From: Snag_one@msn.com   
      
   On 5/4/2025 5:40 PM, Bob La Londe wrote:   
   > A buddy of mine hauls containers from the coast and sells them locally.   
   > He picked up 3 for a customer and after he got back with the third one   
   > they decided they only wanted two right now.  He offered it to me   
   > delivered for a couple hundred bucks less than the before delivery and   
   > tax price of the local yard full of ex border wall containers.  I didn't   
   > take advantage of my buddy.  I know what he pays for them.   
   >   
   > The concrete slab behind my shop is where I want it, but it was   
   > completely full of scrap, so I had him drop it next to the slab on some   
   > timbers (old guard rail posts) that would leave it sitting above the slab.   
   >   
   > I spent all day yesterday and most of the day today moving steel, old   
   > machinery, and trash.  It even inspired me to put several large pieces   
   > in the dumpster that I had been keeping just in case.  An old utility   
   > trailer body, an old DeWalt industrial radial arm saw the last of the   
   > steel bins full of stuff that came with the steel work bench John Apple   
   > gave me.   
   >   
   > I thought I might be able to push the container onto the slab with my   
   > little tractor, but that just wasn't working.  I'd push one end in and   
   > the other would swing out.  I kind of expected that.  At about 8500 lbs   
   > it far exceeds the 750 rated load of the tractor bucket, so lifting one   
   > end and carrying it into place was definitely out.   
   >   
   > I ran a chain through the foot on the container, ran another chain   
   > around the safety bollard (concrete filled six inch well casing) by my   
   > rear overhead door and stuck a come-a-long in between the two chains.   
   > Doubled up of course.  With the chains and cable anchoring one end I can   
   > bump the other end with the tractor buck and it moves several inches.   
   > With the tractor up against the container at that end, the tires spun   
   > down into the dirt, the bucket dug in, and the parking brake on I can   
   > move the end with the chains an inch or two at a stroke with the   
   > come-a-long.  It feels like the more of the weight that is on the   
   > concrete the easier it gets.  By that I mean it feels the same, but my   
   > arms are getting weaker and I can still move it so...   
   >   
   > I've got it about half way in the slab right now.  Had to take a break   
   > and get some water.  Well that's enough screwing around.  Back to work.   
   >   
      
      I - and 4 of the best neighbors that ever walked this earth - spent   
   the last 2 days putting 1X10 rough cut pine board siding on my house .   
      
      It looks fuckinawesome .   
      
     One of these neighbors runs a home repair/construction business . I   
   told him I wanted to hire him to do this job , next thing I know he's   
   telling me he's organizing the neighbors to come help , for free . It   
   seem charging only for parts when I fix stuff they broke has earned me   
   some karma . Balance is everything . Having a machine shop can shift the   
   point of balance ...   
   --   
   Snag   
   We live in a time where intelligent people   
   are being silenced so that   
   stupid people won't be offended.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)