The lumber deal was just too good to miss?!
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ROFL. Did he bring his T18? There were obviously a few screws that needed to be tightened.
Last week one of my neighbours related a scene he'd just witnessed outside a big box store here in the UK…
A customer was strapping a stack of 8-foot-long melamine-faced chipboard panels to the roof of a car - no roof-rack, just sitting on the car’s roof - with a couple of ropes tied laterally over the panels and looped through the windows. No longitudinal restraint at all and showing no interest in the warnings of other drivers. You can, doubtless, guess where this is going…
When braking for the junction outside the car park, the boards continue their forward travel and (surprise, surprise) scatter all over the busy multi-lane road. Chaos ensues, with cars dodging, and driving over his wood.
Having abandoned the mayhem for others to deal with, the driver was then seen back in the store demanding a refund, because the store hadn’t advised him on how to get his load home.
And they let these people loose with woodworking tools…
A customer was strapping a stack of 8-foot-long melamine-faced chipboard panels to the roof of a car - no roof-rack, just sitting on the car’s roof - with a couple of ropes tied laterally over the panels and looped through the windows. No longitudinal restraint at all and showing no interest in the warnings of other drivers. You can, doubtless, guess where this is going…
When braking for the junction outside the car park, the boards continue their forward travel and (surprise, surprise) scatter all over the busy multi-lane road. Chaos ensues, with cars dodging, and driving over his wood.
Having abandoned the mayhem for others to deal with, the driver was then seen back in the store demanding a refund, because the store hadn’t advised him on how to get his load home.
And they let these people loose with woodworking tools…
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I feel bad for those horses. At least the logs look like they’re dry...
I come across pictures like this sometimes. Those were made just for pics as pranks. There is ~30 tons of lumber on that sled. It's not going anywhere with two horses. The runners will plow through the snow into the ground with this kind of weight.Cheese said:
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As I was going into HD one day I saw two guys put a couple sheets of plywood on top of a sedan (no rack). Get in, driver and passenger each stick an arm out the window to hold it on the roof. [eek]
They actually made it all the way to the other side of the lot ............................ end of story. [blink]
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They actually made it all the way to the other side of the lot ............................ end of story. [blink]
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SRSemenza said:
Must've zipped right past the Wikipedia page on Lift...
In the past when I'd carry sheet goods tied to the roof rack of the Tahoe it never failed to amaze me how some nuts would follow overly-closely. I'm fanatical about tie downs & never had an issue but you won't catch me within 1/2 mile (.0804KM) behind anyone with a similar load.
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Honestly I've seen far worse loading. If the person had kept the doors closed and just run it out the windows on both sides it wouldn't have been so bad. And actually very well could have been legal. If Canada is like the US and that's 8ft lumber, I don't think they would have been able to get the person on anything other then being wacky.
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DeformedTree said:
I was thinking that also, but the rear windows might not go down all the way. With the passenger seat folded back might have been able to get quite a bit of lumber diagonally from back seat sticking out front passenger window.
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