You following me around Darcy?
Darcy, you and about 99 guys and 100 cases of beer should get it in the building no problem.
Made it back to my shop. Need to run it over the scales and see what I am dealing with.
May be closer to 7k pounds.
There's a video of a guy on the back of a forklift acting as a counter weight. The lift starts to tip anyways. Load starts to slip off the forks, dude on back slips under the wheels, load slips off, dude gets crushed.
Being close to weight makes me think of that. Not that you'd do it, just wanted to share my morbid thoughts.
"Only those who have the patience to do simple things perfectly will acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.”
Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805)
"Quality means doing it right when no one is looking."
Henry Ford
Got it sitting on the slab outside my shop door. Best 50 bucks I ever spent.
Buckle up, big ol' thread drift.
Is it weird I'm jealous of your aluminum flatbed?
I'm going to have to buy a new pickup sometime in the next few years since the current pickup has almost 300k miles on it and is starting to look a little too redneck n' rusty for my clientele. I've been kicking around getting a cab and chassis and putting an flatbed on it. Do you find yourself missing the box? I've been thinking it'd be nice in the here and there scenario I can load a unit of lumber from the side.
That is my uncle's truck and trailer. I needed a deck over for this plus he didn't care if it sat a few days as he doesn't use it much.
My main tow rig is my 1978 Chevy crew cab dually.
My next truck will be a crew cab with a 10 or 12 foot flatbed, that way I can sit something on it or hook up a gooseneck or my bumper pull.
I prefer a flatbed.
Moulder is now inside my shop.
Nothing a bit of lumber, pipe, pallet jack and a little bit too small fork lift can't handle.
Finally got moulder moved to its permanent location. Ran 100 feet of 2" EMT, got a 125a breaker, pulled wire and got it hooked up.
I have an issue with the top head starter, it does not want to pull in.
I will need to replace bearings in the first inside head and universal head soon.
Need to get my hustle on, I have about 6k feet of material to run in a few weeks.