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Fuzzydog said:
Ha timely posts on the rocket fail as I had my own this weekend. Second flight of my Estes Big Daddy rocket on an E motor and the chute did not deploy. That sucker came down nose first from 900' and lawn darted into the frozen ground. I'm sure glad it didn't come down on my truck :eek: that nose cone plastic is a lot thicker than I thought!

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That happened to us one time and we were looking up and watching it and “well damn , it didn’t open “
We watched it come back down and watched it and then it finally dawned on us it might hit us .

That sumbitch landed right where we had been standing , and stuck into the asphalt about two inches .
 
the kid built a rocket last summer
she painted the cone, then put the cone on while the paint was wet
evidently that will glue the cone in there (lesson learned)

she shoots it, and everything blows out the bottom
evidently they turn into a lawn dart after that, missed the car by about 18"
It sits on her desk still to this day :laughing:
 
DMG said:
So all 4 tires locked up on the truck and it just slides away? I dont think so.
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It was all six tires on mine. Business partner holding the brake on my sloped gravel driveway. The 12,000 lb Kubota unloaded the rear tires of the 2016 Ram 3500, and the truck, the 26k dump trailer and the Kubota started sliding down the hill. The slide stopped when I got the machine up in the trailer. The ass cheeks were clinched because the ramps were only 5' long and the ramp angle was steep.

Funny thing is, I didn't think it would happen either. Then it did. The reason for loading on a slope was to try and cut the angle on the ramps down a bit.

After that, since I was an expert, I told my grading guy to chock the front tires on his truck when he was loading his skidsteer on a sloped gravel construction driveway. As soon as he got the load off the rear tires of the truck, the whole shebang started sliding down the hill. :homer:

This was the setup, the trailer bed was close to 3' off the ground and it had 5' ramps:
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This is looking down the driveway. The truck was a little further back where it is steeper. The driveway is flat and then breaks over. Notice the dirt powder and gravel. It's slick as an eel. That thing that looks like a rabbit is a baby deer.
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Steve300xcw said:
Been more than a few folks that have gone for a ride.
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My grading contractor was loading his 963 on his trailer, behind his tandem dump truck (10 wheel), and it slide down the paved cul de sac. It went past a few houses, jumped the high back curb and would have gone through the house on the corner, but the cable guys were running cable and an open trench stopped it. Sid was so shook up that he went home for the rest of the day.

I was there and saw it happen.

edit: I might have been a 943 instead of a 963. He has a few of each.
 
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Southernfriedcj8 said:
Just remember fuckos, I just have enough sense not to post the videos or brag about my dumbassness.
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Yes, we know about your merits/mantra; "appear weak when you're strong and appear strong when weak" :flipoff2:
Howsa the playwriting/libretto about your life's story/drama called "Cocksucker, the musical"? :rainbow:
 
Sceep said:
WTF were they gonna do? Get trampled as well? Shoot it for protecting itself?

Dumbass deserves what he got.
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Handgunning the moose is standard practice.

Not sure, but I'd guess this snowmobiler could have prevented his situation by not getting so close to the moose, even if he had to wait for it to decide to wander off...

 
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