This person wheeled up in here to pick up a sawmill.We were quite intrigued to see he wanted us to place it on top of his rather small car to haul it home.He said he hauled alot of things up there from shingles to boards.Who says ya gotta have a truck to haul stuff? anyone else got an interesting picture like this.This was from a few years ago and beleive me .... it is not trick photography ... I saw it first hand. :D :D
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Guess our mills are as portable as you wanna make em!!!!
I think I saw that little car in our local box store parking lot. It had about 20 sheets of 3/4 plywood on top and a broken axle underneath. He did make it halfway across the lot before it broke. I wouldn't be suprised if he blamed the broken axle on a pothole.
I didn't have the camera with me. When I saw a car with a good sized four wheeler on the roof. I don,t think the policeman who saw it before I did would have liked me to have taken any pictures while he was writeing out the tickets.
When i use to work a D.I.Y (now out of buiness) i had to help people load there cars and some of the things they would do to get things home :o :o :o.
I could not tie anything down on peoples car just help load.
Some were just plan stupid.
One time a guy came in a old s-10 and got 65 2x4 16 footers we loaded them on a ladder rack but the truck looked a low rider after we were done. Dont know if he made it home or not.
Thanks Alot Mr Mom
AdaminMO ;D
How many pounds would that be up there?
For anyone in the safety concious arena, I think a good argument could be given for the danger of having that mill up on top. Surely the straps are not going to keep it there if a quick stop is needed, or if just a 5mph bumper tap is eminent. But then, probably the chances are slim that it would happen....just that it could, and whomever is in front of the load continuing forward, might be the unlucky one. Turning a corner too quick might make things a little dicey too. ;D (I don't call people 'stupid', as some prolly think things I do are not brilliant...in their minds.. ;D)
Hopefully there is no liability on the company for how a mill leaves the plant.
My rental place now requires that all renters use their own straps, chains and binders, and fasten them themselves....just according to their insurance and liability if something happens to the load.
I beleive he had to sign a waiver on it.He made it home ok.He lost one front brake on the way to get the mill.Didn't have any brakes on the rear.One front brake all the way to his home in Illinois I beleive.Once they are on the truck(car in this case)we are no longer responsible for it.Mill weight is roughly 500 lbs.He had it strapped down tight through the windows.
I would have bet he was from Arkansas.
If the doors had window frames - like most cars now days do - how did he get back in the car?
Don't surprise me a bit in that part of the country. I had just floated the Black River and was headed home at light speed on one of those curvy roads in my 66 Corvette. Some guy passed me in a Chevy II...to add insult to injury he spit chew after he got round me. :-[ >:( :-\ :'(
What! A 66 Corvette and you've never shown a picture.....Larry I'm borrowing that wet noodle from Jeff if we don't see one soon. :D
Quote from: Mr Mom on August 24, 2007, 04:01:28 PM
One time a guy came in a old s-10 and got 65 2x4 16 footers we loaded them on a ladder rack but the truck looked a low rider after we were done.
I have watched my Dad haul more on his S-10 roof rack than me in a full size truck. He just always made sure the whole truck went down even. ;D ;D
Be kind Norm he is still washing the chew juice off his vett so it will shine in the picture. ;D
I used to have a rack on my 88 Toyota truck. Hauled loads of stuff on it. We used to throw planks on the rack and drive it alongside the house we were building and use it for scaffolding.
The joys of loading at the big box...
Fridges tend to fall out of trucks if they are not tied in.
A ford suv can hold a patio door on the roof rack and no I will not tie it down.
A Honda civic sedan does not have enough trunk room for a dishwasher.
An 80's Chevy S10 will hold 48 bags of 80lb Sakrete but not 49...
A 1ton U Haul will hold 70 sheets of 12ft rock but the tires look bad low...
A Z71 will haul enough treated lumber to go to the top of the bed but
the tire sidewalls rub together.
Put 80 bundles of 30 year shingles on a one axle trailer. He made it all
the way to the street before the axle broke taking the tire and fender with it.
Couldn't happened to a nicer guy either. Cussed my cashier on his way out.
Karma will get ya every time.
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Here's that picture that went around the internet a few years back. ;D
But I canna change the laws of physics, Captain!
As I remember the story, there's ten sacks of sakrete in the back
seats and trunk.
The Passenger was/is passed out on dope...
Yes, this was on a bulletin board at the big box.
OK, time for a story... Everyone got a cuppa?
MANY years ago, BC (before children) my (now-EX) husband, the interlekchewall, wanted to take an Aviary home across town. We only had a little Toyota Corolla '74. Great little car. Not built for carrying stuff.
We had no roof racks. No tow ball, nothing. I suggested we pay the guy a deposit and borrow his brother's car and my Dad's trailer and pick it up the following weekend. But noooooooo that was too much mucking around. The guy was happy to hold it for us for the week or two.
So, he decided to put the aviary on the roof of the car and tie it down. In spite of my protesting that 'It'll slide off', and 'but there's nothing to keep it in place' etc. After a few glares and him starting to get upset (NOT a state I ever wanted him to get into) I shaddap.
So, here we are, Aviary panels loaded on the roof. Overhanging the car on all sides. tied through the open windows A-La the photos above. We had to get into the car through the windows.
I didn't think it politically correct to take photos, and, in any case, I didn't have my camera.
Now, here's the fun bit....
Yup, you guessed it...
Going at 80Km/Hr down a main road (THANKFULLY this didn't happen on the freeway we'd just come off) The Aviary slid off the roof. Yup, just slid on off the roof. The rope (well, more string) went slack and it just a-slid off.
I didn't say a word. Nup, niente, not a word. Just sat there. Trying not to laugh.
Of course he got out and I had to hop out and help put it back onto the roof. And of course it was my fault it fell off, coz if I hadn't 'distracted him with negatives' while he was tying it on it would never have come off...
It scratched the roof and boot of the car when it slid off. No-one was hurt, but, it was just hillarious, all the same.
asy :D
Whew asy, You had me confused there for a while. When you said that you were hauling an Aviary on top of the car, I was picturing something like this
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tied by it's neck on the car. :o Later you used the term Aviar panels, so I figured you were talking about some sort of pen or cage panels for birds. ;D
Bob
When Honda started making Civics many years ago, the car was tiny. Mini-Cooper sized even.
I saw a Ford pickup with a Honda Civic in the back. It was a perfect fit. The Honda's tires straddled the Ford's wheel wells. I thought "I don't need a spare tire, I've got a spare car."
Norm, all I have left of that vette is fond memories.
I could send you pictures of the wife's Saturn as it is the exact same color...just doesn't have that ugly bump in the center of the hood. ;D :D ;D :D
Back in my days as a slaughter house tycoon we used to joke about Mr. Osborne bringing in his mixed dairy breeds while they "looked over the cab" of his pickup.
Sounds like Baker could use this for their marketing, "So easy to move you can haul it with your family sedan." :D
That may work for the marketing side."As portable as you wanna make em!"
Quote from: Slabs on August 25, 2007, 09:51:20 PM
Back in my days as a slaughter house tycoon we used to joke about Mr. Osborne bringing in his mixed dairy breeds while they "looked over the cab" of his pickup.
I realize this is an old thread - but the kid who saw me at a stop light in my old Dodge x cab, about the time this thread was active mind you - is probably still laughing at the heifer calf he spotted in the back seat of the cab, it was winter and I was raising replacements on a contract basis, so she was not the first, nor the last to ride
in that truck. ;D
Michelle's sister and BIL were in Saudi for a number of years, one set of pics she sent back was from the camel market, a camel being slung into the back of a little Toyota truck and then looking over the cab for the ride home.
BTW you can get 13 sheets of 3/4 ply on the roof of a Pinto :D. Working in a canoe rental shop in my teens we had one renter that came in to pick up a full sized boat driving a beetle, they made it about a mile and wondered if I was going to keep the deposit after it hit the road ::).
This is my helper's bike hauling cans to the scrap yard. He has since wrecked it and the one he replaced it with to.
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Had 2 sheets of 3/4" plywood and a bunch of 2x lumber in a 1986 Subaru station wagon across town in 2004. Wish I had a picture. Went well enough other than having to contort my arm to shift. :D
Also had a lady come out to buy a bred goat in a Yukon and no trailer. I figured she had a cage inside, but the first words out of her mouth before I even asked confirmed she didn't. We got her head pointed in on the rear barn doors (Appropriate!!! ;D) and gave a shove and she jumped right in. Then she kept jumping! Into the rear bench, then the front seats! :D Once there she turned and rammed the drivers window, then the passengers, then the drivers again! Frustrated she squatted and urinated on the console! :D :D :D She looks at the scene horrified and says, "My husband's going to be p***ed!" I was like, "YEAH"!!!! I was checked local news for wrecks along her 40 mile journey home. Didn't find any so I guess she must have made it home. :)
I wish I had a photo just to remind me how stupid I was when I was young(er).
It was lean times, construction had completely dried up and I was doing anything I could to keep food on the table and a roof over my head. I found work as a subcontractor for Sears installing aluminum awnings. They came in cardboard boxes of many sizes, as small as 3' x 3' and as larger as 6' X 16.' The only vehicle I had was a worn out Dodge Dart Swinger and a light roof rack. Later I added a bolt on bumper hitch and a 4' x 8' trailer with a 4' tailgate I could let down. I pulled out of the Sears warehouse many times with the trailer stacked full of longer awnings and a half dozen more tied on top. The roof rack held the smaller ones, stacked up 3 or 4' and if I had more I opened my trunk, stuck a rope across, closed the trunk, then stacked another pile on it! That poor little 6 cylinder Dart had to work hard to haul those loads but I always made it. I forgot I always had a 6' stepladder tied on somewhere as well.
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I had a little Nissan pickup when we moved to our country property where I was building a big barn (2,200sf). I was finishing the inside ceiling with pine ship lap siding. The longer the better :-X, less joints. I had picked up a load of 20 footers - carried home on my my home-made wooden rack. Just uprights in the bed, nothing out over the cab. That worked great as the bundle was stretch wrapped. As it happens with long lumberyard wood, some of it had some significant movement. Enough that I couldn't cut short stuff out of it. So I loaded up about 2 dozen to go back. I had already traveled about 10 or 12 miles and was within a mile or so of the yard. I was coming down an over crossing (steep down hill) when the light went red. I jump on the brakes and half the wood telescoped out in front of me, touching the road probably 20 feet out. I didn't drop any and just had to push it all back. Now I check my straps after traveling a few miles for any settling of the load!
A few years agao a drunk picked his buddy after some more drinking thy thought it would be a good idea to steal a calf then got picked up for d w i spend the night in jail the ones wife came to pick them up found the calf in the back of her mini van it had left a big mess went in the jail and said shoot both of them two drunks
When I was in high school my parents bought a house with a lot of extra sidewalks etc. (previous owner worked for a concrete company) and we broke up a lot of it and hauled it to the dump in our Toyota HiLux. We had to all ride in the cab to go to the dump in order to keep the front wheels on the ground, but they would still bounce up off the road going around corners. Crazy.
Florida's Dart story brought back a memory of my starting out. The pinto wasn't getting it, and it was Michelle's car, so I bought a very high mileage Duster driven by a little old lady to church on Sunday's, best I could figure church must have been down in Mexico somewhere cause I found stuff from there under the back seat and a bunch of some kind of seeds. I broke out the sawzall and made an El Cadusto out of it. I used it for a few jobs and sure got some looks going down the road until I could buy a little Datsun truck that I mercilessly overloaded. A buddy at work went home one day to find his possessions, and wife, gone. I sold him the ElCadusto for a dollar and he drove it till he got back on his feet, that slant 6 was unstoppable. He came in one day and said he made twenty times what he paid for it :D.
I learned to drive by bombing around fields in an old yellow Duster with black, vinyl seats - man oh man - there was never a time of year those things were not hot, and yes you are right, those slant 6 engines were simply unbeatable, would run for ever.
A few years ago, when diesel fuel was 4+ dollars a gallon ( and everything I owned was diesel), I bought a crown vic cop car at auction from a local town.
I needed a roll of 2 " water pipe to finish a job but the local Webb store didnt have one in stock. There was one ,however , at their branch about 60 miles away.I called that branch, asked someone to measure the diameter of that roll, then measured the trunk . Assured that it would fit , i went to pick it up.When I got there, I found the guy had measured the wrong roll, and what i wanted was 2' larger than expected. Not willing to drive back,get a truck,and come back again, I stuck as much in the trunk as I could, ratchet strapped it in ( leaving about 4 feet hanging out the back, trunk lid in the air) and came home .
The Achilles heal for those slant six cars was the torsion bar pockets rotting out. I had a Valiant and a Duster.
The entire trunk on my Dodge Aspen rotted out so badly you had to drive with the windows down to keep the exhaust out, but the slant 6 kept on running.
Funny, nobody cared about the exhaust and nobody died as a result in that car, imagine what would happen today.
Looking at htis thread makes me homesick for overseas work again. i worked in the mideast and Africa and saw some very interesting luggage come in at the airports and very interesting loads hauled in and on the vehicles over there. I know you can load 2 full sized camels on a small Toyota p/u or 4 full sized camels on a long bed Chevy. We got behind a station wagon in Cameroon one time and saw a full grown steer tied up in there. I've seen taxis pull up and open the trunk and start unloading grown live pigs. The trucks and buses over there had loads stacked on top so high they were top heavy and sometimes turned over on the uneven sandy roads over there. People would be riding on the top of loads and standing on the bumper at the back of the bush taxi - a 15 passenger van. When 2 bush taxis would collide they would sometimes have 75 people killed. Same with TapTaps in Haiti which were the local bus service. When you'd ask how many people could fit in a TapTap or bush taxi the correct answer was always -1 more.
My wife's aunt Judy was reported as a little prankster in her younger years. She and a friend "kid" napped a local goat and snuck it into a local bar. The bar called the local sheriff and he was less than amused to find his goat roaming around the bar. I had a friend whos family raised goats. We went in Kindergarten to see them and bottle feed them. In later years there may have been times when a group of guys sat on stumps in a circle and had a few. There was a wheel barrow in the circle and eventually a goat would jump into the WB and set like part of the group. The goat never did have a beer with us.
Wife's grandfather was a (sort of) cattle dealer.
Took her grandmother's nearly new Pontiac and trucked a calf in the trunk.
No history of how the trunk looked afterward.
He did this fairly often when he only had one calf to pick up, even though he had a truck.
The car was the nicest she ever owned.
Quote from: Raider Bill on January 09, 2019, 08:01:49 AM
The Achilles heal for those slant six cars was the torsion bar pockets rotting out. I had a Valiant and a Duster.
Bill, I grew up riding in the back seat of a "Vomit" Station Wagon. Had a 3 speed on the floor with a tailgate that opened both ways. Should have seen my mom learning how to drive a stick shift. We kids called it the "White Milkshake" machine. :D :D :D :D
Another Dart overload story.
After 6 months or so of installing awnings Sears asked me if I'd like to install chain link fencing. More money and only 1 or 2 jobs a day. I enlisted a friend who was also out of work and we never looked back. I'd pull my faithful Dart up to the fence lot where we would fill the trunk and backseat with chain link parts, posts and bags of concrete. The 20' top rail pieces were tied together and laid out on the parking lot. I'd drive the car over them so we could tie it up to the bumpers! Away we'd go to jobs as much as 50 miles away. No one ever said a word about our truck except one lady who told me the car was on fire. I told her it was oil leaking on the engine until she asked about the flames! Whoops! The fire melted the accelerator linkage so we had to drive home using a string to give it gas. We had to adjust it several times but we were stopping anyway because my right front retread was flapping against the wheel well. I'd pull over and adjust the string while my buddy cut chunks off the tire with a razor knife. Naturally it was one of those "50 mile" jobs and Friday so by the time we got home about 9 there was nothing left of the tire but the core and a few random chunks of tread. Life was tough back then but things did slowly get better.
pete,I betcha that was the worst smelliest car too. smiley_airfreshener
Here's a friend of mine about to leave the farm after we welded up a motorcycle rack for the back of his car.
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In our teens my buddy had a 64 Mercury stepside pickup with a 6-1/2' box and side boards. We got permission from the logging contractor his dad hauled for to salvage firewood and fence posts from the brush pile evenings and weekends. We cut with two old McCulloch saws (when we could get them started) then loaded that poor Merc to the top of the cab. The axle was hard against the bump stops. We would sell a load to pay for a burger and gas so we could make the next trip.
We loaded one trip then I noticed the tube sticking out of the tire casing, the spare was under the wood. We made it to town but it was a tense ride.
Apparently this happened today in Germanton.....
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:D, that must have been fun in todays wind!
Gee Ted you REALLY don't want to scratch that new truck now do ya? :D
:D :D :D :D
That new truck has hauled something just about every day so far. I've hauled logs, lumber, firewood and waste slabs. Just haven't hauled appliances yet. Really trying to make it earn its keep! Yep the bed is scratched....
:D :D :D
The manufacturer will not recommend this but I have been told you can haul some lumber on your portable sawmill. I would only do that with great caution. I prob. overloaded my gooseneck a time or two. this load only moved 2 blocks from a local church clearing a maple for a parking lot,
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This is what happens when the old Shih Tzu dog Griffin gets in the car before the German Shepard puppy Libby.
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Lady Liberty was born 2 years ago on July 4th. Libby
We had 2 dogs for a while. Dew,the old dog,taught Pumpkin what side of the car was his. He flipped her right over so fast. Dew did not like Pumpkin at all. For months we did not even dare to leave them alone. Dew gave Pumpkin A LOT of tough love.
Quote from: doc henderson on January 10, 2019, 03:55:25 PM
The manufacturer will not recommend this but I have been told you can haul some lumber on your portable sawmill. I would only do that with great caution. I prob. overloaded my gooseneck a time or two. this load only moved 2 blocks from a local church clearing a maple for a parking lot,
Doc,
I have seen various warnings here against hauling anything on the mill because of tagging regulations. My state classifies my mill as a piece of mobile equipment and I do not have to buy a license plate. If I used it to haul anything besides the mill now it becomes a trailer and I could be dinged to buy a license plate. Be sure to check your regulations accordingly.
I remember hauling 21' sections of chain link fence top rail pipe on my trailer mounted johnboat. I was putting a fence around our rural church cemetery near Albany Ga. They did not have water at the cemetery to mix the cement for the post holes so I stopped at the boat landing on the way, removed the stern plug and backed it down into the water till about 1/4 full, put the stern plug in to hold the water and drove it to the cemetery. it worked great, I could push the wheelbarrow of dry mix under the drain, remove the plug till I had the right mix. When done I took the plug out and drove home and it was dry by the time I got home. Most of us who fish have left that plug out by mistake but this case it served a different purpose.
When Hurricane Hugo was headed up the coast and I was working on the USMC base getting ready for it my wife called from home asked what to do with the boat and I told her put the plug in and fill it with the hose. Added enough weight to hold it down and gave me a reserve of water to flush toilets and such in case of an outage.
I do not see a need to try that either! Good thinking on the boat for a water trailer / reservoir. :)
I once hauled 3.5 cars on a 16' trailer and about 30 batteries in the bed to scrap with a ½ ton truck and no trailer brakes. :o Had a real good view of the sky. ;D Granted they were light cars (Civic, 2 MG B's, and a cut up Cherokee body) and had been stripped pretty good, but my weight ticket was about 17k lbs... Won't do that again!
Wisdom comes when you survive being dumb. Amiright! ;)
I did it once and didn't get caught.
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The customer had one Cypress log at his residence and no way to haul it to the location where the other logs were. I loaded the log up and away we went. ;D
MM you live in a beautiful part of the country. I agree, should only be done with caution. Not too far, and not too heavy, not too rough of terrain. Might torque your frame, and if you are in an accident on a public road even if not you fault, someone may make a big deal out of it.
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Here is a couple of my good ones.