Where is everyone #5

Yes,,,,,,, yes

 

Not a bad looking wagon

 

I am amazed by these wheel chocks...
You know, there was a time when the chocks were lying there outside your backing trail. You backed in, and as you walked back to get to the walk in door, you kicked the chocks in place. And when you came out, you toed them out far enough for the next hand to get in.
Are we missing something? And how did whoever made these learn we had the use/need/market?
Actually; there was a time we just parked the truck, stuck it in lowest gear or reverse, killed the engine, and jerked up the drive shaft brake shoe...
Biut them 3 or 4 4 big hands grabbing and tossing did not shake the rig like these cowboy forklift wranglers

 

Them hard to find square chutes or the ones didn’t sit like you thought they did with the world once the first truck got against them they would lay boards out beside the tires for the rest of us. I learned early never be first lol

 

Those things are so great they make you chock one drive AND the steer. They come out and checked before unloading too.
Oh and I had to give them the key…

 

get u a bucket a pole and a 12 pack , time for fishin .

 

boa you scrubbed the #### outta those fingernails ! Lol

 

lol,,, Ah Thanks???? That thing is the definition of bubblegum and duct tape…. I did just put two “new” “used” recaps on it….

I drug it outa the weeds back in October and gave the guy $2k for it…. I was expecting to drag it maybe 5k miles a year… I think we’ve drug it about 50k so far…..LOL

it’s gone way beyond the scope of the original project…

 

Gotta spray them. Got a drone coming tonight. Unless he crashes it again today. He’s had it out 3 times and crashed it twice.

 

You ever seen or had occasion to load bale cotton at a cotton compress on a flatbed?

Where they wised up; just took some tin off the sides of the old sheds, skil sawed the floor out 35 feet back and about a foot wider than a flatbed was in 56. Raked the ground under it smooth or added some so you would be about level. Wonderful for the clamp truck, pop them on just anywhere. All fine till ground got soggy and wallowed out.. then like pushing a 34 foot log chain. Loaders took bets on # of pull ups for an unknown driver.
If I could swing the yard so as to get a look down the chute, usually could hit it. Back in and find in a building was hard unless you could get a glimpse down its throat. In about 56/58, double decking was coming in. E. St Louis and Chicago yards had good one, as had been loading trains.

South Memphis built some nice, the small sale barns cobbled on a high side someway to start but they did not always match floor opening with top outlet. I have stood; hanging on to the chute or trailer side, kicking hogs on inside as loading. Never failed to load and bring in to the sale. Farm pen, ditch bank with fence mashed down, 2 metal gates for wings and 3-2-1 bales of hard pressed hay as a chute.
Did not know any better, was just the way it was done, then.
Here is Laredo, TX, in 56...