chased is a far overstatement..I just went through a barbed wire fence....
went ALL the way THROUGH the fence and change. The tailgate was passed the fenceline. Turns out property owner is my friend so everything may not be that bad. But knocked out about 60-90 foot of barb wire, i flatened a support pole yet the bumper isnt damaged and the airbags didn't go off. (I was actually more worried about the airbags going off from the recovery effort than anything). And my friend sympathised with me because she has an 00 ram and did the exact same thing on another road.
It's a quick right-left switchback (think watkins glen interloop entry, but MUCH tighter) on a whitewash road. The first mistake i made was not braking earlier. I'd already known it was a dangeruos road (i'd gone down it several times in the dually with minor slipage), so i kinda figured out what I did wrong. The speed limit is 35, i obeyed that. As I approached the turn, i started braking, but softly to prevent lockup (again, whitewash road). But i carried the braking into the turn, and i think muggle can already know what happened. NEVER turn and brake at the same time, especially on a slick surface. The back end came around to the driver side, so i correct by spinning the wheel to the left and releasing the brake, but I also have to remember i was heading for the fence and the left hand portion of the road. So i'm trying to point it away from the fence and recover form the fishtail simultaneously (thankfully, same direction), and i guess I over correct because now i'm full out drifting the left hand portion, i correct to the right, and that sends me flat into the fence. All I fluidly remember is braking, turning right, left, and coming to a sudden and abrupt stop. So i'm not for sure that I even turned right into the fence unless it was a quick reflex reaction. The truck did it's job. I didn't move at all, the floormat moved more than I did. Not until the recover effort did i notice it had balled up under the pedals
. I had the robot in the passenger seat, it moved MAYBE 3 inches forward in the seat. No damage to it at all.
So I called my mom, and we linked the dually up to pull the dakota. I pulled the rope tight, then my mom took over as I held the top row of fence above my cab. Theres no question about brake lockup, there was a dirt berm in front of the truck up to the bumper, the tires just plowed it all up. Had it not been for that theres no telling where the truck woulda stopped.
pictures later.
went ALL the way THROUGH the fence and change. The tailgate was passed the fenceline. Turns out property owner is my friend so everything may not be that bad. But knocked out about 60-90 foot of barb wire, i flatened a support pole yet the bumper isnt damaged and the airbags didn't go off. (I was actually more worried about the airbags going off from the recovery effort than anything). And my friend sympathised with me because she has an 00 ram and did the exact same thing on another road.
It's a quick right-left switchback (think watkins glen interloop entry, but MUCH tighter) on a whitewash road. The first mistake i made was not braking earlier. I'd already known it was a dangeruos road (i'd gone down it several times in the dually with minor slipage), so i kinda figured out what I did wrong. The speed limit is 35, i obeyed that. As I approached the turn, i started braking, but softly to prevent lockup (again, whitewash road). But i carried the braking into the turn, and i think muggle can already know what happened. NEVER turn and brake at the same time, especially on a slick surface. The back end came around to the driver side, so i correct by spinning the wheel to the left and releasing the brake, but I also have to remember i was heading for the fence and the left hand portion of the road. So i'm trying to point it away from the fence and recover form the fishtail simultaneously (thankfully, same direction), and i guess I over correct because now i'm full out drifting the left hand portion, i correct to the right, and that sends me flat into the fence. All I fluidly remember is braking, turning right, left, and coming to a sudden and abrupt stop. So i'm not for sure that I even turned right into the fence unless it was a quick reflex reaction. The truck did it's job. I didn't move at all, the floormat moved more than I did. Not until the recover effort did i notice it had balled up under the pedals
. I had the robot in the passenger seat, it moved MAYBE 3 inches forward in the seat. No damage to it at all.So I called my mom, and we linked the dually up to pull the dakota. I pulled the rope tight, then my mom took over as I held the top row of fence above my cab. Theres no question about brake lockup, there was a dirt berm in front of the truck up to the bumper, the tires just plowed it all up. Had it not been for that theres no telling where the truck woulda stopped.
pictures later.
