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[bcp]

Getting ready to carry their skis.

Bruce

 

[WinterDeere]

Who puts roof racks on a quarter million dollar Lamborghini?

You've heard of "F-you money", referring to someone who is wealthy enough to be able to afford to screw you with it. Well, beyond that, there's "F-me money". That's the guy so wealthy, that they afford to screw themselves, just to make a point.

I remember one vacation island home we rented a few years back, a $3M house in a nice neighborhood, was next to a family who owned several supercars. The mere fact that one of the sons owned a $250k Lamborghini wasn't nearly as impressive as the fact that he was apparently so wealthy that he didn't mind leaving it out in a severe hail storm. That's "F-me" money.

I wouldn't even take any nice car to this island, everything gets salty and crusty very quickly there, especially anything aluminum. But I grew up cash-poor, and probably value "things" too much.

 

[Rockbadchild]

well ... I actually respect more the guys that use their car as truck then guys that use their truck as cars

 

[fatjay]

You're forgetting a noteable lotus with a sleeping quarters.

 

[WinterDeere]

well ... I actually respect more the guys that use their car as truck then guys that use their truck as cars

I just don't understand the guy who can afford a $200k car, but can't afford a $50k truck to park next to the thing, for those occasions when they need to haul a canoe.

<-- has a truck and car, budgeted appropriately

 

[Rockbadchild]

I just don't understand the guy who can afford a $200k car, but can't afford a $50k truck to park next to the thing, for those occasions when they need to haul a canoe.

<-- has a truck and car, budgeted appropriately

Some folk don't have the parking, a sport car is their dream and they live the down town city life, needing to escape a few times a year. Lots of these people rather project wealth then having it .. poor decision yes... Plus in most of these cars you can't fit a suitcase in them so roof cargo is the only way to go on a vacation with it.

 

[Renze]

A bit of a stretch, but snapped this on my way to work today. Technically not hauling anything,but prepared to.

Who puts roof racks on a quarter million dollar Lamborghini?

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Youre going to love this 20 year old TV ad from the Dutch national lottery:

Some old farmers living and working like its 1955 (milk cans arent used in 40 years) putting the milk cans in their little home made trailer with wooden boards, then kicking the cow dung off their boots before taking off with a Ferrari to haul the milk of at most 6 cows to the milk processing plant...

It isnt historically accurate because in the era of milk cans, the milk hauler came with a tractor drawn wagon to pick up the milk cans and haul them to the factory, the farmers didnt bring them on their own. When i was a kid, farmers had to make the choice: stop milking, or invest in a cooled milk tank because factories didnt accept unrefrigerated milk anymore.

Here is actual footage of the very last milk cans delivered to the Heino Krause milk factory here in the Heino village where i live next to. Judging by the cars and tractors this must have been very early 80s

 

[LouNY]

We switched from cans to a bulk tank in the late 50's. I can still recall the milk hauler that came and got the cans. He would bend over to reach down in the water bank can cooler grab two cans one in each hand stand up with them rotate them to lay on his back and shoulder walk to the truck and set those two cans on the bed, then repeat several times. All day long, I'm just glad we went to the bulk tank before I would have been expected to handle many cans every day.
All I had to do was carry buckets of milk from the stable to the milk house step up on to the 2 high stack of cement blocks to reach and pour the milk into the old strainer in the top cover of the tank. We never did go to a dumping station or a pipeline. Double 6 herringbone parlour in the mid 60's what a step up.

 

[Renze]

We switched from cans to a bulk tank in the late 50's.

I saw a can with the year 1982 or 84 stamped in it in that video. I was born in 83 but i have one vague memory of a milk can hauler (they all did it by tractor back then, so they could exit the tarpaulin cab from behind and walk over the drawbar to the wagon)

I can still recall the milk hauler that came and got the cans. He would bend over to reach down in the water bank can cooler...

So they put the cans in cold water on the truck, or at the farm ? I remember my father telling they put the cans on a rope in the water pit on sunday when the hauler didnt come.

All day long, I'm just glad we went to the bulk tank before I would have been expected to handle many cans every day.

Watching that Heino Krause video, thought oh my!, there was a guy whose job was "milk can tipper" at the factory... Back then, everybody had a job. Nowadays lots of challenged people end up in the social system because they cant find a job in this knowledge driven economy...

Double 6 herringbone parlour in the mid 60's what a step up.

Here, from the early 70s onwards, there were subsidies on freestalls and milking parlours, instead of the traditional stalls with a one foot deep muck gutter behind the cows. Halfway the 80s we got a milk quotum because farms were producing more than the market could bear.
In my area with lots of small fields separated by fencerows, the scale increase lagged 10 years behind other provinces with large open spaces, and probably too on replacing the milk can with the bulk tank... I havent asked any oldtimers from Friesland so i dont really know..

 

[LouNY]

In my area the ending of the cans for milk pickup was the end of the 5-20 cow dairy's. They couldn't afford to upgrade and couldn't ship cans so shuttered the doors. This area was mostly small fields 3-8 acres with stone walls and hedge rows between every field. In the 60's with bigger and more powerful equipment many people would start burying many of the old stonewalls and making one field out of 2-6 old ones. Unfortunately often times they didn't bury them deep enough and now many of them are visible in the fields and cause some issues with equipment. Much of this ground is hills and very rocky fields makes for fun work at times.