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Strap Your Batteries Down!!
#3082743
03/28/20 02:57 PM
03/28/20 02:57 PM
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Joined: Oct 2008
Posts: 8,145
In front of my lathe
gundoc
OP
14 point
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OP
14 point
Joined: Oct 2008
Posts: 8,145
In front of my lathe
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Was on Holt today. Apparently when I replaced my cranking battery I forgot to buckle the hold down strap.
Ran all they way up to Lock 17 from Holt, and then on the way back, after stopping to fish another spot, I realized I was taking on water - BAD!!!!
So bad, I couldn't get on plane. Opened the rear hatch, the battery was laying in the bilge in about as much water as could be in there without it overflowing.
The battery broke the live well pump off where it goes through the transom effectively opening up a 3/4" hole in the transom below the water line.
Fortunately, the bilge pump was able to pump it out while I was able to keep moving and drain it as well.
For a brief moment, I was thinking it was time to send a MAYDAY text hoping someone would get it once I move through an area with service.
Once I was able to get on plane, I knew I was good, and was hammered down back to the launch.
There are two types of gun enthusiasts ... Those who have been F#CKED by PTG and those who will be!
~ unknown
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Re: Strap Your Batteries Down!!
[Re: gundoc]
#3082853
03/28/20 05:32 PM
03/28/20 05:32 PM
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Joined: Feb 2002
Posts: 44,211
North Alabama
Wiley Coyote
Freak of Nature
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Freak of Nature
Joined: Feb 2002
Posts: 44,211
North Alabama
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That could have been bad, as in sunk boat bad. Glad you prevailed to fish another day!
I firmly believe that a double gallows should be constructed on the East Lawn of The White House. Politicians who willfully and shamelessly violate their oath to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States of America should be swiftly tried and, upon conviction, publicly hanged at sunup the day after conviction. If multiple convicts are to be hanged they can choose with whom to share the gallows or names shall be drawn from the hangman's hat to be hanged 2 at a time.
NRA Life Member
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Re: Strap Your Batteries Down!!
[Re: gundoc]
#3082862
03/28/20 05:40 PM
03/28/20 05:40 PM
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Joined: Jul 2011
Posts: 39,449
Marshall County
FurFlyin
Freak of Nature
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Freak of Nature
Joined: Jul 2011
Posts: 39,449
Marshall County
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You dodged a bullet on that one. Glad it worked out.
My advice... Don't ram your trolling motor into the back of your boat trailer.
If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. 2 Chronicles 7:14
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Re: Strap Your Batteries Down!!
[Re: gundoc]
#3082884
03/28/20 05:56 PM
03/28/20 05:56 PM
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Joined: Jan 2004
Posts: 31,681
Slidell, La
perchjerker
Freak of Nature
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Freak of Nature
Joined: Jan 2004
Posts: 31,681
Slidell, La
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The water is still too cold for a dip. Those things break easily. I had a thru the hull livewell pump break once. I learned a lesson and placed a piece of hose between the hull and the pump. It never gave me any more problems.
Thomas Jefferson. The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Life is too short to only hunt and fish on weekends!
If being a dumbass was fatal some of you would be on your death bed!
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Re: Strap Your Batteries Down!!
[Re: gundoc]
#3083077
03/28/20 09:10 PM
03/28/20 09:10 PM
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Joined: Nov 2014
Posts: 16,495
Guntersville
AC870
Old Mossy Horns
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Old Mossy Horns
Joined: Nov 2014
Posts: 16,495
Guntersville
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I had one just break on its own once. It was first fishing boat I ever owned. Stryker. It had been garage kept and was nice.
Thank goodness boat had a lot of flotation in it. Got that one fixed. Few weeks later, the one on the other side broke. It was just their time.
“Killing tomorrow’s trophies today.”
On the distance I like to walk to my stands:
“The first 100 yards is also the last 100 yards.”
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Re: Strap Your Batteries Down!!
[Re: gundoc]
#3083371
03/29/20 10:11 AM
03/29/20 10:11 AM
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Joined: Dec 2003
Posts: 9,711
Cleburne
.308
14 point
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14 point
Joined: Dec 2003
Posts: 9,711
Cleburne
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Glad you made it in safe, that was a lesson well learned.
"When you've stared down the barrel of a shotgun in your own home, 3rd & 20 don't seem too bad"......Ken "Snake" Stabler
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