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<blockquote data-quote="Shiftless" data-source="post: 3363731" data-attributes="member: 47472"><p>Its 2 am on a Saturday morning in the late 70's. I am parking trailers at an outlying center. All dark everyone gone. I decide I am going to hook up my empties in the street because it has been raining so hard and the yard was really small and my mirrors were virtually useless.</p><p></p><p>The street is about 1/2 mile long with one side street that teed into this long street which the building is almost at the end. On the the other side of the street is nothing but farmers fields. Cool part was there was a curb on that side of the street where the dirt went right up to the curb. No sidewalk, no lights, just farmed right up to the curb.</p><p></p><p>Again I have the engine at idle building air pressure while I am putting the set together. As I back up to put the gear on the back of the front box while lifting the nose of the gear to put it on the trailer I hear this weird sucking sound that when I drop the doughnut on the pintle hook it has my full attention. Sure enough I hear it again 10 seconds later than followed shortly after that a sound like a thud but a splat at the same time comes my way??? Take my flashlight and scan the field? Nothing! I turn and put the locking clasp down on the pintle hook, put the chains on and head up the drivers side of the trailer to hook them together. In typical nobody looking fashion whammo, bango, draggo, Cool I'm hooked! This time I shut the motor off. I walk back look under the 5th wheel on the gear, collar has come around and locking pin visible. Good To go! I back out all bent over to put my supply lines and light cord in but before I can touch anything between the trailer I hear that same sucking, mucking sound real close again with same thud splat noise, but this time I hear a groan noise! WTF! Whip my flashlight over the field and see nothing! Dont hear anything anymore? OK time to get the friend outta here this is ridiculous!!! I cant walk the right side of the trailer as they are right up to the curb. So I leave the middle of the trailers walk to the back, check my lights and air pressures and Bee line it back to the cab.</p><p></p><p>So I am in the cab for a couple minutes doing my time card when all of a sudden I look up and I see something coming out of the farmers muddy field about 6 feet ahead of tractor maybe a foot away from the curb. It lifts itself up from laying prone face first in the mud by its arms, then it pushes back to get to its knee's and then crawls over the curb and on to the street on its hands and knees still. So I start getting out of the truck and I climb down to help the guy who seems to be having a real hard day! I walk over to assist him and he tells me in an agitated voice in Spanish to leave him alone (at least that what I got out of it) as he pushing me away. He finally gets erect and wham down he goes on his first step, "Here let me help you are wasted" I tell him! The he says something "gringo *&^%" and I said cool you figure it out! He stands up erect again. He is in full dress mode right down to his pointed cowboy boots. Dude was DIALED IN! Just covered in mud everywhere. So now that he has the forward motion thought he starts to move and surprisingly even with 4 inches of mud stuck to the bottom of his boots that would every step leave a print and squish and squirm under him to the point of almost falling down he the wandered down the street.</p><p></p><p>I still can remember that sucking sound which I assume was him pulling his boot out of the mud to step and that thud, splash sound of what must of been his body and face getting planted.</p><p></p><p>So! Dont drink and Boot Scoot in farmers fields!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Shiftless, post: 3363731, member: 47472"] Its 2 am on a Saturday morning in the late 70's. I am parking trailers at an outlying center. All dark everyone gone. I decide I am going to hook up my empties in the street because it has been raining so hard and the yard was really small and my mirrors were virtually useless. The street is about 1/2 mile long with one side street that teed into this long street which the building is almost at the end. On the the other side of the street is nothing but farmers fields. Cool part was there was a curb on that side of the street where the dirt went right up to the curb. No sidewalk, no lights, just farmed right up to the curb. Again I have the engine at idle building air pressure while I am putting the set together. As I back up to put the gear on the back of the front box while lifting the nose of the gear to put it on the trailer I hear this weird sucking sound that when I drop the doughnut on the pintle hook it has my full attention. Sure enough I hear it again 10 seconds later than followed shortly after that a sound like a thud but a splat at the same time comes my way??? Take my flashlight and scan the field? Nothing! I turn and put the locking clasp down on the pintle hook, put the chains on and head up the drivers side of the trailer to hook them together. In typical nobody looking fashion whammo, bango, draggo, Cool I'm hooked! This time I shut the motor off. I walk back look under the 5th wheel on the gear, collar has come around and locking pin visible. Good To go! I back out all bent over to put my supply lines and light cord in but before I can touch anything between the trailer I hear that same sucking, mucking sound real close again with same thud splat noise, but this time I hear a groan noise! WTF! Whip my flashlight over the field and see nothing! Dont hear anything anymore? OK time to get the friend outta here this is ridiculous!!! I cant walk the right side of the trailer as they are right up to the curb. So I leave the middle of the trailers walk to the back, check my lights and air pressures and Bee line it back to the cab. So I am in the cab for a couple minutes doing my time card when all of a sudden I look up and I see something coming out of the farmers muddy field about 6 feet ahead of tractor maybe a foot away from the curb. It lifts itself up from laying prone face first in the mud by its arms, then it pushes back to get to its knee's and then crawls over the curb and on to the street on its hands and knees still. So I start getting out of the truck and I climb down to help the guy who seems to be having a real hard day! I walk over to assist him and he tells me in an agitated voice in Spanish to leave him alone (at least that what I got out of it) as he pushing me away. He finally gets erect and wham down he goes on his first step, "Here let me help you are wasted" I tell him! The he says something "gringo *&^%" and I said cool you figure it out! He stands up erect again. He is in full dress mode right down to his pointed cowboy boots. Dude was DIALED IN! Just covered in mud everywhere. So now that he has the forward motion thought he starts to move and surprisingly even with 4 inches of mud stuck to the bottom of his boots that would every step leave a print and squish and squirm under him to the point of almost falling down he the wandered down the street. I still can remember that sucking sound which I assume was him pulling his boot out of the mud to step and that thud, splash sound of what must of been his body and face getting planted. So! Dont drink and Boot Scoot in farmers fields! [/QUOTE]
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