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I once ran over a fence post that was hooked to barbed wire and drug it behind me as the wire caught my back bumper .I did not know it until I got waved down after getting back on the county road from crossing a cow pasture from fishing in a creek.

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Now that's a mess that I wouldn't want to have to clean up.

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Had this happen to a nephew a few years back. He was driving a Chevy Colorado and he was stuck on the side of the interstate until someone stopped with some wire cutters to lend.

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All of them staring at it...priceless.

Put it in reverse and floor it!

-klb

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You are not going to cut some of that wire with regular wire cutters. That is spring steel and it is tough. I would just get the torch out.....

LockDoc

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Exactly right! A torch was my first thought. I've cut that kind of wire by hand with wire cutters before, and it isn't any fun.

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Here's what I would be using (the tool, not the exhaust tube):

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Good grief, wonder how long that took to remove...

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If that happened at night can you imagine the light show that would have made.

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It was easy,,, as a loop in the barbed wire was all that was hooked to my rear bumper ,,it was my old 39 Chevy that I was driving and the bumper stood out from the rear panel of the car,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,so I just slid the wire off the bumper at the end

As I look at the mattress wire wrapped around the drive shaft in the photo above ,,I can only guess the rear springs and shocks must of givin the room for such a large wrap of wire between the the floor of the car and the drive line
The car must of looked like what we used to call one a the Dago Look (sp)

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Had that happen to a dump truck at work. got an old chain link fence section tangled up in the DS between the two tandem axles at the dump, what a mess, ripped wires, air lines, everything.

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a former boss called and said he blew up the motor in the shop truck. I drove over to look and it started like normal and idled perfect. he said no it knocks like hell when you drive it. so I drove it, heard the knocking, borrowed a steak knife and cut off the nylon strap that had fallen between the cab and bed and gotten wrapped around the driveshaft.

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That would scare a fella some until he found out.. good for you ,,that he got it figgered out in a hurry..I have heard of friends connecting a plastic bag to another friends drive line and sit back and watch the fun as he scratched his head raw thinking what could that be,,

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Few years back my wife headed to town in the little car. She called me from the highway, said it was making a horrible noise as soon as she got on the highway and started picking up speed. I told her turn around and drive real slow back to the parking area at the junction and I would drive down there (10 miles).

I figured a FWD CV axle had gone to pieces. But no, all winter the tires had been rubbing on ice and frozen mud under the fenders and the inside edge of one tread was all ground off. A piece of rubber about 18" long had come loose on one end, and as soon as she got over 30 mph started whapping the inside of the fender. I whacked it off with my pocket knife and had her drive back home. I took it down and got new tires a few days later, after swapping that tire to the back just in case.

Another time long before that, we were going down the canyon in her VW and heard a ticking noise when going around curves, either right or left don't remember which one or the other but not both. So I stopped and there was a nail about 3" long sticking out of one tire and when the car leaned that way on a curve it would hit the fender. I yanked it out and it didn't even leak. The nail was just stuck sideways into the edge of the tread and then bent up.

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zip ties on the driveshaft is a good one.

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One of our crews sent a laborer after something a the storage yard in a Ram dually. On the way across a hay field, he straddled a fresh row of raked hay.

The hay wound around the driveline until it stalled the Cummins six speed. It tore up a bunch of stuff including regen lines and some wires.

I wish that was the only thing the kid tore up.

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Same happened to me. I heard the ticking on near full lock right and left turns in my parking garage at work. Ignored it. This was after installing a big brake kit from Baer.

A few months later I had total brake failure when the passenger front steel braided brake line failed. I was extremely lucky that there was no post brake fail crash. Inspection of the failure revealed that the balancing weight on the inside of the wheel was contacting the brake line at near full lock turns. Right turns were "ticking" on the drinker side and left turns were ticking on the driver side.

Lesson learned.

-klb

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When I was a pizza delivery guy, the kitchen guys and owner pulled that one on me with my 64 Impala. Pizza ended up being late, customer complained and no tip. Got even a couple of nights later when I snagged one of the hubcaps off of the owners new Caddy, put a couple of rocks from the parking lot in it with some water and popped it in the freezer. I slapped it back on before my last delivery on the way home as he would close up shop and leave as soon as I left.

It took a little time on his way home for the brakes to heat up the wheel, melting the ice and I will leave the noise to your imagination :lol:. Unfortunately, being the only guy who knew about cars in the place, he called me when I got home to come take a look. I drove my old 64 Impala over and let him in on the prank. Even though it backfired on me we both had a good laugh and I never had another "car prank" played on me again :lol:.

I couldn't imagine trying to deliver pizza in a '64 these days! :lol:

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Another kind of wind up ..either I forgot about this ,,or just never knew.. Or,,,my age maybe ,,:)

What causes driveline windup?
Driveline windup is also known as "axle binding" or "driveline binding". Mechanical components in the drivetrain of vehicles may bind and wear, which may occur when tires of varying sizes are used on one vehicle. It is a particular issue in 4WD cars with tires having varied tread patterns or brands.

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You don't say...?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LG4QHV8ddtg

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That limb jammed in the undercarriage reminded me of a story I read some years ago about a

guy who was driving down a highway at night and ran over something that made a big noise under his car along with a bump upwards a bit,,like it pole vaulted the car a foot up from the highway.

As he kept driving he noticed his butt started feeling like a burn and when he put his hand down there ,,,he came out with blood on it

He found out after stopping that a piece of metal like a leaf spring had jammed a hole through floor metal and right up into the car seat and the pointed end just penetrated his butt enough that it stung and the bled some .

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I've seen barbed wire and wire fencing wound up on trucks on farms not that bad . I had a plastic bag take out the pinion seal on my 87 suburban on a camping trip in Delaware. Bag wound up on the driveshaft and worked it's way down to the ujoint and pinion where it melted and got into the seal . Truck started smoking from the gear oil hitting the exhaust pulled luckily into a lot that was next to a Chevy dealer. They had the seal and I did it in the lot . Parts guy said it happened at least 5 times a month .

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Along those lines, when I used to carpool to work, the gal driving that day ran over what appeared to be a plastic bag like you would see a new mattress or something in. I rode behind her, because she was short, and the other guy couldn't ride in the back "because he would get car sick". So I didn't see that the bag had wrapped around the rotor on the passenger's side when I got out of the car, since I was on the driver's side. But when they came to pick me up to go home, there was that plastic bag, all balled up. I enlisted the other guy and had her drive backwards while we unwound it. He never said a word about it being there, in spite of the fact that he HAD to have seen it, at least when getting in to go home. That guy actually was pretty much of a jerk.

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Imagine trying to explain that one at the ER !

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Two stories about metal and mortality.

One of our neighbors knows a person who had a prybar come through the windshield, narrowly missing their head, and embedding itself through the headrest, into the back seat.

Second is a story from China where the piston in the raise/lower mechanism came out of the cylinder and jammed it you-know-where, and killed the kid sitting in the chair. There is a metal plate in them now to avoid this result.

I read a book many years ago that was written by a ER doc, and some of the things he saw just defy belief, and are NSF this website.