I try to clean things up around the farm... my father in law & uncle in law (both now deceased) were not going to ever do it AND, frankly, they were too fragile to try.
Cutting some kudzo monster growth by the barn one day, I backed into something metallic.... looked around and viola, I found a small trailer!!!
Rusted to heck. We were going to take some things to the dump so thought I'd add it. pulled it across the farm to the house. My wife's uncle had his "farm truck" (the kind with grass growing on different parts of the hood)
Truck was fairly full. I wrapped a chain around the small trailer and using my backhoe, hoisted it to the top of the pile in the truck.
Turns out that trailer was MUCH MUCH heavier than anticipated.....as I lowered it into the truck, the side of the truck just creaked & groaned as it got bent outwards at about a 45 degree angle.
Oh, crap..... now what have I done? I'm going to have to buy a multi-hundred dollar truckbed for a truck that at BEST is worth $14.53 (thing really was beat to snot)
Went to Uncle in law to fess up, he said he couldn't care less....can I bend it back?
Took hoe and put bucket on outside of truckbed and pushed. Bent that sucker a slight bit past vertical.....and it sprung back into place.
Truck is still here on the farm. Now that you know the story, you wouldn't be able to see the damage!
Dodged one there.
Oh, and my brother in law came over with a heavy duty flatbed and we put this trailer on it. Turns out the trailer was home made or something.... and instead of just having a rod for an axle, they used an old truck axle for it (or something like that) it was built like a freaking tank.
