Porqupine82
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This doesnt involve a 4 runner but here goes...
I used to work for my grand father in law at his steel fabrication business. I did deliveries, and also transported steel from his lower shop to his upper shop (2 miles down the road) to be media blasted prior to paint. I was 20 years old and was driving a brand new 2010 2wd 3500 Chevy flat bed truck, and had nearly 4 tons of angle iron, and plate on the bed, which was probably too much but it was near the end of the day, and I didn't want to make 2 trips...
I get to the shop and I'm trying to burn the rest of the day so he doesn't have me do anything else before I go home, so I decide to drive behind the building through a mud puddle that I had taken that truck through dozens of times prior without problem.... and also without 4 tons of steel on the bed.
As soon as I hit that mud, the 4 rear tire sank up to the bed.... when I mean up to the bed, you could put your heel on the ground, and toe on the bed....
I called the foreman, who then came to get me, so I could personally tell my grandfather in law: owner of the company.. and father and law: president of the company, that I just sank their $75,000 flatbed truck in 4 feet of red clay mud.
So I told them and proceeded to have my anus reamed for the next hour. I continued to work to get that truck out using 2 old ford tractors, and a hyster forklift to no avail. 6 hours later, and 5 hours past time to go home, we still didn't have the truck out. We couldn't remove the steel, because each piece weighed several hundred pounds, and the forklift couldn't reach.
8 hours in, we had to call in his crane operator, who had to use my grandfather in laws $415,000 crane to lift the whole truck out of the mud pit. I had to use a piece of angle iron to dig channels under the truck to attach straps for the crane guy...
The crane operator/fuel/and time came to the tune of $750, a 4 day old truck was filthy, and none of the steel got blasted, welded, or painted, putting us behind for the whole week.
I no longer work there.
I used to work for my grand father in law at his steel fabrication business. I did deliveries, and also transported steel from his lower shop to his upper shop (2 miles down the road) to be media blasted prior to paint. I was 20 years old and was driving a brand new 2010 2wd 3500 Chevy flat bed truck, and had nearly 4 tons of angle iron, and plate on the bed, which was probably too much but it was near the end of the day, and I didn't want to make 2 trips...
I get to the shop and I'm trying to burn the rest of the day so he doesn't have me do anything else before I go home, so I decide to drive behind the building through a mud puddle that I had taken that truck through dozens of times prior without problem.... and also without 4 tons of steel on the bed.
As soon as I hit that mud, the 4 rear tire sank up to the bed.... when I mean up to the bed, you could put your heel on the ground, and toe on the bed....
I called the foreman, who then came to get me, so I could personally tell my grandfather in law: owner of the company.. and father and law: president of the company, that I just sank their $75,000 flatbed truck in 4 feet of red clay mud.
So I told them and proceeded to have my anus reamed for the next hour. I continued to work to get that truck out using 2 old ford tractors, and a hyster forklift to no avail. 6 hours later, and 5 hours past time to go home, we still didn't have the truck out. We couldn't remove the steel, because each piece weighed several hundred pounds, and the forklift couldn't reach.
8 hours in, we had to call in his crane operator, who had to use my grandfather in laws $415,000 crane to lift the whole truck out of the mud pit. I had to use a piece of angle iron to dig channels under the truck to attach straps for the crane guy...
The crane operator/fuel/and time came to the tune of $750, a 4 day old truck was filthy, and none of the steel got blasted, welded, or painted, putting us behind for the whole week.
I no longer work there.
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