Anybody here haul vehicles for a living?

When do you need it done by? I can do it and probably get them both in one load. It'll be 2 weeks before I can do it though.

25'+5' dovetail

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tknopp said:
Rural Retreat VA.
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That's just a few miles from where my family is from (Comers Rock & Independence)

I LOVE that area!! Had an opportunity to present to Wythe county school board to design a new middle school for Wytheville last fall. Made the trip and did the dog and pony show. I was the only presenter (5 different firms) that didn't say Wythe incorrectly :lol:

Still didn't get the job :kaioken: but drove back home on 21 and visited all the old home places. Made me wanna move back, but remembered there ain't :poop: for work in that area!

What kind of hussle did you score?
 
tknopp said:
Moving the shop is going to be challenging to say the least. Big stuff will have to go on trailers. I may pack a POD for the smaller stuff.
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My move was only 7 miles, but here is what I did for the shop:

Weeks before the move, I started packing stuff so that it could be moved by forks on the tractor -- into crates or onto pallets. I built a few wood crates, then found a place nearby that had used wood crates for ten bucks, that auto parts had shipped in from overseas. Put as much stuff as I could in them, trying to put like items together. Lighter miscellaneous stuff got put in big plastic totes and stacked in the corner. Just prior to loading on truck, I'd stack about 10 of them on a pallet and a band of shrink wrap plastic to hold them together. Most shop equipment got bolted or ratchet strapped to a pallet. I kept my eye out for a while for 1" ratchet straps on sale at NT, tractor supply, etc.

A month before the move, I rented at 48' dry van. $102 a month, plus $50 for each dropoff, pickup, or local move (mileage if not local). Used the tractor and a pallet jack to load everything up. 3 tool chests I was able to load full, but were right at the lift limits of the tractor.

Ended up keeping the rental trailer for a year. Kept everything out of the way while I work to finish the shop. A couple of months ago, I bought a conex box because I realized I had so much stuff/junk/parts that the shop would never be clean and organized if I tried to keep it all in the working space.

There are folks that will move a loaded conex...buy one, and have cheap storage once you get up there, and no rush to unload/set up shop. I could have saved a bunch of trailer rent if I'd done that.
 
CasterTroy said:
What kind of hussle did you score?
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No hustle. I retired last year and have wanted to move away from Charlotte and get up to the mountains. Could not find anything in NC so started looking across the line in VA. Way better deals on housing and land in SW Virginia.
 
tknopp said:
No hustle. I retired last year
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Dang! Very happy for you!!!

Marion has a great hospital. I only know this because I decided to do some pavement surfing with my TLR1000 there in shady valley. Went shin-first into a guardrail and it punctured my leathers and leg. Nurse Helga there in Marion took the wire brush to my leg and had me grimacing like I was giving birth.

Side note: related/unrelated, I'm sure you were aware of the study going on with retired Char/Meck police and heart attacks, so you know to keep SOME level of stress right?
 
tknopp said:
I didn't know about the study. Since I am loving life right now I guess they didn't want me in their study. I would probably scew their numbers. :)
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Strangely high number of officers dropping dead of a heart attack soon after retirement due to LACK of stress in their lives.
Seems odd, but hence the "study".

Mentioning it just in case. Cant be too careful!!
 
CasterTroy said:
Strangely high number of officers dropping dead of a heart attack soon after retirement due to LACK of stress in their lives.
Seems odd, but hence the "study".

Mentioning it just in case. Cant be too careful!!
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But Tom does not get stressed out... I've known him close to twenty years and he's the same guy day in and day out. Jeep upside down, yeah pull me over that'll be good! lol
 
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