Big Loads - Post Photos Number 2

It is

 

Yes it does

it was a very good truck for me

 

Not so much the height which would worry me with that load of hay, but the lack of a big cross pulling towards the centre on both the front and rear stacks. Under extreme force either bindings could angle over allowing the stacks to fall.

Incidentally I had a worrysome time in Ireland many years ago ('70s?). I was 14 foot high and clearing customs at Londonderry. An Irish driver said to me 'you know about the bridge do you?' after I told him that I was heading down the west coast to Galway. I didn't and he couldn't tell me how high it was or the name of the village. This happened several times without any details except that one driver told me it was just after a bend before the village of Cluny. This did not bode well, the maiden name of my late wife was Colluney, pronounced the same way. Finally I rounded a corner and saw the bridge 14 foot 2, finally ok, on I went. But then another bend and another bridge, no-one told me there were 2. But scraped under again, a sigh of relief. Then it became clear that the road was snaking back and forth under the railway, and now I met the 3rd, 13 foot 6, but a sign to the left saying diversion for high vehicles. The road across country to Dublin but I was going south and searched eagerly for the signs to put me back on track. There were non.

I stopped to ask a gang mending telegraph wires and they pointed to a lane, 'sure you'll be ok down there, get to the village, turn right, and the Galway road is just there'. I did as I was told but the road was a lane with hedges both sides, then I met an 8 wheel tipper coming towards me. Fortunately there was a bend at that point and the bloke laying the hedges years before had obviously been at the poteen because he went straight on into a big wide bend allowing us to squeeze past each other. But the driver stopped, cab to cab, just to have a bit of the craic. A Garda (police) car pulled up behind him and I said 'we'd better get moving' to which he replied 'no, no, they'll be grand, sure they'll wait' so we carried on with our chat. The 2 officers in the car did the same, after turning off their engine too. Eventually we all moved on and, after several more distinctly Irish experiences I reached my destination where, after hours, the finance director, working alone late on the budget, let me in and made me a cup of tea and a sandwich.

I love Ireland and the Irish, but sometimes you have to learn to leave your stress behind.

 

You can’t load small equipment on a dsr

 

Depends on the operators determination, and preparation.

 

And how much lumber you carry.

 

we have three trailers with raised rails, railers as I call them. The only thing I hate about them is we can't load plows and discs and they lose a little money because of that.

 

Ah grasshopper, you will become one with the blocks.

 

3 hours to go from round rock Tx to the other side of Austin

thanks for the awesome route Texas !

right through town ….