Disaster day yesterday

So last night we got called to pick up a ranger that was in an accident in the front end. So I get my a frame tow bar get 2 employees to drive my pilot car and head out. We get there I check the title out and the owners license, pay him and start hooking up. My guys couldn't figure a spot to put the a tow bar since the frame was twisted up under the ranger so after 40 minutes of screwing with it I finally got it into an acceptable position all while laying face down in a pile of snow. Then while I'm lining up my truck my guys (who usually are great) can't give me the right direction so that took 15 more minutes. Then we finally get it hooked onto the truck , then I walk backwards and hear crack! I stepped on the towing lights that were left on the floor. So we go to leave and one of my guys left the lights on in the pilot car so now I have to jump it with the truck. After all this we get on the road and I realize the front tires are not high enough off the ground on the ranger so the one with a flat is smoking and the other side is rubbing on the bumper. So we hop out change the tire in the front ( which I should have right from the start ) and crowbar the bumper off the other wheel. From there it was smooth sailing but I was disappointed how we looked in front of the customer . I always preach to my guys to always look professional and like we've done this a hundred times before which we really have done it before, but I guess it was just a bad day for me yesterday, anyone else wanna share their horror day stories ?

can't think of the guys name who made the rule about everything always going wrong, but sometimes it seems all too true.

if there's 12 bolts, and 11 are fairly easy to access, it will no doubt be the one that's impossible to reach which will also be the most impossible one to turn ; )

Murphy's law

Just seemed like one of those days yesterday , we're leaving at 12 to bring it in hopefully no more surprises

Back last fall I was picking up a SUV (don't remember the model) at a different wrecker yard, it was raining hard, so hard I couldn't see out my mirrors, the yard was tight. It took what seemed forever to get the trailer square with. Usually I'm good on the first shot and always look like a pro no matter the angle or obstacles, this day I'm sure the guys at the yard thought I was an idiot. I dropped chains and boomers in the water, I know I had problems loading it but I don't remember the details. When I finally got home I went to loosen the winch and I saw bare wires, yep probably lost the controller in the wrecker yard. I've had others that sucked but this one was in front of professionals. Needless to say i never had another call from them

Yeah that was the worst part the customers were watching us look like a bunch of idiots when in fact we've done this many times before only taking about 10 minutes , I guess everyone has those days

is it just me, or is this starting to sound kinda funny ? (haha ; )

or maybe as my grandpappy used to say, "you might as well laugh, cause it sure isn't gonna do ya any good to cry"

I was less than a mile from my tv buyer and blew the High Pressure Oil Pump in my 6.0 ford..... that was crappy

but i bought a brand new dodge to replace and i'm lovin it

I use to do quite a bit of commercial snow plowing with a one ton and sander on the flatbed. I'm usually real careful putting out stakes to mark driveways, yards etc. I get a new business - a library built out in the country. No need to stake cause there are wood posts around the parking lot (but no rails). I'm pushing snow to the edge when I feel a "thump". (This can't be good). I hadn't paid attention to the posts and just drove the front end off a 15 foot sheer drop. Fortunately, it's 7:00AM and the wrecker driver is up. He comes out and says "No problem, I'll just winch you out". The front axle is resting on the edge and the plow is buried in snow. He starts winching but only pulls HIS flatbed backyards. Check my transmission position, etc. All ok. He puts the truck legs out for stability. It still pulls his truck backwards. I dig out the plow A-frame and put the truck in reverse and with me backing and him driving forward, it finally comes out. Not a "professional moment" for either of us.

A few days before, I'd gotten a call to sand an icy driveway. This driveway was steep and pure ice. No problem - I start down, sanding as I go. All of a sudden, the truck loses all traction and I'm just sliding. Manage to steer it to the grassy edge for traction and follow the edge to the bottom. I was just hoping the home-owner wasn't watching my less-than-professional job performance.

Lol mick those are good ones , I saw a guy plowing with a sander on the pickup bed but he was using a 4 cyl ranger when I'm on the way back home I see him broken down with his rear end snapped in half

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Originally Posted by gamedayron

Lol mick those are good ones , I saw a guy plowing with a sander on the pickup bed but he was using a 4 cyl ranger when I'm on the way back home I see him broken down with his rear end snapped in half

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I can only laugh and shake my head when I see a 2-yard sander on a half-ton. Even more amazing is an eight foot sander in a six foot pickup bed. Then these intellectual giants wonder why it's hard to steer as it gets emptier and emptier.

Update : hauled it in without incident , $375 paid $250 also pulled some goods outa the truck so made out pretty good all worth it

some days you eat the bear ,some days the bear eats you