Dave Parks
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I bought two pallets of the larger 9-1/2" x 15-1/2" foundation blocks for the partridge pens today and sure could of used your help in off-loading them :^).
The back of the 2/3 ton was a we bit over-loaded with 78 30# blocks per pallet. As soon as I saw the weight of the first pallet in the back of the truck, I told the guy that I would be back for the second one later. 2,340 pounds per pallet!
I had to quit un-loading them at noon because I had a realator here with a client. Just as well because when I went back down to off-load more it was 103 degrees and I said forget it until sundown.
It was a slow and careful drive home from town with this weight in the back of the truck. Here I have abot 1/3 of them off loaded.
When I went by the barn I saw the same buck laying down, here has been keeping cool in the barn for several days now. He is in velvet, but looks like he'll be a forked horn this Fall. He lays down behind teh building blocks that I got for the foundation of the brooder room I'm building in the barn. It's always cool in there and he likes it.
And yes, I'm jumping up onto the tail gate, stacking double rows of the blocks on it before jumping down and packing them over to where I'm stacking them on the ground. And yes I'm doing it with my toe taped up and in my best bird boots....that along with a couple of pain pills seems to be working :^) But that toe I broke two days ago is still "ugly" as you put it in your last email. Now maybe you see why the AMA (American Mountain Men) named me Manywounds 33 years ago:^)
Well, in another 3 hours I can go finish un-loading the truck so I can go back tomorrow and get another pallet full to un-load. This bird pen building sure is fun!
Dave
The back of the 2/3 ton was a we bit over-loaded with 78 30# blocks per pallet. As soon as I saw the weight of the first pallet in the back of the truck, I told the guy that I would be back for the second one later. 2,340 pounds per pallet!
I had to quit un-loading them at noon because I had a realator here with a client. Just as well because when I went back down to off-load more it was 103 degrees and I said forget it until sundown.
It was a slow and careful drive home from town with this weight in the back of the truck. Here I have abot 1/3 of them off loaded.
When I went by the barn I saw the same buck laying down, here has been keeping cool in the barn for several days now. He is in velvet, but looks like he'll be a forked horn this Fall. He lays down behind teh building blocks that I got for the foundation of the brooder room I'm building in the barn. It's always cool in there and he likes it.
And yes, I'm jumping up onto the tail gate, stacking double rows of the blocks on it before jumping down and packing them over to where I'm stacking them on the ground. And yes I'm doing it with my toe taped up and in my best bird boots....that along with a couple of pain pills seems to be working :^) But that toe I broke two days ago is still "ugly" as you put it in your last email. Now maybe you see why the AMA (American Mountain Men) named me Manywounds 33 years ago:^)
Well, in another 3 hours I can go finish un-loading the truck so I can go back tomorrow and get another pallet full to un-load. This bird pen building sure is fun!
Dave