MeBe4running
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I was leaving a friends home around 8am Monday morning heading to work. My friend lives way up, 3 miles deep in the Western Appalachians off an old logging road. Its wasn't more than 450 yards from the house, where it took one second of not paying full attention and boom I was hanging on (yes hanging on) for my life to prevent the truck from rolling over. The most scariest experience I have ever felt... something I'm truly hope to NEVER experience again. This is where I can truly say "my life flashed before my eyes". Below is several hundred feet of a pure drop off and not a sole in sight of that area (if I had rolled over, if would have been a long time till someone found me) Not to mention the zero cell service for 10 square miles. The truck came to a MIRACLE (I have goosebumps and tear in my eye as I write this) stop thanks to a cut down tree stump that stopped the truck from rolling over. The horrible screeching sound like in the movies when something is just about to keel over. The driver's side left and right wheel where in the air. I raced to undo my seatbelt and try and open my drivers door I almost slammed my legs trying to open the door the first time in a made panic to get out before it rolled (my thought at the time was it was going to roll over). My second attempt I opened the door as much as possible jumping to floor with the door slamming shut to the point I thought the drivers window was going to smash to pieces. I was out and in pure shock, adrenaline was pumping and thoughts racing... I took a good hour to fully acknowledge the situation. I decided if I tried to winch from the front or back it would roll over. I walked down to the nearest house to use their phone and called AAA. They came two hours later and it took them 1.5 to fully recover the vehicle from the cliff.
I'm blessed and lucky, very lucky to be in one piece and the truck too. I never really believed in angels or people overlooking or looking out for me, but that Monday morning will NEVER BE FORGOTTEN and something or someone was there to guide me. Anywhere else, truly anywhere else on the mountain my life would've been at risk.
I am truly blessed.... and grateful to be in one piece. I wanted to share this story with you (T4r) for a few reasons. The first being, live everyday like it was your last, you never know when your time will come. The second being, why didn't the Side Curtain Airbags deploy???? I read that they will release when the truck goes over a certain angle, my tuck had two wheels in the air with a 3 inch lift front and back leaning to tip over with 5 degrees or less of movement. I had them turned on. I was in 2wd at the time. I can only think the truck has to be rolling over to deploy!?
Of course, I took a picture and a video of the recovery.
The best action for recovery was a two point snatch block to two trees up in the woods. Front bumper and rear bumper and snaking it back and forth. I had to hold the brakes of his 16,000 pound truck as it was sliding.
Luckily for me I knew the tow truck driver (local) as he said none of my colleagues would of done this under AAA. He also covered a potential $300.00 recovery under my AAA membership.
The stump that held the truck from rolling over:
Video of recovery link (Excuse my french words):
Recovery Clip - YouTube
I'm blessed and lucky, very lucky to be in one piece and the truck too. I never really believed in angels or people overlooking or looking out for me, but that Monday morning will NEVER BE FORGOTTEN and something or someone was there to guide me. Anywhere else, truly anywhere else on the mountain my life would've been at risk.
I am truly blessed.... and grateful to be in one piece. I wanted to share this story with you (T4r) for a few reasons. The first being, live everyday like it was your last, you never know when your time will come. The second being, why didn't the Side Curtain Airbags deploy???? I read that they will release when the truck goes over a certain angle, my tuck had two wheels in the air with a 3 inch lift front and back leaning to tip over with 5 degrees or less of movement. I had them turned on. I was in 2wd at the time. I can only think the truck has to be rolling over to deploy!?
Of course, I took a picture and a video of the recovery.
The best action for recovery was a two point snatch block to two trees up in the woods. Front bumper and rear bumper and snaking it back and forth. I had to hold the brakes of his 16,000 pound truck as it was sliding.
Luckily for me I knew the tow truck driver (local) as he said none of my colleagues would of done this under AAA. He also covered a potential $300.00 recovery under my AAA membership.
The stump that held the truck from rolling over:
Video of recovery link (Excuse my french words):
Recovery Clip - YouTube
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