Re: pulling a trailer with a one ton pickup

Posted by Mark - IN. on March 06, 2005 at 06:53:58 from (64.12.117.7):

In Reply to: Re: pulling a trailer with a one ton pickup posted by RustyFarmall on March 05, 2005 at 07:54:18:

Good morning Rusty.

All the talk about this brings two things to mind. The guy that I bought this place from, a retired trucker with emphzema pulled out of here (Bristol, IN) in a caravan of vehicles and trailers that should never have been on the road headed to their new home in Florida. Ive got a couple of pictures here showing my old AC B (Mark Krzyzanowski's mower), and one of them is my lab by the rear of his trailer as he was gettin ready to pull out. That tractor (Chevy Astro, not GMC Atsro) hasn't been made in at least 20 years, and that trailer (absolutely overloaded to the gill) sat on the property for years, broken and dry rotting. Pieces of junk. He drove it there with no CDL (retired before CDLs), and made it, sneaking over a 3 day period. Said had to replace 5 tires on the way on that unsafe piece of junk alone. The small block chevy engine that he put in the '80s ford 1/2 ton gave out pulling a 20 foot enclosed Wells Cargo 2 axled trailer, which lost 2 tires and brakes itself carrying a '40 something Dodge, and other stuff for who ever was driving it. Those are just some of the things in that 5 vehicle caravan of unsafe misfits that pulled out of here that will drive the troopers nuts, and for good reason.

When I put up my new barn, tried to grade it myself with a back blade on one of my tractors. Didn't work, or I just aint good at it. So had a guy come in and do it with a dozer for $65 an hour (was cheap). He, a former amish guy, brought in a Case dozer on the back of a 20' goose neck that gave his 3/4 ton Ford the working over of it's lifetime. He sneaked in here on back roads from 2 counties over, did the job, then asked me directions for some different, less travelled back roads so he could sneak it back home. Real nice guy though.

Mark.

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