My Place: a CAT, Mahindra, and Ducks

[SirReal63]

Things have been good, more busy than I want to be in this heat. Toni broke the orbital plateau on her right knee, had to have more screws and a plate to repair that so I have had 100% of the animal and garden duties here. She is up to minimal weight bearing on it now and the Doc expects a full recovery.

I have been giving the old 94 F350 some love, full engine flush and working on replacing the down pipe for the turbo as well as fixing the A/C.

This is almost as much hardware as her right ankle has...

 

[bindian]

How the heck did she break it?
hugs, Brandi

 

[SirReal63]

She was cleaning out the bed of her truck, slipped when getting out of the bed and it snapped. She went down and then the EMS got to pick her up and give her a ride to the E.R. Five weeks in a wheel chair, she got the OK to put weight on it last week. She is recovering nicely.

 

[bindian]

Oh wow, so sorry to hear that. Keep me posted, please.
hugs, Brandi

 

[Xfaxman]

This is what I use to get in and out of the truck bed: BedStep Bumper Step - Best Truck Bumper Steps | AMP Research

 

[newbury]

This is what I use to get in and out of the truck bed:

Dang, that's expensive
I use

Gorilla Ladders 2-Step Aluminum Step Stool Ladder, 250 lbs. Type I Duty Rating (8ft. Reach Height) GLA-2-2 - The Home Depot

Effortlessly reach the high attic area in your home with the selection of this Gorilla Ladders 2-Step Aluminum Step Stool Ladder, Type I Duty Rating.

www.homedepot.com

~ $30.

 

[bindian]

I use the step in the bumper. I don't get in or out with the tailgate down.
hugs, Brandi

 

[oldballs]

Same here..........except when the tailgate is already down.....then I step on the edge of the bumper.....but my day of doing either are getting shorter and shorter.

Sometimes I lift my backside up onto the tailgate.......then swing my legs up and onto the tailgate.....It's just something an old man can do.....Now, If I could just stand up in the bed after that.

Sorry about your Mrs SirReal....

 

[Xfaxman]

I use the step in the bumper. I don't get in or out with the tailgate down.
hugs, Brandi

You evidently don't pull a gooseneck trailer.
Can't use the center step in the bumper:

And the center step is way up there on my wife's truck:

My truck is lower:

 

[bindian]

Xfaxman,
You caught me. I don't use a gooseneck. I work my gooseneck.

Big difference from a wide front horse trailer gooseneck and a real, working flat deck gooseneck. Since my gooseneck tapers, I put a foot on the bottom of the jack, grab the neck and pull up and swing a foot over my open tailgate.

hugs, Brandi

 

[Xfaxman]

Big difference from a wide front horse trailer gooseneck and a real, working flat deck gooseneck. Since my gooseneck tapers, I put a foot on the bottom of the jack, grab the neck and pull up and swing a foot over my open tailgate.

hugs, Brandi

Yep that works, and I used to be able to do it. But now I use the BedStep with the real working flat deck gooseneck:

The BedStep is visible under the bumper:

 

[two_bit_score]

What I don’t understand @bindian and @Xfaxman is why y’all don’t have rear bumpers with steps in the corners?

 

[bindian]

What I don’t understand @bindian and @Xfaxman is why y’all don’t have rear bumpers with steps in the corners?

25_cent_score,
Because that is a chevy thing. Why do I need a step anyway? When I can use the step in the center or the jack pad on the trailer. Maybe I can get you to come down and cut steps in my bumper's corners. Maybe take the bed off and put on a flat bed with a built in ladder. Yeah, that's the ticket.
hugs, Brandi

 

[bindian]

Also, my 2003 Cummins dually (423,000 miles) is lowest to the ground than any one ton. Only Dodge seems to know how to make a highway hauler that hugs the ground at high speed. All others are 6 or more inches taller than mine. She sits so low, I have had logs stacked on the trailer enough to make the truck's mud flaps drag. But I trimmed them after one was almost ripped off when I backed a load up at the local truck stop. Ouch!
hugs, Brandi

 

[two_bit_score]

25_cent_score,
Because that is a chevy thing. Why do I need a step anyway? When I can use the step in the center or the jack pad on the trailer. Maybe I can get you to come down and cut steps in my bumper's corners. Maybe take the bed off and put on a flat bed with a built in ladder. Yeah, that's the ticket.
hugs, Brandi

If you get a good flat bed you won’t need a built in ladder because you would have a step all the way across the rear.

And you wouldn’t want to cut steps in that shinny bumper when you could just get a good welded bumper with steps built in.

 

[4570Man]

If you get a good flat bed you won’t need a built in ladder because you would have a step all the way across the rear.

And you wouldn’t want to cut steps in that shinny bumper when you could just get a good welded bumper with steps built in.

If you had a flatbed you probably wouldn’t be climbing on the bed very often anyway because you can reach access it.

 

[bindian]

If you get a good flat bed you won’t need a built in ladder because you would have a step all the way across the rear.

And you wouldn’t want to cut steps in that shinny bumper when you could just get a good welded bumper with steps built in.

Nope, don't like shiny. Everything is red. Just go ahead and drop off a new truck all deck out.
hugs, Brandi

 

[two_bit_score]

Nope, don't like shiny. Everything is red. Just go ahead and drop off a new truck all deck out.
hugs, Brandi

You got it!

 

[two_bit_score]

If you had a flatbed you probably wouldn’t be climbing on the bed very often anyway because you can reach access it.

For most things you are able to do that. We had one with a greenLee box that you had to climb up to get to.

 

[bindian]

I finally took the time to weld the chain on the CAT's grader blade. Here it is in position to weld on the chain tomorrow. I backed the CAT into the barn so I can position the bucket in the blade's pocket...rain or shine tomorrow.

The CAT is hiding behind the blade in the photo.
hugs, Brandi