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[TMGT]

I deal with both almost every day, running a small manufacturing business from our rural residential / farm-zoned property. On the phone or web, Fed Ex is easier and more helpful, but employs drivers who are just absolutely terrible.

I've dealt with probably 20+ different UPS drivers in my working life, having always worked in manufacturing with lots of goods going in/out, and they've all been very professional and very good at their jobs. On the flip side, the Fed Ex drivers I have to deal with are almost consistently sloppy, disgruntled, and downright reckless drivers.

If I had a way to prevent vendors from using Fed Ex, I would, just to keep their drivers off our property and out of our neighborhood. Unfortunately, some vendors default to them, and so they're not entirely avoidable.

FedEx ground is contract drivers, usually lots of turnover. The quality of driver is typically based on how good the contractor is.

 

[California]

Yanmar was bugger to cross as well. The local Yanmar equipment dealer (Their tech) was able to give me the Napa numbers for those filters, and that's when I started saving the boxes since the yanmar number wouldn't cross.

With a couple of 45 year old Yanmar tractors that were sold here before Yanmar departed the US for a decade, information can be sparse. The 'new Yanmar' dealers don't have the old manuals or carry the parts.

Ebay listings can be a good place to learn what filter, starter, etc goes with what. In the extensive listings where some vendors list every model, or engine, that their part fits along with the Wix, Baldwin, or Deere equivalent.

But TBN's Yanmar (classic) forum is where the most accurate answers are found for this specialized topic.

 

[deezler]

THREAD DRIFT ALERT. No one really care about your amazon package delivery experiences, gents.

Quick, somebody post a towing fail.

Here's an idiot on the beach as a quick respite.

3.4M views · 18K reactions | Even left it in D when he got out #suburu #beach #beachlife #offroad | Matt Mckinzie

Even left it in D when he got out #suburu #beach #beachlife #offroad.

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[bcp]

THREAD DRIFT ALERT. No one really care about your amazon package delivery experiences, gents.

Quick, somebody post a towing fail.

Here's an idiot on the beach as a quick respite.

3.4M views · 18K reactions | Even left it in D when he got out #suburu #beach #beachlife #offroad | Matt Mckinzie

Even left it in D when he got out #suburu #beach #beachlife #offroad.

www.facebook.com

No rear wheel spinning?

Bruce

 

[deezler]

No rear wheel spinning?

Bruce

I guess it wasn't all wheel drive after all? Or maybe the passenger side rear tire is spinning that we cant see

 

[California]

That Subaru on the beach has to have transmission damage. They are all front wheel drive with transfer case clutches engaging instantly any time a front wheel's rpm differs from the the rear wheels.

And back to towing failures!

After a tree fell on this Trooper I bought a '99 Subaru Outback. I assumed the Outback could climb this rocky grade out of our mining claim pulling the little 4x4ft trailer, but no. Picking a line where it wouldn't bottom the $Thousand exhaust system, put it on rocks where one or more tires were hanging in air. No diff lock. I had to back down carefully and ask my buddy to tow the trailer out with his Jeep.

 

[ning]

Well no pic
but I have a story
A cautionary tale, some would say

I was pulling a flatbed earlier today, with a bunch of wood on it (consider it lumber, mostly)
Trailer popped off the ball, hit a small berm and dumped its load.
Snapped 3k straps like nothing, load all over.

Good: nobody hurt. Trailer 98% ok; needs a new trailer jack; the lumber stuff also 98% ok. Landed in bushes and soft dirt; I was probably going about 30mph at the time.
Bad: I'm a frikken idjit, like wtf. I can try to blame it on a lousy night's sleep, but the truth is I just completely skipped over the consideration that though it was a lightweight flatbed, it still had a 2 5/16" coupler, and I had a 2" ball on my truck from moving my small enclosed cargo trailer last time I used it (months ago). I just completely didn't consider ball size at all.

Starting to think I need a literal checklist for simple things....

 

[Jstpssng]

Well no pic
but I have a story
A cautionary tale, some would say

I was pulling a flatbed earlier today, with a bunch of wood on it (consider it lumber, mostly)
Trailer popped off the ball, hit a small berm and dumped its load.
Snapped 3k straps like nothing, load all over.

Good: nobody hurt. Trailer 98% ok; needs a new trailer jack; the lumber stuff also 98% ok. Landed in bushes and soft dirt; I was probably going about 30mph at the time.
Bad: I'm a frikken idjit, like wtf. I can try to blame it on a lousy night's sleep, but the truth is I just completely skipped over the consideration that though it was a lightweight flatbed, it still had a 2 5/16" coupler, and I had a 2" ball on my truck from moving my small enclosed cargo trailer last time I used it (months ago). I just completely didn't consider ball size at all.

Starting to think I need a literal checklist for simple things....

Don't expect to get the cherry for this one. I have seen people do it intentionally because they didn't have the proper ball. (Usually 1 7/8 ball with 2" hitch.)
One person I know of was cutting cedar, loading it onto his trailer and hauling it with a Toyota SR5. The load weighed more than the truck. When somebody offered to let him borrow the correct ball, he declined.

 

[Fallon]

The newer Fords do have a checklist built into the infotainment systems. It activates when you plug in a new trailer. I'm not sure if there is an option to check ball size though. I skipped over it the last few times, so checklists are only good if you use them.

 

[WM75Guy]

The newer Fords do have a checklist built into the infotainment systems. It activates when you plug in a new trailer. I'm not sure if there is an option to check ball size though. I skipped over it the last few times, so checklists are only good if you use them.

GM has the checklist for trailering as well. You can add custom items like check ball size. At first I was not using it and overlooked some things like putting in the lock pin on the bumper pull hitch. I now use it as well as chaining the pin to the tongue to remind me that it is there. It takes longer to do the pre-trip inspection but it is well worth it.