Ok, so no one will dispute that I can be a huge dumbass.
I'm gonna share this story. How many of you have a dumbass story as well?
Got my new winch installed & went out on my property to winch my rig up a hill & properly tension wrap the cable.
Found the appropriate place to do it with enough flat area at the top to park the truck & un-hook.
I get it up there & all is dandy. I chock the wheel (I have no e-brake, but this is not a TLCA event) I get it un-hooked & straighten out the cable, re-wrap a bit of it so it looks pretty, & start to put away my tree saver & D rings. I'm standing beside the passenger side of the 4runner putting things in my bag when it starts rolling backward.
The hill is pretty steep & over 50' long.
A 4runner can pick up what seems like a lot of speed in that distance.
The sound it makes when it hits the tree at the bottom of the hill is very loud.
The front end comes up pretty high when the back end stops suddenly like that.
The damage to the bumper & corner is pretty gnarly.
Laughed it off & wheeled for the next 2 hours.
Dumbass.
I'm gonna share this story. How many of you have a dumbass story as well?
Got my new winch installed & went out on my property to winch my rig up a hill & properly tension wrap the cable.
Found the appropriate place to do it with enough flat area at the top to park the truck & un-hook.
I get it up there & all is dandy. I chock the wheel (I have no e-brake, but this is not a TLCA event) I get it un-hooked & straighten out the cable, re-wrap a bit of it so it looks pretty, & start to put away my tree saver & D rings. I'm standing beside the passenger side of the 4runner putting things in my bag when it starts rolling backward.
The hill is pretty steep & over 50' long.
A 4runner can pick up what seems like a lot of speed in that distance.
The sound it makes when it hits the tree at the bottom of the hill is very loud.
The front end comes up pretty high when the back end stops suddenly like that.
The damage to the bumper & corner is pretty gnarly.
Laughed it off & wheeled for the next 2 hours.
Dumbass.