fearofpavement
Trying them all
Ya ever have one of those days where when you get to the end of the day you realized that if you had just stayed in bed all day you would be farther ahead? Well that was my day.
I was looking for a siding brake and found one in a town about 45 miles away. It was a 12+ foot one which is what I'd like. So I had a hard time getting ahold of the guy but we finally connected and I gathered up a list of stuff that I would need to transport it home if I bought it, scraped up the $800 he was asking, talked Groundie into going on the adventure and we set out. About 3 miles from home, the van quit. Just stopped running while driving 55 down the road like the key had been shut off. I coasted for a while looking for a place to get off the road and pulled into a driveway. Put some fuel in the tank since the gauge isn't reliable but we should have had enough. Engine cranks but no start. So we start walking for home in the 90 degree heat. Eventually a car turns around and picks us up and takes us the remaining two miles to our house. I have a flatbed equipment trailer that I haul vehicles on. It was full of logs. I have another trailer that had the Bobcat on it because it blew a hydraulic hose. I got the Bobcat unloaded, had to gather all the stuff to winch a dead van onto the too narrow trailer and headed back to the van. I hooked up the OBD II reader to see if it was maybe something simple but it just kept saying "link failure". So we loaded the van which was a pain. Took it home. Got out a different vehicle, hooked a trailer to it and drove to the site of the brake and it was junk. (cracks, abuse, missing parts, etc. Pretty disappointing.) Went back home and unhooked the trailer. Day used up.
However, the guy with the junk brake gave me some junk saws so it wasn't ALL bad.
I was looking for a siding brake and found one in a town about 45 miles away. It was a 12+ foot one which is what I'd like. So I had a hard time getting ahold of the guy but we finally connected and I gathered up a list of stuff that I would need to transport it home if I bought it, scraped up the $800 he was asking, talked Groundie into going on the adventure and we set out. About 3 miles from home, the van quit. Just stopped running while driving 55 down the road like the key had been shut off. I coasted for a while looking for a place to get off the road and pulled into a driveway. Put some fuel in the tank since the gauge isn't reliable but we should have had enough. Engine cranks but no start. So we start walking for home in the 90 degree heat. Eventually a car turns around and picks us up and takes us the remaining two miles to our house. I have a flatbed equipment trailer that I haul vehicles on. It was full of logs. I have another trailer that had the Bobcat on it because it blew a hydraulic hose. I got the Bobcat unloaded, had to gather all the stuff to winch a dead van onto the too narrow trailer and headed back to the van. I hooked up the OBD II reader to see if it was maybe something simple but it just kept saying "link failure". So we loaded the van which was a pain. Took it home. Got out a different vehicle, hooked a trailer to it and drove to the site of the brake and it was junk. (cracks, abuse, missing parts, etc. Pretty disappointing.) Went back home and unhooked the trailer. Day used up.
However, the guy with the junk brake gave me some junk saws so it wasn't ALL bad.
