On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:25:10 -0600, the infamous -MIKE-
scrawled the following:

On 2/24/10 1:52 PM, Steve Turner wrote:
I had one of those a LOVED it.
It's certainly a lot less work then shoveling.

I unloaded, easily, over 100 tons with the thing and it was still
going.
I miss it.... and my truck.

What the... how come I've never seen one of those before? Sheeit, I'm
sold!

2 Caveats:

1) If you have one of those "lovely" sprayed in bedliners, it won't
work as-is. You'll have to get the $lip-$heet they sell.

I guess that would apply to me...

2) If you have no liner, a second load of gravel will scratch the ****
out of your paint. DAMHIKT.

A second load? Do you mean that laying the roll-out tarp back over
residual gravel from the first load will cause scratching while
unloading the second? I presume that a good sweeping or clean-out of the
bed would alleviate this, or am I missing something?


Oh please. You guys have trucks, use them as trucks.
Don't tell me you guys are like these soccer mom/dads I see around here
in their Caddilac "pick-up" trucks that are glorified minvans.

Ooh, oohh, don't scratch my truck. God forbid it might look like I
actually use it like a *truck.* :-p

Hey, if you want rusty crap all over whatever you lay into the bed of
_your_ truck, that's up to you. But don't put it on mine, thanks. I'd
also prefer that the truck bed lasts as long as the truck does,
please.

I get a whole lot more compliments on my work vehicle now than I did
with a 17 y/o F-150 with the paint peeling off.

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