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My son was helping me the other day put rear discs on the 67 halfcab and reminded me of an experience that could only happen to me.
I was pulling a trailer with my then almost new 99 Ford F250 LD, (the one with the 7 lug wheels), when I got a flat on the left rear. It was in a construction zone and I couldn't get totally into the emergency lane so I would have my son go down the road a ways and holler to me when there was a break in the traffic, (we were on a sharp curve).
Three of the lug nuts snapped off, three were galled but came off grudgingly, and the last one started spinning (the stud). I am in in the middle of nowhere and no way to get the last nut off. While doing inventory of my truck the best I could come up with was an ax. I really didn't think it would work but I tried chopping it off for about 10 minutes.
Realizing my woodsman skills were not going to do it I hiked up the closest mountain until I got cell service and called my oldest son. Several hours later he showed up with a sawzall and metal blades. There were no cordless ones then so he threw a generator in the back of his truck. We finally cut off the last nut and limped off the road with the remaining 3 lug nuts.
You can't roller skate in a buffalo herd and
You can't cut off a lug nut with an ax.
I was pulling a trailer with my then almost new 99 Ford F250 LD, (the one with the 7 lug wheels), when I got a flat on the left rear. It was in a construction zone and I couldn't get totally into the emergency lane so I would have my son go down the road a ways and holler to me when there was a break in the traffic, (we were on a sharp curve).
Three of the lug nuts snapped off, three were galled but came off grudgingly, and the last one started spinning (the stud). I am in in the middle of nowhere and no way to get the last nut off. While doing inventory of my truck the best I could come up with was an ax. I really didn't think it would work but I tried chopping it off for about 10 minutes.
Realizing my woodsman skills were not going to do it I hiked up the closest mountain until I got cell service and called my oldest son. Several hours later he showed up with a sawzall and metal blades. There were no cordless ones then so he threw a generator in the back of his truck. We finally cut off the last nut and limped off the road with the remaining 3 lug nuts.
You can't roller skate in a buffalo herd and
You can't cut off a lug nut with an ax.