It's amazin' what people will show up with to buy something big.
DiL was putting in a pellet stove a couple of years ago. A lot of people were and there was a run on pellets, creating one of those panic type temporary shortages. So one of the big boxes had a shrewd manager who bought about 290 tons to put on a big sale. All on one-ton pallets, in 40-lb bags, 1-ton minimium, 5-ton limit. Two guys showed up with 26-foot moving vans and no pallet jacks so we all had to wait while the fork-lift guys used pallets on the deck to push the pallets ahead to them them all on. Most were car haulers, with outside fenders that the fork lifts couldn't reach over, so each of them took some fooling around. Only three or four of us showed up with deckover trailers taht could be easilly loaded from the side. I was loaded, strapped down and on my way before the carhulaer next to me ws even loaded.
The more pathetic were those that shoed up with an SUV. Piled the back, the back seat and the passenger seat full and went out with their leaf springs inverted. Also a few small pickups who hadn't given any tough to not being able to slip a four-foot pallet between their whell wells. THose two groups were allowed to go to the side and load loose sacks on their own.
Most pathetic case ws the fellow with the small pickup and a lightweight snowmobile trailer who had paid for three pallets. He wanted one in the bed and two on the trailer. They let him load the first ton loose into his bed, and loaded the first pallet onto his trailer, but refused to load the second pallet. He put up quite a stick. "I drove all the way doen from Dover-Foxcroft to give you my business . . ." They allowed as how his best bet would be to take what he had to Dover-Foxcroft and, if his truck survived it, come back (a 90-mile round trip) for the last ton. It took three other folks in line behind him with at least capacity for their loads, to pwersuade him that he was getting good advice.
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