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[room onthebroom]

Yes ma'am ive been doing that for years now . Except we drive too much and they only last about 3 months new ones last about a year. We have put about 75k miles on the vehicles each year. The current new ones came from my uncle as he traded in his old truck w my old tires n gave me the new ones he had jus bought or else there would be two old and two used new.

75k a year? Where the heck do you guys go?

 

[bobbi-j]

Several years ago, the road just past our driveway was all torn up. They were rebuilding it so the blacktop was removed, and it was a wet year, so it was soupy. There was a Road Closed sign - right in the middle of the road - you couldn't miss it. Well, some yahoo decided to go around the sign and sunk his pickup. What did he do? He called his buddy. The second genius followed his buddy right into the muck! So they walked over here, and asked DH if he'd pull them out with a tractor. We had enough chains, so DH told them he would. Then he named his price and told them he'd pull them out after they paid him. They thought that he was asking too much, so he said, "Go ahead and call the wrecker. It's going to cost you at least twice that." and started to walk away. Suddenly they thought that he was being reasonable. He made them wade out into the muck and hook up their trucks. A few days later, another car tried it. He was wearing shorts and barefoot, wading through the sludge halfway up to his knees, coming to ask DH to pull him out. Let's just say that the soupy road was a good source of entertainment and income for DH for a couple of days

Speaking of wreckers, the young man DH hired to combine his beans last week (because that combine has rear-wheel assist and can go through more mud than ours can) decided that instead of turining around in the bean field and driving to the approach when he got done that night, that it would be faster to just back up and turn around. Well, it's never a good idea to back up on land you're unfamiliar with. Especially in the dark in a wet year. He backed right into a slough. Had to call the wrecker to come pull the combine out. The nearest wrecker is 25 miles away. I heard rumors that it costs about $1000 to get the wrecker to come pull out your combine.

 

[pennyJo1960]

but Priceless to you I bet

 

[kwhites634]

I used to buy used tires... They cant sell them with out x amount of tred. about 1/3d price... Good for a year at least.

deb

I did, too, for a while.

 

[mixedUPturk]

75k a year? Where the heck do you guys go?

Everywhere

Baton Rouge is about 20 miles away DH works there. The flooded property were rebuilding is 30 miles from here. My family is about 100 miles away. The step childrens mothers are about 50 miles away. Its not unusual at all for me and all three toddlers to spend 3 hours in one day running around in my truck. Really it must be at least once a week.

 

[orrpeople]

Hey all from "it's windy, let's shut off your power" California.
Taught in the dark 3 days this week. Thankfully power came back on just in time for the hyperactivity that is Halloween and the day after. Sheesh.

 

[orrpeople]

And I got Mom all safely installed in my brother's home in Texas. Fairly uneventful trip.

 

[pennyJo1960]

that can be stressful for all involved went through it with Ma a bit there she would be here then wanted my Brother then she would Say I want to be with Jo and here we go again

 

[chickisoup]

morning ponders

The idiots that scare me are the, “I have 4 wheel drive so I can go fast on the ice roads” idiots. They apparently don’t think about, “What if I need to stop in as short a distance as possible?”
We also get our own special kind of “Citiots” out here during hunting season.

yep, we get a lot of those up here too. they're brains just don't get it's not the "going" that's the problem, it's the stopping.
Hunting season? If t snows, we just stay home and watch our local news for the body counts. Those usually come in the citiot once a year warrior vs. loaded logging truck. Those are never pretty.

Okay I admit use to drive out after the first snow of the year just to see the idiots with 4 wheel drives in the ditch and laugh at them

Our favorite is to wave at the potato farmer getting paid to pull out of the field the guy in his giant fancy 4/4 truck (that probably never even saw a dirt road) after same guy had thought it was a great idea to just "punch it" to get around the farmer and then proceeds to sink to it's axles same fancy truck because he thought punching it again would get him out.

The neighbor who plows my drive and most of the neighborhood likes to drive by on his tractor and wave to them. After all the drives are plowed, he will go back and pull them out.

Everywhere

Yep. same here. 5 hour drive time round trip just to go to my oncologist. We do our best to combine errands to limit the trips as best we can or would never get anything done at home.

Hey all from "it's windy, let's shut off your power" California.
Taught in the dark 3 days this week. Thankfully power came back on just in time for the hyperactivity that is Halloween and the day after. Sheesh.

Hi Orr!!! you've been in my thoughts (and prayers) all week! Glad to hear you and yours are safe. Sorry for the power thing tho. That's always a bundle of fun.

 

[sourland]

Good morning Pond Playfuls. @orrpeople good on your Mom - not good on the outages and fires.