For the DDC 4wd didn't do him much good
RUSS!!!!
How dare you bogart my facebook pics!
Well I guess the cats out of the bag.
Even tho Mater looks like an 86, he's actually a 2007.
Gotta love built titles.
But yup he's rust free.
So to defend myself, I went over to my parents and had discovered that my dad was having just as bad a day as I did.
He stripped out the splines on his snowblower so the nice guy I was I decided to plow his drive and nearly ran over my dad backing up as he was wearing a dark blue jumpsuit!
We got a dumping of 10" of heavy wet snow. Not the easiest to push around with an empty F-250.
Well I cleared the main drive then chose to clear a path to their barn.
This is where the night really went south.
The path has a slight slope and yup the snow was greasy. As soon as I pulled the blade up, I felt the truck slip a little, I started backing up and with L/S axles front and rear, Mater crab walked right into the pile of wet snow and beyond. Well trying to get the truck moving again, the plow brackets proceeded to act as an anchor and stuck firmly into the soft wet sand and down it went.
A little short fused from a very bad day at work didn't help matters much. I keep a shovel in the truck for such purposes of cleaning off the blade and anything else that may crop up.
I cleared out all of the snow from under the truck and tires and tried again. Only to dig deeper. By this time total frustration had kicked in and a few loud choice words I gave up and headed for the house. Left the keys in it and everything after digging 6" down into the dirt to get to the release pins for the plow.
I told my folks that if the neighbors asked about what had happened to just apologize for me and had mom take me and the kids home.
The next day it tok my buddies LS 9000 wrecker 2 different pulls and 30 minutes to get it dug out and was commended for such a fine job at burrying the evidence.
Due to the position of the truck, I had perfectly parallel parked it between a wood pile and the woods, so a sideways pull was needed to get some angle to get it out, in the process, the tires did get a little over extended and Mater is now slightly pigeon toed.
Oh well, more reason to finish rebuilding that light D44 front axle, unless I can score a D60.
That heavy Western and the 6.9 makes for too much weight on a stock 44 which originally had a 460 and beign worked hard.
Oh well, the plow is off the truck now hopefully for the rest of the year cause work in the shop has been great! Thanks Darrin!
And to keep on title subject, yup 2 wheel drive diesels are worthless in my neck of the woods. Got more pics to show what they do to my yard.
4 IDI's running in the yard, quite the view!
