had to hurry home and post this.
just got back from the depot with my son. heres the jist of this. cadillac escalade home owner bought 25 sheets of 5/8″ drywall how to get it home? well we’ll put it on top of the escalade with depot helpers. the luggage racks will support it. then we’ll tie it down with the super strength twine they have. (i watched this while eating hot dogs with my son. depot hot dogs are good.) home owner gets all his stuff loaded up and leaves so out of curiosity we follow. a couple of miles away from the store a quick curve comes up and the day is ruined. everything slides off the clade and on to the street. driver just leaves it there. might be mad or embarresed. dont kow. i call the cops and report a pile of drywall in the street and dont say a word about what happened with the driver.
this post is not to make fun of h o who do stuff like this its just to send a message about common sense. the two bad things are the rock was so smashed there was no use for it and the other is the depot rents a truck for $19.99 for 75 minutes. its not as sharp as the escalade but it would have been cheaper.
also wondering what kind of things you all have seen like this.
my saturdays now are going to include going to the depot for lunch with my son and watch the lack of common sense.
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I once saw a Mercedes with four 6x6 PT pokin' out of the sunroof.
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That's always a fun place to people watch. In the summer I like to go to the boat ramp and watch husbands and wives interact together.
Who Dares Wins.
years ago friends bought a sailboat, and invited us out for a sail.
he was trying to give her instructions on sailing, and got somewhat carried away with being the "captain"
I thought there was going to be a mutiny
he's mellowed some with age, fortunately
my most fun hauler was a 1948 willys phaeton that i stuffed in a 401 buick 4 barrel with a ford 9 " rear and wagon front brakes. If I folded down all the seats 8 foot 2 x 4's would fir inside. the flat fenders on the passenger side were ideal to stack longer stuff outside. and when I was pulling my old 12 foot trailer it would still out pull the california idiots who would try to pass on the right parking lane.
That's always a fun place to people watch. In the summer I like to go to the boat ramp and watch husbands and wives interact together.
They meet at the boat ramp here too both married , just not to each other.
Tim Mooney
I'm talking about the interaction when ones trying to back the trailer in the water and the others in the boat yelling and screaming.Who Dares Wins.
I was atr Lowes yesterday, watched two 55+ guys load material into the back of the trruck in the covered contractor area. I was behind them and just finished loading, so I waited to see what happened. They had 15 sheets of osb roof sheathing, 4 rolls of tar paper, about a dozen studs, and the Lowes guy had a forklift full of shingles. Looked like a 1/2 ton Chevy. From where we sat, we could see that one of the rear tires was low on air already, and tyhey kept loading. Watched the Lowes guy toss/drop 18 bundles of shingles into the bed ... he wasn't careful at all. The whole time the tire kept getting closer to flat. One of the customer guys looked at it but kept loading. We had to leave before they did, but I wonder how much damage they did to the tire.
I'm sorry, I thought you wanted it done the right way.
Saw a delivery truck leaving the yard with a large load of 10 foot sheetrock. It was all strapped on correctly, but there were only two stickers at the bottom of the load, one under each end. The driver slammed across the railroad tracks (the same tracks the stuff came in on, about 50 feet from the gate) and broke about half of the rock. He may not have known, since he kept on moving.
Saw a lumber driver in San Francisco unstrap a load of plywood on a hill and then cut the bands... you guessed it... the entire unit slid off the truck and into the street like a deck of cards.
I took a load of 20' FJ trim to a job on my rack, but failed to tie it down to the front of the rack where it cantilevers over the cab, so once I got on the freeway it started slapping together up there. I look in the rear view and there are short jagged chunks of white casing hitting the windshield of a BMW behind me. I pulled over to check... no damage, so I was very lucky.
A lot of the guys I see loading lumber here don't have racks, but they sometimes have crossbed boxes. I've seen huge loads of 16-footers wedged under those boxes and sticking 8 or 10 feet out behind the truck. I suppose that's OK if you don't have to make any turns.
years ago I had to pick up a couple 16' pieces of sheetrock.
They didn't fit in the truck bed, so I thought " why not put 'em on the racks"
well, we got 'em on the racks, I left the yard, and as I accelerated, the rock lifted up and snapped. I wasn't a 1/4 mile away.
I returned, got more 16' rock, and made sure the front was tied down this time.
at least I didn't do any real damage, except to my ego.
"I'm talking about the interaction when ones trying to back the trailer in the water and the others in the boat yelling and screaming."
I can do that subject too!
If you ever get down here to see me , theres a fantastic camping area on the river here with kick butt boat ramps for watching I want you to see. . One ramp is very steep and long . I like to set the camper on D-5 camping space thats over looking that ramp and the river . For several years we pulled down there for the weekend . I took week vacations too for the spawn season. Ive seen a lot of stuff becuse both ramps have good size parking lots and also this steep ramp is not for beginners. They dont know that either and try all the time on the weekends. Nother name for weekenders. They come a couple of weekends a year and try to back and start their boat after the boat is in the water. Why dont they crank them at home and save ruining the day? Also , theres people backing trailers and even motor homes that are probably longer than their house. On the other end is the pro dock and it handles bass tournaments. That side is fun to camp on to see all the different rigs and to just watch people.
Who has more fun than people ? . > more people
Tim Mooney
Yep seems there's always at least one guy floating around the no wake zone overhauling his outboard.
I'm surprised somebody doesn't have a hilight film about boat ramps.Who Dares Wins.
My next door neighbor bought a brand new fishing/skiing boat, got a big motor and a fancy trailer for it, spent a couple of weeks installing fish finders, CB, etc, then went out to the local lake to launch it. As he was backing down the ramp he made a sudden stop and the boat came off the trailer. Bunged up the bottom of the boat and dented the outboard's bottom skeg slightly, but luckily no serious damage. He did get it into the water that day, but wasn't a real happy camper.
That's the reason I hate rollers on trailers. Give me bunks, anytime. Also a good reason to leave the winch latched till the trailer's in the water and the boat is ready to come off. Fun to watch, though. My cousin's ex loaded her Mastercraft onto the trailer at the ramp and didn't clip the strap on. Said trailer has rollers. 'Nuff said?
"I cut this piece four times and it's still too short."
I was pickin up a pallet of potting soil for our local high school g greenhouse. and im a lumber guy so i have no idea how tall this pallet is supposed to be. Im thinkin concrete sized. so i pay for it and pull around back at the supply store. so the guy witht the forklift goes and gets this pallet that has got to be 9 feet tall. and pushes it into the bed right up against the tool box. well i figure it cant be that bad cause ive only got to go maybe a mile. well no problem until i get to within a block of the high school. I make a left the pallet makes aright and there are bags of soil everywhere. well i load it all back onto the truck and im on my merry way. but not a one of the 50 or so bags is broken. boy am i lucky.
"her Mastercraft..."
A case of "washis", perhaps? LOL
"didn't clip the strap on"
<biting tongue>... don't say it, Rich... don't say it!! LOLOL
Nope, he has a Malibu. I think. Never met him but from what I've heard, I don't want to. Avoids his daughter on her birthday and when I was there for Christmas and takes forever to call her back. She'll be 12 in a few days.I don't think she's into that.
"I cut this piece four times and it's still too short."
a good reason for her to be an EX
pony
Actually, he's the ex. We let her stay in the family.
"I cut this piece four times and it's still too short."
"I'm surprised somebody doesn't have a hilight film about boat ramps."
Pulled up to a boat ramp north of Gallup, N.M.
Water levels were real low, so the concrete ramp was 'short', with a good drop-off at the end into deep water.
There sat a very nice 4x4 - with water well over the front tires. Nobody there but us tourons scratching our heads.
An acquaintence was unloading a bobcat from a trailer on a boatramp. Backed cat off trailer and hitch lifted the truck (almost brand new GMC ext cab) back wheels off the ground and truck went into the lake so all you could see was the roof. Bubba's vehicle is now known as the green submarine. Bought it from his insurance co and has salvage title.
machine shops and boat ramps reminds me of my brother's story.
he tells of a kid on a fork lift delivering a new engine to a fancy tuna boat in Gloucester MA (Port from the Perfect Storm). The kid go to the end of the wharf, lowers the engine but tips the forks also to the the point where he feels a rise in his pants but realizes that its the machine thats going over. Too late, the engine slides down the forks, hits a trailer hitch ball which tugs the fork lift and the engine and fork lift go overboard------right through the boat and into the 6'deep muck and silt.And another one-opposite this marine railways is rickety old wharf with 20 or so weekly rental apartments owned by Gloucester's most notorious slum lords. The guy was seen one day working on the pilings below the wharf which was a sight for the locals because he never did a thing to any of his buildings. So he keeps going off the the lumber yard and coming back with threaded steel pipe, each time a longer piece. After three trips to the Building Center he comes back to find that the building collapsed and half of the tenants were in the water! Fire engines and Police boats, Coast Guard...all looking for the injured........and the land lord. Turns out the pipe was to be used to laterally brace the wharf but each time he came back the pipe he had was somehow too short.........He didn't think or care to tell the tenants that there may be a problem. Talk about low lifes and lack of common sense.
I'm talking about the interaction when ones trying to back the trailer in the water and the others in the boat yelling and screaming.
I see this almost every weekend (heck I've evn done it) . Holidays are even better (it brings out all the true Warriors).
I'm no expert by any means, but I am amazed at what happens. There are times I can load my boat (23') alone and be off the ramp, before a guy has his even hookded up because he's banging the trailer or the sides of the dock or yelling at his wife or jumping on the hitch to help his s-10 haul out his 26' CC or trying to physically lift the a$$-end onto the trailer correctly (that boat went about 7000#)
Freakin hilarious. We have a standing joke about getting our coolers and chairs and go to the ramp on a holdiay weekend and film it all.
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Escalade, huh? I was hoping you were going to say they dropped the 25 sheets onto the roof with a fork lift from 25 feet up.
Al Mollitor, Sharon MA
i'm suprised the rack let him get that far! Most are only intended for 200 or 250 #
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You should write more Jim..... great job telling that story.... hilarious. Glad nobody got hurt, other than some yuppie's ego.
You're right.... on two accounts.... first, home depot does have great hot dogs, kielbasa too. Second, that is one of the best places to people watch.... 'specially on weekends.
home depot does have great hot dogs, kielbasa too
Ok, I'm feeling both jealous and hungry. No dogs at my depot (nor the Lowe's neither). Several eateries around the P/L, though. None quite close enough for watching of people comically demonstrating lost of rational thought, though . . . Occupational hazard of my occupation not being around (sorry Bubba)
Saw a Suzuki 4x4 with a trailer loaded and enough wood on the 4x4 to break the truck at all 4 wheels. What I wonder is how he got that far...that was at a truck stop on the highway.
Yeah-this from a guy who in the early days used to get 18-18' 6x6 PT on a Ranger with a lumber rack. Should have seen that truck when I sold it. Box mounts crushed and all 4 corners of the box torn, motor pooched (original clutch -which I was proud of), differential bent from weight and 280,000 k's on it.
L
"the other is the depot rents a truck for $19.99 for 75 minutes. its not as sharp as the escalade but it would have been cheaper."
Ya know ... those ain't bad rental trucks either.
Went this past summer to get one of those rubbermaid storage sheds ... firgured they come in pieces ... measured the one they had set up outside ... figured it's just have to fit in the van.
Wrong ... I think they purposely made it not fit a van.
Instead of making the box 3 or 4 ft tall ... they thot 5 was a good round number ... sure ...lotsa materials are 5x5.
then ... instead of the box being a nice tight 12" thick to hold things from ratteling ... let's make it 16 so everything has room to move. Anyways .. no way of getting it thru the van doors.
So ... for the first time I rent their truck with those cool fold down doors.
Thing was fun to drive ... plenty of get up and go.
Didn't even have a speed governor ... got her up to 90 on the way back. We have to scientifically test such things, ya know.
Great deal ...$20 ... plus ... we were gonna buy the shed, drop it on the front porch ... then go off for the day.
I just pulled up next to my fence ... dropped one side of the bed .. and flopped the whole deal over the fence.
No helper ... no sweat.
Jeff
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Didn't even have a speed governor
Ooh, yeah, ain't that a kick? Even better at Lowe's, theire quicky truck is in racing colors already . . .
Probably a good thing it costs more to get on the local 30º bank oval than to rent the truck in racing livery . . . (apochryphal tales of the Hertz shelby Mustangs coming back to mind <contented grin>)Occupational hazard of my occupation not being around (sorry Bubba)
Picked up some laminate flooring from a Shaw Carpet warehouse one time...you should see all the little mini-pickups with a 12' X 3' diameter roll of carpet lashed on top! I always wondered what would happen if they hit a speed bump or pothole on the way to the job...there was absolutely no spring left in the suspensions.
As embarassing as it is to admit it I picked up four sheets of OSB once, laid it in the back of the F-150 and figured it would be fine without tying it down. I was only going a couple of miles, right. Got home and counted three. Had to track back and finally found it in the middle of an intersection. As I was wrestling it back into the truck a cop pulled up...never said anything. I figure he was working too hard trying not to crack up!
I did a similar one. I have a bedliner and a homebuilt slider with two Contico boxes on one side. I had picked up a fair sized pile of PT lumber and stopped by our church's yard sale. Had tailgate down and did not strap anything. Pulled out in the busy highway and heard a crash. Bed empty, road full. About six fellow members ran out and helped a very redfaced me load all the tools, etc back in.
Plan to modify the slide platform to prevent that.
Reminds me of another one...
I'm a machinist. Several years ago I was picking up some material from a distributor and saw a guy load about seven 4X8 plates of 3/4 aluminum in the back of a Ford Ranger...didn't tie 'm down. Guess he figures since they weighed a couple hundred pounds each they weren't going anywhere.
Well. he had three problems. First, since he had probably 1300 lbs in the back of a 1/4-ton truck, the front end was already raised almost far enough to pull the wheels off the ground. Second, when he turned out of the lot, the street started up a slight hill. Third, those plates usually have a light coat of oil on 'em for corrosion protection...
Well, of course, as he started to accelerate up the hill all Hell broke loose. The plates started out of the truck one at a time, and by the time he got stopped they were layed out like tipped-over dominoes across the tailgate of that little truck, the front wheels were off the ground, and he was sitting there blocking traffic and unable to do a damn thing about it by himself!
It took the distributor's forklift and three guys plus the driver to get the road cleared. Believe it or not, when I left he was trying to talk them into putting the stuff back on the truck!!
Funny story.
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Many years ago I had a Chevy Vega that was a real tank. Turned out the best place to haul most stuff was on the hood. I hauled many a bag of softener salt and several bags of Sackrete that way, 15-20 miles. Hauled plywood a few times on the roof, but never more than 2-3 sheets, and I'd always attach a couple of C-clamps to the leading edge and use those to rope it down well to keep it from flying.
Our old Citation was also a workhorse. Had a trunk that could hold a lot. Would haul 20-30 4-foot landscape timbers at a time in there.
OTOH, I've seen poorly-secured loads leave many a pickup truck. The main problem their is that pickup people get away with unsecured loads often enough that they don't think securing stuff is necessary. Until the lose the center cushion for a $1500 couch.
There's nothing wrong with using a passenger car for freight. You just need to know how to secure the load and know what a reasonable load limit is.
One "feature" of the Home Depot rental trucks is a weight sensor in the back of the bed that prevents overloading. Exceed the weight, and a horn goes off.
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Jim,
Stopped by HD this morning. A mid thirties couple with a roll of Vinyl Floor Covering hanging on the Drivers side. Tied to the mirror and the little wing in the back with Super heavy duty Depot twine. Would have loved to watch but I was too late already.
In my town, Ashtabula Ohio, there is a '69 dodge-something-running around. Sounds normal, but the car was painted with a brush, and has a 2x8 rear spoiler!! They must have used wood screws though the trunk lid into the 15" 2x8 risers, then screwed and glued a 7 ft. long 2x8 on top of those. You know, if they would have painted the spoiler, maybe you wouldn't notice it so much....lol. I haven't seen it lately, figured the must have put it up for the winter :>)
GB
So what your telling me is that was just a roof rack extension for carrying cargo?
And all those little cars with the big wings and stuff... that's actually for carrying osb and drywall! Thanks for enlightening me. Here I am wondering what the wings were for on those little pocket rockets... I had never noticed that the wings were mounted paralell to the roof! Cool!
And I've been using these big clunky pickups when I could have been riding in style all along!
L
You also keep the radio turned up loud enough for the soundwaves to help suspend the load.
Maybe someone should tell those guys that if they add another wing on the front they could fit 12' sheets on.
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Glad to help. Although, I don't think the wooden spoiler is functional, it's just for show......
GB
I guess I've just been watching too much Monster Garage.
;o)
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Speaking of monsters - if you could tone down the size or bold colour of that signiture line, I could still read it. matter of fact, I would be able to read other stuff again too. Whew! Talk about overloaded!
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Grumpy :-), you just have too good of a monitor.
How's that piffin? Better? I think it looks different on every monitor-depends on your setup... hard for me to judge on a 19". Thanks for the heads up.
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beautifull! and the colour is right for gardens too! And more sedate, relaxing...mine is a 19" too, I think, but individual resolutions can also affect things. thanks, Somebody here once suggested that I tone an old icon I had down
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Much more better.And you got the color right this time, too.; )
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You know, There was another post about a Gremlin in this thread... I was wondering if we should come up with some plans to sell the Cadillac Corp. for their next concept show...Hmmmm. The TRUE Truckster. Escalade with extended rear door that locks in place in the up position for carry that cumbersome 2x4x14 or sheets of drywall all the way to the front spoiler. After all, I believe it was GM that did it with the sliding roof.... We could be rich....Oh, wait a minute, that GM idea bombed didn't it ?? We'll work on it... Buy the way, kind of the same subject, do they make an arbor for those slide miter saws that can carry a dato blade ?? Just curious.
GB
hey... how bout a 3 support rack that hydraulically lifts from invisible to sit 3" above the Escalade... And an office in the back complete with swivel chair... no wait... kind of a hovercraft glide thing... with a guest' chair... so you can slide from the scanner to the minibar... to the printer...then back to the keyboard without ever lifting your cheeks off the leather!
You don't think the carpenteros making 15$/hour would resent that do ya?
Yeah... that would bomb too.
I'm likely going to go get a plain tacoma... with air and sedate looks-sign it to the nines... (vinyl makes it difficult to key).
L
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You mean, like the Family Truckster? Can you imagine woodgrain sides on an Escalade? And no gas cap?
"I cut this piece four times and it's still too short."
Exactly !! Griswald would by it !!
GB
Must be a trend.
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Oh my COD... almost Identical to the one here. When I was at my family reunion years ago, where I met my wife, I saw one in the parkin' lot, couldn't wait to show my friends how id look on my kar!! LOL!!
It must be catchin' on like far in the woods!!
GB
a guy had purchased this 33ft fiberglass houseboat that had been sunk... spent most of the winter rebuilding it in the driveway came spring it was all finished and since it had a trailer that took 2" ball and he had a datsun pu with a 2" ball... he knew they were made for each other... 10,000lb boat pulled by a maybe 3000lb datsun diesel pu... hitched up and headed for I-40 west... everything was fine until about 40mph got to sway'n and hop'n pick'n the back of the pick up up off the ground and move'n about 3ft each way.... but at 35mph everything looked peachy stop'n wasn't a problem since at 35mph on I 40 everything was behind you when you are 12ft wide and going 35 and sway'n all over the place after the 30 mile trip to the boat ramp no one wanted to be in the truck on the ramp... until they chained the front of the datsun to the front of a mid 70s eldorado to let em both lower the houseboat down the ramp...
i still have the 1981 datsun... the boats long gone... how my parents ever let me have that thing in their driveway all winter i'll never know... but it's not the only story i got out of that truck... or that boat on the mississippi... guess that makes me an ex riverboat captain... somethings are worth doing just for the story you get from it...
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I once was in a pick-up with 30 12' sheets of rock in S.F. waiting for the light to change,we were at Duboce crossing Market,took off at the green and dumped the whole load like a pile of dominos.We blocked Market in both directions at 8:00A,M. Didn't break one sheet,but got cussed out the whole time we picked up the rock.
Another time in the city I had a brakeline fail with a full load of rock rolled thru a red light,up a hill and back thru the light backwards and so on until we stopped!Can't remember why the parking brake didn't work.That happened with a newcomer from Maine,he didn't ride with me for a long time afterwards.
he didn't ride with me for a long time afterwards.
Can't understand why... Must've been a single brake system, like my truck.
Had a couple of smartazzes working here not long after I bought my "pickup". Told 'em to load 4x8 3/4" CDX sheets. Came back to check and they already had 80 piled on. I smiled and told them to load the rest, another 20 or so. They knew I had a rough, steep driveway to climb to the new house site and couldn't wait for the catastrophe.
Those cheap 2" straps held just fine. Barely cleared the elec line. Did a bunch of grumbling about spoiling their fun as they unloaded.
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oddly enough, very similar. Drywall and an escalade. They at least made the attempt to put it inside, must have had a fold down seat or something, but they were 12' sheets, so maybe half was in. They proceeded out the drive and onto the highway, half sheets flopping about. I didnt tail to watch, but they didn't make it far Im sure.
Remembering a guy here who posted that a customer (I'll buy the materials!) avoided this by cutting all the 4x8 sheets into 4x4 sheets and wondered why he wanted more money to tape and finish that way. HA.
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i have a picture of a gremlin loaded down with 50 sheets of osb home depot made the driver sign a waver before loading once left the tires went flat and the shocks broke through the follrboard police tried to pull them ove but they keept going on rims they were on their way to build a crack house ......go figure
you think home depot and others would not allow this kind of loading to go on they obviously do not care as long as you give them a credit card
Everyone on the planet with a computer has that pic. And half of those without computers.; )
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Really? Let's see it... the only one I ever saw was the one of a Jetta.
My bad.It was the jetta that I was thinking of.: |Kinda like to see the gremlin myself, then.: )
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That loading area might be a good spot for a web cam
Here is my boat ramp story...
After a full day of play (read tired). I'm in the van, backing in the trailer towards the water. My friend is in her boat, lining it all up. I get the signal to move up slowly. I do this then I hear go go go. So I start in and pull it up faster. All of a sudden I hear a loud STOP. I jump out and she is yelling at me "why didn't you stop when I yelled Whoa - Whoa" (horse talk). Sure sounds like go go to me.
The outboard was still down. OUCH...new prop.
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My ramp story isn't nearly as exciting. After turtling my daysailer I finally got it towed (demasted) into shore and was backing up my old (then not so) Citation to pick it up. The driver's door was slightly ajar and flew open when I first started back, catching a utility pole. SOMEHOW, though I was pretty befoggled from a day of sailing and the turtle incident, I managed to stop just in the nick of time, and the door hinges were only very slightly bent.I've also always managed to catch myself before pulling the masted boat into a tree or power line, unlike several other unfortunate souls I've seen.(As for the turtle, what can I say. I zigged when I should have zagged and backwinded the jib. Was too tired (the beer had nothing to do with it!) to have the presence of mind to just let go the tiller and let it jibe -- tried to turn back into the wind and the boat just went over in one quick motion.)
Not to ruin all the fun here but at the risk of being told where to stick it by the caddy owner, I would have taken the high road (for the sake of setting a good example for my son anyway) and politely told him that I doubted that the load would last the ride home.... the land fill can do w/o 25 sheets of dry wall
I came out of HD one day and saw a guy filling the backseat of his Camry stationwagon with concrete pavers. He had them 8-high on the seat and floor, had to be at least 400 total. The wheel wells were practically resting on the top of the rear tires. On another pallet cart, he had 15 or so bags of sand that appeared to be destined for the back hatch of the wagon.
I considered saying something, but couldn't imagine that it would do any good. If the stance of the car (@ss-down) and his own common sense didn't convince him to stop, what could I say to change his mind?
It's one thing when there's a problem that the other guy might not be aware of ("HEY! Your right rear is almost flat!"). But if someone is consciously doing something that appears foolish, it's a tough call to step in and question their judgement.
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"I cut this piece four times and it's still too short."
"Oh, what a give-away. Did you hear that? Did you hear that, eh? That's what I'm on about. Did you see him repressing me? You saw it, didn't you? "
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Edited 2/14/2005 4:23 pm ET by JJSHAW
bloody peasants, both of you :)
Worked in a lumber yard for a number of years during college...some really stupid people & cheap people...
Had a lady picking up drywall in her convertible Miata...yep that'll fit in the passenger seat just fine...
I love the guys who tie 6 sheets of plywood on the roof of their SUV and then hold it down with one hand...I'm sure your arm will hold that plywood while you're doing 60 down the road...
Seen H-O trying to squeeze 6'x8' fencing (posts, cement and all) into the backseat of a Cadillac...uh delivery charge is only $25...and we have a flatbed that can handle the load...
MY favorite was home-owner Saturday's...you know the guy who just finished watching Bob Vila so he thinks he can tackle framing an addition asking for the timber that's 1-1/2" by 3-1/2"..."yeah a 2x4...no...no..no..1-1/2"x3-1/2"...oh and I get a contractor's discount on that timber, right?"...."sure you do...got a business card there doctor!!"