skied behind a four wheeler... I am a redneck now?

[Todd T]

yep, had a birthday bash at the farm this past weekend for our youngest brother. Now my older brother and i are like twins. we think alike, talk alike, shoot we even sound alike.



well, he called me a few days before the party and asked how much rope should he bring. We talked it over and decided one 75' ski rope would do and he'd bring that, a pair of skis and life jacket.



we were all out at the pound fishing and getting a buzz on and he mentioned it to the inlaws and friends of the youngest bro. they all doubted us and called us crazy. Soooo. . out comes the ski rope and ski's, i hopped on the polaris and hooked him up. he jumped right up and made it all the way across the dam around the corner and to the end of a cove. we turned around and pulled him back.



then it was my turn. same thing, pulled me across the dam and to the cove. I told him i thought if he would floor it and turn away he could whip me and i could ski across the cove without getting wet. again, all the nah-sayers spoke up. well, i did just that, he whiped me around, i skied right to the shore and stepped out of the skis on the bank and popped a beer that was in my jacket.



does this make us rednecks now?



my wife took a whole roll of picks and one of the guys video'd it on his phone. our dad just shook his head.

 

[scootergmc]

Let's see, beer, fish, farm, ATV, more beer...



You have to ask?

 

[JoshPeters]

*shakes Todds hand, hands him a beer with the other!* Welcome aboard! Bein a Redneck isn't so bad! My Friends gave up tryin to think of Redneck games to play with me.....



Josh

 

[Coolslice]

Being how you're above the Mason-Dixon line, I don't know if you qualify. . Although, with that aside, all other ingredients are there... If put before the redneck board, I'd say you would be accepted as one of our own... You just can't go wrong when mix atv's, beer, and water skis... :-laf :-laf

 

[Sled Puller]

I like it! That rates right up there with snowmobiles going across ponds without getting wet, and trying to ski in wet grass, behind a tractor. :-laf

 

[JoshPeters]

What's wrong with either of those? Water skipping is a perfectly normal thing here in the great white north! Even when it's -30 there are places that don't freeze... and you still gotta get across!



The grass doesn't even HAVE to be wet to ski behind most things... . you just have to lean back really really far!



Don't ask me how I know!



Josh

 

[GFrance]

I was thinking you were going to say you skied behind a cummins.

 

[ROADWARRIOR]

I still laugh everytime I think about a 4th of July party my friend's dad threw a few years back. The father has a sweet restored convertible GTO that he races. They were going to try water skiing across their small pond in the pasture behind a Minneapolis Moline. That just couldn't get up enough speed, so out comes the GTO. Top down with 3 people in the car bouncing across the pasture, dust flying, pulling a skier a couple hundred feet, all afternoon. I don't think a unibodied car would have survived that day.



Dan

 

[Todd T]

Being how you're above the Mason-Dixon line, I don't know if you qualify. . Although, with that aside, all other ingredients are there... If put before the redneck board, I'd say you would be accepted as one of our own... You just can't go wrong when mix atv's, beer, and water skis... :-laf :-laf

well both of my great grandparents originated from Kentucky does that get me "grandfathered" in :-laf

 

[mgonske]

well both of my great grandparents originated from Kentucky does that get me "grandfathered" in :-laf

I don't know, but that narrow family tree might :-laf (I have eight great-grandparents--but only four of them are from Kentucky or Virginia)

 

[Skydiver]

Talk about fun,

Take a big ol car hood flip it upside down then weld 2 pieces of half inch square tubing cross-ways on it. Then get a wide seat out of the back of an old mini-van or car and weld that to the braces. Lord only knows how many junk cars are outback. Tie all that to a 4-wheeler with 60 foot of rope.



Chet was pullin me about 25 MPH and I bet I was gowing close to 40 when he threw me into a turn. He said I was screeming like a little girl.



Everything was going just fine until his 15 year old son was pullin 2 younguns and decided to go across the only concrete driveway in the county. When the lip of that 74 LTD hood caught the concrete it launched the younguns clear across the driveway and broke our good rope.



I think Maw almost swallered her snuff.

Redneck plum up to my ears.

Tim

P. S. wet grass pulls easier and much faster through the turns.

 

[NPloysa]

I have skied behing a 4-wheeler on snow, and made my own contraption for the summer. One was on skis and looked like this... Picture two short snow skies, spaced 4 feet apart with one foot legs to a horizontal brace of wood. On that piece of wood was a plastic 18" diameter culvert cut in half so a person could lie down in it. Just the head end was mounted on the skis. The other end was like a tail and layed on the ground, whipping around in every corner. Hooked to the 4-wheeler with a 20 foot rope. That was a blast.



Most fun one was 3 pieces of 4x8 carpeting sandwiched together on end by two 2x4s. This was also tied to said piece of rope and dragged around by the 4-wheeler. Very fun but every bump was felt.



I remember one winter in Iowa on the gravel roads, being pulled around on a plastic saucer sled behind a 4-wheeler. We were swinging it so we could hit the drifts in the ditches. Neighbor swung me into a ditch and I hit powder. I also hit the frozen ice/ground chunk of dirt with my tailbone at 20 mph.



Nick

 

[Scot]

I like it! That rates right up there with snowmobiles going across ponds without getting wet, and trying to ski in wet grass, behind a tractor. :-laf

I prefer a Jeep. a muddy field, and a inner tube. Oh yea, and beer!

 

[Elite1]

We used to do something similar here in Calif. tie about 100' of ski rope to the hitch on a jeep, then tie it to a boogey board or an innertube. On the beach... The waves make it interesting!