How To Tear Off Your Truck Camper Jack Made Easy

Grit dog wrote:
Slightly less objective, surprised someone hasn’t designed a kids backpack with an auto deploying dune buggy flag.
The Karen’s of the world would eat it up!

(Don’t nobody steal my idea now… this may be my ticket to riches!). Haha

I think I like that idea better than the school backpack I saw at Christmas. The 6 YO was so proud he could unzip, pull out of a pocket, pull over his head and have the meat of his body sandwiched in Kevlar

RetiredRealtorRick wrote:


You can train a child. You can't train red pipes sticking out of the ground. :C

If the child lives long enough.
I thought the job of the red pipe was to train drivers not to run over the valuable stuff.

JRscooby wrote:

RetiredRealtorRick wrote:

Nobody's saying to remove the posts, just design them using a little common sense. I'll bet your "99.99%" figure is quite high. I'd imagine they've been hit plenty of times due to their faulty design.

I admit, I'm using trump numbers, but if I had some way to prove it I would bet it averages at least 1000 uses between impacts. And the same in-attention that leads to impact there could in another time/place impact a child. How do we re-design them?

You can train a child. You can't train red pipes sticking out of the ground. :C

Slightly less objective, surprised someone hasn’t designed a kids backpack with an auto deploying dune buggy flag.
The Karen’s of the world would eat it up!

(Don’t nobody steal my idea now… this may be my ticket to riches!). Haha

And, completely objective. Yes flags on “short” obstructions does increase their visibility.
That’s why that method is widely employed in many applications.

ticki2 wrote:
I think it has more to do with the color of the cones and the fact that it indicates to oncoming traffic that the vehicle is parked and not moving

Nope.. it is policy, as JRscooby stated. Has little to nothing to do with other traffic.

JRscooby wrote:
You ever see van or pickup setting with cones by the corners? Do you imagine somebody thinks it is easier to see the cone than the vehicle, so people won't run into the van? No. It is because it has been proven if a driver walks around their vehicle before they get in they are much less likely to hit something when they start to move.

Bummer this happened, and has been said....every....single.....one of us has had 'awchit' moments and screwed something up. Hate to see it.

And I'm on the side of..could always wish something had been better marked, etc, but in the end, I own it 100%. Bollards are a pain, always imperfect, and there for a reason. No different than curbs. How many cars have torn off their front spoiler because the curb was just a bit to tall, or whatever. Are we supposed to nerf/flag those too? No, it's on us, the driver.

I think it has more to do with the color of the cones and the fact that it indicates to oncoming traffic that the vehicle is parked and not moving

You ever see van or pickup setting with cones by the corners? Do you imagine somebody thinks it is easier to see the cone than the vehicle, so people won't run into the van? No. It is because it has been proven if a driver walks around their vehicle before they get in they are much less likely to hit something when they start to move.

3 tons wrote:
I’m starting to see a market opportunity for Nerf Post :)

3 tons

And in the event of a water landing it would work as a flotation device. : )

I’m starting to see a market opportunity for Nerf Post :)

3 tons

I took out my front bumper once on a concrete divider curb at a trade show I was doing. It was below my line of sight so I couldn't see it, I drove right into it when I went to pull away. Bam! one wrecked bumper.

In that situation, and in this one, they should put little flex poles with a small orange flag on them so the flag is easily visible when the solid object isn't. I'm sure most of us here have bonked something somewhere because it was too low to see in a regular look / mirror check.