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Fun morning, old Ford got a workout :)
Big Sky Redneck
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It seems that the hay market locally had gone underground and is now a well kept secret, no problem, I'll just go to Bozeman!
Since the female unit drives the Ram all I have is the old Ford, Ram would pribably not haul that hay anyways [}:)]
The old Ford, 390, 4 speed, 4:10 gears and small tires, it makes a lot of noise and goes nowhere fast [:D] 150 mile round trip in this is going to take awhile. $40 in gas later [B)] I'm back home with the round bale of grass/alfalfa mix, now I have to get it out for the horses.
Go to open the gate, drifted, only way in so here we go. After 3 attempts I buried it in that hard packed snow drift, stuck stuck stuck. Tried shoveling the wheels clear, no go, she is planted and planted hard. Now what? Yanking it with the Peterbilt is out of the question, then I will have two stuck trucks.
This is one of those rare times that having a short temper comes in handy, after some choice adjectives directed at that old truck and snow I made up my mind it was getting unstuck or it would blow up trying. Got back in, fired it up, 4 low, third gear and slammed it. Snow and now dirt flying everywhere, turning the wheel back and forth with the engine screaming and tires a spinnin it finally started to move. Quickly I yanked that pig in reverse and smashed it again, then third then tecerse back and forth untill it finally lurched free going backwards. With a running start I ripped through in third gear and the gas pedal flat!!
Now I'm back where the bale needs to be, dropped the tailgate, unhooled the bars and lowered it all the way down making a ramp. Up in the bed, brace myself with the front of the bed and roll bar and give a heave, them another heave amd another, all it did was roll back where I started.
Pause for more adjectives.
Temper flaring, horses staring I stomped off to my shop and grabbed a 2" strap, you're coming off that truck and you're doing it now [:(!]
Backed the truck up against the fence, strapped that bale to a fence pole, got in the truck and made up my mind that if the pole breaks I'm tossing a match into that bale.
It rolled right off, horses are happy happy happy, now I gotta go check my truck for damages. All in all, fun morning!! [:D][:D][:D]
Ohh, yes Intried the "Combat Unload", all the truck did was slide.
No, I don't have tire chains that fit it, yes I tried the big truck chains and the Ford promptly puked them off, they are buried in the snow now.
Trying to think of the other Ida Dunns [:D]
Since the female unit drives the Ram all I have is the old Ford, Ram would pribably not haul that hay anyways [}:)]
The old Ford, 390, 4 speed, 4:10 gears and small tires, it makes a lot of noise and goes nowhere fast [:D] 150 mile round trip in this is going to take awhile. $40 in gas later [B)] I'm back home with the round bale of grass/alfalfa mix, now I have to get it out for the horses.
Go to open the gate, drifted, only way in so here we go. After 3 attempts I buried it in that hard packed snow drift, stuck stuck stuck. Tried shoveling the wheels clear, no go, she is planted and planted hard. Now what? Yanking it with the Peterbilt is out of the question, then I will have two stuck trucks.
This is one of those rare times that having a short temper comes in handy, after some choice adjectives directed at that old truck and snow I made up my mind it was getting unstuck or it would blow up trying. Got back in, fired it up, 4 low, third gear and slammed it. Snow and now dirt flying everywhere, turning the wheel back and forth with the engine screaming and tires a spinnin it finally started to move. Quickly I yanked that pig in reverse and smashed it again, then third then tecerse back and forth untill it finally lurched free going backwards. With a running start I ripped through in third gear and the gas pedal flat!!
Now I'm back where the bale needs to be, dropped the tailgate, unhooled the bars and lowered it all the way down making a ramp. Up in the bed, brace myself with the front of the bed and roll bar and give a heave, them another heave amd another, all it did was roll back where I started.
Pause for more adjectives.
Temper flaring, horses staring I stomped off to my shop and grabbed a 2" strap, you're coming off that truck and you're doing it now [:(!]
Backed the truck up against the fence, strapped that bale to a fence pole, got in the truck and made up my mind that if the pole breaks I'm tossing a match into that bale.
It rolled right off, horses are happy happy happy, now I gotta go check my truck for damages. All in all, fun morning!! [:D][:D][:D]
Ohh, yes Intried the "Combat Unload", all the truck did was slide.
No, I don't have tire chains that fit it, yes I tried the big truck chains and the Ford promptly puked them off, they are buried in the snow now.
Trying to think of the other Ida Dunns [:D]
Comments
300 slat six, three speed.
It is all about hitting it with enough speed to get the job done.
Brad Steele
I've busted through drifts above the hood with a 2 wheel drive F-100,
300 slat six, three speed.
It is all about hitting it with enough speed to get the job done.
An't get a running start on this, gate is blocked by the upper deck poles. Plus this wasn't a powdery drift, it was hard from warming up and freezing again. That truck has narrow snow tires, all it did was dig straight down. But with some angry throttle work it eventually came out.
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
"Never do wrong to make a friend----or to keep one".....Robert E. Lee
How much does one of those round bales weigh?
That one is roughly 1300#
If you had had chains for it, all you woulda done is got more stuck. Good on ya for figger'n it out!
You should see my Peterbilt right now, we are having bad winds here, our road is drifted shut and the Pete is chained and buried.
redneckandy,
That bail on the Ram isn't coming off without a tractor's spike.
That's a totally different loading situation than BSR's. BSR had to unload his the way he did, yours came off with the aid of a tractor...[;)]
Trinity +++
Mine has some great traction and is heavy enough.
No wait. That probably would have spooked the horses through a fence and then you'd have a bunch of new problems. . . .
You would not had to back up..