So its been pretty slow around here, not much going on but snow and ice management. Mostly ice this year. Last winter our chevy 1ton got totaled during a storm (driver was OK so thats really what matters). We had to have a sand truck and we had to have it quick, I knew the F550 was for sale 15 minutes away so we went down, took a look and bought it. Its a super clean'06 with almost 90K miles, but it was just a little more than the insurance check so went for it. The rust situation was almost non existent for a truck from this area of that age. We'd never had a tailgate sander before which was a bit of a learning curve but we got familiar with it and really found it worked well. So a couple weeks ago I had to go run some sand and Dad jumped in with me for the ride, we were sanding along and I went to lower the box when it made a very strange noise and moved like id never seen. we got out to find that the passenger side dump hinge had ripped completely out of the long sill leaving the box hooked by only drivers side and the hoist. We were able to finish and get it back to the shop where we welded the box to the sub frame with 2 pieces of 1/2"X6"x12" pieces and ordered a new V-box to get through the winter. In the spring the box will have to come off and new long sills be put in. Its amazing the way they rotted from the inside out. I will take a pic of the damage and post it. The new sander is nice in some ways, what I really miss is being able to put 3 yards on and do multiple driveways on one load, I can only get about 2 yards on this one.
My Father and his buddy built a playhouse for my kids, had to drag it down the road to my house. It was funny going down the road, no one even looked twice at us, they must be used to seeing us do odd things LOL.
I traded my van body that I used for storage and the smashed sander from the old one ton to my buddy for a tractor trailer load of firewood. Its win win because the area behind the shop get cleaned up, he gets some stuff he wanted and half of next winters wood will be here. (we burn 25 full cord of wood a year )
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So its been pretty slow around here, not much going on but snow and ice management. Mostly ice this year. Last winter our chevy 1ton got totaled during a storm (driver was OK so thats really what matters). We had to have a sand truck and we had to have it quick, I knew the F550 was for sale 15 minutes away so we went down, took a look and bought it. Its a super clean'06 with almost 90K miles, but it was just a little more than the insurance check so went for it. The rust situation was almost non existent for a truck from this area of that age. We'd never had a tailgate sander before which was a bit of a learning curve but we got familiar with it and really found it worked well. So a couple weeks ago I had to go run some sand and Dad jumped in with me for the ride, we were sanding along and I went to lower the box when it made a very strange noise and moved like id never seen. we got out to find that the passenger side dump hinge had ripped completely out of the long sill leaving the box hooked by only drivers side and the hoist. We were able to finish and get it back to the shop where we welded the box to the sub frame with 2 pieces of 1/2"X6"x12" pieces and ordered a new V-box to get through the winter. In the spring the box will have to come off and new long sills be put in. Its amazing the way they rotted from the inside out. I will take a pic of the damage and post it. The new sander is nice in some ways, what I really miss is being able to put 3 yards on and do multiple driveways on one load, I can only get about 2 yards on this one.
My Father and his buddy built a playhouse for my kids, had to drag it down the road to my house. It was funny going down the road, no one even looked twice at us, they must be used to seeing us do odd things LOL.
I traded my van body that I used for storage and the smashed sander from the old one ton to my buddy for a tractor trailer load of firewood. Its win win because the area behind the shop get cleaned up, he gets some stuff he wanted and half of next winters wood will be here. (we burn 25 full cord of wood a year
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I had a pic of the early stages of prepping the L9000 for paint, and the kubota on a test hole job from tuesday but I can't seem to find em?:beatsme
