Creative spelling

OK, I've been an editor for half a century, and I take a small pride in doping out what people mean to write, even if they didn't come very close to the standard form. But the following threw me. Even though I knew the context, I had to read it three times to figure it out.

One time I was looking for a socket toremove a spark plug on my weed eater we dug true the bends for five minuets are more .

"true the bends" is "through the bins," but without the context I never would have figured that out. The author identifies himself as a paratrooper in the 82nd Airborne Division.