Just a good reminder of what can happen when you are out there playing around. Be careful out there guys.

http://www.gmfullsize.com/forum/showthread.php?t=83163

 

Man that's crazy... been under my GMC enough to think it had a pretty stout frame, I can't imagine the kind of force it takes to bend a vehicle's frame like that.

All the best for the guy.

 

i dont get how he injured himself in it though

 

Somehow the force hurt his back. I don't know but it sounds scary. Screwing around having a good time one minute to getting hurt like that would suck.

 

nvm i went back and read it. he jumped a dune or something like that and landed hard

 

jeez man. http://www.gmfullsize.com/forum/showthread.php?t=81815 its a thread about wrecks. look at the first guys truck!

 

The laws of physics, essentially momentum and inertia. When the truck hit the ground it bounced back up. The occupant, because of inertia, is still headed down and the truck is heading up. So, basically the force of trucks recoil (and the trucks partial weight) got released on his spine. There's no shock absorbers on his seat so the force of the truck causes compression and snap. I use to see stuff like that when I was an EMT. Huge bummer.

 

WOW in that second thread, that first wreck is nasty. Get a little further down the page and he says:
Eeesh no fun. Now it's functioning and purely an offroad machine, I'll give him props for that, quite original.
Bridge said it quite well, but look at what it did to the truck. While it looks sound in terms of body, the frame is obviously bent. Now...if you slam a hammer hard against your frame, what's it going to do? Nothing. But if you slam a hammer hard against your spine, what's it going to do? You'll be in a wheelchair the rest of your life.
Now...if that little force will do that to your spine, imagine what the force that bent that frame would do, even through the comparetively soft seat.