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Full Throttle into Enclosed/Open Trailer

Thought to share this since there was a thread about Full Throttle on Reverse....

Few years ago, when one sled was loaded into enclosed trailer, we had to load another one. The guy was inside waiting for the last sled so he could pin the bar down to lock the sled. He told his brother to ride it into enclosed trailer. I was standing with 2 others watching the brother. The brother sat on the sled, looking ahead then look down at the sled. He put his pipe into his mouth, lighting his pipe and got couple puffs. He turned his cap backward and put his hands on the bars. The guy inside the enclosed trailer told him to hurry up. The brother raised his right hand up telling him to be patient. The brother looked ahead one more time then looked down at the sled (sat on the sled, not stand up) and put his hands on the bar, ready to push the throttle. Here he goes....the left ski hit the left wall of the enclosed trailer, forcing the sled flip to the side (right)! His cap poofed out into the air, landed in front of us. We stood about 5 feet away from him. He looked around at us with his eyeballs that looks like Don Knotts from Andy Griffith Show. He had his pipe still stuck in his mouth! Boy he sure had his teeth shut real tight to hold his pipe that he didnt want it to break!

Anyone would like to share?
 
thats what you get for smoking brown tweed from a pipe...stick to the green and a vaporizer for the best results!
 
This year out in Island Park, I took my four place open trailer to go pick up my brothers rental sled at Mountain Madness there in Last Chance.

The ramp was all ready, all I had to do was drive it up on the trailer. There were about a dozen people milling about sort of watching me.

I get up to the ramp, and realize that I was going a bit too slow as I was starting up the ramp.

The skis bit into the plywood more than I thought they would, and my progress slowed to near a stop. Just as the sled was slowing down, I gave it some throttle (How embarassing tha twould be to get stuck on the ramp, and I was not abut to let that happen)

Right about then the track got inline with the ramp, and as I gave it some throttle, the track caught on the crossbars of the ramp and hooked up like nobodys business.

Keep in mind that I had on some slippery boat shoes, no hat, no gloves (Hey, were just loading a sled here!)

I was standing up when the sled hooked up and shot me off the ramp like Evil Kenevil jumping across the snake river.

My left hand slipped off the bars, and I ended up landing on the trailer and stopping right about where the front sled should be. As I landed I now had both feet somehow on the right boards. As I stopped my feet came off the board and I slid the rest of the way across the trailer and off the front (Luckily I left the slush guard off and back at the cabin). I landed between the truck and the trailer on my feet.

I got a standing ovation from the onlookers........

I looked like a complete dooooooooooosh!

I am still getting crap about that little incident :D
 
Its know wonder you can't load a snowmobile the business name is "Mountain Mayhem" formerly Island Park Polaris. ROOKIE!
 
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This happened back in the mid 90's at the southern bigorns, we were riding back to the trailers when a sled went down. Since I fall in the banty rooster category I got to pilot the dead sled back 40 miles in -20 degree f temps. When it came time to load my sled on tilt 2 place trailer I was frozen like a popsicle with the reaction speed of a drunken sailor. I gave the sled some gas to put it on the trailer--I remembered to let go of the gas when I hit the slush guard at about 25mph. If the slush guard hadn't been there my sled would have been sitting on the top of the truck.:face-icon-small-sho
 
Years ago, I had tilt trailer with steel grated cheese floor bed and was ready to load up my Jag 340 after installed claws on track. During the process of driving up, I forgot about claws and steel grated floor, so the claws grabbed the openings and shot me and the sled over the trailer and skis hit my truck tailgate before ended up in middle of truck and trailer. Yeah I left the ski wear rod mark on the tailgate....
 
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