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10-27-2008, 04:08 PM
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Re: This just sucks
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10-27-2008, 04:58 PM
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MOVE OVER
Join Date: Jun 2002
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Re: This just sucks
sorry to see those pictures, I stopped parking my DD near a tree that now I know I should cut down before winter hits!
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10-27-2008, 05:22 PM
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Re: This just sucks
Sorry to hear about your misfortune.
What part of NH are you from? My brother had the same thing happen to his car. He had just taken in off of insurance to store it for the winter(they live in claremont, nh). |
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10-27-2008, 06:31 PM
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Engine n00b
Join Date: Feb 2008
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Re: This just sucks
Man, that HURTS.
You can rebuild it. Make it stronger, better, FASTER. |
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10-27-2008, 06:34 PM
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A new C10 Addict!
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Vancouver, Wa
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Re: This just sucks
Oh man that is just horrible. Sorry to hear and see your bad luck looks like you had a decent truck too.
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10-27-2008, 06:58 PM
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Location: Franconia,N.H.
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Re: This just sucks
yea, it's pretty smashed up. the night that it happened it didn't look to bad because the limbs were covering it up and made it look like a broken windsheild and a few small dents but when the tree was cut up the truth was revealed.
the sad thing is that was only the top part of the tree
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10-27-2008, 07:14 PM
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its all about the +6 inches
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Hilliard Ohio
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Re: This just sucks
This totally sucks. However, like mentioned before... no one got hurt.
I would soooo be getting ahold of the home owner's ins on this. |
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10-27-2008, 07:17 PM
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Join Date: May 2003
Location: Jefferson State
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Re: This just sucks
Just got home from work & logged on -- and this is the first post I see. Dang!
As mentioned, hopefully your neighbor's homeowner's insurance will take care of the financial end of it. With any luck, it's only (did he say only??) sheet metal damage. Sure wouldn't think the frame would be tweaked from that... Keepin' my fingers crossed here...
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10-27-2008, 07:22 PM
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its all about the +6 inches
Join Date: Jan 2001
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Re: This just sucks
I can see a broken spring, or bent control arm, but I doubt the frame is bent.
But then again, we've all seen crazy stuff... |
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10-27-2008, 07:28 PM
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Hittin E-Z Street on Mud Tires
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Greenville, SC
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Re: This just sucks
Didn't a fella on here have a green/white cheyenne that a tree fell on in the street (tree came from his property) and his home owner's wouldn't pay up
 Hopefully this is different? When the tree fell on my truck at Clemson, as lucky as I was with virtually no damage, Clemson wouldn't pay me a dime for it.
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10-27-2008, 07:44 PM
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Location: Hyattsville, Maryland
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Re: This just sucks
Jeff, sorry to hear about this,hopefully there isn't any damage to the frame.
Ray
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10-27-2008, 07:53 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Los Angeles, CA.
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Re: This just sucks
That sucks big time. Sorry for your loss. Makes me count my blessings.
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10-27-2008, 07:54 PM
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Re: This just sucks
ouch... that sux but ive seen worse it can be fixed ..
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10-27-2008, 08:38 PM
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laying low
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Searcy, Ark. USA
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Re: This just sucks
Outhouse luck having that tree fall on your truck. But as said it could have been worse. I suggest a weak spring causing the lean. If the frame is bent it can be straightened by most any collision repair shop and faster than you might think. For your peace of mind you might want that frame measured anyway. One advantage you have with this truck is you have already been all over it and know what you have versus starting with another truck all over again.
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10-27-2008, 08:42 PM
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DON'T TREAD ON ME
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Crosby County, TX
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Re: This just sucks
Sorry to see your loss. I hope the damage isn't as bad as you think it might be.
I lived in pine tree infested Missippi for 12 years but thankfully moved back home to West Texas two years ago. No pine trees around here!!! 
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10-27-2008, 08:52 PM
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Location: East Central, MO
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Re: This just sucks
That looks like tornado country.......... sheeesh. Of all places for that tree to land. Sux.
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10-27-2008, 08:57 PM
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Location: Lafayette Georgia
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Re: This just sucks
Ouch! I hope things work out for ya in the end.
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10-27-2008, 09:30 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2002
Location: Wa.
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Re: This just sucks
Huge bummer. You have a better attitude about it than I would.
Since I made your av ages ago I figured it would be ok if I took the liberty to update it. |
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10-27-2008, 10:11 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Parksville, B.C. Canada
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Re: This just sucks
I can relate, back in December '06 we had a blast of wind go through here and took a pine tree down in my yard which landed on my work truck-(1991 Izuzu) and also landed on my step son's beater Nissan- did alot of damage but luckily missed my '69 GMC, anyway, cutting up what's left of the tree should be somewhat therapeutic, it was for me. Hope you can get your truck fixed and back on the road again.
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10-27-2008, 10:37 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Summerville SC
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Re: This just sucks
Man that sucks. Can you put an insurance claim in on it?
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10-28-2008, 12:32 AM
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Saving 1 truck at a time!
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Kent, WA
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Re: This just sucks
I hate winter...so sorry about your truck...but it could have been worse. When trees fall in my yard they do lots of damage...no trucks so far but the top of one of these got VERY close!
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10-28-2008, 12:41 AM
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Location: Alva Florida
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Re: This just sucks
Man sorry about your loss
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10-28-2008, 08:10 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Mid-MO
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Re: This just sucks
OMG... I'm sorry to hear about this. Hopefully everything will work out for the best with the insurance company. As tcb-1 mentioned, it appears that the majority of the parts will be a simple repaint/replace process.
Keep us posted on the outcome... and again sorry to hear about this.
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10-28-2008, 08:13 AM
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Re: This just sucks
I wish that wooden have happened.
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10-28-2008, 08:41 AM
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454 MAKES IT ROAR
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Re: This just sucks
If that happened to my truck i'd be sick as a dog...that is rotten luck.
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