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Fri Apr 13, 2012 7:07 pm

Found on the interweb.

Fri Apr 13, 2012 7:34 pm

Those dudes are buffed, that's gotta be how the pachyderm was loaded... not with tranquilizers, but into the bed. :lol:

Cool pic Mr. Cool.

Fri Apr 13, 2012 10:13 pm

Small load, same 36 Okrassa clone as ran at 36hp land speed challenge. Today wife went and picked up furniture with it. Daily driver shop truck, work and race

Sat Apr 14, 2012 7:32 am

splitpile wrote: Daily driver shop truck, work and race

Is that the SC that got hit-and-ranned?

Sat Apr 14, 2012 9:35 am

BarryL wrote: splitpile wrote: Daily driver shop truck, work and race

Is that the SC that got hit-and-ranned?

No it was my 60 swivel seat kombi that got hit ranned
before

after

Tue Apr 17, 2012 6:53 pm

Not sure exactly how much weight this was, but I can tell you it was a lot!

Fri Apr 20, 2012 2:41 pm

So, this is not a huge load but it is 3/4 ton of firewood and furniture. A 4000 lb bus drives differently than an empty one, especially on corners. My impression as I started the trip was that it understeers big time. Braking takes longer too. We took the load up a rainy two-lane road to a cottage and dropped it off. An hour into the drive, the extra weight seemed normal. Depends what you are used to, I guess. Probably some Westies have that weight on all the time.

Three more loads to go before we empty his garage of 25 year old firewood.

Don

Fri Apr 20, 2012 8:54 pm

joescoolcustoms wrote:

Found on the interweb.
funny how the elephant's trunk is poking into the truck through the safari window.

Sat Apr 21, 2012 6:44 am

Clara wrote: ...poking into the truck...

Saw that and figured it was how she stabilized her(him)self. The 'phant's got to be top heavy on even the slightest turn.

Sat Apr 21, 2012 9:37 am

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Sat May 05, 2012 10:58 pm

Cool, when's delivery? Haha

Wed May 30, 2012 6:22 pm

Brought home a little bit of fire wood for our camp out we host at Mt. Baker today from my work.

Wed May 30, 2012 7:06 pm

How much weight is that?

I feel like that would be safer under a raised set of hoops. ;)

Wed May 30, 2012 8:23 pm

That's firewood :shock: looks like some good lumber

Wed May 30, 2012 8:37 pm

This is what firewood looks like around here:

I dumped the wood out then hauled a heap of concrete 80 some odd miles to a friends.place. the last 20 miles was on a dirt road.

Wed May 30, 2012 10:05 pm

not much, but 6 drunks rolling around on the air mattress in the back of my panel was pretty amusing

Mon Nov 26, 2012 2:03 am

My son helped me out when they 'felled' a tree across the street earlier in the month... all this wood was wet, and very heavy... but I finally had an oportunity to drive my Westy. It's been a minute since I've been able to do so, but I have posted more pictures in my Gallery. :wink:

Shit happens.

Mon Nov 26, 2012 6:44 am

'Tis the season...

Those were years past, hasn't been cold enough to feel like wood cutting time yet this year. :cry:

Mon Nov 26, 2012 10:46 am

No photos, but I used to fill my 65 bus up to the ceiling with craft stuff, wooden beads, macrame rope, etc, etc. and haul it from L.A. to the Saugus Swap meet twice every weekend for 3 years. Circa 1979-1981.