Hit a traffic barrel
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Hit a traffic barrel
Driving this afternoon, someone ahead of me nudged a traffic barrel in a construction zone and I hit is square on in the front. It lodged right under my front axle and no matter what I drove over to dislodge it, it stayed. I drug it for a few miles. I pulled it out once I got home. No damage to the front of the truck, not even the plastic lip under the bumper. I now have a trophy!
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LOL, glad everything is o.k. I ran into one years ago while driving drunk. I was heading straight for it, and swerved to try and miss it, and it knocked the mirror off the passenger side, and the mirror glass scrathed up the window when it shattered. I was seeing some chick at the time, and I went to the bar with her dad that night. Stupid on my part, but no one was hurt, so that was good. I had a 94 Ranger Splash at the time.
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I was hauling some of my junk to the recycler on my car trailer the other day and came to a construction zone where they had a bunch of cones placed. These must be incredibly difficult to see by average motorists since a fair number of them were knocked over.
One of the knocked over ones was really squeezing my lane and I did my best to avoid it but juuust clipped it with the back axle on my trailer. I saw in my mirror as some giant invisible hand reached down and gently stood the cone back up. I figured I couldn't do that again in a million years even if I tried.
One of the knocked over ones was really squeezing my lane and I did my best to avoid it but juuust clipped it with the back axle on my trailer. I saw in my mirror as some giant invisible hand reached down and gently stood the cone back up. I figured I couldn't do that again in a million years even if I tried.
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Driving this afternoon, someone ahead of me nudged a traffic barrel in a construction zone and I hit is square on in the front. It lodged right under my front axle and no matter what I drove over to dislodge it, it stayed. I drug it for a few miles. I pulled it out once I got home. No damage to the front of the truck, not even the plastic lip under the bumper. I now have a trophy!
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Well I do have a grill guard, so at least the damage would be less than without.
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I wasn't following too closely. It happened a few hundred feet in front of me, but I wasn't really paying attention until I was right up on it. Could have been worse, if I were a woman, I would have jerked the wheel and rolled the truck...
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Or ran into a cliff after 100' of grass between that and the road. A grille guard wouldn't have done squat against a water filled barrel though...A Bull Bar with bumper?, MAYBE.
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Agreed! Why would a bull bar offer more protection than a grille guard?
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Glad no damage was done. There seem to construction on the roads, some of the sites are pretty tight 
and a dually doesn't help. Went through a site 2 weeks ago and touch the side of one of the plastic barrels and luckily the marks pretty much buffed out of the dually fender. 
and a dually doesn't help. Went through a site 2 weeks ago and touch the side of one of the plastic barrels and luckily the marks pretty much buffed out of the dually fender.
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The Bull Bars are (the one I'm thinking of) a full bumper with 8" bars. It weighs around 250lbs. A neighbor of mine has one. He shredded an elk with it last year. That thing is stout....so are elk.
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Oh! You mean a front-end replacement like Ranch Hand, Top Gun, Tough Country, etc. I want one of those, but I don't have $1000+ to spend on one, or even $400+ for a used one. I do keep watching CL.
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I went through a construction zone in Colorado one time pulling a 16' goose neck stock trailer. The trailer was about 8 foot wide I think and the wheels stuck outside of the trailer deck. They put their cones and markers so close together that I had little choice but to hit them. I weaved back and forth as much as I could (they were offset), but I think I hit about 2/3's of them with the trailer fenders.
Those suckers really fly, even at 25 mph.
Those suckers really fly, even at 25 mph.
