Holy Crap!

Went to Direnzos on Tuesday and picked up 8,000# of their rice coal. Drove home without incident and parked my truck and trailer in the driveway. With it getting dark so early I didn't have time to move the coal to my bin until Saturday. So Saturday morning I got in the truck and backed it to exactly where I wanted to dump the coal, put my foot on the brake and it went to the floor!
Busted brake line. Then it hit me that if that had happened on Tuesday they would still be scraping me off of something. My brakes were good but I didn't check the lines. So this morning the truck is getting towed to the shop. That is too close for comfort. Saturday after I had finished moving my coal and it really sunk in how close I came to likely getting killed, I put a serious hurting on a case of Yuengling.

Soooo, the Creator DOES have a sense of humor Glad ya come through that one safe CK

It is a wake up call how lucky the timing of certain events are!!

I had the exact same thing a couple years ago...blew out a brake line on the truck pumping the pedal in the driveway... the day after coming back from NY driving 80mph on the various highways. I wasn't towing 4 ton like you so I may have stood a chance if things went bad the day prior.

Rusted out brake line was the culprit. Whats this about towing the truck to the shop??!! Weren't you up for a little more excitement driving it there??!!

NO! That was enough excitement to last me for a good long while!

Geez Terry way too close! Glad you're able to talk about it.

Glad to hear you are ok.

Grandma used to tell me:

Worry is the interest you pay on trouble before you have it!

You were fine - you are fine - things happen for a reason and those lines were supposed to hold till you were back in the yard

Smile Its all good

Kind regards
Sting

By the way, I suggest having them replace ALL the brake lines. When mine went I didn't realize he didn't replace one of the rear brake lines and it rusted out the following year.

Good end to what could have been a very bad ending,you could have lived thru a wreck that killed someone else & then all the lawsuits.... We all calm ourselves differently tho,don't we ? You chose to drown the memory with alcohol ,if I did that it would mess my health up big time. I would likely have read Psalms 23 instead to help calm the after-jitters,that & snuggle up with my cats So did you drink enough alcohol to keep you from thinking long enough to get over the jitters ? Did you wait till the coal was unloaded or did you start on the bottle immediately after your foot hit the floor? Boy,this brings back bad memories for me from a long time ago...... hauling hay on a Dodge D600.... 1 time brakes failed ,i hit the back of a pickup,no injuries, another time when the light turned red,the brakes failed,i JUST barely missed t-boning a small car & had a trooper pull me over for blowing the red light.They say "all's well that ends well",so I guess this is a wake-up call for all of us to check for rusty brake lines b4 doing heavy hauling/towing. Thanks for posting. Gotta go look under my F250SD

Glad everything worked out ok and you got home safely.

I'll be going for a load soon, I've been under the truck recently, but I'll give the brake lines another look.

titleist1 wrote:By the way, I suggest having them replace ALL the brake lines. When mine went I didn't realize he didn't replace one of the rear brake lines and it rusted out the following year.

I told him to replace any and all that had even a hint of corrosion on them.

windyhill4.2 wrote:Good end to what could have been a very bad ending,you could have lived thru a wreck that killed someone else & then all the lawsuits.... We all calm ourselves differently tho,don't we ? You chose to drown the memory with alcohol ,if I did that it would mess my health up big time. I would likely have read Psalms 23 instead to help calm the after-jitters,that & snuggle up with my cats So did you drink enough alcohol to keep you from thinking long enough to get over the jitters ? Did you wait till the coal was unloaded or did you start on the bottle immediately after your foot hit the floor? Boy,this brings back bad memories for me from a long time ago...... hauling hay on a Dodge D600.... 1 time brakes failed ,i hit the back of a pickup,no injuries, another time when the light turned red,the brakes failed,i JUST barely missed t-boning a small car & had a trooper pull me over for blowing the red light.They say "all's well that ends well",so I guess this is a wake-up call for all of us to check for rusty brake lines b4 doing heavy hauling/towing. Thanks for posting. Gotta go look under my F250SD

No I finished hauling the coal and cleaned everything up first. Then hit the little brown bottles.

Stop living on the edge!

Glad you're ok Terry.

I've been lucky too and have had brake lines go at the most opportune times. I live on top of a mountain, about 800 feet in 1.5 miles and there is T with stop sign at bottom. I got in the truck to go get some parts when I was working on the new car and it went to the floor at the end of the driveway. It's still sitting because I was so pissed, supposed to be the spare vehicle.

The closest call I had was coming down Plymouth/Larksville Mountain with the old Chevy coal truck that had hydraulic brakes. Extremely steep with some very bad curves. Where we parked them was at the bottom. I was backing in they went to the floor, over a small embankment and killed my Grandmother's 50 year old bush.

So you’re saying the urge to have a few didn’t hit you until you reflected upon what could have happened Tuesday?
I am going to have a few tonight because I don’t know what tomorrow may bring. Tomorrow could be too late.

Glad you made it home safe, the brake line lasted just long enough and that’s all that matters.