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    Quote Originally Posted by CMHN View Post
    I would like to get a car hauler, just cant justify buying one at the moment, I don't get enough cars to make it worth the investment.
    IF the car will roll, U-haul (only place I know of that) rents car dollies. The two wheel dolly trailer thing.
    $68 per day includes insurance.
    Been thinking a good hussle (besides scrapping cars) might be to bring one to the car auction, where people cannot leave the lot until they get tags at DMV, and offer them to tow it reasonable distance for $100 or so.

    Think I definately need a trailer myself IF I get into cardboard recycling for $60 per ton.
    Or ever recycle 40X48" pallets again (my truck holds up to 22 but scary) full size pick-ups stack two wide and have up to 40 or so...Either way I'd have to fill my storage space and then make single trips to be worthwhile.



    Oh, some essentials on my truck are: one gallon gas can, tire plug kit (had five plugs in same tire before I finally replaced it),
    air pump (crappy kind that plugs into lighter), tire iron and jack of course,
    A red-shirt and duct tape (to tape on when stuff is 2 ft. outside bed, OR put on if my other shirt gets wet),
    Three small straps, one large 27' truck strap (for heavy stuff, two of these for pallets)(It's the only one that'll reach the leaf-springs to hook there for heavy stuff). Well I have a small tool bag with essentials, can't carry more tools than tote-able in a so-so old truck, it's a set-back.

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    CMHN maybe the reason you cant justify having a car hauler is because you dont actually have one not because you cant find enough cars to justify it, trust me get a car hauler and you will find a way to get the cars. I just got rid of my open car hauler and bought me a steel deck roadrunner with a 4 ton winch, this thing is solid as a bull but i really need a larger truck to pull it because its pretty heavy and my dakota v8 is squatting slightly even while empty now.
    “If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend six sharpening my axe.”

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    Quote Originally Posted by DumbD View Post

    A red-shirt and duct tape (to tape on when stuff is 2 ft. outside bed, OR put on if my other shirt gets wet),
    I've been using flagger tape. Can get a big roll of it at Home Depot. Hard to miss when it's fluttering in the wind.

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