What if it Snows?

Discussion in 'Questions From New Drivers' started by Dave_in_AZ, Mar 19, 2018.

  1. Dave_in_AZ

    Dave_in_AZ Road Train Member

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    So we've picked up.

    Trailer has one(1) flat tire, two(2) blown air bags, no registration.
     
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    I'd say run it
     
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    I didn't want to kill him. I don't want him chewing on things in the house. Hence the 12 mile ride.

    I got home last Saturday. I notice stuff on the floor in the kitchen. I'm thinking I must have left with stuff on the edge of counter when I hurried getting food out of the house to go work. Nope. I drink 5 or 6 and play video games wake up at 2 am. Possum on the kitchen counter. I cuss him out, like he understnds, he waddles to the back of the stove and dives behind it. By morning he left.

    I have water damage in a back bathroom. I ripped out the moldy floor and he came up threw that. I shut a door to that part of the house and put the trap there.

    Since he wasn't aggressive I didn't want to shoot him.
    Ah yes the things that make me want to buy a flat.
     
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    Agreed. It takes us less than an hour to pull the counterweight on our 345, and the newer ones have a better system to drop and lift the CW. Our 345 has variable track gauge and weighs 120K, probably close or a little more than a 349 .The CW is about 19K. They no doubt know all of this and must be looking close at the labor cost and additional truck to make the move, but if they have quick couplers they can ship the CW and bucket(s) separately easily.
     
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    Sounds like the one that youtuber bought recently that lives in Bend OR.
     
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    The cow boss that I knew on the ranch in Nevada quit smoking by the time I got there, but the guys that had been there a while said he could roll one at a full trot a horseback.
     
  7. Dave_in_AZ

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    On the bright side, I got a chef's salad that was only $2.50
     
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    I didn’t know he was a you tuber. But it is a clean nice trailer. It’s too heavy though. That’s a 50,000 pound trailer. I’d be 78,000 tare. Actually wouldn’t be able to scale what I can with my current setup
     
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    Yeah and that’s a BIG possibility. This ain’t my first rodeo and I’ve heard that song and dance before
     
  10. Dave_in_AZ

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    The dude's in the shop let me use their microwave, so we had chicken noodle soup too.

    It's just like The Casa Del OM, only with air tools and stuff.