sle2115
NRA LIFE MEMBER
When I worked at the college's main campus on grounds maintenance while going to school, I once saw a grader hit a 3 inch gas line! It was heading down a hill, fairly steep, but not too bad. It was probably 100 feet from a road, followed by a pretty good drainage ditch and then a set of railroad tracks. At any rate, the thing revved to what seemed like 8 or 9000 RPM's took off down that hill, crossed the road (fortunately no cars coming), through the ditch and the blade hung up on the second railroad track. On the other side was the Hocking River! The engine blew after jumping up and down violently on the track two or three times. All this probably took 20 seconds. I would have hated to be in front of that thing. As is revved, it blew a cloud of white smoke. The operator said he pushed the clutch, tried to rip it out of gear and everything, but apparently being on the hill and under such RPMs, it just kept going.