well fellas I rolled the rinny today for the first time. I started up a hill climb and once at the top the right front hit a rock. bounced the front up and kicked it to the left. as it rolled I looked over my shoulder and checked the downside of the hill. no tree. I tried to bail but no way. four wheeler landed on me twice. then rolled down the hill for about 60 or so yds. damage report. rinny one bent right front rim. broke fender bent handle bars broke pod two bent racks. Bigben one heck of a sore knee and a few scuffs and bruises. had my helmet on and you can tell it hit ground hard.
if I say "let's see if we can make it" stop me next time.
http://www.bigbenshaus.com/oops.wmv
Yep, and the kids get mad when they have to take a safety course in order to operate them.
Sounds like you made it out lucky :wink:
My buddy Ed rolled his a few years ago and did not know it till the xrays but he broke his back.....If you did not, please get checked out. Glad youe still with us.
This wasn't your normal roll over that's for sure. This area is nothing but rocks, I'm still shaking my head that Ben nor his quad were not out of commisson.
Ben you're a lucky guy a tough one at that. I'm glad your still sucking air and will be able to ride another day.
I do gotta tell ya though it was cool watching your $7,000 Rincon roll down the hill bouncing off of rocks and stumps. :laf:
bootmud
I think I already said it in another thread somewhere........ those 4 wheelers are hail on rotator cuffs! Been there and done that one, bigben. :eyebrownod:
Glad you came though it OK. :congrats:
Semp
no kiddin, glad we can view the video and you sitting there breathing. Take it easy man !! Thats too many hours of workin your hind end off to pay for that toy, you're gonna need it more this fall/winter !!
tell ya the first thing I thoght was damn I got a 7000 dollar fourwheeler that looks like it is 10 years old now. I am glad bootmud and some other friends were there. lookin back I did make it out lucky. the fourwheeler probably sustained about a 1000 dollars of damage depending on what I get replaced. the pod that got broke is the most expensive at 250 dollars. the racks can be bent again and fender that is broke has the camo peeling so the panels should get replaced at no cost. now the bumps and bruises in other places are showing up. I got a red mark goin from under my left part of my chest to my sternum thank god no broke ribs. and on both shoulders I got imprints of stuff. I rode over my head and shouldn't of tried it. I guess the only thing I can do not is bend the racks back along with the wheel and fix the pod and handle bars. takereasy for a bit and invest in stock with advil. mom said aren't ya gonna go to the emergency room. nope I know it aint nothing but sore muscles.
boot
hope you guys had a better day then I did. I got back to the truck and just sat in the front seat for a few minutes just taking it easy. gonna be hurtin tommarow.
I have only gone over backwards a couple times. Both I bailed and the quad never touched me! :whew:
But I haven;t had the happen to me since I now ride a POLARIS.
Glad your ok! coulda been real bad!
I tell ya what mike bring yer polaris down here and we will see. he just had to go there didn't he. I am just messin with ya mike. I should said no way. half way up I said dang this is steep. I tell ya it hurt a lot less then I thought I was gonna at this point after I looked back and seen the rocks.
It sounds like you are lucky to be around to post. Not in the hospital or the funeral home, and those are both good things.
Jerry
Quote from: Hawks Feather on August 03, 2008, 07:41:14 PM
It sounds like you are lucky to be around to post. Not in the hospital or the funeral home, and those are both good things.
Jerry
I've got to second Jerry's sentiments. You have been extended some grace from God. :whew:
Quote from: bigben on August 03, 2008, 07:23:06 PM
I tell ya what mike bring yer polaris down here and we will see. he just had to go there didn't he. I am just messin with ya mike. I should said no way. half way up I said dang this is steep. I tell ya it hurt a lot less then I thought I was gonna at this point after I looked back and seen the rocks.
I know you are messin around, I was also.
Yup I know the feeling, back when I rode a 400EX I had it out the first time and climbed this steep hill. At the top was some big roots from a pine tree. I hit those and went into a wheely. I couldn't save it and over backwards I went. I bailed and hit the ground and put my feet up expecting to try to stop the quad. Well it rolled right past me and landed at the base of the tree. My buds thought I was done for!
The only thing that happened is that my handle bars where off center. My big muscle bound friend cranked them back for me.
I have rolled the POLARIS on the frozen lake a couple of times.
I try not to ride past my ability, I have two babies that depend on me to bring home $ for food, and plus getting hurt HURTS!!!!
Glad your ok Ben.
Ben,
I'm glad you weren't hurt worse than what you were. A few years ago my neighbor's 13 year old daughter was killed when a ATV she was riding flipped and rolled back on her.
You were lucky !!!
Glad you're still young enough to bounce pretty well Ben!
allright fellas I got the front rack straightened. it was pretty much just pushed over to the one side and a little humped. about a quarter of a inch. heck it coulda been that way from the factory. got the meter glued and zip ties are holding it in place till it cures. the handle bars are pretty much fine. I thought they were bent more but since the pod was screwed up I could not really tell. I pulled the left side up about a half inch and pushed down the right about a half inch. I do got to loosen the left brake lever and rotate that up a few degrees too. only thing left is to take off the pod after the glue has dried and glue up the cracks and then reassemble the pod. the back rack needs tweaked a bit and the front wheel is not bent side to side like I originally thought. only a flat spot and it is rolled in a bit and it is throwing the side wall out. so in two weeks hopefully I will be ready to hit it again.
thanks for the well wishs. lookin back I can say I am glad that I am still here. I have cheated death twice now in my life and I can only thank the god lord. the first time was on a bycycle and was going down the back side of a moutian which is pretty much a down hill grade one mile length of road in the scouts. got to the bottom and tried to pedal a bit and when I did my foot slipped off. causing me to swerve till I endoed it and a handle bar actually penetrated my abdomen. they went into surgery saying that I had a 50% chance which means they really where not sure and if I did live it would be a long road to recovery because of taking out major organs. docs came out after a hour and mom thought they lost me. they said every thing was fine and nothing was hurt. ever since then mom has said I have somethin or someone lookin after me. I hope it is the big man in the sky.
Forget the bike for a min. How are you?
I done the same thing two years ago on the trapline, I got every muscle in my back pulled, sounds like you done alright, congrats on a safe (relativly) landing
What no duct tape :confused: What kind of redneck are you anyway :doh2:
Glad to hear your alright Ben. I'm even happier to hear you had a helmet on. I've known to many people get seriously injured or killed because they thought it wasn't cool to wear a helmet. It drives me nuts when I see kids riding those things without protection.
Hope you're back in the saddle again soon,
Steve
He won't reply. He now goes by.......... Bigbent :biggrin:
^^^^ :roflmao: :roflmao: :roflmao:
im livin still which is the main thing. knee is still stiff but not really sore. my left arm hurts more then anything now. I must have hurt my detoid muscle because evertime I try to lift my arm away from my body to put a tool in the machine it feels like it is pulled. I just hope my arms are healed up enough to go blue fishin in another week now. I have been trying to keep moving so I don't get too stiff. last time I had a knee injury I sat around and stayed off it and I could hardly walk. I hope by this weekend that it will be back to normal.
I'm glad you're OK as well. :wink:
If it were me I would look into some tests on that defective wing. Almost sounds like you tore a rotator cup or whatever those things are in your arm to shoulder joint. :wink:
nah I am sure it is a muscle ache. nothing more. it is four or so inchs below the shoulder joint.
Hairline crack??? :wo:
Quote from: Semp on August 03, 2008, 06:55:47 PM
I think I already said it in another thread somewhere........ those 4 wheelers are hail on rotator cuffs! Been there and done that one, bigben. :eyebrownod:
Glad you came though it OK. :congrats:
Semp
Quote from: HaMeR on August 05, 2008, 08:00:10 AM
I'm glad you're OK as well. :wink:
If it were me I would look into some tests on that defective wing. Almost sounds like you tore a rotator cup or whatever those things are in your arm to shoulder joint. :wink:
Definitely get that checked out, bigben. If it is a torn rotator cuff, they can fix it now. But the longer you wait the worse it gets.
Good luck.
Semp
If it heals wrong like my hip did when I broke it on an ATV......... It will really be more pain than if ya just get checked out.
well fellas got it back to somewhat resonable shape. the front tires look like they are bent in at the bottom but that is because I just took the jack out from under it and did not compress the suspension. the front rim is gonna have to wait till I can get it to a tire machine. rear end is good to go.
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if it aint better buy sunday I will be heading to the docs monday mornin. I think it might have been the way I slept last night. I was watchin tv and I found out taking pain pills and then havin a beer or two will make you :sleep: and I had my arm behind my head. when I woke up in the middle of the night I got it tangled in my head board somehow and was twisted funny. dont ask me how.
I hope you are right Ben. I really do. I like Semp & Als advice too. Thats a lot of pain to learn to live with. It's even worse if you get hooked on pain killers. I hope they find all is well & that the muscles are just beat the hell up. Could be a cracked up rib too. I know for a fact those sumbitches hurt when you lift your arm above your shoulder. Had 2 of em at different times & they flat out suck!!
I'm pulling for you to be in good shape when you get checked out Ben!! :yoyo:
Hang in there ben. Hope all turns out well for you.
Jim
That looks like a fairly light weight 4wheeler. I crashed my grizzly 600 twice in 2 days... BIGTIME!! The first episode was at this construction site. My brother and I were playing in the run off ponds and i decided to climb the embankment and jump it goin about 40. It wasn't until airborne that i realized my fate. The contractor had already dug the trenches in which the pipes would be laid for the houses. Well what goes up must come down and thats exactly what i did. Nose first into a 3ft trench. I braced my arms as hard as possible but still went face first into the lip of the trench and i was LIGHTS OUT!! My brother dragged me out of the trench and apparently panicked while i was out. I came to and had a busted mouth and a real bad case of the shakes for the ride home.
The next day, i came back to investigate what happened. I climbed the hill only to find another trench at the very edge. No way to turn around so i rolled back down the hill and flipped backwards off a peninsula that devided two run off ponds. 800lbs landed right on my chest and sank my ass into the mud. Nothing broke either time on me or the grizzly. Bent the racks and the bash plate. I got a some black and blue. Neither of these hold a candle to the time that i went 70 into a telephone pole, my arms went through the passenger seat, ripped the upper half of the seat off and went through the windshield. I landed in a field about 20yds ahead of the car. That ended my football scholarship and athletics in general. I WEAR MY SEATBELT NOW.
Ben, I'm glad to hear ya made it alright. You might pick a softer place to crash next time :nono:
all healed up pretty much. arm doesn't hurt I have a severly bruised muscle in my right arm but I knew that. my knee has me worried more then anything now. I have kind of a pop in my knee depending on how I bend it. I use to be able to pop my knees when I was a kid because of playing baseball and being a catcher. when I got older the only time they started to pop was when I was bending my knees a lot. a few years ago I fell and caught a plow blade under my left knee cap and it got big and swollen and acted much like my right knee is now. I have been putting ice on it nightly and staying off it but to make a long story short gonna probably head to the docs monday mornin. the biggest thing I hate is the last time I was in the doctors office for a tick that wouldn't come out and they decided to check the normals high blood pressure colesterol sugar and such. had to go get a blood test then had to come back into the office for a followup on the tick but they could not tell me anything about the blood test. came in a week later and they said everything was fine but they wanted to see me down at 225 lbs. I told em that aint gonna happen. If I can make it down to 275 I would be at ideal weight. I weigh 350 right now. I know for a fact that my right knee has been givin me problems for three or more years. pretty much since I started to actually just sit at a machine and run it instead of running all over the shop doing work like before. if I stand for too long my right knee hurts and feels like it does now. not sure if the accident made a difference or not. I have been sittin on the stool at work a bit more and tryin to stay off it. the last three days even though I was stiff I have been out help dad with yard work to get ready for a party next month. had to lay a bunch of pavers also and that was hell on my knees back and arms. so I can't imagine that the roll did not just amplify things.
Thank God youre finnaly going to go...........prayers sent for ya weither you want em or not. :wink: