Well folks todays Toto run to get a '47 2ton truck that I bought at last weekends auction was a adventure I could have done without . You know when things start out TO good - something is going to jump out and get you . I had around 25+ miles of back country roads to get to the auction site . Things were going go until I was about 1/2 way there . Out in the middle of Nowhere - OH Darn ! is that a front tire going down - not the New front tire :mad: - Yep surnuff was . Get the spare down - find the lug wrench - now where in the blazes is the Darn jack
? Remember you took it out to use on the forklift ?
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Darn !!! No farm houses in that area and No traffic . AHHH my cell phone ( hate the darn things - but still have one ) . Called the only person that I Knew could come with a jack and help ( P.S. guess who failed to renew his AAA last month after 10+ years of Never using/needing it ) . Sure he could come and help but was two countys away measuring grain bins for the government. 1 1/2 hrs. later here comes the jack and less than 10 minutes later Toto is back running down the road . A beautiful winding drive - up the hills - down the hills - get to the top of the hills and look and see a wonderful panorama of range land that you could see no foot prints of man less the road you were on
. You darn sure you do not want to break down out there . Finally get to the the auction site and head down to where the truck is parked . Whoa thar Toto ,
seat pucker factor 10 . It had rained there several days before but was still WET and muddy/slick and a downhill slope to boot . Toto slips/slides down to the truck and finds the dryest wet spot near the '47 and backs as close as one could without being up to you axle in mud . Get the bed raised - cable played out as far as it would go and added a 25' chain to that . Hooked up and pulled the Beast up onto Totos bed and watched the rear tires slowly sink into the wet grass . Lowered the bed - chained the truck down and hoped for the best
. Had to rock forward/back several times to get going . My poor right leg has one Big bruse from that Darn floor stick . Second and reverse are two places where my long legs get in the way and always get beat to death if I have to use them a lot . That poor farmers field was so Torn up with Toto kicking up her heals and flinging grass/mud everywhere but I did not even dare to slow down/stop for any
reason . Took it nice and easy back to my friends ranch and :mad: Darn it if his area wasn't wet as heck also . So back home Toto goes with her new friend on her back . And there she sits loaded down waiting for the fields to dry . One last thing - I forgot the camera
- so this Toto adventure ( thank goodness ) has no pictures to share . Ain't Old Trucks just the Funest Things !
ED H
