I drove one of the pickup trucks with a trailer out to the coast of Virginia to pick up a stump grinder on Monday, stopping twice to catch about an hour nap on the seat of the truck, got the grinder and stayed at a cheap motel for the night. It had more bugs than Windows 98, but I slept good. Came back the same way, stopping once for a 3 hour nap while waiting out a snowstorm. Didn't work, as it was still snowing when I woke up, and I had to put up with those brine solution trucks covering everything with salt water. But got back around noon on Thursday with myself, the truck, the trailer and the stump grinder all in one piece. No flats or issues, so I'm thankful for that. Jet lag is killing me. Just gets harder every year to do that much driving. I had bought a new chipper the previous week, and today I already got requests from friends and relatives to grind stumps and chip branches. They looked at me like I was a rich uncle who just wrote them out of the will, when I mentioned that I do actually have to make that machinery pay for itself, and pay for the gas, oil, grease and maintenance costs that they incur. Oh, well... I'll give 'em a big discount, but I ain't Santa and I actually do have to make a living.
Cleaned up the truck today, and tomorrow I gotta do the trailer and the grinder. Covered in salt and road grime. I had the foresight last year to buy a small pressure washer, because they're good enough to do the job... better than a garden hose, anyway. Still going to take some degreaser and detergent to get this stuff clean. There's always the quarter car wash if the little pressure washer doesn't cut it.
Remember when you actually got like 4 minutes per quarter at those places? Takes 5 quarters, now, just to get it to come on. I think you get 2.5 minutes for each additional dollar's worth of quarters!
