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OK, back to seriousness... Really late getting on here today. The hay delivery guy just left awhile ago. He drove in, hit the brakes down at the barn and barely stopped before wiping out one of my gates. The temp got above freezing and made a slick on top of the already icy snow and he was being pushed by 18,000 pounds of trailer/hay/skid steer. We got his skid steer unloaded and got all the hay in my barn, then he loaded the skid steer back on the trailer and tried to back out and it wouldn't move even an inch. I walked over and looked at his four spinning tires and asked him why he had street tires on his big 4WD truck. He said they weren't street tires, but just old and the tread was worn off. I got out my truck (monster mudder tires - tread goes up the sidewalls) and we chained my truck to the back of his trailer so I would be pulling him backwards while he was trying to back up. Two 4WD trucks pushing/pulling one empty trailer and it was going nowhere. So he moved forward (downhill) about 6", put in back in reverse, and I used my truck to "jerk" his chain and I pulled him out about 100 yards to where he could get traction again. He gave me a bill for $1440 for the hay plus delivery and I told him it was only gonna cost him $1600 for my towing service and he said something about mental anguish and... All in fun; we're very good friends actually. Now my critters have food until the grass starts to grow again...
What's a Super bowl? Just a really big soup bowl?
OK, back to seriousness... Really late getting on here today. The hay delivery guy just left awhile ago. He drove in, hit the brakes down at the barn and barely stopped before wiping out one of my gates. The temp got above freezing and made a slick on top of the already icy snow and he was being pushed by 18,000 pounds of trailer/hay/skid steer. We got his skid steer unloaded and got all the hay in my barn, then he loaded the skid steer back on the trailer and tried to back out and it wouldn't move even an inch. I walked over and looked at his four spinning tires and asked him why he had street tires on his big 4WD truck. He said they weren't street tires, but just old and the tread was worn off. I got out my truck (monster mudder tires - tread goes up the sidewalls) and we chained my truck to the back of his trailer so I would be pulling him backwards while he was trying to back up. Two 4WD trucks pushing/pulling one empty trailer and it was going nowhere. So he moved forward (downhill) about 6", put in back in reverse, and I used my truck to "jerk" his chain and I pulled him out about 100 yards to where he could get traction again. He gave me a bill for $1440 for the hay plus delivery and I told him it was only gonna cost him $1600 for my towing service and he said something about mental anguish and... All in fun; we're very good friends actually. Now my critters have food until the grass starts to grow again...
