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Kenster

06-25-2007 14:56:39




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So, you drove 30 miles to the farm auction and found exactly what you wanted (3pt dirt scoop) out there and you wait around for five hours til they get around to selling it. And you win the bidding and you're happy with the price and you get it loaded up into the back of your plastic linered pick-em up truck.

And you forget to tie the equipment down and that next sound you're going to hear when you stop at the first red light on the way home is a mighty whack as your prized new possesion slides forward and slams into your rear window. And the next sound you hear is 30 minutes of sizzle, snapple, crack and pop and the safety glass slowly, but inexorably deteriorates into a million wee bits of tinted glass. And one of the thoughts now going through your mind is
"Gee, the two hundred dollars I saved on that thing, plus another hundred bucks will buy me a new window!"

So, my tip for the day is.... Don't do that!

(Don't ask me how I know!)

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Joe in MI

06-26-2007 09:45:36




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 Re: Tip of the Day in reply to Kenster, 06-25-2007 14:56:39  
Six 8' railroad ties in the back of my 1/2 ton pickup. I figured they wouldn't go anywhere since I had hauled them like that before (I see I'm not alone in that miscalculation). Pulled out onto the main state highway here and all six came out in the middle of the lane. I was barely moving, there was just enough of an incline. Lucky for me a couple of guys I knew happened to be driving past right when it happened and helped me load 'em back up. Everything gets tied now.

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Ross Pugh(NC)

06-26-2007 07:26:55




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 Re: Tip of the Day in reply to Kenster, 06-25-2007 14:56:39  
Always remember, "SECURE YOUR LOAD" it is your responsibility/liability if it falls off your vehicle.



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crazy8

06-26-2007 06:23:27




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 Re: Tip of the Day in reply to Kenster, 06-25-2007 14:56:39  
I had a skid of sakrete on the tail of my pickup 80lb 42 on a skid. I should of entered my second driveway not my first. I had that skid shift to the front of the bed ,scared the rap out of me. Didnt break the window, but left some dimples just below it. I also had my snowmobile slide out of the pickup when I took off from a trafic light, no damage done.



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MIDennis

06-26-2007 04:57:27




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 Re: Tip of the Day in reply to Kenster, 06-25-2007 14:56:39  
I could fill a book. I would not know where to start. I have watched people at Lowe’s, Home Depot, and other places throw stuff on a trailer or in a pickup and never attempt to secure it.. How about 50 sheets of drywall in the middle of busy intersection. I received a large new cooler still in the box while driving down the expressway. It was too heavy to blow out of a pick up truck. Yeh! If you want to keep it, tie it down. I followed, at a safe distance, a trailer of plywood which dispersed one every mile or so along the highway. No way to notify the driver. This went on for over 20 miles, when I exited the road and he had only a couple of sheets left. I think the back window was a rather cheap experience. I have had my fair share of “senior moments” so I take my copilot with me to jog my memory. She does a pretty good job……Most of the fime.

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DON TX

06-25-2007 20:41:36




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 Re: Tip of the Day in reply to Kenster, 06-25-2007 14:56:39  
I'm in the glass business. I can't count the times I forgot to tie off glass, doors, ladders, etc. Some times I stop, sometimes I can't. Sometimes it'll hang on for miles, sometimes feet. It's never fun or funny. DON TX



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Scott(Ks.)

06-25-2007 18:06:49




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 Re: Tip of the Day in reply to Kenster, 06-25-2007 14:56:39  
So you're telling us that you're human? Hindsight is a wonderful thing.

Once years ago I had a near head on wreck on a gravel road with a 1954 Ford pickup. The wreck tore off the drivers side fender, front tire, running board and cut the back tire down. The force knocked the windshield out onto the hood, but it didn't break amazingly. I carefully placed the windshield into the bed of the truck and proceeded to change the rear tire so it could be towed in. After I changed the tire I threw the jack into the back of the truck. You know the punch line.

A couple of years ago I drilled a couple of holes through my current trucks sun visor to put bolts in it to make it solid. You just have to barely touch a windshield with a drill bit to crack it.

And I have seen what an upright piano looks like when it goes over the side of a truck.

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Dave Sherburne NY

06-25-2007 18:27:57




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 Re: Tip of the Day in reply to Scott(Ks.), 06-25-2007 18:06:49  
I don't remember anybody from Kansas there to help
put that back on my truck. The first time we loaded
it it only took two guys picking it off the ground
the second time took 6. It just missed a car when
it went over the side. Took it home put it in the garage cleaned it all up { all the dust was loosened
up}. Did you know you can take the whole front off
a piano with about 8 screws. Anyway we found a card
inside it that said it was last tuned in 1939 After
we got it back together, we had a fella come tune it
and he said it was one of the better pianos made,
its a MUNN made in Walton NY. All tuned up and my daughter still has it.

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kozz

06-25-2007 17:49:39




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 Re: Tip of the Day in reply to Kenster, 06-25-2007 14:56:39  
That reminds me of many years ago , I was 15 working for a lumber company.. I had to load a customers order into the company station wagon. I put the 12 foot 2x6s in first than the 10 foot 2x6s on top because I had to cut two of them . I backed up to the sawmill door witch was closed and You guessed it I put 2 foot of 2x6 thur the windshield. THERE WAS ONE MAD OWNER



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Empennage

06-25-2007 17:32:23




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 Re: Tip of the Day in reply to Kenster, 06-25-2007 14:56:39  
I found out the same way you did. I have two ropes tied (always) to the back two tiedowns in my truck. Anything that goes in the bed gets a rope and if its heavy it gets two ropes. Dont feel bad, there are those who "have" and those "will"!



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Bruce (VA)

06-25-2007 17:32:07




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 Re: Tip of the Day in reply to Kenster, 06-25-2007 14:56:39  
Some time during my college days (1970 - 73) I was coerced into helping a buddy & his wife move from one apartment to another. They were moving from a third floor walk-up in an old house to another more modern place. While they didn't have a lot of furniture, they did have a beat up old upright piano that his wife bought at a yard sale & somehow managed to get up three flights of stairs & into the apartment. Well, as you can imagine, that was last on our list of things to move. And, it was July or August, and it was hot. God only knows how much beer we drank by the time everything was out of the apartment except the piano. Somehow, we four drunk college kids got it down the stairs & into the bed of the truck. Then, one of us uttered the famous line: "It ain't going anywhere." We didn't tie it down.

We made it about three or four blocks.

Do you know what an old upright piano looks like after it comes out of the bed of a pick up truck going around a corner?

Well, I don't, because we never stopped.

And, we didn't stick around either to listen to the explanation my buddy gave to his wife of how we "lost" a piano.

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Larry in CO

06-25-2007 17:22:23




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 Re: Tip of the Day in reply to Kenster, 06-25-2007 14:56:39  
When you get your new slider, don"t leave your appliance dolly standing up in the back of the truck while you jostle the truck in any way. They make an awful noise when they fall over and go thru the slider. Don"t ask me how i know!! Larry



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Sean (TX)

06-25-2007 16:09:48




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 Re: Tip of the Day in reply to Erik Lane, 06-25-2007 14:56:39  
I have a plastic liner to. I have a sheet of plywood over that. Cuts down on the sliding. Plus a tool box to cushion the blow...

Sean (TX)

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Bob Harvey

06-25-2007 16:01:36




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 Re: Tip of the Day in reply to Kenster, 06-25-2007 14:56:39  
Sounds oddly familiar, except the broken glass bit. I had a load of planed cedar planks....drove about 20 miles...up the driveway and forgot about the bump near the top....yep, you guessed it...planed cedar planks sliding on gravel !!!



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Kenster

06-25-2007 15:56:23




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 Re: Tip of the Day in reply to Matt_791, 06-25-2007 14:56:39  
That's exactly what I'm going to do, a slider window. It will be installed on Wednesday. The old one is not quite all the way out. It somehow hung all together though there is no section remaining much larger than a match head. I got home and taped it all up with two inch clear packing tape. I didn't want it to collapse inside the truck, plus, we've been having a lot of rain. So far, the tape job has kept out the two inches or so we've had since the window got broken.

If I had just pointed the top link hook up down, it would have hit the bed of the truck and not my window!!!

It's always something.....

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cargocult

06-25-2007 15:09:28




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 Re: Tip of the Day in reply to Kenster, 06-25-2007 14:56:39  
Wow...a bummer!! But look on the bright side! This is an excuse to get one of them there sliding rear windows. U already have the old one out, hehehe! CC



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Greg_Ky

06-25-2007 15:04:43




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 Re: Tip of the Day in reply to Kenster, 06-25-2007 14:56:39  
Yep thats why I always put a rubber bed mat on top of the liner. (I think it is called hind sight). I know where you are coming from.-Grin-



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