the highway, I see a very colorful object near a car that is pulled over on the shoulder. As I get closer the colorful object seems to be moving. Finally, I realize it is a CLOWN clearing snow off their car!!!!!!!

[Kentucky]

two seasons ago I was sitting in the truck drinking a coffee and doing paperwork at a gas station I just finished (4:00am in the morning)

I see a dude on a crouch rocket go buy down the side street (this road has some nasty hills and turns on it)

this was in about 12 inches of snow. Had to pinch myself to make sure I was awake:D

[Prosno]

Plowed a huge Target plaza a few years back and I was going on about 30 hrs with no sleep thinking how much I hate blizzards and mind you I'm tired silly when all of a sudden the place lit up like daylight! Brightest damn light I ever seen, it was blinding-like 12:00 noon on a sunny day and was gone.
I'm sitting there thinking I'm losing it for a couple of seconds then I hear this incredible roar of thunder-scared the crap out of me, didnt know at first if it was a bomb or something.
Lightening at night with nothing but bright white snow is a trip to say the least, it happened twice more that night-I'll never forget it.

[Dewey]

Well I guess I am one of the lucky ones I had a flasher at one of the camp roads I plow.. Real Nice:D unfortunatly moved to Virginia

[Pickering Snow]

This one wasnt plowing it was Towing last year we got nailed with a two day storm at one point recovery time for ditched vechs and tow trucks was 3-6 hours behind Jack and Greg were running the wreckers , me and Jack have worked together for 24 years between the dealer and my shop and he just tells it how it is no fluff. He went on a ditch call when he got there the girl and guy were going at it, Jack tapped on the glass and said when your finished holler ill be in my truck.....:D

[windmill]

Can't think of a better way to stay warm until the tow truck arrives. :popcorn2

[bb66chevelle]

I cant say that I have seen any strange sightings.
But 2 years ago I was flagged down by a woman while on my travels from job to job. She asked if I could plow her driveway and even though I was in somewhat of a hurry to go to my next job, I can't turn down a pretty smile! :wink
After I was done, she invited me in her house to look at some tools she wanted to get rid of that where her ex- husbands.... :cool: ....
I really couldnt tell you what kind of tools she had because I was couldnt take my eyes off of her sexy thong, as she was bent over reaching for what was on the bottom shelves! That nice little tease lasted quite a while!
Unfortunately, the snow was the only thing that got plowed that night! http://bestsmileys.com/sad/9.gif

:D

[GMC Driver]

My stangest sight was what I thought I saw. I had been in the truck working about 18 hours, and at 3:00 am going into the second day I was travelling a back road to the next account, it was still snowing. I swore I saw a guy jump from the roadside bushes and run across the road right in front of my truck. I swerved to avoid him and stopped the truck to see if he was OK.

I couldn't find him or any foot prints in the snow! I got to the next stop and immediately laid across the seat for 45 minutes to clear my senses.:zzzz

This is usually my cue too Steve. I'll see an old guy riding a bike down the middle of the road. That's my sign to take a break!

Usually the toughest hours for me are between 6 and 7 a.m, just as the daylight is breaking. For whatever reason, I can hardly stay awake. Once it's entirely daylight - no problem, good to go for another 18-20 hours.


Plowed a huge Target plaza a few years back and I was going on about 30 hrs with no sleep thinking how much I hate blizzards and mind you I'm tired silly when all of a sudden the place lit up like daylight! Brightest damn light I ever seen, it was blinding-like 12:00 noon on a sunny day and was gone.

I had this in a huge ice storm one night - I swear it lit the whole town up like it was the middle of the day. Turned out to be a hydro transformer exploding a few blocks away.

[DeVries]

It's happened a lot of times if I've been in the truck to long I see this guy run out infront of me and it scares the ***** out of me.

I've also had it backing up this stupid light post appears out of no where I slam on the brakes look out of the back window and it's gone. I probably look like a fool but what can you do.

[Mike Fronczak]

First plowing this year in a new lot. I almost hit a guy (he was walking) right behind truck as I was backing up. After he gets in front of truck I see the seeing eye dog, turns out he works in one of the stores in the plaza, GREAT. As if the seeing idiots aren't enough.

[Mark Oomkes]

Usually the toughest hours for me are between 6 and 7 a.m, just as the daylight is breaking. For whatever reason, I can hardly stay awake. Once it's entirely daylight - no problem, good to go for another 18-20 hours.

Me too, it's weird, but it is just about impossible to keep my eyes open.

Dutch thing?

I've also had it backing up this stupid light post appears out of no where I slam on the brakes look out of the back window and it's gone. I probably look like a fool but what can you do.

Yup, been there, done that.

Last year the road started moving on me, sideways. :eek: Figured that was as good a sign as any that it was nap time.

[OSCLandscaping]

Me too, it's weird, but it is just about impossible to keep my eyes open.

Dutch thing?.

I have the same problem, I'm not Dutch.


Yup, been there, done that.

Last year the road started moving on me, sideways. :eek: Figured that was as good a sign as any that it was nap time.

Glad I am not the only one to have this stuff happen.

[jkiser96]

We were plowing a large HOA a few years ago & every morning around 5:00 there was a lady that opened her blinds buck naked & would wave at us, I swear that street got salted more than any other in the state.
We were also plowing an apt. complex after about 14 hours & I had a guy in a wheelchair come out in front of me and ask for a ride or some money, this is after seeing several crack deals go down. I told the guy I could not give him a ride & I did not carry cash when we were out plowing. I then called my buddy at the other end of the complex & told him about it but he thought I was making it up, then about 20 minutes later he calls me laughing so hard he could barely talk & said the guy made it to him & gave the same sad story.

My aunt is a metro cop in Indy & had a couple of her deputies, that are big & no nonsense guys, almost get carjacked. These guys were in a marked Suburban during a snowstorm & this guy runs up & opens the door but he doesn't realize they are cops until he has a hold of the driver & trying to pull him out. My aunt said they called in & said they had an attempted carjacking but suspect was in custody.

[windmill]

Twilight and dusk are the tough times. I only have a tough time keeping my eyes open when I'm asleep. :)

REAL Dutchmen have no weaknesses Mark.:grinz

[Dfrenzy]

A few years back I plowed at a Boston Market resteraunt. The front overlooked a 20 ft drop off with a retaining wall. I always thought this was a bad setup and was unsafe but who am I. The drive thru wrapped around the front and there was a railing on the outside of the drive thru. If someone slid down this drive thru they could go thru that railing and over this hill. Well i was plowing there at about 4 am. I made a pass from front to back and when I backed up for my next pass there was a car laying upside down sideways in the drive thru. It was a drunk that had managed to make it up over this 20 ft hill and go airborn upside down. I can still remember wondering what did i just do to cause such a thing to happen. I was scared out of my pants not realizing that I had nothing to do with this at all. It took ma a few seconds to justify what was going on and where did this upside down car come from all of the sudden. As just minutes before i had cleared the drive thru out first thing when i got there. Then i had to stay and give a statement when the police got there.

[derekbroerse]

I have the same problem, I'm not Dutch.


You're right.. that is a problem....! :D Ya ain't much if ya ain't Dutch, my dad always used to say.... LOL

[JGresko]

This did not happen while plowing, but this past summer while painting a big complex in Augusta. I started work that day up here in Houlton at 8am(after getting done the night before at 2am), worked all day mowing and getting the machines ready and we headed down to Augusta, when we got there it was a great night so we decided to knock out some parking lots. So the three of use each grabbed a machine and took off in differant directions and started painting lines. Around 3am I see a car pull into the parking lot and drive past me once and there were 4 girls in the car, they went to the other end of the parking lot and sat for a minutes and then turned around and slowly came back towards me. So I continue to paint lines and as they pass me I look up and see all 4 girls with the shirts off flashing me, got me a little distracted there and and almost made the line curve.


They drove out of the parking lot and before I could get on the two way my boss called and asked if girls flashed me in a car casue they just did him and then the other guy called and said they just did it to him too.

[hlntoiz]

I plow 3 trailer parks. It is always interesting. I had bald lady screaming at me telling me I was going to give her a heart attack. :zoinks:beatsme My wife goes plowing with me just to go through the parks.

Good stories guys!

[GMC Driver]

Ya ain't much if ya ain't Dutch, my dad always used to say.... LOL

Derek, your father is a very wise man!!


Not sure if dawn being tough is a Dutch thing, but there are plenty of other things that are....

Never did notice if the old man on the bike was wearing the proper footwear.


Matt - I'll admit, we now also plow a trailer park (2nd year). It's a lovely place in it's own unique way - the way all 6 wheel resorts do! It hasn't provided the entertainment you speak of, however. I have been known to play a little Sammy Kershaw on purpose when I'm plowing there - "This here's the queen of my double wide trailer..."


On edit: Why do I seem to never have the luck some of the rest of you do? If I think of it, I'm not sure if I'd like to see anything topless at the sites I do - trailer park, trucking warehouse, senior's development. Maybe at Timmys - give a whole new meaning to Double Double!

[Mark Oomkes]

On edit: Why do I seem to never have the luck some of the rest of you do? If I think of it, I'm not sure if I'd like to see anything topless at the sites I do - trailer park, trucking warehouse, senior's development. Maybe at Timmys - give a whole new meaning to Double Double!

Me neither Dave, me neither. lol :( :grinz

[Pickering Snow]

Me neither Dave, me neither. lol :( :grinz

Maybe you and Dave should consider yourself Lucky sometimes it just aint that pretty. Lets face it if there using the car has a hotel chances are theres a reason...:D

Trailer parks and apt complex;s provided me with most of my entertaiment however i never said it was always pretty, just makes you sit up a little in the seat....:D

[sonjaab]

Could be this:

http://www.letstalksnow.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=4215&stc=1&thumb=1&d=1178126798

[04SUPERDUTY]

this happened a few years ago and to this day it still scares the crap out of me.
i was plowing a small businesses back drive that was about as wide as my plow was in scoop mode. i had to get exactly straight going in or would hit my mirrors on the building. as i was getting my truck straightened out someone knocked on my drivers window and almost made me wet myself. they had walked up in my blind spot wearing dark clothes at 3 am. i rolled my window down and the guy asked if i could pull his van out of the snow. i looked him over, realized he was drunk or close to it, and said i dont have a tow strap with me.
he askes, then what happens when you get stuck, i told him i really dont get stuck and if i do i call my boss. finally he left.
after i was done i went to check to see how stuck he was and thier was no way i was going to get him out. he slid off the road, down a small hill and in between 2 huge oak trees. heck Fred would have had problems on the ice covered road pulling him out with a wreacker.

[apik1]

Last season about 10 pm during one of our good storms , I was driving through a $ 500,000 house negiborhood to clean up my accounts, and from behind a bush and across the street runs a naked guy with socks on carring his clothes :eek: my guess was that someones husband came home early.

[OSCLandscaping]

You're right.. that is a problem....! Ya ain't much if ya ain't Dutch, my dad always used to say.... LOL

:D:rolling:rolling I didn't read my post to see how it came out. You know what I meant.:D

[IHI]

Had a multiple apartment complex for low rent and weirdo's. Was at one site around 10:30pm trying to keep up with the storm, watching/dodging low rent bums as they darted in and out of the circle parking lot...actually big oval. so anyways, as i'm going round and round the big oval i notice a guy in a hooded sweat shirt jogging behind my truck, every now and then i'd see his hand wave at me, but i kept at it, plowing like a mofo but after 4 trips around the center oval median i stopped, rolled down the window as he came jogging up, my hand on a steel pipe i keep just in case,

"can i help you?" i asked
yeah man, i just wanted to tell ya i ordered some pizza and your more than welcome to come in and have some if you want
"LOL, i appreciate it freind, but i have alot to do tonight to keep up with this mess so i have to take a rain check"
hey man, that's cool, i know you have alot to do but figured i'd offer ya a quick bite to eat to keep you going tonight
"well, i appreciate it, but i gotta keep goin, mothernature is'nt going to tkae a break for awhile i afriad, but thanks for the offer"

i think he wanted to slip me a roofy :eek::D

[slplow]

Three yrs ago we had a big storm between 11pm and 4am I only saw two cars go down the rd.

[Plowski]

I've worked every plowable storm in this town for the past 25 years and haven't seen one thing that might interest any of you.

[Plow Babe]

Well, I saw this today and it's pretty strange! He's got his phone number on the front, apparently soliciting business. :eek:

[Mark Oomkes]

Wellllllll, saw a couple idiots out this morning plowing a whopping 1/4" of snow.

One even had a SwingWing back blade and no front plow. :beatsme Looked really familiar.

Then you could add the 2 idiots that don't value their lives very much, one made me put my truck sideways--with 1200 gallons of de-icer and the other who thought it was a great idea to pull out in front of me, despite no cars behind me for at least a half mile. Apparently most everyone leaves their brains home when it snows????

[wolcottseptic]

i saw a huge chunk of snow/ice fall off a gas station canopy and crush the roof of a car

[Jon Geer]

Wellllllll, saw a couple idiots out this morning plowing a whopping 1/4" of snow.

One even had a SwingWing back blade and no front plow. :beatsme Looked really familiar.


Approach run FELLA !!!!!!!:eek: The word idiot is a very strong word Mr.O.

So you saw the "Top Secret" Hybrid Plow Operated truck? What location?

Jon

[Mark Oomkes]

Approach run FELLA !!!!!!!:eek: The word idiot is a very strong word Mr.O.

So you saw the "Top Secret" Hybrid Plow Operated truck? What location?

Jon

Sure, whatever you say.

This alleged top secret plow was dang near causing an accident on East Beltline screwing around in the street in front of 2 lanes of vehicles and then backed into a tree when 'operator' saw the problems he\she was causing.

And you would agree if you knew who else I saw scraping that 1/4" off.

[Jon Geer]

This alleged top secret plow was dang near causing an accident on East Beltline screwing around in the street in front of 2 lanes of vehicles and then backed into a tree when 'operator' saw the problems he\she was causing.

And you would agree if you knew who else I saw scraping that 1/4" off.


Are you serious?

Do Tell.

Jon

[Cornerstone]

So you saw the "Top Secret" Hybrid Plow Operated truck? What location?

Jon

Please explain this Hybrid plow operation. How does it work? Does it run off solor panels during the day?

[Jon Geer]

Please explain this Hybrid plow operation. How does it work? Does it run off solor panels during the day?


Very, very similar to the such, kinda like a Prius. Gas/Battery/Electric Motor. Runs full electric or gas. Grasp the concept of Hybrid vehicles, stuff it in a box, and make it run all of the plows.

Jon

[Pickering Snow]

Very, very similar to the such, kinda like a Prius. Gas/Battery/Electric Motor. Runs full electric or gas. Grasp the concept of Hybrid vehicles, stuff it in a box, and make it run all of the plows.

Jon

XLS on the 09? You pay attention to instructor last year Grasshopper?

[Mark Oomkes]

Are you serious?

Do Tell.

Jon

I just did. :rolleyes:

[Jon Geer]

XLS on the 09? You pay attention to instructor last year Grasshopper?

I will oh great "XLS Master", I will. I picked it up from Kzoo last night.

Jon

[fordmstng66]

I have also been in an apartment complex, and two girls were flashing me the whole time i was there, made me take longer to plow. I was also at a lot about 2:00 a.m.and it was in a not so good part of Cleveland, there was a fence that i stacked snow against, it looked like someone was on the other side of the fence peaking over at me, i hurried up with the lot, and got out of there.

[Cornerstone]

Very, very similar to the such, kinda like a Prius. Gas/Battery/Electric Motor. Runs full electric or gas. Grasp the concept of Hybrid vehicles, stuff it in a box, and make it run all of the plows.

Jon

Pictures are worth a thousand words

[plowgeek]

Pictures are worth a thousand words

Indeed. While Jon's work looks very nice, to think that one man could master a technology that millions of dollars of automotive engineering have failed to effectively produce seems a little far fetched. And if I were that person, I sure as heck wouldn't advertise it all over the freakin' internet. Way up here, we have a word for those kind of people, but I'm afraid posting it would violate "forum rules"... :wink

More likely, a gas motor and hydro pump, and electric over hydro and a couple T-fittings... The user chooses one or the other and operates equipement off one or the other power source... That's not hybrid, that choice...

[Jon Geer]

Pictures are worth a thousand words

No pictures until the Patent Search is complete, and Patent paperwork is properly filed.:( Sorry.:o

Jon

[Pelican]

Apparently most everyone leaves their brains home when it snows????

Or perhaps stuffed up their posterior???

[chuckret]

I was stationed in Germany in the 60's. Nothing stopped them from riding cycles year round there. (Only mode of transport many of the German's had back then). You would often see them stopped by the side of the roads. Just standing there for a few minutes warmed them up.

I also recall a fellow I worked with in western NY. He rode his Honda almost year round. He went damn near 50 miles a day round trip on that thing in all kinds of weather. It takes all kinds!

[Jon Geer]

Indeed. While Jon's work looks very nice, to think that one man could master a technology that millions of dollars of automotive engineering have failed to effectively produce seems a little far fetched. And if I were that person, I sure as heck wouldn't advertise it all over the freakin' internet. Way up here, we have a word for those kind of people, but I'm afraid posting it would violate "forum rules"... :wink

More likely, a gas motor and hydro pump, and electric over hydro and a couple T-fittings... The user chooses one or the other and operates equipement off one or the other power source... That's not hybrid, that choice...


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[stargazer]

Indeed. While Jon's work looks very nice, to think that one man could master a technology that millions of dollars of automotive engineering have failed to effectively produce seems a little far fetched. And if I were that person, I sure as heck wouldn't advertise it all over the freakin' internet. Way up here, we have a word for those kind of people, but I'm afraid posting it would violate "forum rules"... :wink


Actually it does seem far fetched. Scientific history is written as though knowledge is evolutionary. However, what I noticed by careful reading is that each major discovery was made by one man. He was usually vilified and sometimes burned at the stake. Only later was his genius recognized. Apparently committees and large companies of engineers are only capable of working within the established norms. It is counterintuitive, but in real life real breakthroughs into new ways of looking at the world actually do come from one man.

Therefore I think we should withold judgement until all the facts are in.

[Landgreen]

Saw a strange thing this am. A guy walking in the middle of a road. Head down and oblivious to oncoming traffic. A subaru nearly clipped him as I drove by. He didn't move out of the way but kept walking. I called 911. Hopefully he didn't cause an accident. Similiar thing happened at that exact same location last year but at 2am and I was the only one on the road. A guy was walking in the middle of the lane I was driving in. I swerved to miss him and he moved towards me as if he wanted to get hit. Maybe suicidal.

[snocrete]

Actually it does seem far fetched. Scientific history is written as though knowledge is evolutionary. However, what I noticed by careful reading is that each major discovery was made by one man. He was usually vilified and sometimes burned at the stake. Only later was his genius recognized. Apparently committees and large companies of engineers are only capable of working within the established norms. It is counterintuitive, but in real life real breakthroughs into new ways of looking at the world actually do come from one man.

Therefore I think we should withold judgement until all the facts are in.

I agree, and good post.......

am I missing something, but why does it seem jon geer gets bashed so much by particular members??? Is it friends just giving him a hard time? It sure doesn't seem so? If it's not, he sure seems to take it well...........................BTW gas powered/electric powered/ fart powered whatever it is, he must know something of plow equipment, and does have some cool a** pics and vids 2 enjoy, thanks:popcorn2



Oh, and a strange/funny sighting for me was seeing the manager at a Culvers by 1 of my accounts snowblowing the entire parking lot last year:eek:...... needless to say after about the 3rd event, I was seeing a plow truck rolling through there:D

[William B.]

I've often wondered the same thing Sno.

[Jon Geer]

I agree, and good post.......

am I missing something, but why does it seem jon geer gets bashed so much by particular members??? Is it friends just giving him a hard time? It sure doesn't seem so? If it's not, he sure seems to take it well...........................BTW gas powered/electric powered/ fart powered whatever it is, he must know something of plow equipment, and does have some cool a** pics and vids 2 enjoy, thanks:popcorn2



Thanks for the support. I am just a guy who is passionate about snow and the equipment to make my job faster, easier, and more profitable. I have alot of Jon Geer haters, they think they know me, they don't. I move on and not let it affect my day to day.

Thanks to everyone that supports what I TRY to do. I am not trying to change the topic of this thread, that is why I do not harp on it. Move on.

Jon

[lorentzlawnsnow]

Probably about a month ago I was out doing a salting run, and as i'm getting on the exit ramp to change between hiways, i see a big black bump in the middle of the ramp. It was hard to make out what it was in the dark of the night until I got closer to it, had to swerve to the left almost off of the ramp to miss it. Turned out to be a guy in all black clothes complete with hoody to cover his head, kneeling down in the middle of the ramp, kinda the praying to mecca position. The next intersection about a mile down the road i stopped and told the Sheriff at the gas station what I saw and he took off to check it out. After I was past it all I thought to myself, I know where the tires are, I could have just given him a wakeup call and driven over his fingertips. :D

[T-Zab]

The other night I was cruising threw downtown Waukegan, Enjoying the Christmas lights. Drive past a side st. and see 2 squads sitting in front of a quick cash/ check cashing joint and there is an Explorer Hanging out threw the front windows LOL. I about pissed myself laughing, and went back and pulled a drive bye. Tried to get a pic with the cell phone but it was to dark.
That was fun to see. I guess they wouldnt cash the check :D

[sonjaab]

Gotta be this fine piece of snow removal equipment in Parish NY at work last year.

http://blog.syracuse.com/weather/2008/01/large_weather-plow.jpg
Doug Houghton removes snow with a 1965 Ford Econoline truck that he rigged up with a snowblower, at his home in Parish. Many communities throughout Oswego County will likely be digging out today.

[Dfrenzy]

A lot of guys here will like this one. Back in 2002 I was out plowing and was going by a Dairy Queen parking lot. This lot never got plowed due to it being closed in the winter. Well it was getting plowed this day and i had to stop and watch as I was amazed. This big white plow that had these wings that moved was cutting thru this snow like a dusting with no trail lines. Well I didn't get out and talk to the guy so I had no clue as to who made this plow or where it came from. For the next week I kept searching for who made such an animal as I had to have one. Finally I found it! It was called a Blizzard plow but the only dealer was in Akron Ohio or Erie Pa. Not knowing anything about either place I headed for Akron that summer after purchasing a new truck. Every time i see this topic of stange things while plowing I think back of the first time a saw a Blizzard. I can remember slidding down the road while jamming on the brakes yelling at my brother Did you see that guys Wings move. To this day we still laugh about it.

[Pickering Snow]

A lot of guys here will like this one. Back in 2002 I was out plowing and was going by a Dairy Queen parking lot. This lot never got plowed due to it being closed in the winter. Well it was getting plowed this day and i had to stop and watch as I was amazed. This big white plow that had these wings that moved was cutting thru this snow like a dusting with no trail lines. Well I didn't get out and talk to the guy so I had no clue as to who made this plow or where it came from. For the next week I kept searching for who made such an animal as I had to have one. Finally I found it! It was called a Blizzard plow but the only dealer was in Akron Ohio or Erie Pa. Not knowing anything about either place I headed for Akron that summer after purchasing a new truck. Every time i see this topic of stange things while plowing I think back of the first time a saw a Blizzard. I can remember slidding down the road while jamming on the brakes yelling at my brother Did you see that guys Wings move. To this day we still laugh about it.



Thats funny but so true if i had a dime for every snow contractor that got a Rubber neck watching my fleet of Blizzards i would be rich.

When we would run the 8-12 that really caught attention. I remember one night plowing a large parking lot with Denton on the main drag we had Erie 3 on my wrecker and Denton had Erie 1 with its 12 ft ablity we were pushing tip to tip taking 23ft passes the contractors were lined up on the road watching sure wish i had my vid going that night.

[wmhlc]

Out plowing last night I saw a double semi trailer come un hooked and crash into a telephone pole. It was the loudest noise I ever heard. I just about pooped my pants because I was backing up, and I thought for sure I backed into a car, but nope it was a semi trailer slamming into a telephone pole. It was something else.

[Danscapes5]

Funniest thing I ever saw was when I used to plow for a guy and he backed into a electric transformer. He was plowing a little fast food place with a huge F-700 with a 16ft bed and a 10ft plow. I was coming around the drive-through and saw him back into the transformer. He knocked this transformer over that was about 4ft by 4ft and it blew up and caught fire. When the transformer blew it took out electric for an entire 5 blocks, with gas stations and fast food places left in the dark. The electric company came to cut power and the fire dept. put the fire out so I had to go back to re-salt the lot from all the water. It took them two days to restore power and set a new transformer. It was pretty funny watching all of the fast food places throwing food into coolers to take to other stores.

[szorno]

Just yesterday I was doing a quality check on a private road. The natives were restless and on the move. Quite a sight...:D

[juicedwildcat]

One of my funniests was when I was plowing a beauty shop and a guy comes walking up. He asked if I could help him get his truck out of a ditch. Ok, I drive a block up to see a bread truck rammed up a ditch at a Pizza shop. I guess the new guy, who when I showed up was flooring the truck with neither back tire touching ground, had tried to fly up the "entrance" since the lot was not plowed. He missed the drive by ten feet and had the truck stuck with the back bumper in the street, front tires on the lot and the back wheels hanging in mid air. It was hilarious :grinz. But some how the old Chevy was able to pull them back on the street, and to top it off the guy driving didn't offer any $ or even say thanks. The other guy atleast said thanks.

[PSDF350]

Not strange or while plowing; but heading down road today and going down a hill with a turn at the bottom there's a road at bottom on right, so this dim wit decides there going to go for it:rolleyes: They punch it and then come to realize it's to slick to turn slam right into guardrail on other side of road:rolling:rolling:waving

[The boys]

The funniest thing Ive ever seen was a van full of illegal mexicans ramp a frozen snow pile and get stuck. the roads were icy and everybody was slowing down to stop and they slid into the pile. I drove back by like 30 minutes later and they were pulling the van out with an 88 all wheel drive subaru. Its still funny to this day.

[hlntoiz]

The funniest thing Ive ever seen was a van full of illegal mexicans ramp a frozen snow pile and get stuck. the roads were icy and everybody was slowing down to stop and they slid into the pile. I drove back by like 30 minutes later and they were pulling the van out with an 88 all wheel drive subaru. Its still funny to this day.

I would pay :cash to see that! :haha

[snowjoker]

Seen this truck friday morning out plowing, Needles to say the driver was " special" from the way he acted and talked in the gas station. Sounded like a 4 banger..........:popcorn2

[John Banks]

Seen this truck friday morning out plowing, Needles to say the driver was " special" from the way he acted and talked in the gas station. Sounded like a 4 banger..........:popcorn2

tell me that's NOT an exhaust stack :eek:

[snowjoker]

tell me that's NOT an exhaust stack :eek:

NO worries he has a tractor cap on it........... And the confederate flag on the grill compliments the crookedness of the stack

[sonjaab]

Heres one for John! :
http://www.subaruoutback.org/forums/attachment.php?postid=13422

[John Banks]

[QUOTE=sonjaab;224831]Heres one for John! :


unreal - obviously more free time than anything else. To each his own though - that's what makes this such a great country

That's ok, one time when I was up @ Mass Diesel they had a 2nd Gen Dodge CTD with a 10" stack :eek: May as well have used a garbage can for a pipe!

[hlntoiz]

Heres one for John! :
http://www.subaruoutback.org/forums/attachment.php?postid=13422

Hey it is a white plow and even has a blizzard light bar!! :haha :rolling

[John Banks]

Hey it is a white plow and even has a blizzard light bar!! :haha :rolling

and looks to be short-chained with fishin' line - 30lb test LOL

[sawdcon]

Here is one that I saw a couple of years ago. I was passing a clover lear on ramp on the interstate in less than good conditions when an older s 10 blazer came flying around the ramp at double the rate he should have been going. He slid side ways right into the center of the interstate and was quickly hooked onto the big rig that was driving in the center lane. I watched as the rig carried this guy side ways on his bumper for almost a mile because the rig didn't want to touch his brakes and cause more harm. All the guy in the rig did when i looked over at him was to give me two hands up in the air and a big smile. I still chuckle about it to this day thinking of the load the guy in the blazer had to have dropped in his pants!

[IHI]

Here is one that I saw a couple of years ago. I was passing a clover lear on ramp on the interstate in less than good conditions when an older s 10 blazer came flying around the ramp at double the rate he should have been going. He slid side ways right into the center of the interstate and was quickly hooked onto the big rig that was driving in the center lane. I watched as the rig carried this guy side ways on his bumper for almost a mile because the rig didn't want to touch his brakes and cause more harm. All the guy in the rig did when i looked over at him was to give me two hands up in the air and a big smile. I still chuckle about it to this day thinking of the load the guy in the blazer had to have dropped in his pants!


Kind of off the snow sightings, but still funny male things. Out of high school big trucks were the rage, freind of ours built a big ole older chevy, 44" mudders on it, high compression race built 396cid for bog competition. One day we had 7 trucks and a whole lot more people that decided to go downto the sandpits and have some fun...just freshly rained, TONS of mud and slop to play in. Well, we were getting dirty for a few hours, decided to take an official break parked ontop a big ridge kind of overlooking the whole park. We get there and look down and see this STOCK s10 blazer doing donuts in the clay feild and after a few he got stuck...think stock hwy tread in grease soil...so buddy with the huge truck said he'd pop down there quick and tow him out onto the road....which he did. Well our bogger buddy was'nt even half way back to us yet and that S10 guy decided to jump right back into the slop and got stuck AGAIN. Bogger buddy got back to us and we all just looked down at this goofball stuck in the slop so friend told us, i'm going to have 1 beer before i head back down there, but you guys are going to have watch this...i'll make this one good.:grinz

So he finished his beer, drives back down to the guy and hooks up his tow strap to the S10's rear bumper and starts taking slcak out of it. S10 guy had his window down so he could see as all his side/back windows were covered in slop.....all at one 4 HUGE rooster tails of mud and slop go straight up and then back over the top of the S10....and did'nt stop, the guy in the S10 got covered with mud, mud inside the truck since he was trying to steering getting drug backwards at a pretty good clip and being slug around by this big old mud truck...the site was compariable to pulling an inner tube behind a boat, the S10 was picking up tons of speed everytime my buddy would whip his steering wheel LMFAO!!!!!!!! He finally got done dragging this sap around, took him out to the road, unhooked and told the guy, you go back in there, your done, you have no reason being down here trying to play in a truck like yours....and it musta hit home since the guy did turn around and leave.

but man it was priceless seeing the huge mud rooster tails devouring that little truck and then watching that little truck getting drug around like a rag doll the whole time the mud covered driver was waving his arms out the windows signaling to stop LOL!!!!