5 Essential Tools?

**BigRyan** · 04-28-2011, 09:57 PM

Originally Posted by c4f5

In the last 10 years, not having gps has cost me a grand total of maybe 10 hours, probably way less....know your area. If I bought one, it probably wouldn't last long enough to pay for itself.

With all due respect, it's one thing to "know your area" (I think most of us do), but when you're talking about large cities and not to mention the suburbs of each city...I don't care what anyone says, I'd much rather have a GPS loaded with an address AND alerts for traffic, so that I can decide on the fly if the shorter route is actually the fastest route or not. My opinion anyway.

**c4f5** · 04-28-2011, 11:06 PM

Originally Posted by BigRyan

With all due respect, it's one thing to "know your area" (I think most of us do), but when you're talking about large cities and not to mention the suburbs of each city...I don't care what anyone says, I'd much rather have a GPS loaded with an address AND alerts for traffic, so that I can decide on the fly if the shorter route is actually the fastest route or not. My opinion anyway.

Fair enough. Respect duly noted and returned. I am over 100 miles from the nearest city with more than 20,000 people, and didn't take it into consideration. This is why I rarely haul directly from a job site to a yard. My different materials go 4 different directions to 4 different yards. Everything comes to the back 40 for sorting and disassembly.

Directions to my place include, "follow that dirt road for 10, maybe 15 mile...then when you get to where that old elm tree used to be...yeah, ya gotta turn about a half mile before that...then go down blah blah blah...bout a hundred cars in the yard & a hundred tons of junk piled up outside the shop...can't miss it"

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2500 souls in my whole county, and most of them know me.