The picture doesn’t do it justice. This guy was tying, what looked like, a screen door to the roof of his car with twine. This Home Depot is located on a road with a speed limit of 50 mph. Looked like wings, probably won’t act like it though =8-)
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And just think - they let him drive and vote.
"A completed home is a listed home."
"And just think - they let him drive and vote." And make babies, too.
just another yankee whay do you expect?
"Well, I'll be a monkey's uncle... this screen door is BENT!" (when he gets home) "wonder how that happened?"
They rent a truck for next to nothing...
And yes... the intelligence of mankind never ceases to amaze me!
Maybe he needed a bifold unit.
A guy once pulled out in front of me with 2 sheets of drywall tied to his sedans roof...lenghtwise! With ONE rope....in the middle!
As it was a windy day, he was going 20 before his wheels started rolling. Knowing the aerodynamic properties of sheetrock, I paniced! Sure enough as soon as I passed and he got up to 20MPH, he launched the front hapf over his car and onto the road bhehind him...the other half wiggled free not long thereafter...
Jake Gulick
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You folks have seen all the inexperienced drivers. They do learn as they get older...The ones that I like are the ones that reach out the window with their left hand to hold that load down - in case the rope (bakery twine?) lets go.
Don
wish I had a pic. of this one ---I sitting at a light with a slight uphill grade and a pickup in front of me with 5 sheet of ply lying flat in the box with the gate down and a piece of HD crap twine over the top and NOT around the end at least.
So in any case I can see what is about to happen when the light turns green so I hang back a ways and sure enough --Light turns and he pulls ahead to go and out the back came 4 out of the 5 sheets --Right on the road and slid up to my front tires and stopped.
You have NO idea how bad I wanted to pull ahead and drive right over his stuff and around his truck and go about my merry way.
Oh how I wish I could have that moment back. (evil smirk) Mike
you kinna havto admire that in a way.. that guy must be soooo free from stress______________________________________________
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that guy must be soooo free from stressWho?Me or the dufous HO?
Not a hardware story, but close. Sitting at a light in Sunny Wichita Falls Texas. Car in front of me has a "Don't Mess With Texas" sticker in the back window. And you guessed it...... Hand pops out the window, and the McD's wrapper hits the ground. Wonder how he drove with his head that far up his ..........
Useing our roads as a garbage can reminds me of a time yesteryear before I became a carp.I was at a local store and a car pulls in directly in front of me and the driver opens the door and pause momentarly and then gets out.Care to guess what he did?Dumped his ashtry out right there in the middle of the lot--Well I was irritated at his total disregared but went on my way shopping --fuiming all the time--
On my return to my car I saw his was still there with the nice dummper pile still waiting --Not one to pass up such an opportunity I decided the right thing to do was clean it up...So I gingerly scooped up the pile with the small paper bag from my purchases............And deposited them were they belong...........In thru the open window on onto his seat............Such satifaction that I can't describ.......AAAHHH Memories....How sweet. Mike
no not you, you have reality to stress you out, that home-depot-geneus on the other hand must be compleately free from the stresses of reality(such as phisics) around him.______________________________________________--> measure once / scribble several lines / spend some time figuring out wich scribble / cut the wrong line / get mad
Edited 3/18/2005 4:18 pm ET by skyecore
Well, this isn't load related, per se'.....I was on a job and the house next door was having major earthmoving done. They had dug a HUGE hole for geothermal lines, and had put most of the earth to the side in a big pile. The distance from the top of the pile to the bottom of the hole was 60 feet easy.
So, one day, I went to the truck for lunch, and the earthmover (read "steamshovel") guy was digging and removing the pile, loading a bunch to the side, for some reson. He was on the very top of the pile, and had removed nearly half the pile, and to me it looked as though the pile was no longer going to support his machine...but he kept digging. Then he stopped and jumped out for lunch...as he walked by I said, "You're a lot braver than I am!...thats just loose fill, right??" He asked why, I pointed to the lack of supporting soil, and he replied, "Naaaaa...got plenty! I know what I'm doin' son!". Of course he did.
An hour later I went to the truck to get a tool, just in time to watch him climb out fron the upsdie down cab at the bottom of the hole as earth continued to slide down on top of the upsdie down machine. The smell of diesel was obvious, and sure enough hundreds of gallons just poured out the tank into the ground. It was days before they got that thing back on it's tracks!
And to think what he was paid per hour.... sheeesh!Jake Gulick
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HO aren't the only ones to spill loads like that.
Saw a builder with a refrigerator and a double oven unit, still boxed, accelerate up a ramp on the interstate. Boxes were bungied from rail to rail across the truck. I was really surprised at how high those appliances lifted as they went over the tailgate. They were FUBARed when I helped him load them back on the truck. He kept on swearing at those cheap azz bungy cords!
Course we all have had our experiences with those slick azz bed liners haven't we?
dave
Talk about contractors with a delicate touch. In the HD parking lot once, I saw this big fellow trying to load a couple medium sized appliances (bulky but apparently not too heavy) into his truck. Didn't bother to open teh gate, slides the box up the side and gives it a good shove up, box bounce and rolls in the bed. Then teh second one. BOOM, bounce, roll. Boy I'm glad I'm not the HO for these, felt like grabbing one of my 2x4 and beating a little sense in that bonehead.
Local refinery had just taken delivery of a brandy-new f-350 with - you guessed it- a plastic bed liner. My buddy the maintenance dude, loaded an enormous palletized pump in it to transport, just like he had done lots of times before. Started out kinda quick from a light, and big pump is in middle of the intersection. There it sat until they could scrounge up a forklift to get it back in and this time, tie it down.
He's still working for them, but wears a white collar these days.
=====Zippy=====
Also none construction related.Back in the 60's when I was in school I was on the freeway and past a truck with an open vat.Window sheild got covered. So I hit the wipers. Instand backout.Rolled down the window enough to see the left shoulder and pulled off.It was, by this time dried paint.used an ice scraper on it so that i could see out enough to get home.I ended up getting the windsheild cleam, but there where specs in the paint. Had it buffed out, but you could still see the impressions.Must have been some kind of lacquer.
You mean to say that 1500 bucks worth of appl. and all the guy used was a 99cnt. bungy cord.brilliant---Wish I had enough markup on my materials that I could be so foolherdy ..........
Mike
I'd have to say I'm among the ones who have done a poor job of loading something. And a couple of stories, too..Back when I was about 17 I worked at the local redneck lumberyard. One day they sent me out with a load of 1/4" paneling. Nice slick stuff.My GF lived a short ways down the street. So I figured I'd go to the jobsite via her house just to cruise by and see if she was home.I turned the corner by their house and hit the gas. And all the sheets of paneling slid out of the back of the pickup and spread out all across the street. Well, my GF was home, along with her whole family. And they all came out to rib me and watch me re-load it..One of my Uncles said he was following a semi once with a dozer on the trailer. As the truck started up a hill, he thought something looked funny. He eventually realized that the dozer was rolling backwards. It rolled all the way off the trailer and started rolling down the hill towards his car. He had to drive almost completely off the left side of the road to get around it..A friend of mine in the truss business told me a story once. He said his boss sent him out to a jobsite with a few really small trusses - Like 10' or so. Apparently my friend REALLY didn't like this particular customer. And he knew the jobsite was on a corner lot. So about a block away he got out of the truck and unstrapped the trusses. He Got back in, took off, and turned the corner as fast as he dared. The trusses slid off the side of the truck and landed in the edge of the yard. He never stopped the truck..One of our drivers lost some large trusses on I-270 north of St. Louis. He immediately pulled over to the shoulder and backed up to get alongside them. Before he could even get near them he heard it announced on the radio. Apparently there was a traffic copter right above him doing a live broadcast about the time it happened.
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Well since y'all are coming clean....
Picked up a tub and surround. It was loaded on a pallet... figured "why take it off.. just load 'er up!"
Traveling north on a road that has trees along the west side.... except in one area.
Windy day.
Drove into the area where the trees stopped... and that surround became a big sail!
Broke the small strap I had used, dumped the surround and tub out into the lane beside me, pallet and all. I have no idea how that thing didn't hit another vehicle... as it was rush hour on a VERY heavily traveled road. As luck would have it... no cars were beside me at the time. the things even missed hitting the side of my truck, somehow.
As an aside... I was by myself; trying to get these things reloaded... red faced from embarrassment. A REAL nice lady was the only one who stopped to help... including several construction types (trucks with construction tools). 5'0" and maybe 90 lbs. She can work on one of my crews anyday... as she pulled MORE than her share when we were tossing them back on the truck (tub was heavy and bulky... surround was just bulky... in a hard cross-wind). I was simply amazed that she could lift and leverage like that.
Edited 3/19/2005 12:55 am ET by Rich from Columbus
OK, my turn. Told this before a couple years ago, but it'll be new to the turnover crowd.I had a Dodge Dakota. The bed that lets you lay in a 2x6 to carry a loadabnove the wheel wells.
I had a roof torn off and discovered a need to resheathe the whole thing.
That required a quick trip to the mainland on our ferry to get the plywood, must've been twenty sheets more or less.
So I had it loaded in with the end near cab down to the bed and the tailgate end sticking up, laid across a 2x6. Tied it al in fine and headed for the boat.Some of you live in places where the moon doesn't effect your lives too much, but on this coast, we have what are known as tides. The moon lifts the water up out of the ocena and lets it fall back in again on a regular basis. Sometimes the moon is tired and only sucks the water up and down maybe eight feet. Other times, old moon is feeling rambunctious and the water moves as much as twelve feet.When we get one of those super low tides, the ramp from the ferrry up onto the pavement is fairly steep.so as I started up the ramp this time, and bounced a bit over the hard end of it, the 2x6 support broke in two, letting the plywood settle. The ropes then broke, and the plywood - ok all but two or three sheets - went cascading backwards down the ramp sliding out of my truck. of course, I was first in line, so nobody else could drive off the boat until I was all cleaned up again. And the sheets were splayed in such a way thatt he furthest one from the truck had to bbe picked up first. And since the ramp was so steep, it would not stay in the truck while the next one was picked up...Fortunately, we are all good neighbors here, and I quickly had several guys helping load and hold while we laughed it off.
They laughed more than I did though
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Saw a semi trailer parked with a full load ,bags of sumptim..anyway neighbor is too cheap to pay for storage so he parked it on a city street kinda a lateral street busy but intersects with my residential street... anyway,
He put the front support legs down, drove the tractor away..... soon the sloww steady sinking of the support legs into the aspault slowly, slowly soon after going into the aspault about 2 ft..the load dumped all over the street.....
soon , juan, jose and the other friends of the driver were unloading the rest of the load and trying to get the trailor free...
where do these people come from...
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I live where it's flat. Around the river tho there are steep grades.
From your vantage point, a couple sq of vinyl siding only they don't check their mirrors.
Homowner with plastic bed liner......bunch of fence posts and a couple rolls of wire fence. No those were comical rolling down the hill.
B/4 digital camera, a real shame.Remodeling Contractor just outside the Glass City.
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This just gave me an idea:
Buy a vacant lot at the bottom of a hill on a major road leaving a Home Depot. Build a whole spec house outta stuff that falls off of vehicles. ;-)
-- J.S.
Thats nothing Mitremike...when I was a rookie structural steel driver, I took off from a light and three 8" I-beams slid off the back and hit the road in morning rush hour traffic. Luckily the guy behind me was strong enough to help me get the stuff back on!
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In my younger days:Lost about 6 bndls of 16' Masonite Lap siding off the back of my truck and blocked 2 lanes. A chick helped me reload.Lost a banded skid of 100 sheets of plywood paneling off the back of my truck. Luckily I was in front of Wickes and they helped me with their forklift.jocobeView Image
May years back I recall having a full box of vinyl soffit on top of my ladder rack... stopped at a red light and the box end, which had gotten wet overnight, broke open and that soffit came out one piece at a time and laid itself end to end through the intersection. Musta been 72 feet of continuous soffit across the whole thing.
Of course I hopped out immediately and ran out to clear the road but a few bineheads, too imaptient to wait 20 seconds gotta go around everyone and run over all the stuff. Reminds me of a recent accident I witnessed... pretty good wreck, a car thrown off the road into the grass... I slam on the brakes and jump out to see if all are ok and other cars are too busy and are swerving all through traffic at high speed... no concern for anyone else... I hate those freakin kinds of people.
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Harry Homeowner here. :-) The other day I made it home with several sixteen foot 5/4 x 12 SYP boards. Mind you, I drive a 91 Honda Civic hatchback. Over 8 feet were sticking out the back. Why that car didn't just tip over backward, I have no clue.
Gotta civic hatchback? Don't need no stinking truck. 6-8 packages of shingles? No, problem. Just drive slow and watch the breaking distance... {G}
hey pete, how bout the quick stop with the ext ladder up top and no cross rung tie down? That's an eye opener.Remodeling Contractor just outside the Glass City.
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I can't join you folks poking fun at that guy...when I was a rookie, I strapped a 8' aluminum brake to the top of a Pinto!
blue
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Time to poke fun at you now! You actually OWNED a Pintio?!
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Speaking of plastic bedliners.
I was driving down a highway once on a very windy day when the bedliner blew out of the pickup in front of me. Fortunately the strong wind was a cross wind & it blew directley into the ditch.
On a hill by the harbour
I didn't exactly own it....I married it! My wife bought one new in 1972 for $1999. It came with some cool stripes. I used it to launch my carpentry career and actually ran a crew out of it! I had cords, saws and wall jacks in it. I used to drive the senior citizen lady to the bus stop each morning...I had to move tools to make room for her.
My wife still grumbles about me tearing up her prize car!
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at least it was not an escort or a gremlin
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or a Pacer...
Saw this on the internet a couple of weeks ago.
Ya gotta tell me how to get this off FHB so I can send a friend of mine who works at a small tractor store. Or send it to me direct--Please--That is pricelessThanks for the laugh, Mike
open the pic and right click on it
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Must not have that button assigned a command on my mouse cause the right button does nothing.Maybe the DW can help me ----Thanks Mike
I'll send it if you want...
That would be huge--I just know Kevin will get a huge kick out of it and the DW is kinda busy with our three year old who is running a small fever.Many thanks, Mike
After moving in to my old house, we had a lot of snow and rain for awhile. Over the dining room we found the squirrels nest and spot the PO thought he patched. After patching the roof, I needed to get 6 sheets of drywall for a new ceiling. Well, the only vehicle up for the challenge was my wife's old Porsche 944 from college with a clip-on roof rack. My FIL and I took local roads back and forth although we needed to pull over a few times to let traffic pass. We used a lot of chord.
I never knew a Porsche could move that slow....that's not a mistake, it's rustic
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your load of soffit reminded me of a certain bundle of step flashing many years ago- i was a roofer back in high school/college and one day i was unloading some stuff out of the truck at the company yard and accidentally left a full banded bundle of 100 sheets of 9x12 galvanized flashing sitting at the back of the flatbed '65 chevy. i head out for the next job and make it about 10 miles across town (on I-25 right thru the middle of Denver) before going up this short hill after going under the Evans Ave overpass- i hear this loud 'smack' followed by a hissing sound and look in my rear view to see this shiny metal brick sliding along behind me. ("F***!") i take the next exit, go back and park on the other side of the hwy approximately where i dropped it, and run across 3 lanes of traffic (i was a lot faster and there was a lot less traffic back then!) to the median wall. lo and behold, the bundle has broke open and it looks like the Tinman has dropped his briefcase on a windy day!!! i stood there for a moment in disbelief, then ran back to the truck and got the h e l l out of there.
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Here's a good one.
http://www.herald.ns.ca/stories/2005/03/15/f235.raw.html
The story doesn't make it clear, but the dump truck was towing a dump trailer with the excavator in it. It was not on a lowboy. Seems the load was a touch too high for the overpass.
Driver is probably looking for a job as a carpenter now.
Ron
Ron, we had a construction semi take out a bridge here about a year and half ago. They had to tear out the bridge and rebuild it using emergency funds, overtime etc. It closed a major road for about 6 months!
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Blue, driving Detroit is like leafing through a catalogue of "stuff". Often wonder how that .........got there in the median.
For instance, you know when they crush those cars and strap 'em on a bed. Sometimes they don't smash 'em quite flat enough. Again, shoulda had a camera.Remodeling Contractor just outside the Glass City.
Quittin' Time
Ahhhhhhhhhhhh.......Calvin, my current rmdl takes me to 696/75 right thru the disney land of death, I am finding the current question to be more like "How the heck did the crackhead get out of bed at 6am to toss that 8" block off the overpass and thru that suv windshield up in front of me?" I wish it were just bemusing lost cargo.
Kevin
Very sorry to hear that kevin. Vicious bastards like that should have the pleasure of wearing it. And to be honest, unsecured loads are a serious accident waiting to happen and carelessness shouldn't be rewarded with laughter. You've sobered me right up.Remodeling Contractor just outside the Glass City.
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oops, sorry to sound that sobering. The incident, being only a couple days old, cheesed me that much. Hope you don't mind my vent, it's probably better that me stalking the bastage and improving the landscape;>}. Do you have to drive up that way much? I'll be making the trek from m50 (cabelas) for the next 2 months---yippie.
Kevin
Cal, I've seen some pretty interesting stuff in Detroit too. Sadly, there are apartments under most of the underpasses.
Here's a funny one. Years ago, during the automotive depression, they started storing excess inventory of cars at the Hazel Park Racetrack. I was stopped at a light and saw a autotransport semi rolling out of the parking area into traffic. Unfortunatly for the semi driver, he was up in the car above the cab....nobody was steering the rig! The funny thing is that I could see the guy up there steering frantically. He probably had his foot pushed through the floor on the brake pedal too!
No real damage...the rig rolled across the street and flattened a sign. There mighta been some clean up expense on the new car seat though!
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I was right behind a auto transporter once. The driver just dropped off a few and was leaving the dealer. He forgot to lower the top deck and tagged an interstate overpass. He was only doing about 20-25mph, but the new Roadmaster wagon up top now had a full length sunroof. Ouch!!
I've seen a couple excavators tag overpasses too. What a mess!
I just had to tell my moment.
the hills of western PA...
long upgrade to the right...
22sticks 4" 20' pvc sch 40...
2 2" ratchet straps so tight (me thinks)...
just started to rain...
one starts to slide...
ack pull over... had time to touch the last couple
as they race off the rack
end to end (or more mostly more) the whole way down the road
just unreal how that stuff will slide on wet blacktop
and anyone that passes its soo funny and I guess it is a lil bitDan
Back about '92, I was building a deck and trying to beat winter. I had the crete in early enough and then we got two or three feet of snow. I ordered the lumber ( eighteen grand worth of PT and CVG fir decking) and was on site shoveling snow aroudn the day it was supposed to show up.I waited and waited...this was before the days when everybody and hisdog had a cell phone. Finally near lunch time, I called the lumberyard. Yessir, he left the yard this morning...well, it showed up about 2PM, all snow encrusted and several splintered pieces. Turns out that when they used the froks to load the truch the bed had been parked under a snow melt drip off roof so it had a sheen of ice on it. the load was strapped down per usuall and made it across the ferry trip, then when it hit the first stretch of road on island, there was a sheen of black ice in a bad spot, so the truck shied and shimmied enough that the load twitched around on him, which then pulled it enough to slide him into the ditch bank and unloaded the lumber all oer the road. bad enough that the road was closed for an hour while a few other guys helped him clear that much, but he had spent much of the day picking it up one stick at a time - while I was waiting only two miles away, blissfully ignorant of his plight.
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wish I could figure out how to post a pic, one I got off the 'net....this one says it all....Hit 'em hard, hit 'em fast, SHOW NO MERCY!!!
lemme try this..maybe I got it figured out...Hit 'em hard, hit 'em fast, SHOW NO MERCY!!!
please note the wheels(minus the tires)....can't remember where I found this, but I saved it because I found it so comical...enjoy!!!!Hit 'em hard, hit 'em fast, SHOW NO MERCY!!!
Thanks for the replay--this ones bobbed to the surface many times around here.I recall that it was out east (Maryland ) at a Homer Depot--My favorite part is the wife/girlfriend in the pass seat (hiding no dought)Welcome aboard and grab a lifejacket--It can get a little bumpy around here sometimes, LOLMIke
The photo was taken further south in Florida or Alabama, but these two were intending to drive that load back home to MD and only got a couople blocks
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Thats right now I remember--I saw a behind picture once and it has MD plates.I am almost sure it a Homer Depot.And if I recall not only does it have the load on top but it was loaded it the trunk with cement bags or something.Must be a leased vehicle............Mike
my recollection is that there were shingles and cement bags too and that the shocks weere driven up through the rear seat. HD had helped load it out for them
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You have it backwards.It was in MD, with FL plates.But it was not going back to FL (even without the load).http://www.snopes.com/photos/lumber.asp
Ok, I must confess to being guilty of a similar boner.
I once had about 6 or 8 sheets of plywood, two rolls of tarpaper, and a couple of bundles in the back of my truck. It was a 6'box, so I had the plywood sitting propped up on the tailgate, with everything else on top up by the cab. Sure enough, I pulled away from a stop light going up hill, the tailgate latch failed, gate popped open, and the plywood came out like a deck of cards. So there I was with a line of plywood about 30 feet long going through the intersection, shingles on top, and tarpaper rolling away, dodging traffic and picking up steam...
This little college age girl rushed up and offered to help me load the plywood back in. I could have done it by myself in half the time, but I didn't want to hurt her feelings since she was being such a good samaritan. I got everything but the tarpaper loaded back on. (This time with the tailgate down!) Strapped it down with ratchet straps, (Gee, maybe if I had used them in the first place?) And then drove around the block and went back down the hill (about 2 blocks) to retrieve the tarpaper, which, miraculously, was undamaged from it's little adventure.
Look..she was not asleep, and yes so I had some ceeement bags in the back seat...I was going HOME OK?
Garsh, ya'd think I was going cross #### or ssumptim...
Cut me a break...like YOU never did anything like that?
EDIT: NEVER< MISSPELL COUNTRY by typeing Cu*ntry....wee hah...they be fast here
LOLOLOLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
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Edited 3/21/2005 10:34 pm ET by SPHERE
"How did that get there?"Long ago and far away - I was driving thru texas on I-10. The two sides were separated by a gully about a quarter mile apart. slopes about 12/12.I was diddly bopping along in early AM and saw near the other lane, a pickup truck facing the wrong way twenty or thirty feet down sope, and as I drove along, a guy got out and was walking around it, scratching his head and looking as puzzled as I felt.I pulled aver and hollered to him, "You OK?"????My buddy Dave andI hiked over there. there were absolutely no wheel tracks leading to the position the truck was in. and there was a minor scrape on his fender and on the gaurd rail above im back aways...
We figured that he had fallen asleep at the wheel the nite before, hit the rail, and flipped into that position,then at that angle ran out of gas.We helped push it down the slope to where he could start it and drive back out the bottom...
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I was driving through Texas one time and see a mangled mess of green metal underneath an over pass on the interstate. About a half mile down the road was a semi with a cotton picker on a flatbed, minus a few inches on the top. It looked brand new.
right clik...
save picture as...
reformat from BMP to JPG at yur document level...
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My mouse must be out of right-click juice cause that manuver don't work with this Mac.
email it to yurself...
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming
WOW!!! What a Ride!
These are the things ya learn when you hang around long enough.Thanks--see ya in the ford thread.....
With a Mac yer windoze right click thingy is translated as a control-click by default unless you re asign yer click preferences click away .Rik...
I think it is option click, hold down the option key and click, same thing.
could be one of the other buttons near there on the lower left side, don't have my mac at the moment.
Bingo --right on the money--works like a charm....now if I can just remember that for the next time, : )Thanks for the tip, Never claimed to be as good on the keyboard as I am on the mitersaw.
Mike
saw a j brake, planks and pole jacks on the side of the road today.. a bit mangled and bent... still attached to the ladder rack... no truck attached to the ladder rack..
Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming
WOW!!! What a Ride!
Now thats FUNNY--thanks for the chuckle----Laughing while I type. Mike
I made the mistake of trusting the owner of a brick yard to strap a load on a trailer for me once. I did walk by the trailer and give a couple of good tugs on his strap on my way to the cab.
What I didn't see was that the strap was badly frayed on the other side. Fortunately it was just a couple of wood pallets on top of the pallet full of concrete block that got plastered by the car behind me when they hit the highway.
By the time I got to the next exit and turned that rig around he was nowhere to be found. I picked up the splinters, hung around for about ten minutes in case he came back, and hit the trail again with a new strap and a slightly soiled pair of britches.
See... that's why you guys are carpenters...
That was a prototype dodge ultralight... jesse built one on monster garage. The motor flips out of the back and that guy beats you home-no traffic up there. Those ropes are for steering...just like a parachute!
As a kid I dumped a big load of 2x8 treated downtown toronto coming off a light-nearly right on top of a bmw 850... they guy was pizzed! Missed his car by an inch. I knew I shouldn't have put the chip and headers on that truck. Don't trust straps unless it's a flat bed.
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It wasn't construction materials, but one time a pickup pulled out on the highway in front of me, and when he hit the gas the V8 engine he was carrying in the bed (I think it was a Ford 390) slid out the back and landed right in the middle of the road.
He didn't look too happy as I drove by.
Ok, another funny (to me) story of freeway loads...
Was on the 405 in LA during the typical stop-n-go. Guy about 4 cars up had a pickup with a rack, and about 10 sheets of 3/4 4X8 plywood with only a side-over rope. Well, you guessed it...slammed on his brakes and forward went all the plywood. landing end-first right on his hood. I think the only thing that prevented further denting of the hood was the aircleaner underneath.
I was honestly going to pull up behind, put on my 4-ways and help him, but one look at his face and I just pulled around him like everybody else.
Oh....and several years ago, right after I loaded my PU in the HD pull-through and was getting ready to leave, a corvette stingray with a moon-roof pulled up behind me and the guy's wife rolled out a cart with some 2X4's and other miscellanea. I'm still kicking myself for not sticking around to watch what certainly would have been a very entertaining scene!
BruceM
Best (or worst..depends on your perspective) case I've seen so far...We were doing a job for a school district, three different buildings...GC decides to load the D-6 dozer on a low boy to bring to the other site 1-1/2 miles up the road...Figured he didn't need to chain it down..."Hell I ain't goin' that far...take me longer to load it/chain it then to drive there"....well he forgot about the sharp curve in the road...
Dozer slid right off the low-boy...kinda twisted the trailer...
Talk about one un-happy owner!!
Don't know what happened, but on the traffic reports the other morning there was a report of a dozer in the road and the trailer beside it.
A few years ago, a friend (and new gc) strapped a door to the cap rack on his truck with elastic tie downs. He came to a stop at a major intersection and the door launched, bounced off his hood and stopped right in the middle of the intersection. After I stopped laughing, I did at least clean and rub the white latex out of the hood ;However, the cost of the new door was all him :>}
I always thought it would not be too long before some one wrote/created a picture book of all of these folks. With a write-up of each result like only made it 1/10 of a mile then the sheet good was a complete loss??
I watched a Home Depot homie wrestle a box full of appliance into the back of his pickup. The tail gate was down and the back window from the cap was up. With the box in the bed, he slamed shut the tail gate and brought down the window - where it hit a corner of the box. The glass shattered and landed at his feet in the glittering mound. I apologized to the guy when I finally was able to stop laughing.
These sound like me and my wife. I'm re-roofing a 6000 sq. ft. roof, which had been gapped planks, but I'm putting 1/2" ply over to give a continuous, flat surface for the shingles. Needed a fdew more sheets of ply, so we take the station wagon (remember them?) to the local lumber yard, and get a dozen more sheets slid into the back.
Stopped at a signal at the bottom of a slight up-grade. They all slid beautifully into the intersection when the light turned green. Several of my neighbors enjoyed seeing us out there in the street re-loading. Some of the other drivers were NOT pleased to wait while we did this!
I was following this guy on the way home tonight, waiting for something to come flying off. That hunk of plywood on the right side was flapping pretty good once he got above 20mph. Notice the amount of air in his back tires.
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A neighbor of mine had to move a piano. He had one of those Toyota pickups that's really small. To small for the piano to fit in the pickups bed so he laid it on its back on the bed rails. He was only going a few blocks so he didn't bother to tie it down. Can you imagine what happens to a piano, with all those piano strings, when it hits the ground. It literally exploded.
Bet it fit in the bed after that...
The person you offend today, may have been your best friend tomorrow It is easy to be friends with someone you always agree with.
My house (childhood home) has a great sweeping curve in the road below it. We have been able to watch gobs of misfortune from our perch. Watched a pickup put an upright piano into the ditch after a few cartwheels on the road. I have about a 50 foot deep gulch between us and the road and have watched snow covered roads put many over the bank.
Did not see the impact but a 57 T-Bird glanced off the bank at about 85. Had it in our yard for a few days. He was in a pop-up race with one of the local bootleggers and had been doing about 100 before the curve bit him. He was very lucky in that he managed to just skim the soft dirt, not to mention not meeting anyone in their lane..
While we were building the addition heard a thump thump and saw lights pointing the wrong way. Called 911 and ran down. Car upside down, running and no-one there. Crawled in and shut down. Teenager had been picked up by neighbor. No injuries.
I don't remember the exact numbers, but the total tension on all the strings in a piano gets up into the hundreds of tons. A move is going to put it out of tune anyhow, so you might as well take it down a couple tones, which reduces the load substantially. Then do a pitch raise in the new location.
-- J.S.
"A neighbor of mine had to move a piano. He had one of those Toyota pickups that's really small. To small for the piano to fit in the pickups bed so he laid it on its back on the bed rails. He was only going a few blocks so he didn't bother to tie it down. Can you imagine what happens to a piano, with all those piano strings, when it hits the ground. It literally exploded."
It must have made a really great noise when it landed. :-)
So, I was reminded today of something I did many years ago during my first month on the job. I was this young, uninitiated, extremely green- kid. The boss sent me to the lumber yard to get about thirty 2x6s. I loaded all of them on top of the ladder rack, hopped back in the truck and took off. It was in the dead of winter and several of the baords were kinda icey. Of course, this literally being my very first time to ever drive a loaded truck of any nature, I new nothing about securing said load. Did I mention I was just a kid?
Anyway, I drove all the way back to the jobsite, right through the middle of town, stopping at no less than 20 intersections, stop signs, etc. made it all the way there without incident, pulled up to the job, came to a stop, and every one of those 2x6s came sliding off the front of the rack across the hood and landing on the ground in front of the truck like the old game of "pick-up-sticks". My boss standing there watching just shaking his head.
How on earth they stayed up there until I got to the job to this day remains a mystery to me, but I considered it my one "get out of jail free" card, and have counted my blessings ever since.
My unsecured load story wasn't quite as lucky.My helper & I load an aluminum j-brake onto the roof rack of my new van at the end of a job. I go about loading the rest of the tools into the van, while he's supposedly tying down the j-brake & ladders on the rack.After going a couple blocks, my helper yells STOP as I'm doing about 25mph. Thinking he saw a dog, or something in the road I didn't see, I slam on the brakes, & the j- brake goes flying off the roof, just missing the windshield, smashing down onto the hood of the van, & ending up in the street in front of us.When I asked him why he yelled for me to stop, he tells me he forgot to tie down the j-brake!