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Now that’s hilarious. 

Interestingly I have seen mats, if not used as, at least become projectiles. 1977 on a drilling rig (triple) derrickman had brought a mat up to the monkey board for added traction. It became icy and strong winds blew it off and it fell about 100’ and struck a lease hand in the head injuring him. Freak accident? Yes and no. Should never have anything up there that isn’t secured.

Now that’s hilarious. 

Interestingly I have seen mats, if not used as, at least become projectiles. 1977 on a drilling rig (triple) derrickman had brought a mat up to the monkey board for added traction. It became icy and strong winds blew it off and it fell about 100’ and struck a lease hand in the head injuring him. Freak accident? Yes and no. Should never have anything up there that isn’t secured.

Your avatar, what kind of truck is that? At first I thought it was a '49 International Harvester, but it's not.

Now that’s hilarious. 

Interestingly I have seen mats, if not used as, at least become projectiles. 1977 on a drilling rig (triple) derrickman had brought a mat up to the monkey board for added traction. It became icy and strong winds blew it off and it fell about 100’ and struck a lease hand in the head injuring him. Freak accident? Yes and no. Should never have anything up there that isn’t secured.

Your avatar, what kind of truck is that? At first I thought it was a '49 International Harvester, but it's not.

It is an International Harvester, not sure the year.  I was driving down the road and saw it parked so I stopped and took some pictures.  I'm not crazy about the textured pain the owner put on it but its a nice looking truck.  

So it is what I thought it was! '41-'49 were pretty much the same truck just a few little chrome bits changed here and there. He probably sprayed the fenders with bedliner stuff so scratches and dings wouldn't matter. Nice avatar though!

So it is what I thought it was! '41-'49 were pretty much the same truck just a few little chrome bits changed here and there. He probably sprayed the fenders with bedliner stuff so scratches and dings wouldn't matter. Nice avatar though!

You have a good eye - the avatar picture is small and low res so impossible to make out the grill badge.  I have a soft spot for International Harvester trucks.  I owned a couple of Scouts back in late 70s - early 80s.  Great vehicles.  very durable.

My old man had a Scout he used for a work truck, that was late '60's early '70's. I've never had an IH but a nice '49 or earlier would be very nice, '49 was the last year for the two piece flat glass windshield and the flat head six engine.

My old man had a Scout he used for a work truck, that was late '60's early '70's. I've never has an IH but a nice '49 or earlier would be very nice, '49 was the last year for the two piece flat glass windshield and the flat head six engine.

They're classics and collectible these days.  I think my Scouts were the Scout II model - a 1974 and a 1976 (I think). They were the most heavy duty passenger vehicles on the road in every regard.  I can remember getting caught out in a wicked hail storm that did huge amounts of property damage.  The Scout was undamaged, not a dent, chip or anything to show from the ice pummelling it had received .  I had to change out the clutch on the 74 and me and a friend figured we'd do it ourselves - no proper transmission jack or anything.  We rigged up a block and tackle hung off the internal roll bar and looped it around the transmission through the access hole.  it was a brutal job but we got it done.  When I had to do the clutch on the 76 I took it to 4x4 shop in town because I wasn't going through that again and it was -30.  The shop did the job but the mechanic griped a lot  - he said that IHC must have taken the bell housing off of a Mack truck.  Heavy work.  Everything was heavy.  The 74 had thew old school hubs that you had to get out and manually lock in position before you engaged the transfer case to get 4x4, the 76 was advanced and had Lock-O-Matic hubs.  three positions, free, lock and auto, again selected manually - in auto you could drive in 4x2 normally and if you needed 4x4 you engaged the transfer case and then when you put torque on the drive line the hubs would spin in and give you 4x4 and when you braked or otherwise took your foot off the gas the hubs would spin back out.  It was convenient for those situations where you didn't need full time 4x4 but when you did need it it was inconvenient (mud, water etc) to get out and lock your hubs.  I ran into a guy in the grocery store parking lot a month ago who had a Scout he was restoring.  It was pretty cool and brought back some memories.  He actually had carpeted the interior which I don't think was even an option originally.  I don't think options were an option back then.  These vehicles were old school - they didn't even have cup holders!!  I used to drive to work holding my coffee cup in my left hand and shifting gears with my right spilling hot coffee in my lap for the first little ways before the coffee cooled down enough to drink it down so it wouldn't spill.  I discovered these plastic cups at a gas station that had a stick on base that you stuck on top of the dashboard with a cup that snapped in/out of the base that had a lid on it.  Life changing man.