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PostPosted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 3:01 pm    Post subject: Members' Vanagons Doing Honest Labor Thread. Reply with quote

I love seeing photos of Vanagons around the world in beautiful places, climbing mountains, running through mud, camping, in pieces in garages, etc. but I haven't seen a whole lot of mundane photos of Samba members' Vanagons doing thankless jobs like mine did today, hauling crap from the cleaning out of our basement for a remodel.

So, compliments of my foggy cellphone camera....

Here we are at the landfill. You can see the majestic Rocky Mountains in the background. The guy next to me saw me taking photos and said, "uh, what are you doing?"

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Another landfill shot. My right rear wheel looks horribly cambered out:

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Full of garbage:

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Unloading more crap at the storage unit:

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My back is killing me, but my basement is empty, they've started to frame it out, and I have an ice cold beer in hand. Happy Friday!
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 3:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

My van does no work. She is a queen like that.
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 3:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ha! It's funny you mention that. One of the contractor guys was walking through the garage and said, "you gonna put all that garbage in that cool van?"

I replied, "It ain't a show queen."
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 3:36 pm    Post subject: Re: Members' Vanagons Doing Honest Labor Thread. Reply with quote

Look, somebody threw out a perfectly good Westy! Sad


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PostPosted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 3:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

A standarvanagon with the bed holds plywood and other items sold in 4x8 sizes such as lattuce nicely Very Happy i has done it not only for us but for neighbors and when it was my mothers dd it was the dum van all the time.
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 3:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

There is a specific thread for this already!

Check "Vanagon in the wilderness" thread.

Mine does many of this things at the cottage. hauling wood. 2x4 etc.

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PostPosted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 3:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I don't have any pics, but I used to haul bales hay in it once in a while.
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 4:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Did you check your tires for nails yet? You might what to give the van a good wash, too. My work truck sees the dump up here in Fort Collins once a week and the truck is covered with these tiny specks that don't come off. I suspect it's something they spray on the ground. Denver might have thew same issue.
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 4:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Had to build a 6' tall - 22' long fence and managed to load all the materials (fence posts, fence boards, 10 - 60lbs. bags of concrete and some other odds and ends in the Westy. Good thing I've got lift springs and big brakes because with all that weight I was riding HEAVY and LOW.

Haven't taken her to the dumps yet, but I saw a couple unloading their Syncro the last time I hit the transfer station in NW Portland.
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 4:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I use mine for hay too...plus hauling sheep, and even used it once to haul a 12' farm gate! I wish I had a regular one so I wouldn't have to worry so much about all of the extra inside westy features.
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 4:58 pm    Post subject: Re: Members' Vanagons Doing Honest Labor Thread. Reply with quote

GWTWTLW wrote:
Look, somebody threw out a perfectly good Westy! Sad


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Dibs on the rear view side mirrors!
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 7:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Does winching trees out of the front yard count?

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PostPosted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 8:32 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

no pics,but I hauled 16 sheets (4x8 feet) of hardiplank siding,a bunch of 2x4's,2x6's,2x10's and few other odds and ends in one trip from HD. made several trips two years ago we did some remodeling on the old homestead. did a couple of other loads of 12 sheets of hardiplank and assorted materials.loaded 16 bags (50lbs each) of the 32 bags of concrete in it and decided it was better to rent a truck than make two trips in a way overloaded van.
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 10:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Don't have any pics from work, buy my westy has served as my work truck for the last year. I'm a carpenter, and I haul all my tools and misc. junk to and from the jobsite. Even a westy has a ton of interior space!!
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 03, 2010 8:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

My van routinely hauls a ton of music gear. Everything you see on the stage here came out of my van!
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 04, 2010 4:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

...and more honest labor...

Drove the wife, kids, and mother-in-law to some relatives' farm in Canon City on Saturday. Got 20 MPG but think I have a bad fuel gauge due to some screwy readings (I know there's a topic in here on this subject, I'll do a search) and fought some nasty winds on the way down. Also, my tires are now THUNDEROUSLY loud. I appreciate their toughness, but I must be getting old because I can't stand the constant noise they make on the highway.

My wife's uncle and his son-in-law loved the Vanagon. They said they knew where one exactly like mine is behind a barn near their place. I'm going back in three weeks and will report what I find.

They had plenty of beds in the house, but I decided to sleep in the top bunk. It was a little chilly and they all thought I was crazy, but I slept like a rock.

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"get metaphysical with it. if it's simply a means to get to and from places, it will let you down. if it becomes your zen, it can't fail you." -dabaron

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PostPosted: Sun Apr 04, 2010 5:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You guys shouldn't be getting your Vanagon all dirty haulin' stuff...

You should use a Jetta. Laughing

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You can read the full story here: http://www.swapmeetdave.com/Humor/Workshop/Overload.htm
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 05, 2010 7:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

All of this...
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came out of this...
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Don't mind the rust -- hehe -- it's better now.

A different Westy, hauling a culvert for my new driveway:
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Despite my precaution, I lost the passenger side mirror rolling the culvert off the top Rolling Eyes

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PostPosted: Mon Apr 05, 2010 10:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hard labor... pulled 10,000lb tow truck last Saturday
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 12, 2011 5:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Girl Scout cookie transport.

At stop lights, I thought I was going to get carjacked. I should have used a Brinks truck instead.

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'04 GTI 1.8T
'04 Golf R32

"get metaphysical with it. if it's simply a means to get to and from places, it will let you down. if it becomes your zen, it can't fail you." -dabaron

"Still, it's good to be afield."--VWagabond

Available Now! Vanagon to Louisiana--A Two-Lane Reckoning Through Past and Present

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