Posted by NCWayne on December 31, 2013 at 08:52:10 from (173.188.169.54):
In Reply to: Re: I've got truck envy posted by Traditional Farmer on December 31, 2013 at 04:48:14:
I"ve thought about the trailer deal a few times but never really took the time or energy to dive into doing it. In fact I"ve actually got a bed off a one ton truck that I"ve thought seriously about turning into a trailer for just that purpose, or finding a smaller cab and chassis to set it on, and stocking it for use on some of the smaller jobs I get, but the money"s just not right for that at the moment. I"ve actually got the opportunity to buy back my old C30 truck also, but until things get back to normal, and money gets right again, I can"t make that happen either. In the meantime I"ve always just kept a couple of site boxes filled with special tooling, like the spline drive sockets, big torque multiplier, etc for my home made cylinder bench in one, all my A/C stuff in another, and my line boring equipment in another. That way if I know I"m headed out to do a specific type of job I just load the appropriate box in the back and go. Once on site, I can either work out of the box with it in the back, or for the larger one the line boring stuff is in, I"ll often set it on the ground close to where I"m working with the crane. In the end it"s all gotten to be such a routine of doing things like this it would really be hard to make a change to try something else simply because I know what I"m doing works...so why mess with a good thing??? Too after nearly 14 years on this truck I know what I"ve got tool wise, parts wise, etc on it, so I can go right to things when I need them instead of trying to remember where I put something on the trailer that I only use a few times a year.
On that note, I have given really serious thought to setting the trailer up just to do service type work like changing filers, etc. I do mainly repairs, and do very little service work, but I do have a couple of customers that ask me to do it, and as long as they are willing to pay the bill, I"m more than happy to oblige them. In that scenario having the trailer set up with a couple of oil tanks, a grease drum, and the minor tools needed would be great. Too it would alow me to just tow it with my pickup instead of driving my service truck 40 miles to spend an hour changing filters on a little farm/garden tractor. Ultimately it would save the customer a lot of money, but as long as they don"t mind paying, I don"t mind doing it just like I have been.
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