Worldwide Beekeeping
General Discussion => Any and Every Thing => Topic started by: Perry on December 06, 2013, 05:35:58 pm
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So, I unloaded the last 3 hives I moved this afternoon, closed the tailgate on the truck, got in the driver's seat.............and promptly buried the thing in the mud! :roll:
Called my wife on the cell, walked out to the road and she picked me up and now I'm at home. Truck will have to sit out there, all alone :cry:
Wish I knew someone with a 4 x 4 that was into doing a road trip!
Any takers??? :|
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That's what queen excluders are for. :twisted: :lol: :lol:
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If I had any in the truck I woulda tried 'em. She's in there good. I'm sitting here trying to figure out how to get it out without having to call a tow truck (= $$$)
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Will it not freeze enough to come out tonight? Maybe bring it out early in the morning.
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"Wish I knew someone with a 4 x 4 that was into doing a road trip!
Any takers??? :|"
you mean like a jeep wrangler sport 4 x 4?????.......... :lol:
i wouldn't make it there in time...... :D
how about someone with a bigger 4x4 with a winch on it?...... but then they'd have to have a trailer to haul it to wherever you are stuck in the mud.... :D
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It's only dropping to 34 F tonight, not enough to freeze. It supposed to go down to 17 F tomorrow night and that might do it.
Maybe if we just all put our thoughts together at one time, and concentrated really really hard.......Naw, ain't gonna happen with this group! :lol:
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Boy, I would surely help if I were close. I had to use my 4x4 to get back to the yard today. I just bought a 18500 lb tow strap too, dang, could have tried it out.
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A cheap set of nylon chains. Take a piece of 3/8" or 1/2" nylon rope 25' long. wrap it around the wheel tie the 2 ends together and do it to both back wheels and it will give you the extra traction needed to move thru Ice, snow, or mud. Cable tv, extension cords, or house wire, also works. what ever you have handy.
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Oh yes We expect pictures!
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15' of chain + friend + 4 x 4 =
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sittin in the driveway! :mrgreen:
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Quick take it down to the car wash so all the doors freeze shut when the cold weather hits.
Its not even very muddy.
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There's a few pounds of mud packed underneath there, and you should see the front of the hive that I had unloaded right behind the truck! :shock: :roll:
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"Quick take it down to the car wash so all the doors freeze shut when the cold weather hits."
......... :lol:
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LOL Perry.. that sucks.... Your a LONG ways from me, but I'd make the trip if I had to...
I have my normal truck.. an 89 chevy 4x4... call her black betty.. has ten leafs in the rear for towing capacity I added myself.. rebuilt it, new trans etc.. painted it, and when the paint was 3 days old I was moving a pole barn. the end of one of the telephone poles fell off and bounced.. hit the side of the truck denting it.. made me sick.. but not as bad as if it had been a new 40K truck.....
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last spring I bought a 94 K3500.. built a 489 for it, aluminum heads etc..., put some good dirt/mud tires on it to use to haul WOOD up out of the bottoms or the horse trailer etc... DOnt have a pic of it yet, but it's built for sticky situations...
My wife has an 04 Dodge with 35k miles on it because I WONT touch it, wont even PLOW with it, though it has a new snow plow on it... I OWN a truck to WORK with.. I dont want a 4x4 Cadilac.. a truck has rubber floor mats instead of carpet.. roll up windows instead of power. AM/FM radio with a CD player, not Blue Tooth etc.. A TRUCK, costs less than you payed for your first house, and is USED to pull friends out when they get stuck :P
if all that didnt work I suppose I could get the MUD truck out; hehe, sorry about the video quality.. my filmer got excited.. NO other trucks had made it through the mud pit that day, of 49 trucks only TWO made it through in that class, both were me :) Next class the guy filming won as I videoed,, hit the next arrow after watching thois one to see that. :)
http://s14.photobucket.com/user/KnitePr ... s.mp4.html (http://s14.photobucket.com/user/KnitePrince/media/ScottFullpass.mp4.html)
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You can have your mud truck, lazy. I want the green machine behind it. :P
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No kidding!!! I'd trade them even but Doubt theyd be interested.
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I will post a picture of my state issued personalized tag on my jeep tonight it says PLDUOUT.
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My little one wheeled wonder will get stuck in a cow pie in the yard, no need to laugh it is true, it is true!
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91 GMC
My baby
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My cold baby
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What I can actually afford to drive
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"I will post a picture of my state issued personalized tag on my jeep tonight it says PLDUOUT."
ha! i love it!!! been looking for a new idea for the spare tire cover on my jeep.......!
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GOOD GRIEF PERRY!! Do you think your neighbor across the road in the yellow house has enough fire wood stacked up??? :shock:
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GOOD GRIEF PERRY!! Do you think your neighbor across the road in the yellow house has enough fire wood stacked up??? :shock:
Most of the old time houses up here aren't insulated. 8 to 10 cord is not unheard of.
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LOL G.. I have had a couple of two wheel drive trucks.. I had to sell them, the wife seemed tohik that since they were TRUCKS they could go anywhere.. Youd be AMAZED at the places I have had to pull her out of!!!! and they WILL quite litterally get stuck on a cow pie!!!! I have seen my wife STUCK, in a perfectly flat yard.. with ONE wheel spinning in wet grass.. I kid you NOT!!!!!
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here it is just for you to read while hooking on to you
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STUCK, in a perfectly flat yard.. with ONE wheel spinning in wet grass.. I kid you NOT!!!!!
Been there! I got an old 96 ford F250 with the 7.3, with the pipe rack and loaded with tools it weighs in at about 7,900 lbs. That is a bunch of weight for one wheel, especially that big ol diesel motor sitting on the front axle.
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I know a bit late but Two ways to get out of mud or snow.
Get some long strips of carpet , they work wonders.
Lastly one of the best tips I ever got while trying to get a stuck tractor out , was to fasten a log about 6" longer than the diameter of the main wheels to each side , used chains to tighten it up and it works like a paddle steamer ,
I am sure your wheels are wider than bodywork and a 2x4 chained /roped to wheels might have worked
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only a jeep....[attachment=0:1jul3ozr]minniemoe jeep.JPG[/attachment:1jul3ozr] GOT MUD?....... :lol: