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Bus Discussion => Bus Topics ( click here for quick start! ) => Topic started by: luvrbus on August 31, 2021, 01:49:06 PM
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I cannot get the pictures to post from my phone.Today in a 1 hour time frame I saw 2 tail gates on new pickups tore off.The first guy unlatched his 5th wheel and drove off with the tail gate closed with the 7 blade connector still plugged end ,the second guy tried to hook up his 5th wheel with the tail gate closed I never knew people could be that dumb :'( makes one wonder about being on the highway with some RV' ers
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Common sense is the new super power.
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But neither of those wrecked the box on the truck. You haven't seen anything until the trailer gets dropped on the box of the truck.
BTW, tailgates on late model trucks are very expensive. Especially tailgates with steps and power tailgates. The 2021 GM 2 part tailgate costs several thousand dollars.
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But neither of those wrecked the box on the truck. You haven't seen anything until the trailer gets dropped on the box of the truck.
BTW, tailgates on late model trucks are very expensive. Especially tailgates with steps and power tailgates. The 2021 GM 2 part tailgate costs several thousand dollars.
1 Guys insurance is out $2000.00 then probably more since it wrinkle the bed on 1 side
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Sounds like the fun that can be had hanging out at boat ramps. On a side note, a couple weeks ago I had the opportunity to bring a 50 ft plukebaum boat from Tennessee to Louisville by water. 550 miles at 17 mph. Next best thing to a bus. Sorry for the hijack
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I don't know, it sort of worked out on the average--one in, one out. I shouldn't talk. After sneaking into a weigh station on a Sunday to weigh my 6000 pound Terry travel trailer I forgot to close the lift gate on my 1969 Chevy suburban before making a sharp right turn out of the scales. The lift gate slashed a 3 foot gash in the front of the trailer. Stupid is as stupid does! Jack
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Clifford -
Totally agree! Some of the best free entertainment is watching fellow RV folk.
A couple of winters ago, we were at the Riverside's RV Park in Laughlin, NV. From where we were parked, we could easily see levels 2 & 3 below us.
Often as we sat outside enjoying a cold one, it was quite amusing to watch people trying to park their travel trailers and 5rs . Not to mention the significant other outside barking directions! 'Twas really amazing how many people seem to have spatial awareness issues with their rigs.
FWIW. . . ;)
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Just a few days ago, I saw a woman driving her mini van with the rear driver side door wide open.
Then several years ago, I saw a woman filling the tank of her FORD SUPERDUTY pickup truck that had a diesel engine with gasoline.
Yes stupid is stupid does and how in the world do some of these people make it thru their lives up to that point?
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Just a few days ago, I saw a woman driving her mini van with the rear driver side door wide open.
Then several years ago, I saw a woman filling the tank of her FORD SUPERDUTY pickup truck that had a diesel engine with gasoline.
Yes stupid is stupid does and how in the world so some of these people make it thru their lives up to that point?
Yep when I was doing tech support for Coachnet,a guy called in, his new diesel pusher RV was doing fine he said till he stop and filled up with gasoline you have to take a breath to respond to those for sure
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While were on the subject of gas in a diesel - a question... If the diesel went into a runaway condition fueled with gas - could that even happen? Or would it just explode? I'm curious and promise I won't try it...TIA
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I filled the tank with gas once in my Courier 96 (4-71). Was about half full when I realized. This was after a long day driving, and the nozzle was a color that is usually for diesel. Yea, still stupid... I topped it up with diesel, and added two jugs of Howes diesel treatment. And drove off. No ill effects. Later that winter, I rebuilt it to add a turbo: no apparent damage. The old Detroits are quite tolerant.
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I filled the tank with gas once in my Courier 96 (4-71). Was about half full when I realized. This was after a long day driving, and the nozzle was a color that is usually for diesel. Yea, still stupid... I topped it up with diesel, and added two jugs of Howes diesel treatment. And drove off. No ill effects. Later that winter, I rebuilt it to add a turbo: no apparent damage. The old Detroits are quite tolerant.
The new common rail high pressure fuel systems are not very forgiving .in the old days we never used a fuel treatment in cold weather we would add gasoline to the diesel to stop the jellying ,The green nozzle on E85 gasoline does cause confusion sometimes
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For the first 15 years of our bus ownership at the suggestion of many family member OTR truckers (uncles & cousins) we used a quart of ATF/tankful of diesel. Since then we swear by Howe's Diesel Treat. The fuel gurus in Tok AK say in the summer months area fuel is similar to lower 48 distribution but in the winter months it's a winter fuel very similar to kerosene & home heating oil, to flow & not gel at extremely low temps. FWIW
How about the ? of a runaway diesel fueled with gas?! I quess that would be a good thing to not know what the results would be...
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For the first 15 years of our bus ownership at the suggestion of many family member OTR truckers (uncles & cousins) we used a quart of ATF/tankful of diesel. Since then we swear by Howe's Diesel Treat. The fuel gurus in Tok AK say in the summer months area fuel is similar to lower 48 distribution but in the winter months it's a winter fuel very similar to kerosene & home heating oil, to flow & not gel at extremely low temps. FWIW
How about the ? of a runaway diesel fueled with gas?! I quess that would be a good thing to not know what the results would be...
Number 1 fuel (Kerosene) was always the primary fuel for the strokes summer and winter till they went to the number 2 fuel back in the 80's all truck stop had a # 1 fuel pump up to that time,the later model diesels all have fuel heaters now to keep from jelling plus the fuel get so hot from the high pressure return there no need for a anti jell additive,I use Standadyne mostly to improve the Cetane for a cleaner burn with my EGR engine
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Campgrounds are great entertainment. When Rita and I full timed for a year, you saw a few good ones. Watched an elderly lady using hand signals to back up hubby in brand new Class A, but new at it herself, did not see low tree limb on side she was not watching. We were in the next campsite. I was hooking up our septic Anaconda when KA- POW. He split the entire back fiberglass cap, about 20 feet from my bent over head doing the septic connection. That was loud. I Can't wait to get back out there now that the trend is a 40 foot fifth wheel with a 26 foot truck. There has to be some rodeo moves going on there and spousal yelling until they have done it for some time. A few dents and scratches later. It happens.
We now live on a lake. Lots of entertainment here too! I took care of people's docks by boat for a few years when they would go to Fla for the winter. I did a lot hard learning how to dock, so I could go do the docks. But I got veeery good at it. Even in the wind.
People have hired me to teach them, the wife, or the older kids how to dock since I seem to be so smooth. I tell them "You see all the dings, dents, black marks on my old work boat and the ones you are starting to get on your boat?. 90 percent of those happen at the dock, 10 percent caused by the trailer."
Out on the lake, a chimp can drive a boat. Hardest two things to get people to learn is "If you are SURE you are coming into the dock slow enough, SLOW DOWN. Second thing that seems almost too hard to teach is that using reverse does not hurt the boat. It makes noise, makes a klunk, you have to pull the shifter backwards which is unlike anything you do to stop any other vehicle. They just can't bring themselves to learn it. So we practice that...a lot, way out on the lake. If you don't practice it- out on the water_ you won't do it at the dock. You will crash.
I notice as I age I am a lot slower pulling the bus into a campsite. Even though we are only 35 feet long and only 96 inches wide (littlest bus we have owned) we slooooow down. My wife backs up better than I do so if is not a pull through site, I bail out, let her drive, and I give signals. Sounds silly?
Still married....
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Well, I'm not casting dispersions on RVer who do dumb things. Maybe you all are youngsters but my mind gets more feeble every day. So much so, I forget how many dumbshiiit things I have done. One that comes to mind is somehow I forgot to completely close the engine bay doors and before leaving campground someone points that out.
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I left the radiator cover open and backed it into a tree once. Felt kinda dumb about that one.
Jim
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Picking up relatives at the LAX airport for a family funeral I made a hard right turn in my class C S&S & tried to enter the parking garage for their convenience when I hit the overhead sleeper it was an instant stop with my 300Lb uncle riding shotgun wedged against the firewall on his knees with his head pinned chin down on the dash & head against the windshield - no his seatbelt wasn't buckled. When I got up and stepped back into the camper section I saw the concrete beam through the overhead sleeper. After going to my uncle's aid for the rest of our lives together he referred to me as "Crash Cerrato" and had many a great laughter fits about it. How's that for stupid sheet. I think I learned my lesson on that one cause in 42 years in our 4104 - hardly put a scratch on it...(had my fingers crossed when I said that!) :o
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Friend of mine peeled the roof ac off his less than year old 5th wheel hitting a low underpass in a town. Busted a couple roof bows also. Took him a winters worth of evenings and weekends after work repairing it. Still using it.
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Back in the 80's I had a 77 chevy short bed van. You know the one with the roof vent and long window on each side in the back. Bed in the back and swivel seats in the front. Well had the CB in those days and the big whip antenna. Generally clipped down. Wellll we went to Reno and pulled into an under the Casino parking garage. The height looked fine so I pull into the place and drove around as we all talked about our coming night. I look out the mirror and I see an attendant yelling and waving his arms at us. I looked back and then realized I had the antenna up and he was running after us tell me I was breaking all his lights on the ceiling with the antenna. About 20 of them and they were all 8 footers. We said sorry put the antenna down and went else where, LOL
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When we were moving from GA to TX a few years ago, we were on I20 in the middle of MS and came past a pickup truck towing THREE minivans daisy-chained together ON THE INTERSTATE. All of the minivans were marked "IN TOW" (in white shoe polish) on the rear windows, but I don't think the myriad of various LEO jurisdictions on the scene deemed that sufficient. I have a strong feel that the first officer on the scene put out a "you gotta come see this knucklehead" call...
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I think the takeaway here is that if you do something stupid in a park, you're providing free entertainment and not just showcasing your incompetence - if you've done something expensive, maybe put out a tip jar, couldn't hurt.
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For the sake of brevity, I will not go into the details of my own screwups. But I have the suspicion that everyone has had some. They just avoid boasting about them. I sort of feel that you don't have the right to laugh at other's mistakes unless you can laugh at your own.
However, if this was me I would not admit it.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/lumber-car/
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Long boat ramps are a blast. Take a chair a cooler sit off to the side and try not to bust a gut laughing
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For the sake of brevity, I will not go into the details of my own screwups. But I have the suspicion that everyone has had some. They just avoid boasting about them. I sort of feel that you don't have the right to laugh at other's mistakes unless you can laugh at your own.
However, if this was me I would not admit it.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/lumber-car/ (https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/lumber-car/)
A couple days ago at HD, something similiar happened. Some clown was tying down several 4x8 sheets of ply with that free cheezy thin twine. Like NO WAY was that going to hold. I can attest to stuff flying off the roof but story already told on that one. :(
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The boat docks are always good for lasting memories,, the classic is the guy that is tied up to a dock with an outboard that won't start.. After removing the engine cover and fiddling for awhile he begins yanking on the start rope and cussing each time,,,, then the damn thing fires and in gear with wide open throttle,,, at which time he wipes out half the other boats tied to the same dock....>>>Dan
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The boat docks are always good for lasting memories,, Bring your popcorn because the classic is the guy that is tied up to a dock with an outboard that won't start.. After removing the engine cover and fiddling for awhile he begins yanking on the start rope and cussing each time,,,, then the damn thing fires and in gear with wide open throttle,,, at which time he wipes out half the other boats tied to the same dock....>>>Dan
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The usual is sinking. (Oops, forgot the bilge plug!)
Jim
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When we were moving from GA to TX a few years ago, we were on I20 in the middle of MS and came past a pickup truck towing THREE minivans daisy-chained together ON THE INTERSTATE. All of the minivans were marked "IN TOW" (in white shoe polish) on the rear windows, but I don't think the myriad of various LEO jurisdictions on the scene deemed that sufficient. I have a strong feel that the first officer on the scene put out a "you gotta come see this knucklehead" call...
I ran into something similar on I-80 in Nebraska back in May. A crashed, but drivable, car flat towing two or three other crashed cars. They were driving well under the speed limit and backing up traffic. Totally illegal as in most states you can only have one trailer/vehicle towed on a ball hitch. The string of vehicles also had no lights on the rear car.
I called the State Patrol and reported them. I hope the State Patrol stopped them before something bad happened like a vehicle rear ending them with no brake lights.
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I saw a boat and a new Prevost that both went into the water, the guy was in the boat and signaled his wife to go and she did but the bus was in reverse ,I still remember the sound the series 60 made when it sucked the water into the air cleaner
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Several years ago at Carlisle car show, watched a vendor backing an Airstream into his spot. He cut too sharp and caved in the corner significantly. OUCH!
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Speaking of funny we are @ the DMV IN VEGAS. No shortage of entertainment here.
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Speaking of funny we are @ the DMV IN VEGAS. No shortage of entertainment here today! Oh look Prince Harry just walked in!
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Van,
Did you mean Prince, Harry?
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:^
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Docking a boat is actually very simple once you understand the one fundamental rule: you must get the boat and the dock moving at exactly the same speed.
We were having some work done on a 5th wheel at Bish's in Idaho Falls many years ago. They had a brand new truck camper in the bay next to us with the roof peeled off about a foot above where the truck cab would be. Guy picked up his new camper, drove home and drove into the garage. That would suck.
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I saw a boat and a new Prevost that both went into the water, the guy was in the boat and signaled his wife to go and she did but the bus was in reverse ,I still remember the sound the series 60 made when it sucked the water into the air cleaner
Are they still married?
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The guy was good sport when she stopped crying he hugged her and told her that is what we pay $9500.00 a year for insurance no big deal
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The guy was good sport when she stopped crying he hugged her and told her that is what we pay $9500.00 a year for insurance no big deal
What a guy!