I smucked a nice little fork buck in velvet Friday night with my truck doing about 70mph :(
Coming back from picking my girls up for the weekend.
I gotta say some people hate those anti-lock brakes, but I think they have saved me more then once. You cant help but to panic and mash that pedal to the floor.
As many deer as I have hit up here I find it amazingly uncanny how everything is always timed just right so the front of the vehicle and the deer meet at the exact same time. A split second either way could cause a near miss, but nooooooooo....everything lines up perfectly every time :S
The ole F150 took it pretty well. Smashed up the headlight, bent the bumper slightly, and shoved the front corner panel back just enough to prevent me from opening the driver side door.But amazingly enough not a lot of visual damage.
But it still broke my heart. I'm pretty passionate about my trucks and stuff like this hits me pretty hard. :(
I told the kids, that was the last deer I was going to shove down the highway with my bug shield. :iroll: Next truck I'm getting a brush-guard from hell.
Aw, Jim, I feel for you.
The Australians have the ultimate cow catchers on every vehicle outside of major cities. Google a look. Huge tubular steel guards that protect the front and extend past the sides. They hit so many kangaroos that every rig has them, and the big grey 'roos are about the size of a mule deer doe. A friend called them jumper bumpers. They look funny on a new Mercedes.
Got a truck & deer story. A friend of mine bought a new Ford 4x4 pickup, and the first day he had it he took his younger brother for a drive. In rolling farmland on paved road they saw some deer in a field and a fork horn buck started trotting toward the road. My friend wasn't driving very fast so he stopped dead still to let the buck go ahead of him and avoid any chance of getting a scratch from the buck on his new truck. Doggone if the buck didn't swerve a bit as it jumped the fence and ran smack into the passenger side door, putting big gouges in the metal with its antlers. The buck staggered off and my friend's brother was trying to keep from laughing. The truck owner's name: Jim. You guys have bad luck!
I believe those anti lock brakes have saved my bacon a time or two as well. Especially in a swerve onto the wed median grass strip to avoid the wreck that had just happened in front of us on a 65MPH highway. :whew:
It doesn't sound like the truck got hit too hard tho. Have you popped,, or tried to :eyebrow: ,, the hood yet? :shrug:
Maybe Barry might have some parts he can loan ya. :biggrin:
:sad2: Not the FORD, man that sucks big time... :sad3:
plus... now I've got this darn tune stuck in my head... :doh2:
:innocentwhistle: Jimbo got run over by a reindeer while coming home late Friday night....... :innocentwhistle:
It'll be OK Jim!! I found out just how tough those Fords are & thought I would share it with you. I hope this commercial brings a little joy to your life right now as I'm sure you have your head stuck in that damn bottle again. :innocentwhistle:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3j-qy1s1RIM
Sorry about the incident, Jim, but glad you are o.k.
The bottle uh? :laf:
Oh yeah...I forgot I'm the board lush :doh2:
I never seen that commercial but it sounds just like "those other guys".
The only damage to the hood is luckily behind the bug shield which flexed enough it has a hole in it now instead of being shattered.
Me and the oldest daughter went out yesterday morning and unbolted the fender and slid it ahead where it belonged, to allow the driver door to open. You could see from the scraped paint under the washers that had got shoved back about 1/4 inch.
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I have no problems believing that story Okanagan. You can help but to wonder sometimes with those deer. :laf:
I've heard of the push bars from across the drink, but I've never seen one. I think they call them Bull Bars dont they? I'll have to look em up.
I hate it when this happens. At least you could still drive it and got some time with the girls.
Jerry
Jim just mount a scraper blade up front that should take care of those rascals.
No worries. That will buff right out!
Glad to hear you're OK Jimbo.
Yeah what FOs said!! :yoyo: :yoyo:
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Yeah that's not too bad for the speed you were traveling. Couple new parts & you're good to go. :yoyo: :yoyo: Just don't forget to readjust your headlight ^^ a little. :eyebrownod: :eyebrownod:
The good thing is it was a Ford and not a good Chevy! If I was taking a chance every time I drove of hitting a deer I would buy a ford too! :biggrin:
I would much rather you bend up your bumper than swerve off the road and hit a tree or worse....
Sorry about your truck....And the deer.
I figure about $2000 will fix that little bump right up.
Glad you are OK.
Wendy, If I had been driving any Chevrolet product at the time, they'd be shoveling up the remains of a nice looking 45 year old man, and his two beautiful teenage daughters from the highway, with a stick and a spoon. :laf:
The ONLY reason there's not a lot of visual damage, and the mere fact that we were able to drive away unhindered in anyway other then spiritually, is owed entirely to the Ford Tough infrastructure of a well built, durable, git r done and keep on going truck.
Oh and did I mention best selling truck in the world for 34 straight years running? :sneer:
By the way if you were trying to lift my spirits, it worked. :biggrin:
I told my youngest daughter today, Dad's truck looks like it's crying with one droopy eye. She's says I dont think it's the truck crying
:doh2: :laf:
:confused: :shrug: :confused: Don't all Fords look like that? :innocentwhistle:
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Man! I wish I had been sharp enough to come up with that one :bowingsmilie:
All jokes aside Jimbo, Im glad you and your babies are good and safe and if it took an ole ragged ass ford for that to be the case Im glad thats what you were driving :congrats: but I wouldnt make it a habit cause I think its just a fluke :innocentwhistle:
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No Art...they dont all look like that. Your confusing us with that Bowtie family :doh2: Now those are some garbage.
Wendy, we seen another truck today that looked like it pushed a woodchuck down the highway, on the back of a flat bed recovery vehicle, it was a chibby.
I told the girls, us Ford drivers just keep our foot on the gas, never break stride, texting and drinking and barrel right through, dont even look up. Your safe in the Ford. :alscalls: :alscalls:
Here's a link to some Aussie bull bars. These are kind of wimpy and cosmetic looking, but they were harder to find on the internet than I expected and I didn't google at it very long.
http://www.oaq.com.au/
I was there maybe ten years ago and compared to all that I found for sale on the web, the locals must have been building most of the ones I saw on outback roads. They were massive, without the slightest nod to looks. The closest are the bottom row of pictures in the link, left and right bottom corner photos. Picture those guards without any angles or wrap around the front kind of cosmetic bends, just straight across the front, sticking out slightly wider, made of heavier steel and probably a bit rusty or painted black!
Serious rancher roo bars!
Check these out, on town cars! http://www.stevekuo.com/bullbars/
Heck I think a guy could make one of those bad boys pretty easily, Okanagan :laf:
QuoteThere's been a push by the Australian government to ban these attachments as they can cause tremendous injury to pedestrians
I have to agree with the Australian government. The front of a truck is much softer without that bull bar. :innocentwhistle: :alscalls:
Don't forget to add one of these to your bull guard... Great for collecting BBQ fodder. :laf:
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If you put one of those on your pickup, (there are a lot of them around here), your Ford would look like it has braces. :innocentwhistle:
I will try to catch Brad H and find out who built his. It is custom made and doesn't look like a set of braces. I'm sure it is far stronger too.
I dont care what it looks like. It looks better than twisted up body panels, zip ties, and duct tape. I dont know how people can drive that junk.
I'll prolly get laughed at for having it on a two wheel drive also...but I promise I'll sleep just fine :eyebrownod:
More gov't involvement..........Yeah, thats what everyone needs. :rolleye:
These are expensive, but they are work very good from what I've seen around here.
http://www.truckaccessorypro.com/browse.cfm/2,1421.html
Those are like extra SHARP Art, and you aint a lying about pricey :innocentwhistle: Whooooooooooooo!
I finally found a headlight, no thanks to Bill :innocentwhistle: :laf:
Seen a '90' setting in a bone yard yesterday after work. I stopped and asked them about it, and they said "take er, $20 bucks".
I'm gonna go down to the graveyard this morning and do some surgery before they put the old girl to rest. :biggrin:
I am glad to hear you found a head light
it made me feel bad that I couldn't give you the one out of my
truck yeah right :laf:
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If I coulda got that kink out of the bumper it woulda been like brand new. I couldnt get that thing to budge though :doh2:
Better be careful backing that out or you will need a new driver side. :innocentwhistle:
It looks like it is raining there. Can you send some of it our way and a LOT of it down to Fos?
Jerry
"If I coulda got that kink out of the bumper it woulda been like brand new. I couldnt get that thing to budge though"
Just hit it with another deer. :alscalls:
Did ya paint the grill black or did ya get another one
QuoteIf I coulda got that kink out of the bumper it woulda been like brand new. I couldnt get that thing to budge though :doh2:
Remember the old saying that "If it don't fit don't force it. Just get a bigger hammer!!" :biggrin: :biggrin:
Your repair work looks 1st rate. :eyebrow:
Neither, Bill :nono:
That lower trim piece under the grill, I replaced. The old one (top two pics) was maroon and mangled and it said EFI under the headlight.
The new one is black, unmangled, and says 4X4 under the headlight :eyebrow: :laf:
When I was at the bone yard taking out the headlight, I seen how easy it was to replace that piece once the headlights were out. So I grabbed that too.
It seems like a little too much black up there, but what the heck, it's not mangled, and after all...it's nothing more then a battering ram for hooved rats. :huh:
I'll probably be shoving another one down the highway before spring anyway, and we can change colors up again. :laf:
Ewwww man that is not funny :doh2:
It didnt pay first rate rates though HaMeR :laf:
It does look good yes you have to watch out for them deer I have never hit one with the car or the pick up but have had them run into the side of the semi before :nono:
:thumb2: Good looking job... just a bit of work and a little TLC, almost as good as new!
FYI :wo: We may have found the culprit that ran you over... :huh:
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LOL! :laf: That definitely be him Chet :eyebrownod:
He came from the left though, so the Ford emblem must have went all the way through him. I didnt realize that though.
I was just going through my Ford inventory and found a chrome grill that will fit your truck
It won't fit mine or I would be using it
:laf: Aint a 12 pack of BL 1st rate anymore?? :shrug:
:alscalls: :alscalls:
My grill's cracked but it's not cracked all the way through enough to be broke, Bill. But I appreciate the gesture.
HaMeR...well it might be, but I couldnt trade Budlight's for the parts.
I guess I didnt try either. :laf:
:laf: :laf:
Well your work still looks good. And that's a better looking grill too. :biggrin:
My baby's wounded AGAIN! :mad2:
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I thought I put a pic of this up in November when it happened. Another freekin deer :doh2:
I'm gonna start cutting her apart tomorrow. Thats what made me think about it.
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Jim,
When you hear people say that venison is less expensive than hamburger I think they mean when they get one hunting. NOT when you use your truck.
Jerry
I hit a deer yesterday morning square with my grand cherokee. Busted the grill and bumper up even tho it was only hit going 30 mph. I feel for ya jim
I've seen more dead deer along the roads this Spring than I seen live ones all of last year it seems like. :rolleye: I think this time of year they are after the road salt & spend a lot more time next to the roads. :shrug: :shrug:
Could be worse...
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The important thing is nobody got hurt. Now you have a reason to get rid of that Ford and buy a Tundra.
Undergoing surgery. I was going to pose in the pic with a sterile face mask on but the girls wouldnt cooperate :rolleye:
In fact this is it until I get them to help hold the new bumper up while I bolt it back on. :doh2:
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Fos is that a deer?!!? Holy crap.
No Toyotas in this driveway John :nono:
F O R D fix and repair Deerly.
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Yeppers, that be a deer.
There was a series of photo's circulating a few years ago of a NASCAR car that hit a coyote at 190mph. Sucked it right in just like the deer above!
You need to install a solid front bumper that's angled in such a way in that if a deer is hit, it'll just flip up over the truck. :laf:
Jim you better get that new bumper on quick cause looks like cancer is about to take her over :hahaha: Steve--Get a DODGE
Don't let em rattle ya none Jim!! Looks like you really pounded that deer!! You HAD to have been travelling at what 12,, maybe 14MPH to do that much damage??!! Why you hit it so hard it knocked the top of the REAR fenders outta your truck!!! Now that's how ya build a solid frame!! :biggrin: :biggrin:
BTW-- You really need a Z71 Silverado!! :eyebrow: :eyebrow:
You sunzabitches :argh: :alscalls:
Ready for next deer season!
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Looks good Jim, its my turn now i hit one yesterday morning. I missed the herd and got the stray.
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:doh2: Seriously!? Oh man that sucks.
How bad? Insurance paying for it? or are you DIY'ing it?
Only difference I see in those pics is someone stole your airwrench. :shrug: :shrug:
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Quote from: HaMeR on March 27, 2014, 06:17:24 AM
Only difference I see in those pics is someone stole your airwrench. :shrug: :shrug:
:laugh2: :laugh2:
Glen, this is wrong on oh so many levels. But it is funny!
Jerry
Jim, riverboss has a leg up you he is a true BODYMAN [ full time] so his will be fixed correctly. Steve,
Quote from: linemansteve on March 27, 2014, 02:40:47 PM
Jim, riverboss has a leg up you he is a true BODYMAN [ full time] so his will be fixed correctly. Steve,
OUCH!! :alscalls: :alscalls:
Jim is going to learn to not make posts like this. He just puts a great big old target on himself when he does this. :innocentwhistle: O.K. so who shoots the next arrow at the target?
Jerry
No jim i will not be useing my insurance, it is drivable i will get to it in time. I watched the deer run off but today i saw it was laying in the field just a few yards from were i last saw it last feedind the buzzards. I have most of the parts laying around at work so it wont be to bad.
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Steve... the "true BODYMAN [ full time]" already said..."good job Jim" ;yes;
And no one stole the Airgun HaMeR, I drove over it chasin a chevy out the driveway
Is that what its called up north? Down here if your you end up looking at someones back bumper that you were chasing it means you just lost. LOL. Sorry Jim i couldnt help my self this is Chevy country were i live.
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Dan I was pushing him. It wouldnt run. :laf:
I mean new bumper and all ya know...just as well do some pushing. :innocentwhistle:
:laf: :laf: @ Jim "pushing a Chevy with a Ford!!!!" The funniest thing we see around here is a Ford on the back of a Chevy powered roll back going up a steep hill. Best part is that no matter how many times we see that it's still so just damn funny!!!!!!! Downright hilarious when they drop it off at the top of the hill & it drives off under it's own power on the flat ground!!!! :alscalls: :alscalls:
:laf: :laf: That's good Glen, My new work truck is a Chevy, glad to get rid of the Ford I was forced to drive. Steve ( get a Dodge)
That's not good Steve...nothin good about it actually. lol
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Diane said that wasn't no damn deer!! It was a telephone pole that couldn't get out the way!! :alscalls: :alscalls:
Jim your baby seems alittle old, maybe its time to pull it from the titty.
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I had people at work say the same thing HaMeR. It did look like a pole hole. :laf: Except there was deer hair mashed in behind the license plate screws.
Dan she might be old but she's no where near as old as you, an I'm betting shes got a whole lot more giddy up in her gallop. :eyebrownod: :wink: Now quit pickin on er :sad3:
Diane says since she didn't see the deer hair she's inclined to think otherwise. Kinda like the old,, "If there aint pictures it didn't happen" thing. :alscalls: :alscalls:
Sure glad it's you feeling her wrath for a change!!!!! :yoyo: :yoyo:
Jim if i could get a tuneup im sure i could find my get up and go.LOL.
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http://www.adventure-journal.com/2014/04/moments-of-regret-how-not-to-cut-down-a-tree/
HaHa, Ford Tough!! I think that baby is more than just wounded!!
What could the dude have possibly been thinking when he cut the tree so it would fall in his truck?!!!! Apparently he wasn't thinking.
Good idea on loading except he left weight and physics out of the equation.
Wow...I cant believe he made it to the age he is without killing himself, being that fricken stupid. How do people so dumb make it that far in life?
Im sure he has 9 lives but i would say they have to be about gone. But look one the good side it was just a old ford! And he has made the road much safer. Now he is walking.
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Phffftttt! All he did was knock her outta park :shrug: That woulda flattened a Chevrolet :alscalls:
That would of flattend a box car.
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