On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:25:25 -0800, the infamous "Nonny"
scrawled the following:


"Larry Jaques" wrote in message
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On Sun, 21 Feb 2010 20:01:07 -0800, the infamous "Nonny"
scrawled the following:


"Mike M" wrote in message
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If the Unisaw has wheels, what's wrong with a rope and just pull
it behind the truck. grin

Eloquidiot.



Yup, just having a little fun. grin

If you were to leave a load of steel in the middle of the road (other
than in front of your house) on a snowy night for those bastids who
throw snow into your yard every day, would it be fun? I wonder how
many cars those guys hit every day. Luckily, we receive hardly a
flurry here in SoOr.


BTW, one of the best investments I ever made was to install a dump
kit on my pickup. When installed, it raised the bed 1/8", which
wasn't noticable. However, I could hit a button and the bed would
tilt 50degrees to dump out rock, wood, debris or dirt when I
hauled it. The kit was installed just a MONTH before Hurricane
Fan hit Raleigh, and believe me, after hauling over 100 loads of
debris and tree trunks to the dump, even Mrs. Nonny thought my
investment had paid off.

I looked into those when I got my truck and found that the Tundra has
a custom shaped bed which would prevent the use of a dump bed kit.
Interference fits and all that, unless I moved the bed back a couple
inches, making the truck look awfully funny. The dump bed setups which
fit into the bed are ghastly expensive at $3.5k. I passed on them and
bought a $70 Load Handler. I'm going to get a drop-in bedliner next
week (ordering this week) and it will make the LH work a lot better
pluls make my bed cleanups a whole lot nicer, especially for compost,
leaves, or trash.

What did you pay for your kit, or did you build it all yourself?


The other incredibly handy thing I had was a chain hoist in the
lower level garage. When bringing home a planer, for instance, I
pulled under it, hitched the pallet to the hoist and raised it a
couple inches. I then drove the truck out from under it, and
lowered the pallet to a plywood, wheeled platform. That rolled
right into the shop. Cool, and with no helper needed.

Yeah, nice going. I finally sold the old truck with the crane
installed and bought a fold-up HF 2T shop hoist. That, too, makes
lots of things a one-man job. Handy gadgets, they is.

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