"An old indian trick" is my euphemism for blaming somebody else, for your good idea. So, here are a few:
For those of you Ted, & 6PM etc) who need a hot bath, in the winter:
And,
If you get your truck stuck, and you have 2 chains, and a saw, you can cut down a small tree, notch the ends, and use the tree to extend the chains. Then, you can cut down another sapling, and use it to add leverage to the rig, and pull yourself out. If you have several chains, you can use several trees to extend your chains.
And,
If you get bad stuck with an ATV, that has a solid rear axle, you can wrap a rope around the rear axle, and tie the other end to a tree, and as you spin the wheels, you will slowly wind yourself out.
And,
If you have a high-lift farm jack, you can center the farm jack on the bumper, lean it a little to one side, and jack it up, until it falls over, and moves the whole end of the truck about a foot, or more sideways. This has helped me turn around before, when the terrain would not allow me to do anything else. And the wheels were spinning.
OK, post your indian trick!
N
Turn a "T" post driver over, wedge at less than a 30° angle to a "T" post and use as a high lift jack to remove "T" posts by wiggling the "T" post. Takes about 2 minutes per post or less depending on soil. I didn't have one the other day and used a tractor draw bar and it worked like a champ.
Shoot them where they ain't and hit em' where they is.
Old Indian walking down the street. Just before he passes a ravishing young lady he holds his hand up, palm out and says chance. The young lady takes a few more steps with a puzzled look on her face, then stops, and chases the Indian down and gets him to stop. She asked him why he said chance when she thought her whole life that the Indian greeting was hand up, palm out and saying how. His response is, Already know how. Me want chance.
jud
Not necessarily an old Indian trick:
I actually learned this while watching an Australian movie (don't ask, I only watched it for the nudity)
If you are stuck in an open field with no trees to attach your winch, then use the "dead man" pull.
Take your spare tire and dig a deep hole. Attach the winch cable to the tire. Place tire flat in hole and bury it.
This has worked the two time I tried it.
Old Indian Tricks...Joe..
I suggest change word tyre (tire) to spare wheel.
Works extremely well in mud.
RADU
> Not necessarily an old Indian trick:
> I actually learned this while watching an Australian movie (don't ask, I only watched it for the nudity)
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> If you are stuck in an open field with no trees to attach your winch, then use the "dead man" pull.
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> Take your spare tire and dig a deep hole. Attach the winch cable to the tire. Place tire flat in hole and bury it.
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> This has worked the two time I tried it.
Learned that one before I even knew they made movies in Australia.
If you have relatively firm ground you can drive 8-10 3/4"(No. 6) x 3' rebar into the ground in a pattern that looks like a teepee and hook your chain/cable where all the rebar cross and use that as your anchor to pull your self out.
A high lift jack will work if you don't have a winch but do have some chains or straps.
Maybe not an Indian tale…
We used a ‘Mud Anchor’ back in my SW Arkansas days. It was an old double bottom plow frame and mouldboard. A big old boy pulling back on a ‘swamp pipe’ hooked onto the frame…heels against the mouldboard…tension on the pull. A two hundred pound tail chainman could drive the chisel 3…4 foot into the ground. If the hand ‘come along’ couldn’t pull the rig out (without pulling parts off the rig or tumpin’ the tail chainman)…she was stuck! (Wait for Summer). Once you got the rig on high ground, hook the chain to the upper hitch…clink clink…and pull the plow free…
I was hip deep in mud wishing I was an Indian…
DDSM
If you get your truck stuck, and you have 2 chains, and a saw, you can cut down a small tree, notch the ends, and use the tree to extend the chains. Then, you can cut down another sapling, and use it to add leverage to the rig, and pull yourself out. If you have several chains, you can use several trees to extend your chains.
My old surveyor trick...I usually get hung up in a field nothing to pull yourself out....
step off about 30.52 feet dig a hole 1.03 feet deep and 0.2 feet longer than your bundle of laths. place a bundle of laths in hole and wrap wench cable around and pull yourself out....it works
Old Indian Tricks...Joe..
> I suggest change word tyre (tire) to spare wheel.
In the states the term "spare tire" implies a mounted tire. I suppose it's because you never see anyone carrying an unmounted spare tire.
Old Indian Tricks Steve J
I think you will find the world's first feature length movie was made in OZ, The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906)
RADU
RADU
I learned the "Dead Man" trick and the one with rebar before I had a drivers license.
At that time about the only thing I knew about Australia was about the marsupials and the only mammal that lays eggs, the duckbill platypus. The only movies I knew about were John Wayne westerns.
SJ
