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Mar 9, 2005 | 05:45 PM

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fishmanndotcom

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From: Senoia, GA

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Originally Posted by ivanribic

A good sized chain you're looking at maybe 80 pounds. Do you think that makes a difference in a 6000-7000 pound truck?

yes b/c i wanna keep my good gas mileage so i dont have to fill up everytime i go to the mall

no it's not the fact that its in the truck... its the fact that its so damn heavy to lug around. i am fat, i like being fat and exercise sucks

i mean i see what you guys are saying and all and don't get me wrong i totally agree no question there! its just i have used that same chain for the past 6 years or so and it has served me WELL! first chain I break in half (not at the hooks) i will go get one like ya'll are talking about

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Mar 9, 2005 | 06:46 PM

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Do you have any videos, or pics from that night that you stretched the chain and broke your T-case in half? That sounds like you had yourself one hell of a night!

Mar 9, 2005 | 07:09 PM

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Do you have any videos, or pics from that night that you stretched the chain and broke your T-case in half? That sounds like you had yourself one hell of a night!

lol man i wish i did but none of us poor GA boys can afford a vid camera. i am looking for one now though that i can mount in my front windshield. we did have a blast that night! hell it was even more fun trying to load my truck on the trailer with my 4x4 kubota when my truck couldn't move. sad part is we didn't get to wheel long until my buddy got pretty damn stuck. thats when i got in and tried to pull him out.

the funniest thing was when my t-case let go i instantly knew what it was and the crowd of ppl standing around watching thought i was crazy when i hopped out and started jumping around screaming "hell yeah my t-case broke". i heard some intersting comments, lol, and the girls loved it

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Mar 9, 2005 | 09:38 PM

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From: Elkhart IN

ive seen hefty chain snaped in half, not by a truck though. it was a crain lifting a boiler into a truck when one of the 4 chain gave way. sounded kinda like a small gun going off, broke a link right at the weld

Mar 10, 2005 | 12:22 AM

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Originally Posted by ivanribic

Maybe if someone has the time they can dig up the pictures of that truck where the clevis flew through the seat and killed that guy . . . was pretty impressive. There's also a thread not more than 6 months back about the Jeep guy who was killed by a tow strap gone bad.

the first time i took my F-250 out wheelin i had some guy come ask me to pull him out, he had a stock 99 ranger 4x4 stuck up to the doors in wet sand on the beach at our local lake....the only thing anyone had was a strap, i didnt like it from the start...i pulled and pulled but the suction of the water and sand was too much for my 3:54 gears, so he said to back up and "jerk" him out, i did this a couple times with no progress,on the third "jerk" attempt, when the strap tightened the huge clevis hook welded to my frame ripped off and flew about 2" over the cab right over his head, 1 foot lower and he would have been dead, i watched it fly in my rearview and had a sick feeling in my stomach for hours later about it.....at the time i didnt know about strap stretch and all that, but now i do and ill never use one again, because even thought a strap is the huge kind for semi truck flatbed loads, it doesnt mean what your hooked too will hold up.....that clevis ripped a hole out of my frame i can stick my fist through, you can see it in one of my gallery pics right behind the passenger side rear leaf shackle.....the chain i have now is about the same as fishy's, not huge but it does the job with out the slingshot worries!!!!

Mar 10, 2005 | 12:42 AM

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-cutts-

Haha, sounds great. I would have done the same thing. no need to worry about broken parts, theres always more bigger better ones, and I mean, you broke your tranfer case, lol, not many people can do that to an NP205 right?
that windsheild camera idea is pretty cool, I'd like to see sum vids from that.