shiny side down
Posted: January 28, 2012, 2:03 pm
my Friday night adventure
8:30 pm
im kind of tired and about ready to take off my clothes and get ready to go to bed when the phone rings. my friend Jim asking me if i want to go on a run 75 miles to the north and help him recover a 93 Ford truck on its roof. it was left where it rolled and he has to remove it for DOT. i hem and haw some but agree to go as he always goes out of his way to help me.
i know its going to be cold up there so i start adding layers of clothing. extra pair of socks, insulated carharrt pants over my insulated bibs. another insulated shirt over my 2 shirts i already have on. gloves inside my gloves. my wife makes me a strong cup of coffee which i down like a shot of whiskey.
off we go in the tandem axle slidebed. we get 8 miles up the road when a small crowd waves us over, a truck had gone berm jumping and needed to be winched out. i grabbed some flares and set them off while he got the truck in position to pull them out. i noted the slickness of the road and the temp and was glad i had suited up.they were quickly pulled out and we were back on our way.
we got up to the scene of the rollover, drove past a ways and turned around getting out at the appropriate distances to set the flares. we got back to the rolled truck and i set out to the south on foot to lay out the remaining flares. it was very cold now -30 i estimated and i could feel the 20 or so mph wind at my back and walked carefully to avoid slipping on the icy road surface whilst keeping an eye open for moose. once i turned around and was headed back north the 200 feet to the truck i felt the bitter wind on my face and put my head down and walked quickly.
when i was back at the truck i could already feel a slight ice cream headache and we worked quickly to chain up the rolled wreck. we got it flipped over and of course it was in park and there was no key and the wheels were turned. i jammed skates under the front tires and used my body weight against the side of the truck to help keep it centered on the deck as the winch pulled. we tied it down and got back in the slidebed, at this point my hands in the double gloves had reached their maximum safe coldness, where they begin to hurt and i thawed them out on the defroster as we headed home.
got back a few minutes after midnight, we had made good time on the late night adventure.
woke up this morning, its -26 here, the cold followed us home.
8:30 pm
im kind of tired and about ready to take off my clothes and get ready to go to bed when the phone rings. my friend Jim asking me if i want to go on a run 75 miles to the north and help him recover a 93 Ford truck on its roof. it was left where it rolled and he has to remove it for DOT. i hem and haw some but agree to go as he always goes out of his way to help me.
i know its going to be cold up there so i start adding layers of clothing. extra pair of socks, insulated carharrt pants over my insulated bibs. another insulated shirt over my 2 shirts i already have on. gloves inside my gloves. my wife makes me a strong cup of coffee which i down like a shot of whiskey.
off we go in the tandem axle slidebed. we get 8 miles up the road when a small crowd waves us over, a truck had gone berm jumping and needed to be winched out. i grabbed some flares and set them off while he got the truck in position to pull them out. i noted the slickness of the road and the temp and was glad i had suited up.they were quickly pulled out and we were back on our way.
we got up to the scene of the rollover, drove past a ways and turned around getting out at the appropriate distances to set the flares. we got back to the rolled truck and i set out to the south on foot to lay out the remaining flares. it was very cold now -30 i estimated and i could feel the 20 or so mph wind at my back and walked carefully to avoid slipping on the icy road surface whilst keeping an eye open for moose. once i turned around and was headed back north the 200 feet to the truck i felt the bitter wind on my face and put my head down and walked quickly.
when i was back at the truck i could already feel a slight ice cream headache and we worked quickly to chain up the rolled wreck. we got it flipped over and of course it was in park and there was no key and the wheels were turned. i jammed skates under the front tires and used my body weight against the side of the truck to help keep it centered on the deck as the winch pulled. we tied it down and got back in the slidebed, at this point my hands in the double gloves had reached their maximum safe coldness, where they begin to hurt and i thawed them out on the defroster as we headed home.
got back a few minutes after midnight, we had made good time on the late night adventure.
woke up this morning, its -26 here, the cold followed us home.
