On Sat, 17 Jul 2004 03:28:14 GMT, Bruce L. Bergman
calmly ranted:
On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 11:25:46 -0700, Larry Jaques
wrote:
On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 16:18:54 +0100, Mark Rand
calmly ranted:
You've got a few days to phone him and a few more days to find a trailer :-)
Towing 5 tons with a 2.5T GVWR 1/2 ton pickup ought to be fun.
****, that's nothing. Try towing about 5 tons (if not more) of
trailer (Homebrew mobile rock-band stage, plus PA stacks) built on a
recycled 45' two-axle single-wide mobile-home chassis, one electric
braked axle - with a Late 60's International 1/2 ton flatbed, 304,
drum manual brakes.
Then again, I was the second idiot following them in a '62 Scout,
very tired 152-Four 4-speed, drum manual brakes, with a ton of
Mil-Spec Cast Iron PE-95G generator and single axle trailer hitched on
the back, no trailer brakes. That was bad enough.
I had a '72 scout 2WD with 4-wheel drum, M/S, M/B, drove
like a _truck_. That was a fun one to take flying, though.
I gave a girlfriend a cardiac when I drove over the curb and
up a 10' bank at the end of a street, then about 3' in the
air into the field above. A few days later I stopped for gas
and noticed something hanging in the front. It was my shock
mount broken off the leaf land at the axle. About 80% of it
had been an old break but my flight took the last of it. I
got the guys in the body shop to show me how to grind and mig
it into a solid piece again with the Millermatic. Nice rig.
I made a bikini top for the roll bar and removed the top about
8 months out of the year in LoCal. Got it from my BIL once he
had brought his load of talking rocks out from Arkansas. The
original baby blue paint was replaced with a royal blue Imron.
Ah, fond memories...
I now know well the smell of cooking brakes, and the value of
downshifting on hills... Going over Las Virgenes Road/Malibu Canyon
was bad enough - the flattest option between the Valley and Zuma
Beach. Taking either Topanga Canyon or Kanan Road/Kanan-Dume would
have been sure suicide. Even going around by freeway would be out,
the 405 has that long 8% grade...
I don't think I've ever driven Las V or Topanga. Is either
anything switchbacky like Mulholland Drive?
I still have the generator ;-) but I sure don't try to tow it very
far with anything that small anymore.
I can well imagine.
- This product cruelly tested on defenseless furry animals -
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