I hate traffic jams. But sometimes there are things to look at. Yes, the babe's in other cars are sometimes worthwhile. But today in the linear parking lot there were two trucks. Big flatbeds with aluminum bars. Not the dinky little things you sometimes see chained down, but two trucks with big bars. They seemed to be 2'x 2' x 15 or 20'. No, I'm not sure they were aluminum, but its the only white metal I'm familiar with other than silver. I have no idea how much they weighed, but both trucks took the curb lane and were crawling up the hill.

I'm not smart enough to figure out how to steal one and put it in my garage, or what to do with it if I could.

I like trying to entertain and lighten the mood of other drivers. I've been known to use a 4" strap to affix a toy truck to the middle of my flatbed (aka skateboard).

And yeah, flatbed weights can be very deceiving. I creep my fair share of hills.

This is just over 48,000 pounds of rebar.




and about the same of lally columns

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Originally posted by MooneyP226:
I've been known to use a 4" strap to affix a toy truck to the middle of my flatbed

I won't lie: I get a kick out of seeing a Tonka Mighty Dump strapped onto a flatbed.

I've seen it a few times... maybe it's more common than I thought.

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Originally posted by rburg:
I hate traffic jams. But sometimes there are things to look at. Yes, the babe's in other cars are sometimes worthwhile. But today in the linear parking lot there were two trucks. Big flatbeds with aluminum bars. Not the dinky little things you sometimes see chained down, but two trucks with big bars. They seemed to be 2'x 2' x 15 or 20'. No, I'm not sure they were aluminum, but its the only white metal I'm familiar with other than silver. I have no idea how much they weighed, but both trucks took the curb lane and were crawling up the hill.

I'm not smart enough to figure out how to steal one and put it in my garage, or what to do with it if I could.

Those huge bars and ingots come out of Alcoa/Novellis in Berea, Kentucky. I hauled many loads of crushed cans, in bales to the plant. I've seen many a ingot 2 × 8 × 20 foot, 1 to a trailer, come out of there. They got bales stacked over 30 feet high and it looks like walls of aluminum.

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Originally posted by MooneyP226:
I like trying to entertain and lighten the mood of other drivers. I've been known to use a 4" strap to affix a toy truck to the middle of my flatbed (aka skateboard).

And yeah, flatbed weights can be very deceiving. I creep my fair share of hills.

This is just over 48,000 pounds of rebar.




and about the same of lally columns

Nucor bar mill mooney?

Saw a funny on a pickup today I passed today on the highway. On the back window behind the driver was a bumper sticker reading "Kick brass" with a silhouette of an M4. On the side window behind the driver the sticker read:

"Notice: Remove ski mask and clear all weapons before entering the vehicle."

The young woman driving it was probably in her mid-thirties.

I got passed by the Oscar Meyer Weiner mobile a couple weeks back. Seen it many years back and never saw it has dual wheels in the back. Its a pretty fast moving hot dog.

I was over in East Alton the other day where Olin Brass is located. They had a few trucks meandering down the road with coiled brass or copper on them. Several axles on the trailers.

I pulled up next to one at a stop light and asked him what the coils weighed. He said roughly 20,000 pounds each, and there were probably 5 or 6 on each truck.

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Originally posted by David Lee:
I got passed by the Oscar Meyer Weiner mobile a couple weeks back. Seen it many years back and never saw it has dual wheels in the back. Its a pretty fast moving hot dog.

I saw one last year. I wanted to stop it just to call out "I'm stopping the Oscar Meyer Weiner mobile" over the radio. But I didn't have the opportunity.

Somewhere on the interwebz there is still a picture of me stopping a Krispy Kreme truck back in 08 or 09

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Originally posted by chongosuerte:

Somewhere on the interwebz there is still a picture of me stopping a Krispy Kreme truck back in 08 or 09

Okay, which picture is of you? LOL
https://encrypted.google.com/s...INg&biw=1280&bih=657

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Originally posted by bald1:

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Originally posted by chongosuerte:

Somewhere on the interwebz there is still a picture of me stopping a Krispy Kreme truck back in 08 or 09

Okay, which picture is of you? LOL
https://encrypted.google.com/s...INg&biw=1280&bih=657

The funnier part is that dispatch sent 'backup' to only take a picture, then he got in his car and left. Oh, go about halfway down its the night stop that says vwpd on the screen

I have a picture of my wife and I posing with the Oscar Meyer Weiner Mobile. There's about six of them. I used to work for Oscar Meyer.

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Originally posted by chongosuerte:
Somewhere on the interwebz there is still a picture of me stopping a Krispy Kreme truck back in 08 or 09

LOL

Back in the late '70s when I was an MP at Ft Bragg, pulling over the KK truck was a regular occurrence. They'd be coming onto post at 0430, delivering
to mess halls, and would regularly be exceeding the limit by 25-30 mph.

I have seen all kinds of interesting things on flatbeds. Tanks. Bradleys. Strykers. All manner of military gear. Aircraft. Huge industrial equipment. Explosives. Even casks of radioactive material. I always laugh when I see a truck with other trucks behind it in a strange conga line.

But the really memorable loads are the ones that scared me half to death. One in particular stands out, even after 25 years. One morning before rush hour turned the DC Beltway into a parking lot there was an 18-wheeler with ton containers of chlorine gas being driven well in excess of the speed limit (75 in 55) by a driver who had decided weaving in and out of traffic in a fully loaded rig with a dangerous cargo was a wise idea. It so shocked me I called it in to the MSP. There were no reports of a major disaster involving chlorine that day, so I guess he got to his destination.

The wife and I were behind a Prius the other day. The bumper sticker had a rifle on it and said "You can give peace a chance, I'll cover you just in case it doesn't work out".


It was funny enough, especially on a Prius, that I looked it up and asked for the T shirt for Fathers Day.

My brother is down in FL working on his house and got stuck as tractors with 3 separate 80' concrete girders pulled onto the road in front of him. Said they were very cool to look at when he finally passed them. Must have been headed for a bridge project.

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and about the same of lally columns

On them second floor lintels between the lally columns, do you want we should rabbet them or not?

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Originally posted by chongosuerte:

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Originally posted by David Lee:
I got passed by the Oscar Meyer Weiner mobile a couple weeks back. Seen it many years back and never saw it has dual wheels in the back. Its a pretty fast moving hot dog.

I saw one last year. I wanted to stop it just to call out "I'm stopping the Oscar Meyer Weiner mobile" over the radio. But I didn't have the opportunity.

Somewhere on the interwebz there is still a picture of me stopping a Krispy Kreme truck back in 08 or 09

I remember those pics chongo. That's some funny stuff there.

we see these blades on a regular basis, they mak'em just west of here , on I-80

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Originally posted by vthoky:

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Originally posted by MooneyP226:
I've been known to use a 4" strap to affix a toy truck to the middle of my flatbed

I won't lie: I get a kick out of seeing a Tonka Mighty Dump strapped onto a flatbed.

I've seen it a few times... maybe it's more common than I thought.

I've always wondered about that. Do you just haul the toy around all the time in the tractor while hauling a load?