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[Bird]

<font color=blue>Have you made it up to WVa yet?</font color=blue>

Not yet; will be going as soon as possible, but may be awhile yet.

 

[rf33]

Let me just say that having seen Harv's old truck Moby, if Harv can find the time to devote to the layout and setup of the new truck, it will definitely be a shoe-in for truck of the year for 2003. That old truck had tricks that I have never even dreamed of... like an expanded metal floor in some of the storage areas for things like shovels, so the dirt just falls out the bottom. That W_Harv is one sharp cookie.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

A CDL is in order I know. It's one of those time things. But when you add nineteen five hundred to fifteen it does come out more than twenty five nine ninety nine. And that's gross capacity with the new truck and my pintle hitch equipment trailer, thirty four five hundred, tons and tons oh fun.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

It's a time thing.

Building a new bed from scratch would be probably a month without generating income plus the costs involved in making it.

The way it's sitting now I go to the bank for two loans. One for the new truck. The other a personal loan with the old truck as collateral for sixty days. The personal loan is the down payment on the new truck.

That gives me two months to work in building the new bed that fits behind the tool box on the old one. When it's done then I'll take a week to remove the tool box and do some modifying to update it. It and the welder skin will be powder coated to match the cab of the new truck. It will then be installed on the new truck. Old truck goes to bud and and personal note is paid off.

The powder coater is wanting me to do the bed too. While it's a great idea I do think it's a little much. This is a work truck.

I was looking at a forty one gallon galvanized pressure tank at TSC today. It would be perfect to put down between the frame rails. An airline from the truck compressor and a spigot plumbed out for a hose and I'd have it made. The only thing better would be to plumb in a small electric pressure washer with a couple a quick connects, one on each side of the truck. That way when it comes to clean up time we start up the welder and power up the twelve hundred psi pressure washer. Forty gallons of water will go a long way under those circumstances.

I do belive I am going to have a dump bed this time. I don't need one often now. But I imagine if I had one I'd need one all the time.

The side dump idea is really only applicable on a gooseneck trailer. Due to their configuration a side dump could be emptied and pulled away from without touching what's dumped. A conventional trailer wouldn't be able to do that nor would a truck either.

 

[wroughtn_harv]

Hey Ron!

How's that fence going?

We're gonna have to get out east and visit ya'll along with Karmaniac. Now there's a pair to draw to!

 

[rf33]

Hi Harv,

The fence is coming along, slowly, but it is coming along nonetheless. I have had to take alot of time away from it in order to work, pack, move, unpack, etc. Not to mention that until the grass takes a good hold out here every time it rains, I take a few days off and let the mudpit dry up before I drive the tractor out onto the property. We got a pretty hard rain this afternoon, and it is in fact still raining, so probably won't get much done on the fence this weekend either /w3tcompact/icons/frown.gif. You and your wife are certainly welcome to come out anytime. Look forward to seeing you sometime soon.

Ron

 

[Anonymous Poster]

Just do it... and take LOTS of pictures!

 

[karmakanic]

Hi Harv,

Welll,,,which is it gonna be? We're all a' waiting to hear. I can see it's a tough decision. On the one hand you've got old tried and true Moby, who's all bought and paid for,,,customized by a man for his own unique needs, and honored by his peers no less. But then there's the newest kid on the block, all ruby red, and with more strenght and features that Moby's designers just dreamed of. (But I gotta warn you about them retractable mirrors. they've already come up in the mechanic's forum under the thread "most useless accessories",,,you might get a little ribbing offa them./w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif)

Congratulations are in order just cause you're facing the decision. It's a great time to buy with the economic cycle being in it's current slump,,,nice to be in a buying mode when others are finding it hard to sell. Glad to hear you're staying busy. Only negative about the situtation I see is you gotta visit them trolls, the bankers. But at least the trolls are treading light with their current interest rates.

Good luck which ever way you go.
Dave

 

[wroughtn_harv]

Howdy Dave,

We've got a fly in the ointment.

A couple of years ago while getting a load of materials at a wholesaler their forklift operator dropped a piece of pipe across the hood and fender of Moby.

Their manager came out and looked at it and told me to get it fixed and they'd pay for it.

Heck, I've not shut down long enough to put the truck in the shop. But the bud who's buying Moby as a cab and chassis has hit me for a two thousand dollar hickey to repair it.

So I went to the supplier with an estimate for repair and asked them to funnel it through channels.

The new manager told me I'd waited too long and that I was SOL.

NOT!!!!!

I found the old manager who's now been bumped up in the company. I explained to him that Moby wasn't some rinky dink truck from some rinky dink installer who could be brushed off like that.

I then pointed out that his biggest customer was pushing me hard to finish this job by the end of the month. But since his company was being such a jerk off I was going to shut down working on the job and get Moby fixed. Then they could figure out how to explain to their biggest customer why the truck had to be fixed now of all times.

They could also add to the tab of fixing Moby the down time I was going to go to court to get from them because I can't work without her.

I was promised an answer by lunch tomorrow.

I'm relatively confident that the new manager is going to get a lesson about bulls and horns. And to always make the first doesn't have the second before messing around.

It still might not happen life being life and things being things, me getting the new truck. But one thing will for sure happen. The new manager will get his lesson in learning. He deserves it. I feel it a personal honor to help him not only get it but to have it delivered in the most interesting way possible.