Alert for all you SxS guys!!!! (GRAPHIC!)

johneddie · Nov 13, 2013

jp fan said:
Has anyone heard about how he is doing

Had surgery, doing good

5onrocks · Nov 13, 2013

johneddie said:
Had surgery, doing good

That's great to hear! That's bad luck but some really good luck to be ok. I witnessed a stick go between someone's armpit and stuck into the seat out riding last fall. The only thing that saved them was a thick carhartt jacket. This is the reason my buggy has side and roof panels!

Lickliter21 · Nov 13, 2013

I was behind him when it happened. (In a rzr) he wasn't going very fast. Speeded up to hit the hill and the rzr lifted bout a foot or so off the ground and he just stopped. Passenger jump out and we knew something was wrong. The tree had been ran over from the opposite direction and it used the shock and a-arm as a guide strait into him. Luckily it broke off at the ground all at the same time. He stayed scary calm though the whole process of getting him help. Didn't bleed very much.
We're looking into some combat gaze and a small trauma kit to keep with us. If he had been bleeding it may have turned out very different.

CheapJ7 · Nov 13, 2013

This is the very reason I won't harder ride with anyone in a SXS. We were riding at wilburn, I was in the passenger seat of a rhino, pin top rode the a arm up through the firewall. Hit me in the lower stomach and pinned me to the seat. 6 more inches and I would have been full on impaled through the gut. Scary stuff

customcj7 · Nov 13, 2013

OW OW OW OW OW OW OW OW

alli85 · Nov 13, 2013

That is crazy and glad he is ok. I was running a trail at pretty good pace in a rzr s and a stick came straight up threw the floor board (factory skid plates) we were lucky the stick was not long enough to stick our leg or anything.

payne97 · Nov 13, 2013

glad to hear he's doing good

KyTrash · Nov 13, 2013

I heard that he was back at home and doing good.

johneddie · Nov 13, 2013

KyTrash said:
I heard that he was back at home and doing good.

TacomaJD · Nov 13, 2013

Lickliter21 said:
I was behind him when it happened. (In a rzr) he wasn't going very fast. Speeded up to hit the hill and the rzr lifted bout a foot or so off the ground and he just stopped. Passenger jump out and we knew something was wrong. The tree had been ran over from the opposite direction and it used the shock and a-arm as a guide strait into him. Luckily it broke off at the ground all at the same time. He stayed scary calm though the whole process of getting him help. Didn't bleed very much.
We're looking into some combat gaze and a small trauma kit to keep with us. If he had been bleeding it may have turned out very different.

Glad nobody tried to pull the stick out!

Cole · Nov 13, 2013

Glad to hear the guy is going to be alright, and definitely an eye opener. But this could just as easily happen in a lot of the buggies running the trails nowadays as most of them are just tube chassis with very little protection from branches and rocks coming inside and most don't have aluminum roofs to keep stuff from flying inside when rolling over.

ibrokeit · Nov 13, 2013

TacomaJD said:
Glad nobody tried to pull the stick out!

Bet your leg wouldn't have even felt it!

TacomaJD · Nov 13, 2013

ibrokeit said:
Bet your leg wouldn't have even felt it!

****, it would right there! I still gots that part! :****:

It's really a 1000 wonders that sumbitch didn't rip up that big ole femoral artery! It's gotta be damn near touching that stick in that picture.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femoral_artery

patooyee · Nov 13, 2013

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Last time I was out in my buggy a log about 7' long and 1.5 feet dia a came through my passenger side cage opening/window and nailed me directly in the face. It smooshed my helmet into my face and pinned my head sideways against the seat. It must have been wedged against the embankment because as the buggy drove forward it just pinned me harder. I let of the gas and had to back up before I could even turn my head to see wtf hit me. I walked away with a fat lip. If not for the helmet I am 100 percent certain I would have spent the next couple weeks in surgery getting my face reconstructed.

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Lickliter21 · Nov 13, 2013

TacomaJD said:
****, it would right there! I still gots that part! :****:

It's really a 1000 wonders that sumbitch didn't rip up that big ole femoral artery! It's gotta be damn near touching that stick in that picture.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femoral_artery

Soon as the few of the nurses that was riding at the park came on scene they was worried it might be. When the medic got there he thought the same and called the heilo to take him to the hospital. Nobody wanted to take any chances.

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jabnasty · Nov 14, 2013

I have that same exact hole in my rzr floor board.

tommy450r · Nov 14, 2013

Got a buddy with the same hole in a rzr... Also had a log come in my buggy on flat ground that put me in the roof of my buggy had to slap my power switch to stop an some friends had to help me move the log.. Sticks ant no joke :****:

redline diesel · Nov 14, 2013

that is why my buggy has full floor ,firewall ,roof and side panels to help to prevent things from coming in glad to here he is going to be ok didn't look good being there

The Luke · Nov 14, 2013

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alli85 said:
That is crazy and glad he is ok. I was running a trail at pretty good pace in a rzr s and a stick came straight up threw the floor board (factory skid plates) we were lucky the stick was not long enough to stick our leg or anything.

Same happened to a buddy with a his rhino. Its been parked for about a year. We've been looking/talking about doing a real floor in it. I'd say this thread sealed the deal.

John Galbreath Jr. · Nov 14, 2013

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The Luke said:
Same happened to a buddy with a his rhino. Its been parked for about a year. We've been looking/talking about doing a real floor in it. I'd say this thread sealed the deal.

My Rhino gas 1/4" aluminum floor and firewall. Did that soon after I got it in 2006.