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Originally Posted by special-K

I remeber when I sunk my boss' '80 K/30 flatbed with 9.00 x 16 Grip Spurs on a job (musta been a dang spring head). He hot wired a backhoe from another builder's site after hours to get me out.

When I was a junior in high school my co-op teacher/supervisor asked if I was any good at rebuilding engines... It was a 350 and I'm in auto shop. Sure! The deal was I'll build my own 350 and when it's done, I'll swap them. The night I picked his truck up to head to the barn we had one helluva snow storm. I was hanging out with my buddy and his now wife and we got the bright idea to go play in my teacher's truck. We were about 4 miles from the barn and I started doing donuts in a dirt road intersection. All was well until the fan blade let loose from the water pump. That raises hell under the hood in a quick hurry. It cut both upper and lower rad hoses, both tranny lines, exploded the shroud and tore up the brand new radiatior. Great. I'm out more money than he's paying me and we're stranded in a snow storm. Called my buddy's now wife's dad, he came about 3 miles to get us with the old tractor and towed us all the way to the barn. Teach came by one day and saw all the broken parts laying outside - asked what they were from and I had to tell him. I got a lesson and the money to cover the broken parts. What a teacher will do for his students....