I felt the same as these guys when I was emailed the vid.
First shock followed closely by disbelief and then my heart just sank for the owner.
there have been rumours floating around about a system malfunction causing the gear retraction. Like you, my heart went out to TB
Oh no... poor bloke..
That makes me wanna cry...
Guys, you gotta remember its a rumour network, not a d1ckhead network..
So I guess that makes it funny, expensive - and kinda stupid!
Yup only way that can happen is gear selected up, hydraulics break the overcentre lock and Voila the gear she does come up.
Item 3 on the pre start check list, Gear Selected Down !!!!!!!!
rumour has it..........gear lever selected up
Oops!
Now that is funny - expensive, but funny!
Dog