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I was watching episodes the other day, swore some were 2wd.

Never noticed how high they jumped it, pretty wild.
 
Firstram said:
I have met a few guys that worked on The Fall Guy beefing up the trucks. Lots of destroyed axles, even with the shitty trusses.
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I'd always been focused on the tension trusses
look at the paint lines on the body
"painting the frame straight" lol
 
Firstram said:
Stuntmen back then were "get it done" type people with huge balls. It's a little different these days:laughing:
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Yep. CGI wasn't around back then; stuntmen actually had to do the stunts.

In a few of those shots, the truck is jumping over people in cars (one of which was a convertible). I know that camera angles can make things seem more dangerous than they really are, but I still wonder how much those guys got paid to sit in a car while it was being jumped by a truck.
 
I was grade school young when Dukes hit TV but kid me recognized when a car got crunched in a jump & knew I was seeing a fixed or different car in the next shot. Didn't bother me because I fully understood imperfect landings:homer: By the same token, I knew military Jeeps didn't have 6- or 8-point cages ever, even though they did when airborne on the A-Team :laughing:
 
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ExWrench said:
I was grade school young when Dukes hit TV but kid me recognized when a car got crunched in a jump & knew I was seeing a fixed or different car in the next shot. Didn't bother me because I fully understood imperfect landings:homer: By the same token, I knew military Jeeps didn't have 6- or 8-point cages ever, even though they did when airborne on the A-Team :laughing:
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My brother and I used to joke that the General Lee was made out of rubber. That's why they could ram/sideswipe a car to force it off the road and the sides were still perfect, even when the car they hit had the sides caved in. I remember one episode the General Lee slid sideways into a tree HARD and then drove away without so much as a scratch.

When we finally got a VCR and video taped a few shows, we'd play a jump on slow-motion just to see how bad the car crunched up on the landing.

And Airwolf blew up the same Hughes 500 helicopter every other episode. :laughing:
 
MChat said:
Yep. CGI wasn't around back then; stuntmen actually had to do the stunts.

In a few of those shots, the truck is jumping over people in cars (one of which was a convertible). I know that camera angles can make things seem more dangerous than they really are, but I still wonder how much those guys got paid to sit in a car while it was being jumped by a truck.
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I don't know what they made back then. Now they make $1050 for 8hrs and double time after that, plus adjustments for anything dangerous!

A few years ago we set up an ambulance crash. Basically a simple parking brake slide and flop over onto the passenger side at 35 mph-ish. Should be simple..

We always beef up the battery mounting, drop the fuel tank, add a 1 gal fuel cell and a ton of little safety related things. We also..
Full roll cage in the cab and mount the driver supplied seat. Roll cage in the box that also doubled the box to frame attachment. A secondary rear brake circuit (2" air cylinder at 125psi that slammed 2) 7/8" bore master cylinders) to help lock the dual rear up. You also only run about 15 psi in the DS inner and the PS outer. An A arm on a 5"x30" cylinder mounted underneath to nudge it over at the push of a button. I think we ran 1200 psi of nitrogen for the nudge! We prepped 2 ambulances, 1 for testing and 1 to film. The driver did it 4x, 3 for testing and once on the day, @ $8k each flop plus the normal pay.

A friend of mine did stunts for Roger Corman in the '70s and early '80s. He said he used to tighten the seat belt and add a rope to hold on to when he rolled a car:lmao:
 
Firstram said:
they make $1050 for 8hrs and double time after that, plus adjustments for anything dangerous!
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Apparently, I'm in the wrong business; that's way more than I make as a Software Engineering Manager.

But then I'm just over 50 and don't have a single gram of medical grade metal in my body.
 
MChat said:
But then I'm just over 50 and don't have a single gram of medical grade metal in my body.
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You are better off!
I saw a guy get trampled by a horse and kicked in the head twice, he jumped up and finished the scene. Before sending him to the hospital he got scolded for missing his que:lmao:
 
Firstram said:
I have met a few guys that worked on The Fall Guy beefing up the trucks. Lots of destroyed axles, even with the shitty trusses.

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Some discussion on crashed trucks:

 
KarlVP said:
Heard about this on the radio today. Someone climbed a mountain and drew a giant penis in the snow.

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Someone Climbed A Mountain At A Ski Resort In Alaska To Draw A Giant Penis In The Snow

Guests at the Alyeska Resort in Alaska were greeted one morning this week by a giant penis drawn in the snow. The artwork was created at the top of one of the mountains making its
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My BIL was up there skiing that day, and showed us pics from the top. Not him, though.
 
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