dalmatiangirl61
Diamond
- Joined
- Jan 31, 2011
- Location
- BFE Nevada/San Marcos Tx
6am came early Friday morning, not too often I have to be up that early anymore. Pulled out of driveway at 7, set the cruise control on 70, and enjoyed a quart of coffee and great desert scenery for the next 4 hours. Machine was loaded and tied down by 1, just enough time to get out of sin city before the friday traffic madness. Trip home was 5 hours, same scenery in reverse with different lighting, rolled into driveway at 6pm, walked to pub and had a few, and I was done for the night.
Started to unload down by basement door, but with no help, weak parking brake on forklift, it just seemed too sketchy. Unloading in back parking lot was mostly uneventful, the next trick was getting down the driveway to basement door. Forklift is a well worn Clark, 5000lb cap, brakes are fine on level ground, barely adequate for just driving down driveway, not good enough for me to trust with 3000 maybe 4000 lbs strapped to mast.
Decided the way to do this was use the Toyota for braking, needed a driver for that so called neighbor over, I put truck in 4 low and instructed him to just put it in first and ride the brake to control speed. It all starts out well, notice I'm not needing to brake much, but whats that funny grinding sound? Look over shoulder and see neighbor has freaked, he disengaged the clutch and is standing on the brakes, all 4 wheels are locked and we are slowly going down driveway, it worked perfect.
Here is the ebay ad Thompson surface grinder | eBay
Here is a video someone shot of this machine a few years ago when it was running YouTube
And a few pics from today
Started to unload down by basement door, but with no help, weak parking brake on forklift, it just seemed too sketchy. Unloading in back parking lot was mostly uneventful, the next trick was getting down the driveway to basement door. Forklift is a well worn Clark, 5000lb cap, brakes are fine on level ground, barely adequate for just driving down driveway, not good enough for me to trust with 3000 maybe 4000 lbs strapped to mast.
Decided the way to do this was use the Toyota for braking, needed a driver for that so called neighbor over, I put truck in 4 low and instructed him to just put it in first and ride the brake to control speed. It all starts out well, notice I'm not needing to brake much, but whats that funny grinding sound? Look over shoulder and see neighbor has freaked, he disengaged the clutch and is standing on the brakes, all 4 wheels are locked and we are slowly going down driveway, it worked perfect.
Here is the ebay ad Thompson surface grinder | eBay
Here is a video someone shot of this machine a few years ago when it was running YouTube
And a few pics from today