Look what I just did earlier today!

[jumbofordman]

 

[ifallsguy]

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Now that we've seen the special effects, how did it happen?????

 

[sublauxation]

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Hope everyone is okay, those things happen pretty quickly. I'm guessing you can't just tip it all back upright and pretend it never happened.

 

[jumbofordman]

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I hit the brakes to avoid Bambi, his sister and mother. Back brakes locked up and boat pushed the back end around until I hit the ditch, then the whole thing flipped. Truck is totaled, but the boat and trailer are salvageable (bent axle on trailer, broken windshield and motor cowl on boat.) Rescue accidentally fired up the engine when they turned the key to tilt the engine up after they flipped the boat over.

 

[191Seanymphstriper]

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What kind of boat is that?

 

[Divecaptchris]

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DUDE! the rubber side goes down!

 

[jumbofordman]

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What kind of boat is that?

It's a 86 Checkmate Predictor 17' with a 89 Mercury 150. I only got it about a month ago.

 

[marlboro180]

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Man o man, that looks like it was scary. Too bad about the truck and boat, but how are you?

Bambi family, they can do some damage in their own right.

 

[roscoe]

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I hit the brakes to avoid Bambi, his sister and mother. Back brakes locked up and boat pushed the back end around until I hit the ditch, then the whole thing flipped. Truck is totaled, but the boat and trailer are salvageable (bent axle on trailer, broken windshield and motor cowl on boat.) Rescue accidentally fired up the engine when they turned the key to tilt the engine up after they flipped the boat over.

Hmmm, why did they lock up?

Not enough tongue weight maybe?

Causing the weight of boat and trailer to push the rear of the truck up, unweighting the rear end, not enough weight to hold it down.

Next time, easy off the gas, maybe tap the brakes, slaughter bambi if need be.

 

[MTboatguy]

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I hope you are ok! The boat and the truck are nothing but material, you are not..that said, if the brakes locked up, something was really out of whack or you were going to fast!!

Next time, if it happens, tap the brakes, and if need be turn the motor off, and if no other options.....make road pizza out of bambi! living in Montana, I have had it happen more than once, two dead deer and one car later, I will never wreck the car that way again, I am sorry, the deer will die..

Again, hope your ok, and everything turns out alright, just be careful!

 

[jumbofordman]

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Hmmm, why did they lock up?

Not enough tongue weight maybe?

Causing the weight of boat and trailer to push the rear of the truck up, unweighting the rear end, not enough weight to hold it down.

Next time, easy off the gas, maybe tap the brakes, slaughter bambi if need be.

I think that's pretty much it in hindsight. Boat is really light, with a big fat motor on the back. We slid the axle back pretty far when we put the boat on the trailer giving it some tongue weight, but not enough apparently. I've had the truck for over 12 years, and towed plenty of car trailers with it, but they usually have a lot more weight on the front.

Also, this was a 78 truck, and this is one of the reasons they started putting in rear wheel anti-lock brakes on trucks in the late 80's.

 

[Frank Acampora]

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Rats with antlers! And it's all Disney's fault. People think the're cute and should be protected because of Bambi.

It is easy for us to sit here and say you were going too fast, or the trailer was set up incorrectly, but with deer, you never know--you don't see them then BAM! There they are, right up in your face.

But like pilots say: "Any landing you can walk away from is a good landing."

 

[kenmyfam]

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Glad you are O.K.
Everything else is replaceable.

 

[superbenk]

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Wow, glad everyone is ok! Maybe some surge brakes on the trailer when you fix/replace the axle wouldn't be a bad idea? I know it's a light boat, but more brakes never hurts anyone.

That truck looks old and rusty anyhow, you wanted a new one, right?

 

[mommicked]

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I think instinct reacts faster than common sense in some instances.i shoot deer all hunting season,but I dont want to hit one on the road.especially young ones.instinct is very powerful stuff.and we make split second decisions w it.sometimes the wrong decision.Im glad no one was hurt bad.sad abot the truck,I like the old 70s fords w the coils in front,great soft ride for a tough 4x4

 

[rwidman]

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Wow, glad everyone is ok! Maybe some surge brakes on the trailer when you fix/replace the axle wouldn't be a bad idea? I know it's a light boat, but more brakes never hurts anyone.

Brakes on a trailer are a good thing.

In this case, there was a truck wanting to stop and a trailer wanting to keep going.

 

[H20Rat]

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I think instinct reacts faster than common sense in some instances.i shoot deer all hunting season,but I dont want to hit one on the road.especially young ones.instinct is very powerful stuff.and we make split second decisions w it.sometimes the wrong decision.Im glad no one was hurt bad.sad abot the truck,I like the old 70s fords w the coils in front,great soft ride for a tough 4x4

I'm kind of the opposite about that part. If there is a family of deer on the road, I'm AIMING for the young one. If I have to hit one, the youngest is going to have the least mass... I have zero issues with removing one from the population, there are plenty to go around.

 

[mommicked]

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Hope it doesnt jump and fly through the windshield,duck if that happens.a man was killed yrs ago in Hillsborough when a deer went through his glass,chevy astro van i believe.we drove by it w the yellow tape still raped around it that morning going to a job and knew what had happned by the hole in the glass.dad was in wash state.working and drove around the mountains one day came on a crash w ambulance/fire,etc.as he passed the 4door car hee saw 4 big legs sticking up in the back seat,not sure an Elk or mulie.not pretty.

 

[Home Cookin']

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It's safer to hold your course and hit the deer. Not safe. Safer.
We'd all like to avoid the deer and have no ill affects but it's just not likely.

Plus you have the right of way unless they display 2 black balls.

 

[jkust]

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It is easier said than done to just hit the deer. It is hard to fight your reflex to steer around an object on the road. The last time I swerved to miss a dog in the road in the early AM driving to the airport to catch a flight and return the rental car, I absolutly would have rolled over in a truck or an suv. I was glad I rented an Impala not an suv. I can only imagine having that same thing happen in my suv towing my boat. There are lots of deer strikes here in MN with a few deaths in cars and motorcycles this season.