Share Pics of People Hauling or Towing Something Wrong

[Industrial Toys]

If someone owed you a hundred bucks. You might feel more awkward if you came across them and their family enjoying a meal at an upscale eatery.

 

[DavesTractor]

If someone owed you a hundred bucks. You might feel more awkward if you came across them and their family enjoying a meal at an upscale eatery.

Exactly the point. I loaned a family member the money to buy an excavator, and granted that is a lot more than $100. We set up a payment schedule which he has met each month. So I could care less if he buys a new truck, which he did. But if I told him to pay me back whenever he had the money, it would strain our relationship. That is one scenario. Another might be helping someone that is truly needy, where you might just gift them the money. Another is loaning $100 to a scoundrel so you never have to see him again - money well spent.

My apologies for contributing to getting this thread off topic.

Anyone hauling anything wrong?

 

[ultrarunner]

I did a private bridge loan for family 20 months ago and then the region burned but not property and as things were getting back to normal... Covid entered the picture towing a wrench into the works.

Hasn't changed my lifestyle and bank CD rates are in toilet... so just grin and bear it...

I had planned on towing the Deere 110 to Oregon but it would have been towing wrong with my truck so just as well otherwise it could be my picture here.

 

[Jstpssng]

How about somebody who didn't tow when he should have, and burned up the tranny in his brand new RAM?YouTuber Ruins Ram TRX Transmission After Off-Road Oil Line Failure by Refusing to Wait for a Tow I can't believe that the manufacturer is going to come good on this, especially since the abuse was well documented in the online domain. It sets a bad precedence for warrantying stupidity...

 

[5030]

Truck is fugly anyway. Looks like a lime popsickle, for a hundred grand, don't think so.

 

[goeduck]

You'd better hope she never catches on or your shop/garage will be empty!! I couldn't sleep at night if I did that!!

You would have to live with such a person to understand. I do not haul my wifes stuff away without her saying it is okay. But unless I harp on her, our house will be like her mothers house when she passed. A narrow walkway with stuff piled to the ceiling. I took 85 heaping 8 foot bed truckloads to Goodwill and St Vincents. Including 400 pairs of size 8 shoes. It is not normal. No way to live and I will not do it.

 

[ultrarunner]

I think a detached shop
With loft is a great way to go...

Several friends said having the shop saved their marriage.

One thing was the attached garage was now just for the family car... nothing else.

They really kept nothing in the house other than their basics... projects, hobbies, guys coming over even washing shop clothes all in the shop...

 

[two_bit_score]

I think a detached shop
With loft is a great way to go...

Several friends said having the shop saved their marriage.

One thing was the attached garage was now just for the family car... nothing else.

They really kept nothing in the house other than their basics... projects, hobbies, guys coming over even washing shop clothes all in the shop...

No doubt about that!

 

[Renze]

Honestly, my wife is a saver of smaller sized clothes (that she will never fit and will never be in style again) and also knickknacks and Christmas junk. She's a bargain shopper, so always adding to her stash in the basement. Luckily, she never runs out of space because I periodically gather and dispose of things that are years old and often in new packaging or with tags. I fill a trash bag, drop in the big steel bins that go to veterans and shed never caught on. I never take a big chunk, just a slow and steady churn of her buying and me removing.

Maybe its because all documentaries about hoarding and extreme bargain buying are made in the USA, but to me it seems like a very American "habit". Or disorder if you will. Maybe it is more prevalent in America because it is normal to buy stuff with a credit card or on payments in America, where in Europe only a few rich people who cant be bothered by money, use credit cards with which dont have an immediate effect on the bank account, and most consumer goods like cars, laundry washers and microwaves are bought with savings instead of credit.
Also the pawn shops is an American phenomena, of a culture in which money is spent, not saved, so when there is a week left on the end of the paycheck, something gets pawned in order to buy food...

I might be wrong, but i get to think hoarding, extreme bargain buying, and the pawn shops, are symptoms of a credit driven economy, in which problems with controlling buying impulses are much more frequent among the general public than in European economies in which save to buy is culturally normative.

 

[dodge man]

So I was helping a friend on his farm yesterday and he gets a call from a doctor friend. He then turns around and out of the blue and asks me how much weight can a half ton haul? I of course said it depends and I showed him the payload sticker in the door jamb of his truck. The doctor friend then sends him a pic of his payload sticker, it’s 1200 lbs, he is wanting to haul 2200 lbs. Am I the only one that knows about these payload stickers, even cars have them? His doctor friend later on borrowed his trailer and promptly got a flat tire.