Hillbilly ****

Tin Roof

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I’m sure plenty of us have stories of fun/stupid **** we’ve done while hanging out with friends and drinking a few. Here’s a thread for sharing those stories. *disclaimer, I’m not encouraging or condoning drunken activities

We lived at our former place for 15 years. It was in a very remote valley 5 miles off the nearest paved road. I had 27 acres of timber and knew all my neighbors well. When we sold the place everyone was sharing stories about crazy/fun stuff we did there.

The most memorable is the night that is known as “thunder in the valley”.

The Mrs and I had been drinking that night with some friends that left and we were in bed. It was about 2-3am, and some friends on their way home from the bar stopped by and woke us up. We went to the garage and set up a table to play euchre and drink some beer. More friends saw the lights on and stopped. Next thing you know we have about 15 people in the garage, two euchre tables going, music blasting, and everyone having fun.

At about 6am the neighbor that owned the farm across the road from us said “that creek bottom field is plowed up but with the rain we had this week I’ll have to disc it up again before I plant. Let’s go mudding”. Brilliant!

He went home to get his farm truck and I fired up my wood hauler. It was a stock 96 Chevy 1/2 ton with mud tires and straight pipes. One of the guys that was there had a 70-something ford 1-ton dedicated mud truck at his place about 15 miles away and left to go get it. He couldn’t get it started and came back an hour later disappointed.

The neighbor and I proceeded to tear the **** out of his field. Both of us had a cab full of people and we were doing figure 8 in the bottom part of the field and trying to hill climb the steep part.

I backed into the creek bed and gassed it to get a run at the hill. My truck slid sideways and hung up on a driftwood tree. Stuck. He came over with his truck to push me out and also got stuck.

Well, the farmer had an excavator in another field about a mile away. Someone had rode my four wheeler to where we were to watch us, and gave one of the guys that was an operator a ride to the excavator. He drove it through the woods to where we were at. We could hear him knocking trees out of the way.
He used the bucket to push both trucks out, and we decided to call it a day on the mud running.

We were all standing around laughing about what we were doing (it was very light out by this time) when one of the guys said “give me a ride in the bucket”. Next thing you know he’s in the excavator bucket holding onto the grapple getting spun in circles. Looking back, not a great idea but funny as hell at the time.

We wandered back to my place and I said I had to go to bed, the rest of them headed to town for breakfast. The neighbor at some point had drove his truck through the deep part of the creek and spent two weeks getting it to run right again.

There’s a lot of other stories, but that one was hands down the most fun. Two of the guys that were there have died. One in a drunk driving accident (no surprise but we miss you buddy) and another fell down the meth rabbit hole and died in a police chase.

Let’s hear your stories.
 
The first 30 years of my life was all hillbilly ****. 🤦

Impromptu bbq/bon fire/110 china quad vs clapped out 225 bayou flat track race that required the county to come out and grade the road because there was a 6" groove and 10" pile of gravel from using the middle of the road as a boundary.

Block party with an rti ramp in my front yard.

More booze cruises than anyone should be able to live through, let alone without DUI or accidents. Those years are mostly a blur but I'm pretty sure I had fun.
 
The first 30 years of my life was all hillbilly ****. 🤦

Impromptu bbq/bon fire/110 china quad vs clapped out 225 bayou flat track race that required the county to come out and grade the road because there was a 6" groove and 10" pile of gravel from using the middle of the road as a boundary.

Block party with an rti ramp in my front yard.

More booze cruises than anyone should be able to live through, let alone without DUI or accidents. Those years are mostly a blur but I'm pretty sure I had fun.
Waking up to find vehicles stuck up to their axles in the gravel driveway because: truck pulls.
 
dragging a boat through a field behind pick ups. Then we hooked an upside down truck hood with seats bolted on behind the boat and dragged the whole combo around.

Later that night burnt that boat in the bonfire and I remember it being so incredibly hot and lit it up like daylight
Wait, who hasn't done that? We didn't bolt seats down to the hoods though, just an old mattress as padding and a rope loop. 😁
 
A buddy pulling homemade wood sled through a cow pasture at 1 am behind his 79 F150. My dad was not happy about that.

Burning bicycle ramp. Not very well made and a little high off the ground. Goal was to ride the bicycle on the burning ramp through the flames.

Almost forgot. Jumping a 91 F150 over terraces in a field. Hitting them hard enough to slam our heads into the roof.
 
A buddy pulling homemade wood sled through a cow pasture at 1 am behind his 79 F150. My dad was not happy about that.

Burning bicycle ramp. Not very well made and a little high off the ground. Goal was to ride the bicycle on the burning ramp through the flames.
76 f150 pulling a ****ty home made sand rail on my parents 40 acres with no brakes but a locked up engine so shoving it into gear was how you slowed down. Rooster tailed the **** out of my friends behind that truck then took it up the road to roll down a steep gravel hill. One of the dip****s slid it off the road through a fence so a quick recovery and exit was required. 😂
 
Wait, who hasn't done that? We didn't bolt seats down to the hoods though, just an old mattress as padding and a rope loop. 😁
We had a toilet mounted to a hood. Got pulled behind my buddies Carrera GT. (91 Bonneville) with the roof chopped off windshield frame and all. Running on red diesel with a stack out the back. There is a picture of this action somewhere on my computer.

I found a potato pic but it was before the chop and before the toilet. This was around 05.

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I paid my buddy 20 bucks to **** on the ground, pick it up with his bare hands and then hacky sack it three times.

It's took him a few tries to get the 3, but he got it and I paid. He was really desperate for money
 
My moms neighbor has a whole bunch of junk cars and tractors. I say junk because now they are. He has a couple of 70s full size broncos, a few old F150s, an old maverick, several old JD tractors, etc. He was a mechanic, and none of the stuff was for sale. Knew what he had and was going to fix them up some day. Stuff was decent when he drug them out 20 years ago to sit in the weather. He also had two of the most hillbilly items I’ve witnessed.

The first was a homemade car contraption out of some pipe and old car running gear. It wasn’t like he made a cage on a frame. He took a piece of large pipe and made it into a car. It’s hard to describe, but picture a piece of 3” or 4” pipe with a subframe mounted to it. A arms, knuckles, etc. are bolted to the frame which has been welded to the pipe in a questionable manner. The pipe is at about a 30 degree angle to the ground and probably 8’ long. It had a a frame welded to the back that was attached to a platform which held some sort of engine and transaxle that powered the rear wheels. A seat and steering wheel were mounted towards the top of the pipe. Thing was sketchy as hell.

He also had a homemade front end loader and forks on the front of a single wheel JD tractor. Thing would about tip over driving normally. I’m shocked he didn’t kill himself when moving round bales.
 
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