Watch out for loose junk in your truck bed
You may have seen this story, but it is interesting -- someone left a ratchet strap in his truck bed. It eventually flew out and wrapped around his driveshaft, somehow, causing thousands of dollars ...
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Timtation wrote:
Several years ago I was accelerating (GMC 1500) in the merge lane, saw my opening just as I saw what may be a dead deer ahead in my lane. No time to change into the freeway, locked up the wheels and found the deer was an innerspring mattress. It wrapped around the drive-shaft, locked the rear wheels, put me into a slide that somehow I controlled within the lane but scared heck out of next lane cars. Eventually I was able to get to the shoulder using both reverse and low. Had it towed home on a flat bed and it took three days and a second bolt cutter to get the mattress off the drive shaft. Shaft and undercarriage probably was never cleaner.
I saw a picture on the internet of someone who had run over a mattress and it got wrapped around the driveshaft. It must happen fairly often I guess.
