Guido Salvage
Supreme Saw Whoreder
With the Poulan GTG next Saturday, I thought the time was appropriate to drag out some green saws and see if I could them running before the big event. Since it was a nice day, I was outside working in my driveway where the light is better. I was having difficulty getting a 3.7 to run and happened to look up to see one of my neighbors trying to back an 185 CFM air compressor into his driveway. As he attempted to make the turn it jackknifed, he pulled up and tried again, with the same result.
I live on a divided street with a median, a crossover is opposite my driveway. After his initial failure, he went down the street and did a U turn and crossed back over at my house. He tried again, with the same result. I hated to laugh at him, but it took away some of my frustration with the cantankerous saws. This process kept being repeated, he would jackknife or a car would come along forcing him to make another lap and try again.
After his 12th failure, I went out to the street and flagged him down as he was making the U turn by my house and asked if he needed help. He asked me if I could back a trailer and I responded in the affirmative. After washing the gas and oil off my hands so I would not damage his Lexus SUV, I walked down to his house and asked him where he wanted it parked. He told me "in the garage, the rental man told me it would be stolen if I left it outside." As it was a 2 car garage, I asked him which side. He seemed baffled that placing a trailer on one side or the other was even a possibility.
I took the rig around the block yet again to get the proper approach and cleanly backed it into one side of the garage. He and his wife were awestruck that the task could be that simple.
The end result was that I was able to help a neighbor and get three saws going for the GTG.
I live on a divided street with a median, a crossover is opposite my driveway. After his initial failure, he went down the street and did a U turn and crossed back over at my house. He tried again, with the same result. I hated to laugh at him, but it took away some of my frustration with the cantankerous saws. This process kept being repeated, he would jackknife or a car would come along forcing him to make another lap and try again.
After his 12th failure, I went out to the street and flagged him down as he was making the U turn by my house and asked if he needed help. He asked me if I could back a trailer and I responded in the affirmative. After washing the gas and oil off my hands so I would not damage his Lexus SUV, I walked down to his house and asked him where he wanted it parked. He told me "in the garage, the rental man told me it would be stolen if I left it outside." As it was a 2 car garage, I asked him which side. He seemed baffled that placing a trailer on one side or the other was even a possibility.
I took the rig around the block yet again to get the proper approach and cleanly backed it into one side of the garage. He and his wife were awestruck that the task could be that simple.
The end result was that I was able to help a neighbor and get three saws going for the GTG.
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