Wreck in the fog

[Triangle Bar]

WOW! H, I'm sure glad you lived to tell the tale. That's too close of a call.

You're sure right, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
I've seen a lot of car wrecks since joining the FD and one thing for sure is
seat belts save lives and minimize injury.

A reflective vest is a great thing to carry. If your broke down or changing
a tire you can slip it on over your street clothes and it makes your visibility
so much greater.

 

[Denny]

Glad your okay. Here the cow owner would be paying for your truck and most likely buying you a ranch.

 

[katrina]

Holy crapola!!!! and thank you lord jesus..... Good advice... and so glad you're ok...

 

[gcreekrch]

That was a scary story with a good ending for all but the cow. Thankfully, your hard head hit something first or you could have been hurt bad. :wink:

 

[North Ridge Ranching]

Wow that was a close call I'm glad you're ok.
I've popped a windshield like that and it knocked me a little silly,I bet you have a bad headache today.

I am glad to see eveybody make it through alright. Way to many good people have been lost in situations like that.

On a lighter note,

As for U hitting the windshield H, how would you have known if you were knocked little silly, you have been way past that for a long time already. :wink:

 

[DustDevil]

Glad you're OK, H. I came up on a head-on yesterday morning getting off work. I was the 2nd car there, guy before me saw it happen. Miraculously, the lady in one car , a convertible Mustang, had a possible fractured ankle. The other guy was over by her car seeing if she was OK, bloodied knuckles was all I could see was wrong with him. Both had on their seatbelts and their airbags deployed. They were both grateful to the LORD to be alive.

 

[George]

My mom and step dad went out to eat on a friday night in 2003 after church and on the way home sbout 9:00 PM a herd of horses crossed hiway 441 south of Ft Drum FL - - - 5 cars and one truck totaled 7 people in the hospital and my step father and a horses head cramed in the rear floorboard behind the passenger seat - - - he was dead instantly but my mother never got a scratch - - - the horse took the roof right off their Malibu. Dad was driving but mom can't remember how the car was shut off and in park. Thge woman who owned the horse was yelling at my mother for killing her horse - - - at that time they still had not found dad

Fl law let the people off even though it was the 3rd time in 6 months the horses were out.

Dad had a patch from Teamsters for 7 million accident free miles!

 

[3words]

Glad your okay.You were just lucky it was a cow and not a horse!!A friend of mine hit one a few months back,he is just plain lucky to be a live.When insurance appraised his truck,they couldn't find a single thing on his truck that wasn't broke or damaged,you couldn't even tell what kind of truck it was.

 

[leanin' H]

My mom and step dad went out to eat on a friday night in 2003 after church and on the way home sbout 9:00 PM a herd of horses crossed hiway 441 south of Ft Drum FL - - - 5 cars and one truck totaled 7 people in the hospital and my step father and a horses head cramed in the rear floorboard behind the passenger seat - - - he was dead instantly but my mother never got a scratch - - - the horse took the roof right off their Malibu. Dad was driving but mom can't remember how the car was shut off and in park. Thge woman who owned the horse was yelling at my mother for killing her horse - - - at that time they still had not found dad

Fl law let the people off even though it was the 3rd time in 6 months the horses were out.

Dad had a patch from Teamsters for 7 million accident free miles!

Sure sorry about your step-dad George.

 

[Big Muddy rancher]

I was thinking that if you were up here the deputy sheriff would have given you a ticket for no seat belt and driving to fast for road conditions. :roll:

 

[George]

Thanks H

He might have been a step dad but my real father was killed when I was 9 so he was my dad for 43 years

 

[leanin' H]

Thanks H

He might have been a step dad but my real father was killed when I was 9 so he was my dad for 43 years

That Brad Paisley song "He didnt have to be" sure comes to mind. It is always tough to lose folks that mean so much to us. I have thought a lot these past days about how close we can come to cashing in our chips. My little wreck pales in comparison to things that have happened to folks here on ranchers and things that have happened to people we know. Just yesterday, in Salt Lake, a young couple was killed when thier truck rolled off of an elevated freeway ramp. I guess what has struck me is life is fragile and a gift. We don't control much when it comes to how it ends for each of us. We do control how we live! We can love and smile and serve and try and enjoy every second of everyday. And we can prepare as well as we can for those instances that will happen like they did for me in the fog. A couple of flares, sure would of made my night less dangerous! Slowing down to 20 would of been a huge help! And developing a genetic strain of cattle that glow in the dark is my next undertaking! :lol:

Ya'll stay safe! :wink:

 

[Big Muddy rancher]

Thanks H

He might have been a step dad but my real father was killed when I was 9 so he was my dad for 43 years

That Brad Paisley song "He didnt have to be" sure comes to mind. It is always tough to lose folks that mean so much to us. I have thought a lot these past days about how close we can come to cashing in our chips. My little wreck pales in comparison to things that have happened to folks here on ranchers and things that have happened to people we know. Just yesterday, in Salt Lake, a young couple was killed when thier truck rolled off of an elevated freeway ramp. I guess what has struck me is life is fragile and a gift. We don't control much when it comes to how it ends for each of us. We do control how we live! We can love and smile and serve and try and enjoy every second of everyday. And we can prepare as well as we can for those instances that will happen like they did for me in the fog. A couple of flares, sure would of made my night less dangerous! Slowing down to 20 would of been a huge help! And developing a genetic strain of cattle that glow in the dark is my next undertaking! :lol:

Ya'll stay safe! :wink:

Maybe you could get some semen from a ranch near Roswell NM and put your AI course to good use.

 

[kelpies4me]

I hope you went to the hospital.

 

[Soapweed]

Glad you and everyone else came through the ordeal as unscathed as you did, Leanin' H. You are one fortunate fellow, but all is well that ends well.

A few years ago I had a very close call on account of fog. One evening I hooked up our Vermeer L model hay baler to the back of the pickup. My intention was to get an early start the next morning, take it to Valentine for its annual winter fix-up, and continue on with other errands. The next morning dawned with fog so thick you could cut it with a knife, but having a plan for the day, I decided to go ahead and take the baler to town. Balers are wide enough anyway, but this outfit had the super-wide big flotation airplane tires, which work wonderfully in swampy conditions but make it extra wide for pulling down a two-lane highway.

The fog was so thick it was almost hard to see the front of the pickup. I drove conservatively, and hopefully with my wits about me. Whenever headlights shined through the fog, I would pull clear over on the right side shoulder of the road. All went well until going through Crookston, Nebraska. Even though my speed was fairly slow, just as I passed through town, out of the fog loomed a lady and a child walking down the highway. They were on my side of the road, and walking in the same direction traffic was driving. On the other side of the road came three slow moving vehicles. With the pedestrians right on the edge of the highway, I couldn't swerve to the right to avoid oncoming traffic as I had been doing. If no traffic would have been coming, I'd have swerved widely to the left to give the pedestrians plenty of room. All I could do was hold a straight course and hope no one got clobbered. A guardian angel was with all of us, because no one got thumped.

In retrospect, I was very much at fault taking a super-wide contraption down the highway in the foggy conditions that existed. The pedestrians were just as much at fault walking down a main highway, with their backs to the flow of traffic.

Moral of the story. If it's foggy, be extra cautious. Better yet, just don't drive if it can be avoided.

 

[katrina]

This has nothing to do with fog, but when carter was maybe 5 or 6, Roscoe was trucking almost everyday to Fremont. Anyways it was our job to feed the calves and cows every morning so I would always send him to the barn with his wagon to load buckets of grain because we hand fed our calves. And I would go get the tractor and get a scoop of ground hay for calves. Our gate was on an incline down toward the correl and I always parked the tractor on that incline to open the gate.. As I did like every morning I swung the gate back just as out of the corner of my eye I saw the tractor rolling through the gate. Just in the knick of time I stepped back out of the way of the loader and has sense enough to grab the handle and step up on the tractor and get it stopped... We fed the calves and I bawled and bawled, I was so over whelmed at how close I came to biting it... I called my best friend still bawling and told her what happened.. Carter didn't know what happened that's why I always made sure he was safe in the barn.....

Never ever trust the park on a 4440 or 4840 power shift.....