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There is tech I need answers to. Thanks.
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Well, the HDJ81 rolled tonight. I was on my way out for an evening canoe with cruiser_guy and his son. For those that don't know, I am dating cruiser_guy's daughter. I crushed the canoe. His daughter and I just spent 50 hours refinishing it. Just finished last week!
Anyways we were on way out. We went up the wrong road so I started backing up. I accidentally backed up a bank and 2 seconds later we are teter-totering in the air. I was going slow in 4-low, but it happen so fast. It just happened right now. I climbed the bank like it was nothing.
I did my best, but it was to late. The truck was already on steep of angle to recover. We were there for probably 2 minutes trying to inch our way down. We even had time to pray.
We rolled, as you can see in the pics. Fluke accident. Was not heavy offroading, or hardcore wheeling. Just backing up back onto the better road.
Nothing I can do now, but here are my pics.
Questions are at the bottom after the commentary.
I need to explain what happened and how.
I need help getting it out.
We were by ourselves, way out of cell and radio range.
Pics are in order as I (and cruiser_guy) took them.
On the roof. Lots of pics for ICBC
Side shot. If you look you can see where I backed up and my tire slid.
Other side and the busted canoe.
Back from side:
Back. Cruiser_guy and his son to the side.
Another shot of the bank:
Now you can get an idea how steep the bank was. About 4 or 5 ft tall.
Well, we need to get out. No cell or radio service.
So lets self right with the winch. I had shut the engine off as soon as we rolled.
Ran for less than 1 second upside down. And I mean that. Might of only ben half a second. First thought was "SHUT IT OFF!"
Hooked up the snatch block. Attached the other side to the back of the truck.
Using tree savers on the other side to reach a tree.
I only had about 1 ft to spare!!
Its coming...:
A little more. Loosing daylight fast.
Getting better:
Here is a roof shot. Its worse than it looks. Its really bent in. Sunroof broke into thousands of pieces, and roof it down 8-10 inches in the center inside. Roof rack is totaled.
Getting close to where it started before roll over:
I am so thirsty. My mouth is bone dry no matter what.
I need a break and some water:
Getting teird.
I look like a geek!
Cable is not running between the rollers on the failer lead.
This is not good. We ended up using some strap and come along to the door pillar to pull it over a few inches while tetering again. This alowed us to get the cable back onto the rollers.
Looking for some straps.
The cruiser is almost where we started.
The tipping angle is AMAZING!!!!
Must be around 50 degrees or more.
That is with a 70 pound canoe(acting as leaver in the wrong direction), plus roof rack.
At first when we were in the truck it felt like it was gong to tip. But we started getting steeper and steeper and it still held. The impact was actaully very small when we hit. Not much distance to cover. When we rolled it was suprisingly calm.
There is tech I need answers to. Thanks.
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Well, the HDJ81 rolled tonight. I was on my way out for an evening canoe with cruiser_guy and his son. For those that don't know, I am dating cruiser_guy's daughter. I crushed the canoe. His daughter and I just spent 50 hours refinishing it. Just finished last week!
Anyways we were on way out. We went up the wrong road so I started backing up. I accidentally backed up a bank and 2 seconds later we are teter-totering in the air. I was going slow in 4-low, but it happen so fast. It just happened right now. I climbed the bank like it was nothing.
I did my best, but it was to late. The truck was already on steep of angle to recover. We were there for probably 2 minutes trying to inch our way down. We even had time to pray.
We rolled, as you can see in the pics. Fluke accident. Was not heavy offroading, or hardcore wheeling. Just backing up back onto the better road.
Nothing I can do now, but here are my pics.
Questions are at the bottom after the commentary.
I need to explain what happened and how.
I need help getting it out.
We were by ourselves, way out of cell and radio range.
Pics are in order as I (and cruiser_guy) took them.
On the roof. Lots of pics for ICBC
Side shot. If you look you can see where I backed up and my tire slid.
Other side and the busted canoe.
Back from side:
Back. Cruiser_guy and his son to the side.
Another shot of the bank:
Now you can get an idea how steep the bank was. About 4 or 5 ft tall.
Well, we need to get out. No cell or radio service.
So lets self right with the winch. I had shut the engine off as soon as we rolled.
Ran for less than 1 second upside down. And I mean that. Might of only ben half a second. First thought was "SHUT IT OFF!"
Hooked up the snatch block. Attached the other side to the back of the truck.
Using tree savers on the other side to reach a tree.
I only had about 1 ft to spare!!
Its coming...:
A little more. Loosing daylight fast.
Getting better:
Here is a roof shot. Its worse than it looks. Its really bent in. Sunroof broke into thousands of pieces, and roof it down 8-10 inches in the center inside. Roof rack is totaled.
Getting close to where it started before roll over:
I am so thirsty. My mouth is bone dry no matter what.
I need a break and some water:
Getting teird.
I look like a geek!
Cable is not running between the rollers on the failer lead.
This is not good. We ended up using some strap and come along to the door pillar to pull it over a few inches while tetering again. This alowed us to get the cable back onto the rollers.
Looking for some straps.
The cruiser is almost where we started.
The tipping angle is AMAZING!!!!
Must be around 50 degrees or more.
That is with a 70 pound canoe(acting as leaver in the wrong direction), plus roof rack.
At first when we were in the truck it felt like it was gong to tip. But we started getting steeper and steeper and it still held. The impact was actaully very small when we hit. Not much distance to cover. When we rolled it was suprisingly calm.
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