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greenstorm) wrote2021-11-29 10:02 am
greenstorm) wrote2021-11-29 10:02 am
Blackwater Cathedral
This weekend we managed to get the canopy off my new-to-me truck. It's a huge hi-canopy with screened sliding windows and a nice little internal light; aluminum, so it's moveable, but it's not easy.
We set up 2x4s across the bed under the canopy, then from one side of the bed to the immediately-adjacent strawpile so we never had to take its full weight. We then sort of worked it along the 2x4s till it was on the strawpile. The whole thing is complicated by the vertical doors that fill the tailgate space; it can't just be set on the ground.
All in all the project was a success; my landscaper project self is satisfied because none of us had to use 100% of our strength at any time, so if something had gone sideways there was soak room to fix it, and the weight was never in uncontrolled movement.
Plus I was able to go get feed with the pulley-and-rail system, which requires an open-topped vehicle to drop into. The truck and I floated back with two 1100lb bags of feed in the 8-foot box; I still barely had to throttle and she didn't even blink at 100km/h up the hills. This is why I got her and she's done good with it. Bonus is that I didn't need to use 4x4 in the driveway on the way home with the feed because there was actual weight over the friction-producing wheels. Extra bonus is that it used less fuel than the 4runner pulling the brick of a trailer to get the same amount of feed.
Not a bonus: now I need to shovel it out of the bags because I have neither a tractor nor a hardpoint and pulley to get it off the truck. Sigh.
We set up 2x4s across the bed under the canopy, then from one side of the bed to the immediately-adjacent strawpile so we never had to take its full weight. We then sort of worked it along the 2x4s till it was on the strawpile. The whole thing is complicated by the vertical doors that fill the tailgate space; it can't just be set on the ground.
All in all the project was a success; my landscaper project self is satisfied because none of us had to use 100% of our strength at any time, so if something had gone sideways there was soak room to fix it, and the weight was never in uncontrolled movement.
Plus I was able to go get feed with the pulley-and-rail system, which requires an open-topped vehicle to drop into. The truck and I floated back with two 1100lb bags of feed in the 8-foot box; I still barely had to throttle and she didn't even blink at 100km/h up the hills. This is why I got her and she's done good with it. Bonus is that I didn't need to use 4x4 in the driveway on the way home with the feed because there was actual weight over the friction-producing wheels. Extra bonus is that it used less fuel than the 4runner pulling the brick of a trailer to get the same amount of feed.
Not a bonus: now I need to shovel it out of the bags because I have neither a tractor nor a hardpoint and pulley to get it off the truck. Sigh.
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