A Funny Thing Happened

[1STMP]

A 1979 Jeep CJ7. 360 V8, quadratrac
transfercase.
Beautiful weather with a break in the
heat just after a thunderstorm.
Jumped in the Jeep and hit just some
simple existing dirt tracks.
Tumble weeds (green) growing down
the center. I didn't make it 100 yds
down the chosen path.
The Jeep slowly strained against any
power applied.
Shut it down and crawled underneath.
Two balls of weeds (wrapped around
both driveshafts) stopped forward
momentum.
Looking back down the path showed
weeds being plucked from their roots.
Walked a couple miles from the house
for a screwdriver to pry the weeds
from the driveshafts.

 

[kiwigtx]

Damn....them is tough weeds.

 

[dodgeboy440]

A 1979 Jeep CJ7. 360 V8, quadratrac
transfercase.
Beautiful weather with a break in the
heat just after a thunderstorm.
Jumped in the Jeep and hit just some
simple existing dirt tracks.
Tumble weeds (green) growing down
the center. I didn't make it 100 yds
down the chosen path.
The Jeep slowly strained against any
power applied.
Shut it down and crawled underneath.
Two balls of weeds (wrapped around
both driveshafts) stopped forward
momentum.
Looking back down the path showed
weeds being plucked from their roots.
Walked a couple miles from the house
for a screwdriver to pry the weeds
from the driveshafts.

It’s the Alien Fertilizer ET left behind !

 

[PlymCrazy]

These guys could use that screwdriver of yours too @1STMP

 

[1STMP]

These guys could use that screwdriver of yours too @1STMP

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I really like this, and I can relate!
S#it happens.

 

[fesser]

I think I would have tried backing up for a bit. But mainly because I am too lazy to walk that far for a screwdriver. Beer maybe.

 

[1STMP]

I think I would have tried backing up for a bit. But mainly because I am too lazy to walk that far for a screwdriver. Beer maybe.

Didn't realiize what was going on 'till
it happened. Rest assured, beer
entered the equasion....

 

[1STMP]

I think I would have tried backing up for a bit. But mainly because I am too lazy to walk that far for a screwdriver. Beer maybe.

They were wound tight enough where
backing up would have done no good.
The Jeep couldn't move.
The beer was cold, and I enjoy a good
walk....

 

[1967coronet]

As a kid I got caught out on a level B road in a old F85 olds, flat rear tire. Had the tire iron and spare but no freaking jack.
Had to round up some rocks and stack/ wedge under the axle .
Busted the nuts loose then started digging lol. I never ran without a jack again.
Bet you will have a few tools from now on

 

[kiwigtx]

These guys could use that screwdriver of yours too @1STMP

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Where do those guys get those snazzy shades?

 

[MarPar]

Where do those guys get those snazzy shades?

Devo

 

[kiwigtx]

Devo

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[SlingLow]

As a kid I got caught out on a level B road in a old F85 olds, flat rear tire. Had the tire iron and spare but no freaking jack.
Had to round up some rocks and stack/ wedge under the axle .
Busted the nuts loose then started digging lol. I never ran without a jack again.
Bet you will have a few tools from now on

That happened to me on a logging road when I borrowed my brother's 63 Ford pickup to take a buddy bow hunting back in my twenties. We propped a log across the drainage ditch on the side of the road, drove the straight axle onto it, then dug out enough to replace the tire. When I got home, I asked my brother what kind of dumbass carries a spare with no jack. He told me that I had borrowed that jack a month ago and hadn't givern it back to him yet. D'oh!

 

[PlymCrazy]

That happened to me on a logging road when I borrowed my brother's 63 Ford pickup to take a buddy bow hunting back in my twenties. We propped a log across the drainage ditch on the side of the road, drove the straight axle onto it, then dug out enough to replace the tire. When I got home, I asked my brother what kind of dumbass carries a spare with no jack. He told me that I had borrowed that jack a month ago and hadn't givern it back to him yet. D'oh!

 

[dodgeboy440]

Where do those guys get those snazzy shades?

.........

Public To Know Who They Really Are ……

ET Phone Home in Roswell.

Just IMO of course !

 

[kiwigtx]

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Unbelievably....only a half hour or so after posting this, a woman walks past my house with two Whippets..... Whippet good.

 

[MarPar]

Unbelievably....only a half hour or so after posting this, a woman walks past my house with two Whippets..... Whippet good.

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[kiwigtx]

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[1STMP]

I guess tumble weeds are my nemesis.
A few years prior to the driveshaft
wrap....
1978 Jeep Grand Wagoneer.
Happened upon a huge pile of dry
tumble weeds blocking the road
after a major windstorm.
Thought it would be a hoot to haul
*** through the mountain.
Couldn't have been a more stupid
move.
They not only completely stopped
the Jeeps' forward momentum,
they started smoking after being
jamed up under the hood with coming
into contact with the headers.
Full panic mode....
Shifted to R and gave it everything
she had. Couldn't tell if the smoke
was from the tires or the weeds.

 

[PlymCrazy]

Around 1992 I had a '76 Buick LeSabre. Just a rust bucket of a car, but it ran well. I was around 18yo and paid $600 for it IIRC.
One Saturday morning I was driving through the city to work and ran over an empty, large black plastic garbage bag that was blowing across the street.
By the time I arrived to the shop I worked at, I could smell gear oil.
That plastic bag wrapped itself around the rear u-joint and rear end.
It only cost me replacing the seal and topping off the gear oil in the rear end.
But 30+ years later I am always cautious to avoid hitting plastic bags flying through the streets.
I'm always looking in the rearview mirror to make sure those bags are still blowing through the street behind me when I pass them, and not stuck under my car.