Posted by Aaron Ford on April 08, 2009 at 20:46:52 from (72.84.53.167):
Well, me and my 65...
Where to begin? The neighbor asked me to help him with some property cleanup and since it's within view of my house, I figured I would. He was removing an old above ground pool deck on a decent slope. The pool was set into the hillside. We began by pulling the front retaining wall made up of railroad ties. Then I backed down from above and pulled the deck off its supports and hauled it away. Next was to pull the 4x4s out of the ground that support the rear retaining wall. I began to drive around to pull from the area where the pool had been. The property owner asked if I could back down from above. No problem... I backed down the slope to the edge and he wrapped the chain around the post. I tensioned the chain by raising the box scraper and went to Low 1st and let out on the clutch.
That's where stuff went downhill fast.
The front end came up, I pressed the clutch and we went firing back toward the edge. I jumped on the brake, feathering the clutch, only to miss the right brake, but the left held. At this point I realized how stupid the whole thing was. What was I thinking? The rest of the job had been so easy and trouble-free that I really hadn't thought about what if something went wrong. Going backward over a 10 foot lip with no rops on top of vertical 4x4's is not my idea of how to spend a Sunday.
If I had been standing watching someone else try this I would have been the first to caution against it. What was I thinking?
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