Ever have one of those days?

[LBrown59]

I thought you were given 24-48 hours to produce it?
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It's like this in Ohio.

 

[Ozarker]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( What if you forgot your wallet? )</font>

Then you become John Doe, get arrested on a John Doe warrant and held until they can establish your identity.

 

[SPIKER]

opps I meant to say expired not suspended. though that would have been worst. down in marrietta is may be a bit different but the cops up this way are money hungary even if you WIN the case you still have to apy all the fees and court costs as well as attornys; it is a ploy to get the mopney one way or the other. let alone attempt to sue them they will not alow the case stating that judges, cops are ammune form the law!>?!? trust me we (well my brother and sister-n-law" have been fighting it for about 10 yrs now as he has even gotten 6 months in jail for something he didn't do. when the cops found out they were living at my house then then sited me for letting an unlicenced driver drive my truck! (I didn't own a truck and was never issued a summance or ticket or a failuer to appear, just was arrested at the car was while washing my car! so don't think that the LAW will keep you safe as the cops judges and lawyers will only do what they want and you will pay for it ... sorry for the rant. I was one of the people that gave for freedom with 6 yrs of my life in military and have a bad back to show for it yet I've been handcuffed tossed in jail and treated like I was a mass muderer when the cops didn't ahve to prove ANYTHING nor provide any evidance. this is just a sbad for Domestic violance or child abuse. my woman has 2 teenage girls one was screwing around with an older guy so we tried to put a stop to it, the girl ran away and claimed that my woman (her mom) had hit her. the mom my GF was hauled to jail cost her 4000+ (still on going) in fines attny fees and such. no proof of any neglect I wasn't there the other daughter didn't see it but the cops took the bad girls word. mom goes to jail. I pay to get her out. and loose 20% of the bond because it was a cash bond and the city said they are entitled to KEEP it even though the mom did everythign she was susposed to. that is government coruption at it's best/worst.

I don't know how to fix the system but for sure anyone who tried / tries will end up missing dead or put in jail for being a terriorest or worse in the eyes of the corrupt officials...

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MarkM

 

[Bob_Skurka]

Mike, thought I would revive this thread after my evening yesterday. I BROKE MY TRAILER. First, my trailer is a seldom used thing, mainly to haul a tractor & implement back and forth from the home to the office. So I decided I needed to take home some mulch, pick up a landscape blocks, etc.

One of my guys loads 4 pallets of mulch onto the trailer for me to haul home (we sell mulch so I have lots of pallets sitting in the back lot) and I drive home. No problem. My plan is simple, hook up the fork lift attachement to the 3pt hitch and drive the pallets right off the trailer.

Problem #1, the last pallet was rotten, it collapsed on the journey, no way the pallet fork is going under there. So I just happen to have a pallet at home (shear luck, that never happens). I unload a about a 1/3 of the pallet by hand, get the pallet on the trailer light enough that I can force the forks under it, lift it off and drive away. So a bit more manual labor than anticipated, but pallet #1 is gone.

I move on to pallet #2 and that is when I find out that the inch of rain we got 2 days ago added enough weight that the 3pt won't lift up the whole pallet. OK, I start unloading the pallet and loading it onto the "extra" pallet that I already started. Take about a 1/3 of it off and the tractor easily picks it up. So I'm now wet and dirty, what I thought would be a 20 minute job is now running closer to 90 minutes. But no tragic events.

Pallet #3 is rotten, and I already know I have to do some manual unloading, and I have no pallets left to stack, so I start stacking on the ground, again take 1/3 off the pallet and drive up onto the trailer to pick up the rotten pallet. As I drive off the center support of the pallet breaks loose and is dragging on the trailer floor. Now I have no idea that is happening. The diesel engine is roaring so I don't hear any scraping noise. There is no resistance from the dragging piece of wood, and I ease the tractor onto the ramps. About the time my front tires hit the ground, the rears on the ramp, the piece of wood hanging from the bottom of the pallet snags the 1/8" raised lip of metal at the tail end of the trailer and pulls it, this in turn tears welds on the sides of the trailer where the angle iron end piece attaches. The once straight piece now is shaped like a "V" and the structural rigidity is now about equal to the strength of a wet noodle. The back of the trailer gives way and collapses. Fortunately the tractor's rear end is only about 3" above the ground and the collapse was fairly slow motion.

But there I am, the pallet is now stuck, there is no way to get it off the trailer, the tractor is on the ground and doesn't have quite enough lift at the 3pt to get the pallet off the end. So I muscle (and I am not a big guy) everything apart, so the tractor and the pallet are now safely apart. But the trailer is a mess.

Using the tractor and the forks, I am able to push the pallet back up onto the trailer almost 3' from the collapsed edge. But the damage is pretty bad. The rear of the trailer will have to be rebuilt. New angle iron welded in, and this time MORE of it will be added under that lip. So I go about bending it back into shape with a mallet. I know its trash but I can't drive it back that way. As I pound on it a glancing blow breaks loose a piece of steel that bonks me on the forehead. So now I have a cut and a bump. Screw this, I'm done!

Today I went back out to look. It can be repaired, it can easily be beefed up. I still have to unload the 2 remaining pallets by hand. But I can get the trailer safely to the shop for repairs.

I did learn a lesson. I paid about $1400 for the trailer. Most others I looked at were almost twice as expensive. I bought cheap because I only use this thing a couple times a year. Big mistake. It will cost me a bundle to have it professionally welded up and reinforced and repainted. Not to mention the time I am losing do to the problem. I had intended to make 3 trips with that trailer moving 10 pallets of mulch, a pallet of landscape stone and several implements. I'll be making other plans to move the remaining stuff.

 

[jwstewar]

Now that is how my luck usually goes. /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

I remember when I bought my pull behind lawn mower (pre-TC /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif). It was a 63" Agri-Fab weighed around 600 lbs. I think. It was in a crate that was loaded by forklift at Farm & Fleet before they went out of business. I couldn't budge the thing by myself. I hook a chain to the '71 Sears Suburban that I had at the time. It didn't have enough weight to budge it. Next best thing. The car has tow hooks on the front. I wrapped a chain around the crate and hooked it to the tow hook on the car. Pulled the pin that keeps the trailer from tilting. Hopped in the truck and drove forward. I was finally able to move the beast. Got it to the end of the trailer (remember I was in the truck pulling the trailer and could see what was happening). The crate caught the metal that forms the edge of the trailer. Twisted the whole bet sideways. Bent the crap out of the angle iron that fastened the bed to the tongue of the trailer. Even put stress cracks in those. I ended up having to bend the whole trailer back in place just so I could lock the bed back down. I then took it to my buddies shop where he welded in new angle iron on each side to reinforce the punny factory ones. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

I still need to buy a new heavy duty trailer so that I can haul my tractor with.

 

[Bob_Skurka]

Jim, I forgot to mention that last night when I parked the tractor in the garage I "tapped" the craftsman workbench with the FEL.

Today I noticed all 10 drawers are knocked out of their tracks. I guess it was more than a "tap" /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

 

[Golfgar4]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( I had intended to make 3 trips with that trailer moving 10 pallets of mulch, a pallet of landscape stone and several implements. I'll be making other plans to move the remaining stuff.
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Thanks Bob. You just reinforced my decision to hire a landscape crew to come in and do all of that stuff for me! /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Seriously, I feel for you. But you should be able to accept the fact that virtually every one of us has been in the same situation (going cheap to save a little and end up spending more /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif) at one time or another.

And who's to say that the same thing wouldn't have happened even if you had bought the heavy duty trailer?

Now I grant you that it probably wouldn't have happened if you did have the other trailer. But I was just trying to make you feel better! /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[jwstewar]

Ouch that is the one that hurts. Let me guess, you can't even fix it because all of your tools are inside of it and you can't get them out.... /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif But hey, look at it this way, your wife and daughter aren't mad at you for making their clothes smell like diesel. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif You could've been sleeping on that broken trailer when they kicked you out of the house. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

 

[Bob_Skurka]

All I can say is I am going back to work to get some rest!

The idea of bringing the mulch home on pallets was so I could easily move it. Unfortunately that didn't work out for me. I did manage to get the last 2 pallets off the trailer. I had to unload part of each, but I had a partial sheet of plywood in the garage, I laid that on my pallet forks and stacked the mulch on the plywood I then transported a large stack of mulch and slipped the plywood off the pallet forks upon reaching the destination.

Taking the last 2 pallets off were a challenge. Using a tow strap I pulled the pallets to the back of the trailer. I had to drive the tractor up onto raisers so the 3 point could raise the forks high enough to snatch them off the back of the trailer since I could not use the ramps to drive up. The welds are simply torn at the rear of the trailer, the metal is bent. It will get some steel square tube welded under the rear when it goes into the shop to get repaired, that will be in additon to replacing the bent angle iron.

Jim . . .As for the Craftsman work bench . . . I just walked away. The drawers are a mess. I figure putting it together again will be a rainy day project. I have to many other things to do on sunny days.


GARRY. . . so I'm guessing you don't want to help me with the new Japanese/Asian style garden that I'm putting in? The patio will be expanded, new retaining wall, a small water feature (if it was big the dog would play in it) and lots of new plantings. I'm trying to figure out where to put a Siamese Buddah head sulpture that is on a pedestal but so far that is just in the planning stages.

 

[bgott]

" It will cost me a bundle to have it professionally welded up and reinforced and repainted."

Sounds like an excuse to buy a MIG welder and a set of torches. You can use the MIG to reinforce the bench while you're at it.