What did you buy this week?

[MossRoad]

A six night stay for 6 in Florida for a 5 hour destination wedding (wife's niece).

 

[FullMetalBucket]

For those prices i'll stick with what I know. That How-to video FAQ says to buy a rope with 4X the rated capacity you expect to yank out.
This is a "how-to not" use a Yankum rope:

Wow they trashed that RV.

 

[Camofurever1]

Wow they trashed that RV.

Sparks is always in too big of a hurry. He doesn't think things through before he acts. That looked like a class 3 hitch, class 4 at best. Used for pulling a little light trailer with a small vehicle on the back. It was never deigned to yank a big ol commercial bus out of sand that was up to it's axles.

 

[4570Man]

Sparks is always in too big of a hurry. He doesn't think things through before he acts. That looked like a class 3 hitch, class 4 at best. Used for pulling a little light trailer with a small vehicle on the back. It was never deigned to yank a big ol commercial bus out of sand that was up to it's axles.

To be fair he usually does those recoveries for free and I’m not sure how much chance there there ever was of getting that out without some damage. RVs weren’t designed to be stuck that severely from any point of view.

 

[RayIN]

To be fair he usually does those recoveries for free and I’m not sure how much chance there there ever was of getting that out without some damage. RVs weren’t designed to be stuck that severely from any point of view.

The obvious action would be to place thick wide boards under the leveling jacks,(unless it had air-leveling) lift the MH to the limit of the jacks, then place boards under the wheels. Repeat until the wheels were on boards above ground level.
Then begin recovery. I bet that made the owners insurance company howl.
That trailer hitch had, at most a 15,000# rating; between 2 vehicles that each weigh over 30,000#minimum.
The use of that 2.5" Yankum rope was totally wrong, and the sand that got inside the rope will never come out= short rope lifespan.

 

[4570Man]

The obvious action would be to place thick wide boards under the leveling jacks,(unless it had air-leveling) lift the MH to the limit of the jacks, then place boards under the wheels. Repeat until the wheels were on boards above ground level.
Then begin recovery. I bet that made the owners insurance company howl.
That trailer hitch had, at most a 15,000# rating; between 2 vehicles that each weigh over 30,000#minimum.
The use of that 2.5" Yankum rope was totally wrong, and the sand that got inside the rope will never come out= short rope lifespan.

They had already tore the side skirting off it was buried so deep before Heavy D started with it. I’m not sure that getting timbers under it had any chance of happening. And Heavy D is selling entertainment not recovery. I bet a new back hatch was still cheaper than recovery.

 

[scootr]

Bought a hydraulic top link for the 3 point. Going to make the box blade much more efficient.

Top link is good...adding a tilt cylinder makes it a complete grading machine.

 

[LouNY]

Picked up my new trailer this morning, first load for it this afternoon.
22 ft power tilt deckover.
A pallet of sack crete and 40 2x4's and a few 2x6's.

 

[Williy]

I though that this was kinda funny when this guy in a motor
home decided he was going to head in reverse on the other
side of interstate 20 near midland Texas he tried to get across
to the other side before the turn off and the bumper was on the
ground on the other side and the back bumper was on the ground
by the hwyway he was leavi;ng and the wheels were hanging
free about a foot off the ground bet that cost a pretty penny to
get back on the road

I purchased a new computer and it had windows 10 nothing
but problems so deleted it and added lunux mint 22.1 so
much better than windows also there's so many different
programs free

willy

 

[scootr]

I bought 2k rounds of 9mm Blazer 115g FMJ for practice shooting.