Bit of an oopsie!

[Mick Dempsey]

On a steep slope today, I was cutting an elder and the lad was feeding the chipper. I turn round to see him desperately try to stop it skidding down the hill.

Handbrake was on but the truck just slid all four wheels locked. He couldn't keep up but as luck would have it there was a handy pile of garden rubbish to stop it.

Nary a scratch! Un hitched the chipper, reversed it out and this time used chocks.

 

 

Here it is afterwards, chocked this time. You can make out a ranger size dent in the pile lower down.

Edited June 3, 2015 by Mick Dempsey

[Mick Dempsey]

Another view

[Mick Dempsey]

Last one, there was a very steep drop after the pile and some big trees,

Could have been a very costly error.

[Mark Bolam]

That was Charles Kennedy's spirit having a drunken laugh with you Mick.

Luckily God put that heap of rubbish there!

 

Glad it was just a hiccup, as you said it could have ended pretty badly!

 

Get that handbrake checked!

 

 

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[Mick Dempsey]

Handbrake was fine, it slid down with the wheels locked. Steeper than it looked.

 

Yes, he'd of laughed at that!

[Stubby]

That was Charles Kennedy's spirit having a drunken laugh with you Mick.

Luckily God put that heap of rubbish there!

 

Glad it was just a hiccup, as you said it could have ended pretty badly!

 

Get that handbrake checked!

 

 

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God would not have put that there for me . We have never got on ....

[Mark Bolam]

Handbrake was fine, it slid down with the wheels locked. Steeper than it looked.

 

Yes, he'd of laughed at that!

 

Doh!

Missed that bit, must have been fair steep.

 

My TW125 legged it down a paddock once, unhitched.

Like you, saved by a mound of something, although mine was quite smelly.

 

It's a horrible feeling, seems to happen in slo-mo.

 

 

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[Joe Newton]

Doh!

Missed that bit, must have been fair steep.

 

My TW125 legged it down a paddock once, unhitched.

Like you, saved by a mound of something, although mine was quite smelly.

 

It's a horrible feeling, seems to happen in slo-mo.

 

 

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It must've seen you walking towards it with a handful of dirty rakings and thought "stuff this, I'm off!"

[Mark Bolam]

It was a grain shovel full of ornamental slate.

It's good for the machine to give the insides a scouring now and again.

 

 

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[Mick Dempsey]

Ha very good Joe! actually it was alright for a good 15 minutes, I suspect the effect of the vibration through the tow bar started the movement.

 

The groundie was trying to save it and I thought for one moment he was going to try and run faster and get in. At considerable risk to himself.

 

I was thinking "leave it, it's only a truck" (sometimes I suprise myself a few years back I'd have torn him off a strip for not sacrificing himself Emily Davison style in front of it)