It's good to be alive

[old steel]

Had a brush with the grim reaper a couple weeks ago and somehow i am here to talk about it.

Was just another super B load coming down from the high country and i always use the engine brake to slow coming down the steep hills until i hit the McIntyre Ranch hill which is the steepest with a nasty curve thrown in for good measure.

Always have to hit the trailer brakes for that one and with a full load of 45 tons about 60mph is the limit.

Trailer brakes failed, found out later i had a broken coupler on the air return line and missed it during my walk around as i was in a hurry to get to the terminal before they closed.

Never should have made that curve as i was heading into it, my last glance at the speedometer showed it pushing 75.

Physics you say? No such a thing in my book.

I am living proof there was something else at work as the sunlight was closing out that day.

It's great to be alive and i am so thankful it was not my time.

It can all be taken away from you in an instant.

I'm also really happy we finally finished harvesting, no more trips up and down the mountain till next year.

[horseshoe3]

I didn't know you are a farmer. Are you on The Combine Forum too? Lot's of Canadian farmers on there. I learn a lot on that site.

[Libertytree]

Did ya crash? Been in the hospital for 2 weeks? Glad you're still around and it really can end just 'that' fast!

[osoab]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1M7UJ8_5yc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1M7UJ8_5yc

Glad you got to tell about it.

[Dogman]

;D


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/30,000_Pounds_of_Bananas


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODMye94wMfk


Glad you made it and was not hurt...!

[old steel]

I didn't know you are a farmer. Are you on The Combine Forum too? Lot's of Canadian farmers on there. I learn a lot on that site.


No i view the farm forums one in awhile but i get enough farming in RL, thanks.

[old steel]

Did ya crash? Been in the hospital for 2 weeks? Glad you're still around and it really can end just 'that' fast!

No, i made the curve somehow.

[old steel]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1M7UJ8_5yc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1M7UJ8_5yc

Glad you got to tell about it.

Yes thanks, much better than the alternative.

[old steel]

;D


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/30,000_Pounds_of_Bananas


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODMye94wMfk


Glad you made it and was not hurt...!

Yea, funny how i can't remember anything after looking down at the speedometer as i hit the curve until i came out of it.

Thanks.

[zap]

Glad your still here with us!!! What are you hauling (super B load).

[old steel]

Glad your still here with us!!! What are you hauling (super B load).

Thanks Zap.

Spring wheat.

5501

[ximmy]

Yea, funny how i can't remember anything after looking down at the speedometer as i hit the curve until i came out of it.

Thanks.

If you can't remember anything after that.... Are you absolutely sure your still alive? Maybe your consciousness is having a hard time letting go?

[old steel]

If you can't remember anything after that.... Are you absolutely sure your still alive? Maybe your consciousness is having a hard time letting go?

Yea, remember going into the curve and coming out of it, don't remember going through it.

Actually, i'm fine with the way things turned out.

Twilight zone?

[EE_]

http://blog.unl.edu/dixon/files/2011/10/T-Zone-Gif.gif
http://mattsko.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/twilight-zone-gif.gif
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[ximmy]

Yea, remember going into the curve and coming out of it, don't remember going through it.

Actually, i'm fine with the way things turned out.

Twilight zone?

The story begins with Nan Adams whose vehicle gets a flat tire on a cross-country road trip from New York City to Los Angeles. A mechanic puts a spare tire on her car and directs her to the nearest town to fix it properly. Just before she leaves, Nan notices a strange-looking man (Leonard Strong) hitchhiking. Unnerved, she drives away quickly. As she continues her trip, Nan sees the same hitchhiker thumbing for a ride at several other points on her journey. She becomes increasingly frightened of him and when she is stuck on a railroad crossing and nearly hit by a train, she becomes convinced that the hitchhiker is trying to kill her.

In Arizona, Nan stops to call her mother. The woman who answers the phone, Mrs. Whitney, says that Mrs. Adams is in the hospital; she had a nervous breakdown after finding out that her daughter, Nan, was killed in an car accident in Pennsylvania six days ago, when the car she was driving blew a tire and overturned. At this point, Nan realizes the truth: the hitchhiker is not a man who wants her to die, but is rather the personification of death, patiently and persistently waiting for her to realize that she has been dead all along.

[old steel]

I must have missed that episode, ximmy.


;)

[willie pete]

The story begins with Nan Adams whose vehicle gets a flat tire on a cross-country road trip from New York City to Los Angeles. A mechanic puts a spare tire on her car and directs her to the nearest town to fix it properly. Just before she leaves, Nan notices a strange-looking man (Leonard Strong) hitchhiking. Unnerved, she drives away quickly. As she continues her trip, Nan sees the same hitchhiker thumbing for a ride at several other points on her journey. She becomes increasingly frightened of him and when she is stuck on a railroad crossing and nearly hit by a train, she becomes convinced that the hitchhiker is trying to kill her.

In Arizona, Nan stops to call her mother. The woman who answers the phone, Mrs. Whitney, says that Mrs. Adams is in the hospital; she had a nervous breakdown after finding out that her daughter, Nan, was killed in an car accident in Pennsylvania six days ago, when the car she was driving blew a tire and overturned. At this point, Nan realizes the truth: the hitchhiker is not a man who wants her to die, but is rather the personification of death, patiently and persistently waiting for her to realize that she has been dead all along.

that twilight zone episode reminds me of the old movie "jacob's ladder" (a good freaky movie), the guy goes through the whole movie, vietnam war era and it's not until the end of the movie you realize the whole movie was a dream and he was lying dead on an operating table in the field


http://youtu.be/rJztRnDxdM8

[ximmy]

that twilight zone episode reminds me of the old movie "jacob's ladder" (a good freaky movie), the guy goes through the whole movie, vietnam war era and it's not until the end of the movie you realize the whole movie was a dream and he was lying dead on an operating table in the field


http://youtu.be/rJztRnDxdM8

Your right, I saw that movie a couple times, trying to figure out when he was dream/dying and when it was real...

[Libertytree]

Or like that movie "the 6th Sense"? Bruce Willis and that Osmond kid?

[Jewboo]

It's great to be alive and i am so thankful it was not my time.

It can all be taken away from you in an instant.




http://www.soulseeds.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/all-life-is-precious-300x188.jpg


Thanks for sharing Old Steel.

Good reminder for all of us that Life is precious.





:) btw...those here in this thread who actually believe internet service to GSUS continues after death are missing the point and will be disappointed...lol.

[ximmy]

http://www.soulseeds.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/all-life-is-precious-300x188.jpg



Abrupt curve in the road causes massive collision & deaths... Tree OK...

[Tumbleweed]

Had a brush with the grim reaper a couple weeks ago and somehow i am here to talk about it.

Was just another super B load coming down from the high country and i always use the engine brake to slow coming down the steep hills until i hit the McIntyre Ranch hill which is the steepest with a nasty curve thrown in for good measure.

Always have to hit the trailer brakes for that one and with a full load of 45 tons about 60mph is the limit.

Trailer brakes failed, found out later i had a broken coupler on the air return line and missed it during my walk around as i was in a hurry to get to the terminal before they closed.

Never should have made that curve as i was heading into it, my last glance at the speedometer showed it pushing 75.

Physics you say? No such a thing in my book.

I am living proof there was something else at work as the sunlight was closing out that day.

It's great to be alive and i am so thankful it was not my time.

It can all be taken away from you in an instant.

I'm also really happy we finally finished harvesting, no more trips up and down the mountain till next year.

Old steel are you doing more thorough pre trip and post trip inspections now? I used to pull doubles in the mountains sometimes in bad snow storms and glare ice. I was always sitting on the front end of 115,000 to 116,000 lbs gross weight. It made me realize the importance of the driver inspections. Always tried to keep the trucks I was driving in tip top condition.

[old steel]

Old steel are you doing more thorough pre trip and post trip inspections now? I used to pull doubles in the mountains sometimes in bad snow storms and glare ice. I was always sitting on the front end of 115,000 to 116,000 lbs gross weight. It made me realize the importance of the driver inspections. Always tried to keep the trucks I was driving in tip top condition.

Yea the trucks are in good shape but the 18 hour days get to you, always on the go moving from field to field and usually the bins are in the fields or close by but up on the ridge you are 90 minutes away from the Inland terminal and i had exactly that much time to get there before they closed for the night so my walk around turned into a run around.

Had to get back before the other trailers, combines and grain cart were full so they weren't sitting.

Now i check the couplers and air lines first, every time.

Thanks for asking.

[old steel]

http://www.soulseeds.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/all-life-is-precious-300x188.jpg


Thanks for sharing Old Steel.

Good reminder for all of us that Life is precious.





:) btw...those here in this thread who actually believe internet service to GSUS continues after death are missing the point and will be disappointed...lol.


Heh.

It's good to be here to share.

[Hitch]

Heh.

It's good to be here to share.

Thanks for sharing, and glad you are here.

My mind completely blocked out a close call I had awhile back. I was reeling in a winch drum, 50,000 pounds of pull, wire rope, at the end was a 15 lb hook. The hook caught, and snapped back so fast it missed my head by inches maybe. The whole thing happened in a fraction of a second, and all I saw was a bright light blocking out that hook coming at me. When it caught, the wire hit me in the leg pushing me out of the way. Felt like my guardian angel was there.

When things like what happened to you, you'll remember and be thankful for the rest of your life...

I'm curious though, do you recollect anything about the part going around the curve? My theory, is our mind is so powerful it blocks out that very instant when impending doom is upon us.

[old steel]

Thanks for sharing, and glad you are here.

My mind completely blocked out a close call I had awhile back. I was reeling in a winch drum, 50,000 pounds of pull, wire rope, at the end was a 15 lb hook. The hook caught, and snapped back so fast it missed my head by inches maybe. The whole thing happened in a fraction of a second, and all I saw was a bright light blocking out that hook coming at me. When it caught, the wire hit me in the leg pushing me out of the way. Felt like my guardian angel was there.

When things like what happened to you, you'll remember and be thankful for the rest of your life...

I'm curious though, do you recollect anything about the part going around the curve? My theory, is our mind is so powerful it blocks out that very instant when impending doom is upon us.





Missing Time?

[vacuum]

Probably the thing that saved you was that the load you were carrying must have had a low center of gravity.

[Hitch]

Missing Time?

I think so, but that's just my theory.

[old steel]

Probably the thing that saved you was that the load you were carrying must have had a low center of gravity.

No doubt.

Had a similar experience almost 10 years to the very day maybe even, i'd have to check.

Didn't blow an airline i was hauling sugar beets in a snowstorm, middle of the night when it opened up.

It was like another world, flakes larger than silver dollars falling like slow motion.

Got lost in it. Made a turn at highway speed in several inches of, snow on the edge of a huge ravine.

Made it through.

Spooky

[Hitch]

Here's something to think about, may apply to your experience. We were talking about this today in training.

Topic was about how when people go through life threatening situations, they actually sometimes die, after they have saved themselves. The reason, is they expend all their resources during that time, and they have nothing left.

The analogy the instructor gave, is imagine the body is like a bank account. If you have 1000 dollars in the bank, but only take out 3 dollars a day, your account will last a year. But, if you took out that 1000 dollars in an instant, it's empty. The body is the same way. This is how women have lifted up cars to save their children. All their hormones, adrenalin, all that stuff gets dumped in to the body in an instant in that life threatening situation. The human body is amazing in that way to instantly change when needed. That's why those snow flakes seemed huge I bet, the body can see experience weird things when that happens. Tunnel vision, the body shuts down senses not needed and floods the ones it does.

[Horn]

Here's something to think about,,, The analogy the instructor gave, is imagine the body is like a bank account.

I didn't realize California also had classes on how to donate sperm.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xR0DKOGco_o

[StreetsOfGold]

I am living proof there was something else at work as the sunlight was closing out that day.


I've lost track how many times I've heard stories like this, that was God intervening for you. Are you saved? If not, now's the time.
God is being merciful to you.


Romans 2:4 Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?

[milehi]

I'm glad everyone is still with us. I had a incident in july with severe heatstroke. I started a mountainbike ride at 9000' feet at 6:30 am. It was almost too cool out when I hit the trail. I decended through the forest and by the time I hit the foothills two hours later, the temp was well over 100* with no breeze. I had plenty of fluids but wasn't absorbing anything.

My thought process was starting to get mixed up and I had stopped sweating long ago. The sobering thought that there was a good chance I wouldn't make it out hit me. Strangely I was ok with it but sad for the people that would miss me. I wondered if I should leave my body in the open for recovery and closure or stuff it in a crevice so the critters wouldn't tear it up. I realized no one knew where I was and I was deep in the Sierra so there was no cell service. I pushed on.

I puked. I puked again. Straight water. Then I passed out. I don't nnow for how long. I finally made it to the highway and rode 12 miles back to the car. My heart rate was all over the place so I drove myself to the emergency room where I stayed for two days. All my readings said I shouldve not made it.

[ximmy]

http://thefunnyplanet.com/pictures/1073.jpg

[Jewboo]

http://i.imgur.com/EafTzUZ.gif
Typical Hitchhiker

:rolleyes: