Sledge's Thread- With Lots of Pics

[Focker]

yeah $17.10 for 30 minutes work isnt bad.

Hey sledge on a side note i will be up there monday i have a load to bring in.

[msmoorad]

Harness weighs roughly 20 lbs x.75/lb at my core buyer =$15
Heater Core- Probably $1.50
Blower Motor Probably about .60

So the Wisdom/logic = $17.10

i see, said the blind man.

[KzScrapper]

i see, said the blind man.

To the deaf dog.

[sledge]

yeah $17.10 for 30 minutes work isnt bad.

Hey sledge on a side note i will be up there monday i have a load to bring in.

Focker-
What time will you be here? I'll send ya a PM with my cell. You can text or call me.

[ocedy]

Great job Sledge. Nice looking carhauler!

[sledge]

Great job Sledge. Nice looking carhauler!

Thanks man.. I appreciate that.. lot of time and $$ into that thing. Still need to get fenders replaced (have fenders) just need to get on it! And maybe just maybe some paint?

[Focker]

i am going to try to come up early.

[sledge]

I don't care how many times I see it. This sight ALWAYS brings a smile to my face:


Always such a sense of finality.. hours spent hunting.. negotiating.. stripping.. ripping.. tearing.. cutting... sawing... and snipping.. comes to an end! A good end.. for I know she has been picked as clean as she can be picked.. every nickel has been wringed out of her.. and she shall soon be reincarnated into a few hundred toasters in the near future!

[Dermestid]

I don't care how many times I see it. This sight ALWAYS brings a smile to my face:

Always such a sense of finality.. hours spent hunting.. negotiating.. stripping.. ripping.. tearing.. cutting... sawing... and snipping.. comes to an end! A good end.. for I know she has been picked as clean as she can be picked.. every nickel has been wringed out of her.. and she shall soon be reincarnated into a few hundred toasters in the near future!

Hopefully someone came through for the transmission out of it?

[sledge]

Hopefully someone came through for the transmission out of it?

So Close.. but no dice!
My two options were as follows:
A. Guy wants me to leave my trailer with Jimmy on it at his shop and come get it in the morning (Yeah Right)
B. Guy has no idea how to pull the tranny.. but "thinks he and his buddy can figure it out"

I did a quick risk assessment and came up with the following:
Guy A: Not worth the $200 bucks to risk my trailer and the truck vanishing in the night in a bad part of town from some dude who contacted me via CL
Guy B: Not worth the $200 bucks for him to potentially get crushed on my trailer trying to "figure it out"

Sadly, it went to the yard with the tranny in it.. told the yard manager.. he snickered and gave me the "Blank it" waveoff with a smile on his face.

[newattitude]

I wouldn't have left it either sledge.

[sledge]

I wouldn't have left it either sledge.

They guy seemed legit.. but I would have said "Why don't I show up to your place at say 7 AM.. and you can have all day to pull it with me there.. as long as we can pull it and get to the yard"
It's never a really good sign when someone says to leave it.. and "I ain't no thief" Which I believe him in a sense.. but I won't even leave my trailer on my jobsite!

[Dermestid]

So Close.. but no dice!
My two options were as follows:
A. Guy wants me to leave my trailer with Jimmy on it at his shop and come get it in the morning (Yeah Right)
B. Guy has no idea how to pull the tranny.. but "thinks he and his buddy can figure it out"

I did a quick risk assessment and came up with the following:
Guy A: Not worth the $200 bucks to risk my trailer and the truck vanishing in the night in a bad part of town from some dude who contacted me via CL
Guy B: Not worth the $200 bucks for him to potentially get crushed on my trailer trying to "figure it out"

Sadly, it went to the yard with the tranny in it.. told the yard manager.. he snickered and gave me the "Blank it" waveoff with a smile on his face.

Thats a shame that it got crushed but it doesn't sound like you had much in the way of options. If I had a nickel for every time someone on Craigslist told me they wanted an item and actually followed through on it....

[sledge]

Thats a shame that it got crushed but it doesn't sound like you had much in the way of options. If I had a nickel for every time someone on Craigslist told me they wanted an item and actually followed through on it....

Isn't that the truth.

[sledge]

Broke open an HD Digital Antenna not hoping for much.. and much to my surprise I found this bad boy!

[sledge]

I saw this poster in a museum in Cincinnati but could not get a good picture of it. Found it online and loved it so much.. it has now been changed as my avatar. Just as relevant today as it was during WW2

[Sirscrapalot]

Nothing to add to this fine thread other then...

I like the new avatar.

More scrap pictures! No move to the country till you meet your 2014 goal for pictures posted!

Sirscrapalot - Just kidding Sledge ol'buddy.

[sledge]

Nothing to add to this fine thread other then...

I like the new avatar.

More scrap pictures! No move to the country till you meet your 2014 goal for pictures posted!

Sirscrapalot - Just kidding Sledge ol'buddy.

Just been having some boring stuff as of late.. I've got a truck bed full of tomato cages right now to run this morning.. not too exciting!

[Pnutfarmer]

"Tomato cages" just instantly brought to my mind a mental pic of angry tomatoes with snarling faces pressing against the bars just trying to get close enough to bite you back.

[pawpaw]

i want one of them no wait i want 2 of em