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Re: My Facetruck thread.
Oh damn. Sorry to hear this. This fickle weather/abrupt major changes is the pits. So, you came out unhurt? How did the van fare?
We're a day behind you. Today was our second 70* day. T-shirt weather. Tomorrow's high will be upper-40s to 50, and that will be the overnight temp. Through the day it will drop to low-30s with freezing rain tomorrow night
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So glad you came out ok. Ice is a b@#$%.
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Glad you are OK. Ice is the worst! The steering wheel and pedals become worthless the instant that ride starts.
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Re: My Facetruck thread.
I've been in some spins in the past. Just glad to see that you get to post about it!
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Re: My Facetruck thread.
Wow, I just now saw this. I'm glad you weren't hurt, and it sucks that your van got banged up.
It's amazing how fast your life can change. It sounds like you sub from some outstanding people.
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It was the weirdest thing. Deputy sheriff told me that the ice was just in that area.. a narrow swath. No ice to the north and no indication from the south where I came from. I had my cruise control on. I felt like a hockey puck. On the other side of the highway someone hit the metal guardrail on one side of the highway, bounce off and hit the other side of the concrete bridge but kept on going.
I crawled out through the passenger door. All my tools were strewn about. I was fortunate that my tools didn’t get me. My van didn’t fair so well. Something else that’s weird is that the linkage in the shifter is jammed. I drove it home after the tow truck righted the van. Had a hard time getting it in to drive. Last edited by kingsolver72; 02-04-2020 at 09:02 PM. |
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I hope it doesn't take much to get it right. Am I right in thinking the material wasn't damaged?
I had a sweet '95 K3500 work truck I custom built. I flipped it on it's lid when I hit antifreeze on a curve going into a river valley. It was just like ice. There had literally just been an accident cleared there. I mean the county police and VFD Suburban were the first vehicles to come upon me heading back up from turning around at the river (county line). The truck had a utility bed that I had a custom tonneau cover made for out of truck tarp material. Table saw, compressor, radial arm saw, and a whole assortment of tools in cases. That tarp held them all and no tears. Tools and me survived, but the truck not so much.
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I had the majority of the materials in the house climatizing. There were a few boxes in the van and less than a dozen planks edges damaged.
Tim recall reading your story awhile back. It’s not awesome riding a vehicle out upside down or sideways. You had more to lose than me... I’ve never thought of my E-250 as sweet but, it got the job done and my van is my most important tool. Fortunately the place I’m subbing out is loaning me the use their van for as long as I need it. They told me I can use it for the other places I work out of too. Thats pretty cool. |
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I’ve been working for this family business since about 1988-99. The dad was an installer that sold flooring also. He taught his son the business. (The dad passed a few years ago. That was a hard time).One of the best tile guys around too. His sisters runs the store.
Their oldest brother is a carpenter who I worked with back in 1982 ish at a van custom conversion shop. Ger-Win Vans. I cut windows and some times tops for the sport roof, installed running boards and installed seat pedestals. I consider them good friends. They would let me pick and choose jobs but, it doesn’t matter to me it’s all flooring. It ain’t brain surgery. I must’ve trigger a double post some how but I thought I deleted before anyone noticed. ![]() |
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Well I'm glad your still able to talk to us.
The family business thing made me think of something that happened yesterday. We have a hardware store her that is managed by the fourth generation. My wife wants to change all the door hardware in the house. We went to the local big box store and looked at locks. She finally found someone to talk to her, told them what she wanted and then came the lost look, and "I'll have to check the computer. She sensed my frustration and told the guy to find them and we would go look around. She knew I wanted to go to the local guys. We did. We walked in the store, were met by the owner who pulled out a paper catalogue, let her look, and in 5 minutes we had the hardware ordered. When we got in the truck, she asked about price. I told her he would take care of us and said "He sure made it easy didn't he?". I have another story about the locally owned plumbing and electric supply and flooring and appliance store, and it is pretty much the same.
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Re: My Facetruck thread.
I walk into the local box store and feel like that too. Go to the local family owned hdwe and get taken care of every time.
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Thanks for the kind words fellas.
I’m glad you all let me speak my piece. I look forward to hanging out with the fine gentleman on this site. In my estimation it’s good way to spend a little bit of my time. Hey Larry, I’ve been wanting to get all new locks for our place. Not one door has the same key. I’d like to have one key for all the doors and a combination pad/code for one door. I too have been to the big box stores but, we have a key guy in town I’ve been needing to talk to. |
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I haven't gone whole hog with the electronics but our house did come with these..
more difficult to attack than standard kwikset type keyways so we kept them.. ![]() btw Larry, how's that connex castle comin along? ![]()
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Oh, and I order Masterlocks by the case with the same key. I have used the same key for twenty five years. Ok, so I have four keys. ![]()
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Just a daily thing? Not some event going on attracting happy fun seekers and other such undesirable heathens? All the good laws on the books they can't seem to enforce and they'll go on "an incentive" for petty crap to please a favored group. Some pervert with a van full of kidnapped screamin' kids drive by the cruiser. One cop says to the other, "Now their goes a nice quiet exhaust. I could hear grandpa's van load of grandchildren over it"
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'loud' is a little subjective but I'm willing to bet there's been plenty of cites already.. ![]()
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Re: My Facetruck thread.
Thieves suck big donkey #×&$'s. They are the scum of the earth.
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we don't cotton to no damn thieves.. we S.S.S.
pardon my french miss Liz
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Dang. 2500 with the stick. Hate to see one go out like that. Thieves suck!
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Ficelez les voleurs
Pardon my French as well.
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So was that one red, too? Did you get it back for parts? Don't you wish we could booby trap things? It would make life so much more simple and fair for all involved. Police would still be involved in making a report. But that could be simplified to multiple choice.
Perpetrator: a) Live 1- Injured/Charged 2- Severely Injured/Charges Pending b) Self destructed/Case Closed
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The truck was red before the theft. It had a $200 tow and storage bill against it, so we just had the local salvage company go pick it up and told them if there was any value above that to send us a check. More often than not we take the difference in parts for other projects.
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