LOL, my 170 engine quit at 5000ft, started with a tap tap sound, went away on left or rt mag but there on both mags.
Noise progressed until from a tap tap it became a heavy louder bang bang so I pulled the throttle at which time it made the loudest kabang and it stopped with the prop perfectly horizontal.
Wife screamed and said we are going to crash.--Oh, crash, well I had a mini motor bike lashed to the rear seat tiedown points so we reached back and donned the 'crash helmets'.
That made us feel better.
Under us was a farmers field that was 6000 ft long so not to worry.
Proceeded to do an actual circuit approach, down wind etc etc and then final but only problem was the AC just would not slow down as usual as it normally would, full flaps + side slips (wife screaming) and me on FSS calling MAYDAY, hey what better time to do so.
FSS kept urging me to dive to restart until I literally told them to shut up.
At the end I finally put her down in the last 1000 ft or so.
Big issue was that the field was recently worked and the wheels sunk in that nice fluffy topsoil, rolled 75 ft and stood on its nose so slowly that we even tried to throw our weight to make it fall backwards. Unfortunately gravity had other ideas and we ended up inverted.
The prop and spinner were not in the slightest way damaged! My luck as if it had stopped vertically we would not have flipped.
I had the insurance check in hand, delivered 2 days later right there in the field! Talk about service.
I dismantled the AC there in the field and with the farmers tractor to help (roped the prop hub to his FEL and he lifted and I lifted the tail and rotated the AC back to upright.
Naturally at this point the wings and empennage had all been removed.
Loaded the AC into a U-Haul and drove my injured bird back to home where I rebuilt it over the winter months.
The accident was in Nov and it was back flying in May with new paint scheme as well.
Oh, more luck was with me as I located an O300D with lower time than the failed engine for only $2000, firewall forward.
After selling off al the undamaged old engine parts (jugs, prop, mufflers, carb etc etc) I actually showed a profit.
In my favor was my knowledge of interchangeable parts, ie lots of the Cessna 100 series share parts with a few simple changes or additions. (ie, small stiffener or extra rivets) ex seats are structurally the same for all 100 series.
LOL, one big frustration was driving home in a U-Haul truck that was locked at 50 MPH, heck it did 50 going downhill.
Oh, and the wife continued to fly with me and that C170B years later got traded even for a C182F also a nice bird.
Hey, I did mention a Tractor so this posting is qualified!
