Re: Character-based (Green screen)/twinax systems?

[DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Honestly I don't remember what specifically it was. It was pretty small 
and front wheel drive and it had a light duty trailer hitch on the back. 
There had been just a ton of snow and the plows couldn't keep up with 
many rural roads only plowed about 1 1/2 lanes wide. The guy hit snow on 
the edge attempting to avoid a head on and it sucked him in, while the 
other guy kept going. The ditch is maybe 3 ft deep there but looked 
level with all the snow. He was doomed without a tug as his entire car 
was 'beached' on the stuff.  My snatch strap wasn't in the truck but a 
few scraps of twinax were back there in the snow. So we wrapped the 
twinax from my hitch to his and after a couple tugs he was out.

I did not test the continuity of the twinax after we were done but the 
ends were still on it!

        - Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis

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On 1/19/2016 11:43 AM, Dan wrote:

> Just found this thread.  What a hoot down memory lane.  "as popular as a
> turd in a punchbowl."  Using twinax to pull cars out of ditches.  Larry, if
> it had come from anyone else, I would have questioned the truthfulness of
> that.  Was it a Yugo?
>
> - Dan