Ok I finally scanned these 5x7 pic's and got them on photobucket.
Let me refresh you on what happened.
The night I flipped the trucks I had to go to work.I went home after work and went to sleep. When I got up a friend of mine took me to the trucks and a bunch of friends I race with had already brought over almost enough parts to fix both.
Wreck happened on Saturday night. ( I worked 3rd shift as a (boiler operator at a saw mill) and was off on Monday and Tuesday.
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Trailer went right first then you can see how it drug us off the left side of the road , back to the right and if you can see the mud (you can kinda see it in the second pic.) by the mail boxes (where the car is in the first pic) that's where we landed.
We were facing right into the driveway when we stopped! We were on all 4 tires BTW (red truck didn't flip we just spun out sideways when the trailer finaly broke loose then the truck and trailer flipped and landed on us)
This was on Monday night. As you can see we weren't playing around!
The truck was a Ranger which meant it had factory AC and nothing was wrong with the dash so we decided to cut the cab at the windshield and drill out all the rivets on the back of the cab and piece it together.
That's me in the truck taking a pic with the cab cut off. lol
Friend of mine we call Bullet. He was the one that moved the truck forward after I already had it where I always put it on the trailer. And it was his trailer it was on. We're working behind his shop.
This is probably Wednesday or Thursday.
Saturday two weeks later. This is also the same POS trailer I wrecked with. It bent and broke the hitch off is the only thing on it that got hurt!!
This is probably the 3rd weekend after
I was working 3rd shift at a saw mill and I also had a pretty good size grass cutting business in the day time. So instead of putting a regular bed on the truck I bought a utility bed from a junk yard for $250.I used the truck like this for a year or so then I fianlly bought a bed skin from JC Whitney for $199 and put it on the side.
This pic is several months later after I pulled the motor out to go bigger. lol and put 1 ton axles under the front and rear.
Notice trucks are primer in this pic.
Also notice the trailer. This was the first trailer I built.
I copied a friends trailer and it worked really good pulling a tall truck. And yes IT HAD BRAKES ON BOTH AXLES! Only mistake was using mobile home axles. I didn't know any better at the time.
This is probably rebuild #3 putting a new motor in. First motor I ever built and it was a BIG roller (I thought anyway) and I did not put any oil restrictors under the main bearings. Needless to say it filled the top of the motor with oil. So I just pulled the motor out, crank out, tapped the oil ports and put it back together.
Oh I almost forgot, (but don't have any pics.) We tied trucks to the railroad tracks and use some high lift jacks and a couple of porta powers to straighten the frames.
Now the worst part was both trucks were paid for so I droped the full coverage ins. on both of 'em. Just liability. STUPID!
BTW. When the Sate Patrol got there (we already had the road cleared) he asked who was driving the silver truck? Bullett (who worked on all the police cars and knew the patrol man very well) pointed to me. Then he asked who's driving the red and white truck? Bullett pointed to me again! Then he explained what happened. Officer asked if we were all ok. Nothing but my stuff wrecked so he never even asked who I was or made a police report. He stayed till the mess was cleaned up and left when we did.
The towing company was a friend of mine (remember I grew up in a real small town and everybody knows everybody) and he only charged me $65 to haul both truck about 60 miles to Bullet's shop.
This wreck tought me a lot about people. It was only by the help of good friends that I was able to fix both my trucks in just a few weeks
and without spending hardly any money to fix either of them.
Since nobody was hurt and the way it all worked out it was really a pretty cool experience in my life that I'll never forget.
My friends and I still talk about this quit often.
SORRY TO HI-JACK your thread BJ.