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Thunder Chicken
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It's a new-ish Ford F-150. Nothing fancy but in good shape. He's picking up some scratches and dents today for certain.
He's about half-way through the branch now. This is one part hilarious, one part terrifying, and eight parts depressing. I'm wondering if I should call the ambulance now so they arrive in time.
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HOW DID IT END? We must know!
Thunder Chicken
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He's still cutting. He's round cutting the limb, so it may take a while. What a hack job.
I could make a video of this and put it on YouTube, but I'm not that evil.
Thunder Chicken
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...starting to hear some wood cracking....
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His crazy cat lady wife just yelled out the door asking him if it was going to hit the truck. He yelled that it will be fine.
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It's 3:45pm here, nice clear sunny day.
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His crazy cat lady wife just yelled out the door asking him if it was going to hit the truck. He yelled that it will be fine.
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It's 3:45pm here, nice clear sunny day.
Thunder Chicken
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And it's cut! The end of the branch hit the ground next to the truck, the branch broke and tore a good bit of wood and bark off the entire side of the tree and slammed into the door frame of the cab.
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Not evil enough to get video? I don't understand that concept...
Thunder Chicken
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And realization now has set in...he has a 500 pound branch leaning on one side of his cab, so he can't open the driver's side door. The truck was parked next to the tree proper, so he can't get into the passenger side, and there is a strap of bark between the two wrapped over the top of the truck.
He's going to have to drag this branch off his truck somehow. It's not a new and shiny truck anymore. What a mess.
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Well, too lazy to go rooting through my stuff to find my camera and start filming anyway. I don't have a smartphone. I have an old dumb flip phone and a separate digital camera that I keep in my luggage. Yeah, I'm old fashioned like that.
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He's on the phone now, probably with one of his buddies with a truck. There might be an encore performance later this afternoon.
He's going to have to drag this branch off his truck somehow. It's not a new and shiny truck anymore. What a mess.
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Well, too lazy to go rooting through my stuff to find my camera and start filming anyway. I don't have a smartphone. I have an old dumb flip phone and a separate digital camera that I keep in my luggage. Yeah, I'm old fashioned like that.
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He's on the phone now, probably with one of his buddies with a truck. There might be an encore performance later this afternoon.
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The English term is also schadenfreude.
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From Fabri91 post above, one of the videos shows a Dodge vehicle with a Cummins engine. I remember them as large(cc) commercial vehicle diesel engines, probably arrived in the UK in late 70's. That company still going?
I could interwebfindoutthing, but I get better responses here!
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I could interwebfindoutthing, but I get better responses here!
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Andy44
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Dodge has been offering Cummins engines in pickups for quite a few years here. Not sure if they still do but probably.
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Interesting, I started off in commercial vehicle(lorries in the UK) servicing and the US influx was large in the 70's
I think Chrysler Motors bought out what was the Rootes Group, stirred things up a bit. They brought in high-speed diesels, unlike the slow stuff we had.
Nice to hear Cummins are still going, thought they would have disappeared into GM years ago. Well respected, and reliable, oil tight if I remember well.
Forgot about Perkins,high-speed, but not very reliable
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perkins_Engines#High-speed_diesel_engines
Generic 70's diesels:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Gardner_and_Sons#Post-war_diesels
Should mention Leyland, probably the largest commercial vehicle builder in the UK for awhile.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leyland_Motors
At that time manufacturers were offering chassis with a selection of engines.
Cummins, Perkins, Leyland, Rolls-Royce(nobody bought those, they were useless, except the military)
And one of the strangest diesel engine.
Three cylinder, six pistons, horizontally opposed, underslung crank-shaft at right angle to the cylinders with rocker-arms. Direct injection, supercharger, forgot, its a two stoke!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commer_TS3
Gets dafter...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTmkO6D0OWI
I think Chrysler Motors bought out what was the Rootes Group, stirred things up a bit. They brought in high-speed diesels, unlike the slow stuff we had.
Nice to hear Cummins are still going, thought they would have disappeared into GM years ago. Well respected, and reliable, oil tight if I remember well.
Forgot about Perkins,high-speed, but not very reliable
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perkins_Engines#High-speed_diesel_engines
Generic 70's diesels:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._Gardner_and_Sons#Post-war_diesels
Should mention Leyland, probably the largest commercial vehicle builder in the UK for awhile.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leyland_Motors
At that time manufacturers were offering chassis with a selection of engines.
Cummins, Perkins, Leyland, Rolls-Royce(nobody bought those, they were useless, except the military)
And one of the strangest diesel engine.
Three cylinder, six pistons, horizontally opposed, underslung crank-shaft at right angle to the cylinders with rocker-arms. Direct injection, supercharger, forgot, its a two stoke!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commer_TS3
Gets dafter...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTmkO6D0OWI
