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Backed into a tree today , I think it grew while I was backing up . Sure am glad I kept The original bumper . Truck hit solid but only nicked the paint . They look nice without bumpers , But would have left a big dent .
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Ouch! sorry to hear that.
Was there any witnesses? the only reason I ask is that I once back into a light pole next to my driveway.....as luck would have it my wife was walking out the back door of the house right when I hit it. Do you think I'll ever hear the end of it?
I dont think so either
Bobby
Was there any witnesses? the only reason I ask is that I once back into a light pole next to my driveway.....as luck would have it my wife was walking out the back door of the house right when I hit it. Do you think I'll ever hear the end of it?
I dont think so either
Bobby
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I was showing my son how to do a "Dillinger" (3-point) turn and hit a MASSIVE brick mailbox monolith. My son insisted that I didn't hit it. After all, it was demolished! I knew that I touched it. Didn't feel it, but, I heard it fall to pieces. No damage to the truck at all.
It's amazing what damage an F500 can do at <1/2 MPH. I've got pictures and the $800.00 mailbox repair bill to remember it by. The owner was impressed that I stopped to make things right. Drive safely.
It's amazing what damage an F500 can do at <1/2 MPH. I've got pictures and the $800.00 mailbox repair bill to remember it by. The owner was impressed that I stopped to make things right. Drive safely.
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Fleet Mechanic
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I got lucky , nobody saw it and it only marked the paint on the bumper ,and where the bumper end touched the body . Looks like the brackets acted like a spring . Bumper is where it should be , but had to move about an inch to touch body .
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Don't ya just hate it when a tree jumps behind you like that- the darn things are so fast and on top of it they usually are not insured. !! 
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Ouch! At least you didn't back in to another classic truck 
No one's hurt and only minor damage to the truck, so all is good. You must have been moving pretty good to move the bumper in an inch.
No one's hurt and only minor damage to the truck, so all is good. You must have been moving pretty good to move the bumper in an inch.
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It's ok. Almost all of us have been there before. I know i have. Once time I forgot to tie down the rear of my Airflow when I had in on the trailer. I was just trying to move it out of my driveway, which is sloped, when the Airflow rolled forward hitting the toolbox I have installed in front of the trailer. Without the box, the Airflow would have rolled off the trailer and into the rear of the tow vehicle.
Another time, I was unloading the 51 Panel from the trailer at an RV storage facility. I forgot that it didn't have any brakes at all. Luckily, it struck a corner of the RV body parked next to it with its rear beumper. Teh RV was my friend's that he was scrapping so he didn't care. Made a minor bend in the rear bumper on the left side. Nothing that a torch and a come along around a thick tree can't fix.
Another time, I was unloading the 51 Panel from the trailer at an RV storage facility. I forgot that it didn't have any brakes at all. Luckily, it struck a corner of the RV body parked next to it with its rear beumper. Teh RV was my friend's that he was scrapping so he didn't care. Made a minor bend in the rear bumper on the left side. Nothing that a torch and a come along around a thick tree can't fix.
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Yeah don't sweat it. I could write a book about all my mishaps BEFORE I bought my farm. I could write an entire encyclopedia about all my screw-ups AFTER I moved there. Did you see the door trim of my shop door, or that metal building? Never mind that poor old rotten fence around my place with all the various "holes" in it. I had a runaway tractor once. Good fun. My wife's previous vehicle had a back-up warning system AND a backup camera, and she still knocked the hell out of two or three things.
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Let me guess....you TOLD your wife to go get rid of that tree so you don't hit it again. She grabs the 'ol Stihl saw and drops it within an inch of where she intended, then sawed it up, split and stacked it, only AFTER she made you a sandwich!! LOL!!
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