I just saw a dude push-start a freakin' DUMP TRUCK!

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I’m outside, splitting wood, feeling all Manly for picking up huge rounds and slamming them down on the steel rail of the 6 hp logsplitter and working the hydraulic lever. Yeah, I’m a bad-ass lumberjack!

Then I look across the street. There’s this young guy, trying to get his 5-yard dump, about Nixon-era, started. It’s parked on a flat gravel driveway, hood up. He leaves the cab, walks out behind it, and pushes it forward!

:eek: How is this possible? Ignoring the obvious, how did he even get traction?

I can tell when the compression stroke comes as the truck kind of stutters, then rolls forward, and POP! It fires up, and slowly chugs forward*. The guy runs around, jumps into the cab, keeps it running, jumps out and shuts the hood and motors off!

:eek:

This guy probably has 2 girlfriends, ‘cause he’s too much man for one woman. Un-freakin’-believable.

*I know this can be done, which is why I **hated **that episode of Breaking Bad.

2

What was in the bed of the dumptruck? Just his massive ballsack?

3

And what about the “do not push” sign on the back?

4

Well, obviously he’s such a badass that he simply ignores such signs.

5

I’d say he’s too much man for mere women. He and his navy seal boyfriend probably climb grade 6 mountains and fight bears bare handed in their free time.

6

How did he pop the clutch with no one in the cab? Yeah trucks are heavy, but wheels do turn, have you never seen the guys who will pull big old planes with their teeth? Getting it to start moving is the hardest part.

7

And I thought I was cool for starting my 1957 Renault Daphine that way.

8

Did he look like this?

9

Somehow, I just knew that would be the image. But it couldn’t be - that person would just glare at the engine and it would tune itself up before starting.

10

What you didn’t see was his gf pushing on the right rear & then once he got it running she jumped in the passenger seat. In fast, she was doing 95% of the pushing. She’s a national champion caber tosser; I wouldn’t eff with her if I were you.

11

I wouldn’t bet against Spiderman’s ability to push-start a dump truck. :smiley:

12

His other girlfriend was probably a national champion caber catcher. She is meaner…

13

Well, sure, but not while the freaking plane is in gear!

Seriously, freewheeling is one thing but overcoming weight and engine compression is another entirely.

14

I bet this guy was playing Balzac on the stereo in the cab.

15

a diesel is super easy to push start since diesel is compression ignition anyway. put the tranny in high gear and give a good solid shove. I’m sure the girlfriends were helping ol’ Chuck with starting the truck though.

16

presumably his driveway sloped down and he only had to get it started.
eg because it had to go up a slight amount over a bump, and then its general download travel kept it going over any small bumps…

And he can start it in gear because a truck has a very low low gear…
its in the lowest, and so slow you can hear its separate strokes.

Even at regular idle speed for the engine, when its in low, he can catch the truck and jump in.

17

Is he somehow related to Chuck Norris?

18

Chefguy did the joke in post 8.

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Nope. Dead level, and gravel.

Yeah, I can push my e10’s and shit around like that, but a 5-Yard Dump?

Not even empty, on asphalt, sober. Let alone… in gear!