Rootsy
08-28-2007, 12:13 PM
Let me begin by saying I am absolutely astonished by what idiot folks will do to a $45,000 truck... The photos you see are of their THIRD load in 3 weeks...
Backing up a bit, A month or so ago I posted an add on Craigslist for fieldstone for sale. I have a few large piles from picking up around the place and plowing for my garden behind the shop this spring... Probably 15 - 20 ton worth altogether. Here is one of the piles... This is just from my 20 x 100 sweet corn patch I plowed this spring... We have A LOT of rocks here...
http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n27/jaroot13/IMG_8077.jpg
So anywho, This kid (22ish or so) calls me about these fieldstone... I said $20 a pickup load, whatever you think your truck can handle, you load em (This is excruciatingly cheap I know)... So out they head... From NEW BALTIMORE (not far from Algonac / Lk St. Clair). Bout 130 miles to my place....
They arrive and slip me an Andrew Jackson and off they go to loading... They fill the bed of this 03 Superduty about 3/4 full... Being the helpful fella I am I kind of discourage that kind of load... But I'm just a dumb hick farmer so what the hell do I know... The kid enlightens me that he's studied up on this beast and she can handle 8 TON in the bed... yes that's right, 8 TON... and 13 TON on a gooseneck... :eek: So I just amble my way into the shop, crack a beer and go to workin on a tractor...
Before they leave the kid tells me that he thinks she'll be OK... he has 3 or 4 inches between the axle tubes and the bump stops... the 2" drop receiver was just below my knee... Off they go...
The following Friday they show up again for another load. This time they load the Superduty all of the way to the top of the bed... Boy has been doing some more "studying" and he's good to go... bump stops are about half an inch from the axle tubes and that is perfectly fine... Receiver is about mid shin on me... I keep waiting for a leaf spring to snap as they pull onto the road...
So they showed up again last night for load #3. Load her up the same way... I ask them how she rode home... He tells me it was fine.. no issues, rode perfectly cept she got a little squirrly when he took a 40 mph curve @ 60... :boggled:
Anywho, I have half a dozen boulders that are anywhere from probably 300 - 1500 lbs each... Gave them a price / stone and they said they'd be back... I told them to bring a trailer I refuse to put them in that truck with a tractor... :bonk: So I guess we'll have another installment when they return....
These jokers are a disaster waiting to happen.. especially humping across 94, 275 & 696 with this kind of load on... I figured some occifer of the law would have seen this and pulled them over by now...
BTW I do have a plenty of rock left if anyone wants to come grab some... :yes:
http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n27/jaroot13/IMG_8275.jpg
http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n27/jaroot13/IMG_8277.jpg
http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n27/jaroot13/IMG_8278.jpg
http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n27/jaroot13/IMG_8279.jpg
Backing up a bit, A month or so ago I posted an add on Craigslist for fieldstone for sale. I have a few large piles from picking up around the place and plowing for my garden behind the shop this spring... Probably 15 - 20 ton worth altogether. Here is one of the piles... This is just from my 20 x 100 sweet corn patch I plowed this spring... We have A LOT of rocks here...
http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n27/jaroot13/IMG_8077.jpg
So anywho, This kid (22ish or so) calls me about these fieldstone... I said $20 a pickup load, whatever you think your truck can handle, you load em (This is excruciatingly cheap I know)... So out they head... From NEW BALTIMORE (not far from Algonac / Lk St. Clair). Bout 130 miles to my place....
They arrive and slip me an Andrew Jackson and off they go to loading... They fill the bed of this 03 Superduty about 3/4 full... Being the helpful fella I am I kind of discourage that kind of load... But I'm just a dumb hick farmer so what the hell do I know... The kid enlightens me that he's studied up on this beast and she can handle 8 TON in the bed... yes that's right, 8 TON... and 13 TON on a gooseneck... :eek: So I just amble my way into the shop, crack a beer and go to workin on a tractor...
Before they leave the kid tells me that he thinks she'll be OK... he has 3 or 4 inches between the axle tubes and the bump stops... the 2" drop receiver was just below my knee... Off they go...
The following Friday they show up again for another load. This time they load the Superduty all of the way to the top of the bed... Boy has been doing some more "studying" and he's good to go... bump stops are about half an inch from the axle tubes and that is perfectly fine... Receiver is about mid shin on me... I keep waiting for a leaf spring to snap as they pull onto the road...
So they showed up again last night for load #3. Load her up the same way... I ask them how she rode home... He tells me it was fine.. no issues, rode perfectly cept she got a little squirrly when he took a 40 mph curve @ 60... :boggled:
Anywho, I have half a dozen boulders that are anywhere from probably 300 - 1500 lbs each... Gave them a price / stone and they said they'd be back... I told them to bring a trailer I refuse to put them in that truck with a tractor... :bonk: So I guess we'll have another installment when they return....
These jokers are a disaster waiting to happen.. especially humping across 94, 275 & 696 with this kind of load on... I figured some occifer of the law would have seen this and pulled them over by now...
BTW I do have a plenty of rock left if anyone wants to come grab some... :yes:
http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n27/jaroot13/IMG_8275.jpg
http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n27/jaroot13/IMG_8277.jpg
http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n27/jaroot13/IMG_8278.jpg
http://i108.photobucket.com/albums/n27/jaroot13/IMG_8279.jpg