Joking aside, one occasionally sees people attempting stuff like this, like packing a kitchen range in the trunk of a Honda. You don’t want to be anywhere near them on the highway.
TE
October 11, 2014 9:58 am
I saw a mistress fly off a car, doing 70.
Luckily, no one was killed, and I saw it in the rearview.
When I was a kid, my old man came into possession of a great deal of furniture, some of which was crap, and some of which was valuable antique, but only if moved from the worst part of town to the middle class part where we lived. This was during the recession after the first Arab oil embargo and dad’s remodeling business was dying, so, for a year or so, we survived by selling furniture from our front yard – to the chagrin of our more well-heeled neighbors, who probably assumed we were secret gypsies. Weekend mornings were spent hauling furniture across town in his pickup. We had chairs and desks and brass beds stacked well above the truck’s cab. He had a system for keeping everything tethered together that didn’t waste any money on rope or bungee cords. He just had me and two or three of my brothers climb on top of the pile of furniture and hang on for dear life as he drove across town. At least he never took the highway and he drove slowly as we went past the historic mansions of railroad and grain barons, looking like the fucking Clampetts on their way to California.
A. R. Wasem
October 11, 2014 11:46 am
Watch out for flying mistresses. BC-LR to all
TE
October 11, 2014 1:40 pm
Settle down, it was the ex-hub’s gal pal. And that’s all I’ll say about that.
Westcoaster
October 11, 2014 3:44 pm
That photo reminds me how my Dad would load 2 tons of hay bales on his 1 ton 48 Ford truck. Finally broke the rear axle in two after many, many loads. Ford tough!
Iska Waran
October 11, 2014 3:55 pm
Westcoaster, don’t know if it’s true, but my dad said you could load 150% of the official payload onto a Ford (which is what we always had). He.a 1.5 ton pickup so he’d load up to 2,200 pounds or so. I think that was about two yards of sand, for example.
dirtscratcher
October 11, 2014 4:15 pm
“Westcoaster, don’t know if it’s true, but my dad said you could load 150% of the official payload onto a Ford (which is what we always had). He.a 1.5 ton pickup so he’d load up to 2,200 pounds or so. I think that was about two yards of sand, for example.”——-Iska Warren
Iska, it’s true. I load my F-150 to the gills. A yard of sand is about 2200 to 2400 lbs., I have put a yard and a half in my truck to a point where the bed was riding on the frame, springs totally compressed. Didn’t go far or fast, but I went.
I think the guy with the barrels is my new hero. “Real men do it in one trip”
Hagar
October 11, 2014 11:01 pm
Hope he doesn’t have any underpasses on his route.
Olga
October 11, 2014 11:25 pm
I’m calling Photoshop.
Leobeer
October 12, 2014 12:45 am
Olga, definitely not photoshop.
It appears he is driving on the left side of the road. Possibly Thailand where things like this are every day occurrences.
You mean a REAL MORON.
Joking aside, one occasionally sees people attempting stuff like this, like packing a kitchen range in the trunk of a Honda. You don’t want to be anywhere near them on the highway.
I saw a mistress fly off a car, doing 70.
Luckily, no one was killed, and I saw it in the rearview.
TE
Mistress???
Was she killed?
Freudian slip?
TE, a lesbo?
OH, NO!!!!
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When I was a kid, my old man came into possession of a great deal of furniture, some of which was crap, and some of which was valuable antique, but only if moved from the worst part of town to the middle class part where we lived. This was during the recession after the first Arab oil embargo and dad’s remodeling business was dying, so, for a year or so, we survived by selling furniture from our front yard – to the chagrin of our more well-heeled neighbors, who probably assumed we were secret gypsies. Weekend mornings were spent hauling furniture across town in his pickup. We had chairs and desks and brass beds stacked well above the truck’s cab. He had a system for keeping everything tethered together that didn’t waste any money on rope or bungee cords. He just had me and two or three of my brothers climb on top of the pile of furniture and hang on for dear life as he drove across town. At least he never took the highway and he drove slowly as we went past the historic mansions of railroad and grain barons, looking like the fucking Clampetts on their way to California.
Watch out for flying mistresses. BC-LR to all
Settle down, it was the ex-hub’s gal pal. And that’s all I’ll say about that.
That photo reminds me how my Dad would load 2 tons of hay bales on his 1 ton 48 Ford truck. Finally broke the rear axle in two after many, many loads. Ford tough!
Westcoaster, don’t know if it’s true, but my dad said you could load 150% of the official payload onto a Ford (which is what we always had). He.a 1.5 ton pickup so he’d load up to 2,200 pounds or so. I think that was about two yards of sand, for example.
“Westcoaster, don’t know if it’s true, but my dad said you could load 150% of the official payload onto a Ford (which is what we always had). He.a 1.5 ton pickup so he’d load up to 2,200 pounds or so. I think that was about two yards of sand, for example.”——-Iska Warren
Iska, it’s true. I load my F-150 to the gills. A yard of sand is about 2200 to 2400 lbs., I have put a yard and a half in my truck to a point where the bed was riding on the frame, springs totally compressed. Didn’t go far or fast, but I went.
I think the guy with the barrels is my new hero. “Real men do it in one trip”
Hope he doesn’t have any underpasses on his route.
I’m calling Photoshop.
Olga, definitely not photoshop.
It appears he is driving on the left side of the road. Possibly Thailand where things like this are every day occurrences.