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Working the National 1300A

Natman

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The bomb is for past due accounts, works better then filing a lien to get their attention!

Actually, it's for my two e bike batteries, as I often carry a full sized folding mountain bike in the plane also. I have a voltage converter and can charge the 52 VDC batteries in flight, with over a 50 mile range.
 

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After I had pulled the trigger on buying it, I had the opportunity (great weather and time off) to make a flight up and low level fly the 33 miles stretch it the old pad disappeared on, from 50' high and 55 mph, it isn't there, period.[/QUOTE]

Well we KNEW this was going to happen..... a couple weeks after putting the new one into service, I got a call in response to one of the ads I had put it up. It was found 5 miles from my job site that day, (but several days later) after a 3 hour drive. On the fringe of town, not in the boonies, where I concentrated my search efforts, thinking if it was near to town someone would have quickly picked it up and/or called. Don't know if it was hidden, must have been as I looked hard even in town, and outside of it. So now I have 5 pads, better then 3. And the real kicker is, after conversations with the findee, who I have not met as I can't make it back up there for a while, he is going to drop it off at the airport, and he refuses to accept the $250.00 reward I promised, "I don't need it or want it." We argued about it for a bit and then I let him win, and told him OK, no reward, how cool is that? Much appreciated, as the plane's muffler just burned out (2600 hours TT) and it will cost 1 K to replace,
 

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Done deal, flew 5 hours yesterday (not that far, but I did the usual off airport ops on the way there and back, landed one site at 8700', so a little fun mixed in with "work"). Rather then wait until I got a callback to work in the area again, which SHOULD be soon but you never know...( kind of ironic that the work I did was setting up a rock crusher and conveyor for an outfit that was re-surfacing the local runway) I decided to just get it ASAP before something else went wrong. It fit perfect on the plane's cargo deck, which is where the passenger seat normally goes. IMG_20200711_084438970_HDR.jpg
 

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Late Friday I got an emergency call from some truckers stuck at the nearby Flying J, they won't make it thru the port of entry unless I move the 46 K loaded 40' container 20" forward. I told them I can't do it, too heavy, and hang up. Then 20 minutes later called them back, "how about if I lift one end, just enough to put some pipe underneath, do the same on the other end, and then we roll it forward?" I just happened to have picked up some pipe the day before for a project at home, and it was still at my crane yard, and I even had my 30 ton load block already rigged for a three part line, as I had just picked a rock crusher the day before, and was picking a 14 K piece of machinery Monday. 99% of my work is with the headache ball/single part. It went slick, other then the container frame deforming a bit, it never did roll but a couple chain comalongs moved it enough to get them thru the port. Next time, some thick flat bar would solve that issue.IMG_20200717_170216958.jpg
The money guy wanted to give me a CC # for payment, but as he had a Wyoming area code, I asked him where he was exactly. "Alpine, all weekend." That's a place, a 45 minutes flight, but a 3 hour drive due to all the mountains, that I often fly to for breakfast and have been for 35 years. So, next morning, we met, and cheated the CC company out of their fee, and as he was a pro river runner I even got offered a raft ride on the Snake, but I told him that looked too dangerous, and got back into my homemade kit plane and flew off. Once again, the plane comes in real handy.
 

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There's a story of some sort there ... 20 inches !! between go and no go at the port ? on a 480 inch container ? less than 5% of the length ?? I can see a problem with height, but 20 inches on the bed of a truck ? Or is it axle weights ?

What was the requirement / problem ??
 

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There's a story of some sort there ... 20 inches !! between go and no go at the port ? on a 480 inch container ? less than 5% of the length ?? I can see a problem with height, but 20 inches on the bed of a truck ? Or is it axle weights ?

What was the requirement / problem ??
that would have been an axle wgt. prob. 10' spread trlr. is allowed 40.000 on interstate 40.300 will get you a scale problem
 

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If it had been me doing the trucking, I would have seriously considered unbinding the container, getting some speed up (little at first, more if needed) and then hitting the brakes. That could have saved them my bill, but also maybe have lead to a much larger one. I am told my local port is somewhat notorious in the freighter world for being real sticklers. All I know is that when the newly installed system they put in a couple of years ago lights up green, telling me I don't have to pull in, it makes my day!
 

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Have used seriously strong concrete structures to resituate loads on a flatbed before! Some old dock structures had full concrete walls up to a foot or two thick, worked great!! Just back in Gently so as not to awaken the watchman!!
 

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Much easier if hauling cattle pop the clutch they set back, hit the brakes they step forward. Can get you through a scale if close. Also have backed up to another empty livestock trailer and off loaded a couple. Went to the next exit and backed up to the guy hauling a couple and reload head on down the road.
 

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So I always wanted to go cross country in a tractor trailer. Back in 1991 my buddy who was the facilities manager for a medical device company asked me if I wanted to go Kalamzoo to LA and back? I'm in. His boss even paid me a per diem for helping drive. Flew us back home for a week while the trade show was going on. We pick up as new Ryder tractor in Kazoo (1800 miles, plastic still on the bunk) and a used Ryder furniture trailer, (Baker Knapp & Tubbs if you remember that name).
So off we go. I tell him, you get us thru Chicago. We stop for dinner in IL and he says we are stretching out this trailer. He says, you take off and I'll pull the lever when I say hit the trailer brake. So as a newbie I'm cautious. I hit the trailer brake, nothing. Go faster he says, I do, hit the brake, nothing. Give it the gas this time so I do. I hit the brake and there's a big bang and a little something rolls out in the parking lot.
I said what was that? He said you sheared off both stops of the rail holding the tandems. Good thing it hasn't been lubricated in a long time or we would be putting the tandems under the trailer. :D In my defense, looking at the breaks, they were cracked for some time.
That was the first of many adventures and real fun trip . I talked to him last week and we went down memory lane again:)
My first stop driving on a scale was hilarious, but that's for another day.
 

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Much easier if hauling cattle pop the clutch they set back, hit the brakes they step forward. Can get you through a scale if close. Also have backed up to another empty livestock trailer and off loaded a couple. Went to the next exit and backed up to the guy hauling a couple and reload head on down the road.

:pChickens are the easiest ,,just gettum flying
 

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Another pool job, about my dozenth in the last year. Just as I snapped the shutter (or whatever my phone uses....) I remembered I was going to use a oval load ring between my round slings and load hook next time. Too late, and still OK I believe, with just 3400 on the hook, and my hook being loaded not out at the tip, but within it's marks. I did use a load ring for the big hot tub we set next to the pool, just to avoid hook crowding as I don't like 4 sling ends in my hook, makes it tough to get the gate back open and that's why load rings were invented I guess.IMG_20200728_140252783_HDR.jpg
 
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