well over the past 3 weeks ive had a lil crazy pitch thrown in to my path, my cars idler pully exploded on me shredding my serp. belt and damaging a few other parts when it exploded(metal bearings, 3 count, inside a plastic case with grease and another plastic part that the belt actually rides on) the time periods between the forthcoming events aside, i got our truck a chevy 94 k1500 and a friends car trailer to pick it up, well my car didnt like the ramps i had made to get the 3.5 in ground clearance car up to the 21in high deck so called the farmer i worked for some longer ramps and he after a few hours of dicking round do who knows what finally just decided to bring his farm tonner(3500hd chevy) and his flat bed fifth wheel and take my car to his shop, after loading it up and we split up, im on a gravel road with a shard 86 degree bend ahead, only doing 25 a deer pops outa the inside bend and runs a slalom course across the road and back a few times till i clip it in an old deer hit dent on the right side of our truck(in line withe headlight and wrap around to right wheel well) and the trailer pushed me out of line and deeper to the bend, across the road into a ditch that claimed 7 lives over the past ten years. a near vertical ditch 15 ft deep with a stand of trees with few spaces between 6 or so feet(it varies along the edge of the ditch) from the bottom the wall with a heavy fence that will roll or cut into any vehicle that hits it.
I got lucky enough to straighten out a bit and bounce the front left fender and top of drivers side cab(from top of windshield to top rear corner or so of door) off a trees sturdy branch and bulge of trunk and thus absorb momentum with the drag of the branch on cab and the trailer dragging on the snow bank (1ft high 1.5 or so ft wide) on the edge of the road
/fun fact for the heck of it: trailer had another 3 degrees vertical toward the cab on the ball before it would've flipped off the ball and came to rest on the cab or caught in tree/
after getting the truck shifted forward a few feet to open my door, i checked the trailer and truck over for danger and immediate response damage and called the owner of the trailer to let him know i was in the ditch (its notorious to the family) and his property was undamaged and would need help. he sends a family member and fellow survivor of the ditch to help me
attempt one: tried unhitching trailer and pulling it out separate and getting truck out under own power after powering over a rather thick in hindsight bush and up a decent section of ditch with chain on front bumper for safety, trailer load removed from the ball it still wouldnt budge so it was abandoned.
attempt two: hooked the guys truck onto rear of trailer and pull in 4low no throttle(so he says) his truck was a chevy as well but it was a 'shaved' model but if i had to guess when he bought it stock off the lot it was a 2500hd with the vortec gas engine, his mods put some serious power to the ground and just walked me out to the protest of my rock guard on the transfer case when it came over the edge onto road.
after getting things squared away with each I left and went to friends home and unhooked, waited and let him look over trailer while explaining what happened, headed home and thats that.
got the new belt the next day and the new idler pulley and took off the damaged metal pulleys and cleaned them up on lathe with small file, reassembled the serp. belt assemblies and was back on the road.
the rest of the 2 weeks was filled with family and close friends of family status having issues that snuck up and dragged me into em as well and finally had a normal day so ya writings postponed for awhile............again........this has gotta stop....