i almost lost my stove today!

[Barrett]

so yeah, i almost lost my stove, and a big chunk of my house.

here's the stove-

here's the car that almost drove into my house at 50 mph-

you can see the cinder block chimney for the stove above the guy wearing green.

a guy fell asleep while driving, swerved off the road, and hit one of the 2,000 pound rocks that we put on the lawn to keep drunks from hitting the house. he moved the rock 12 feet, but missed the house. had he gone through the sunporch, he would have hit the stove after 4 feet while plowing into our house. probably wouldn't have slowed him down! but hitting the end of the concrete retaining wall sure stopped him.

i like my stove, i never thought a sleeping person could destroy it! too many other things could go wrong internally, i assumed.

 

[snikr]

Man that was a close call. Where in VT was this? At least the rock kept him from driving off.

Tom

 

[JustWood]

I'll bet your looking into getting more rocks! :cheese:

 

[geek]

I'll bet your looking into getting more rocks! :cheese:

ditto.....lol

 

[Wet1]

If I lived that close to the road, I think I'd be sinking some steel tubes deep into the ground and filling them with cement. A 2000 lb rock isn't all that much of a match for a 4,500 lb vehicle traveling at 50 mph...

 

[Xena]

Crap that was close! Glad you still have your
stove and home!

Time to build the great wall of China. ;-)

 

[geek]

and note that he was only worried about the stove......LOL

just kidding.......

 

[humpin iron]

FYI: rocks were placed by "mother nature"................pipes with cement were placed "to cause injury"......quote from the state hwy foreman...who told me my fence was too close to the road and could cause liability issues. Two nights later a drunk took out the exact portions he pointed at!!

 

[Barrett]

yep, had another rock put in yesterday, and a few more are coming soon!

yeah, i can just say the rocks were always there. cement posts, maybe not. and rocks are prettier. but we did have it measured so the rocks are out of any right of way just to be safe. they were actually put there to keep the snowplows off the lawn. they would plow 20 feet up the lawn and pile snow right against the front of the house! here's a pic from after last winter of a rock that stopped a plow, we had 6 legally required orange sticks marking something under the snow and to stop plowing-

i'm in springfield vt.

i don't think the rock kept him from driving off, i think it was slamming the 2 foot high retaining wall. if that wasn't there he would have been back on the road.

 

[drizler]

Score one for the rock. Thats the trouble living near the road, you never know who is going to drop in without warning. Looks like the rock didn't take too much damage for its sacrafice so it should be good as new for another couple hundred years.

 

[imacman]

Score 1 for the rock & retaining wall, 0 for the minivan :lol:

But I'm glad it didn't hit the house, or the STOVE! :gulp:

 

[weatherguy]

I used to have a problem with my neighbors plow guy plowing his snow onto my lawn and plowing up the lawn. I put 9-10 boulders along the side of the lawn similar to yours and havent had my lawn plowed since.

 

[abrucerd]

Rocks: Nature's speed bumps

 

[hoverfly]

i'm in springfield vt.

Woooooohooooooooooo go Cosmos and home of the Simpsons D'oh!

Just visited my parents there yesterday.........

 

[BrotherBart]

Possibly it would have been the first stove ever paid for by a automobile liability policy.

In the town I used to live in in Texas a guy lived in the center of a cul-de-sac. Two times cars ended up in his living room. After that he put in shrubs at the curb and behind them a wall of oil well drill stems punched eight feet into the ground. The next one through totaled the car and never made it into the yard. :coolgrin: