Muck Boots 'n' Slickers - Life of a Livestock Hauler

Says a man of some experience?
A truism: Sometime, in the heat of bidding at auction, you pay too much..

 

Craftsman boxes about 47 years old snap on setup was 2k 11 years ago guy lost his ambition and needed money for cannabis. I purchased the Mac setup from a snapon dealer 7 or 8 years ago 3500 he seemed disappointed when I didn’t finance it

 

Ha, he would not have made you the price he did if he had known you would pay cash. The devil is in the details...

 

I have actually done ok at RB, but years ago I was a sucker at horse auctions. I knew I had a weakness, so I began to go without a trailer figuring I'd be safe - nope. Then I wouldn't take my checkbook - still ended up buying something somehow. I finally quit qoing!

 

I’d like to have a herd of these heeler dogs. It’s bath day, as if washin my pards boy parts ain’t bad enough the fat little #### escaped my grasp and jumped his wet ### on the bed. Now we’re both in trouble

 

As a 12 valve owner, thank you for that tip.

 

If I ever win the lottery that will be the first place I go on a shopping spree

 

@JolliRoger, we have high beams.
@wore out , I’m going to need to start checking and cleaning connections. The high beam relay does get warmish after running them for awhile.

 

Told ya, like steady lightening. Ref the reflection in the sky...

 

We used (1979) to go from Tupelo to the name brand forklift dealers in Memphis. We were the little upstart shade tree junk boys to them.Take the pickup on the roll back. Get over in the industrial park off Brooks Road, Clark. AC, Towmotor, and Yale all in a several block area. Roll the pickup off and we go in it shopping their backlot trade ins. Sorta junk to them. We would visit and examine and get told lies and reply in kind and settle on as many as we wanted.They all knew me and would take a check as an immediate cash sale as they still had time to call the bank before we picked up. We was always vague on all except amount, a paid for invoice, and they would load it when we came for it.

We would go off and eat a good meal, decide on which to load we could get on then,or leave for later. etc.
Sometime the "manager" who had sold us would not be aware as we wheeled up to the back loading dock an had them fetch our buys.
The surprise wore off after a few raids and we just went in the rollback and with 3K in $100 bills. Some times; the effect of switching a roll from a pocket while getting your pocket knife out to scrape a SN # , clearly effects wonders on getting to the nut cutting of buying used equipment.