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• Helluva Day
• 'Nother Firestone (junk) Bites The Dust On A Ford
• Why Me?
So I've been workin' in Hopkins. Well I was there this morning (last day), and I was supposed to head up to Champlin for the next job, but I got diverted and had to go to a Target way the hell up in Buffalo MN instead
So I get up there... I know the 2 guys up there already runnin' this gig, good guys I s'pose, but the job itself is a MESS! Nothing's organized, 20 dudes and about 8 scissors lifts crammed in one smaller area goin' like hell tryin' to get their shit in as these F'n walls are goin' up already... one of those jobs
So getting past the long drive, and the jacked up job... I'm driving home at the end of the day, and I get maybe 5 miles down hwy 55 and I see this Excurison off to the side on the other side of the road w/a tire blown to shit, and a gal w/a spare tire out and no one else around and it looked like she was gonna try and tackle the job. I zip past... think for a sec... sigh... pullover, turn around and go back. I hop out, notice she has no clue what to do (she was just about to put the lug wrench onto the plastic center cap
)
I ask 'er if she's got someone on the way. She says "Yah, but he's way the hell across town"... Damn.
So I say "Well... I'll take a look here and see if I can help ya' out". She just got a bottle jack out, and I was leary right away, especially since I think a part was missing. But I gave it a shot. Well no matter what, that wasn't workin'. So... I busted out a crappy scissors jack out of the Cav. I was leary about this too, cuz I also think I'm missin' something for it, but I gave it a shot. After the truck almost fell off it (
) and bent it, I threw that to the grass.
Meanwhile... I'm layin' about 6 inches off of hwy 55 between Rockford & Buffalo, tryin' to get one of these POS jacks to work, and people are still just flyin' past us! All I can think of is all the vids I've see from squad cameras where people have gotten taken out on the side of a freeway, and also the poor kid that just bit it not long ago helpin' some lady in the same situation. I'm gettin' sand blasted as cars/trucks are whippin' by. I told the gal that I'd be right back, and that I was gonna go buy a better jack, cuz I always meant to anyways. So I whip back to Target and get the last AC Delco mini-jack they had left, and rush back.
I get back, and still can't get enough good ground to make this jack work. She was pulled over kinda far off the road (understandably so), so there wasn't much tar left to set shit on underneith. I'm still leary of this small jack on such a big truck.
I say to 'er "of course when you want a cop, one's not around". She tells me like 3 or 4 passed her and never stopped! Lovely.
• Helluva Day
• 'Nother Firestone (junk) Bites The Dust On A Ford
• Why Me?
So I've been workin' in Hopkins. Well I was there this morning (last day), and I was supposed to head up to Champlin for the next job, but I got diverted and had to go to a Target way the hell up in Buffalo MN instead
So I get up there... I know the 2 guys up there already runnin' this gig, good guys I s'pose, but the job itself is a MESS! Nothing's organized, 20 dudes and about 8 scissors lifts crammed in one smaller area goin' like hell tryin' to get their shit in as these F'n walls are goin' up already... one of those jobs
So getting past the long drive, and the jacked up job... I'm driving home at the end of the day, and I get maybe 5 miles down hwy 55 and I see this Excurison off to the side on the other side of the road w/a tire blown to shit, and a gal w/a spare tire out and no one else around and it looked like she was gonna try and tackle the job. I zip past... think for a sec... sigh... pullover, turn around and go back. I hop out, notice she has no clue what to do (she was just about to put the lug wrench onto the plastic center cap
)I ask 'er if she's got someone on the way. She says "Yah, but he's way the hell across town"... Damn.
So I say "Well... I'll take a look here and see if I can help ya' out". She just got a bottle jack out, and I was leary right away, especially since I think a part was missing. But I gave it a shot. Well no matter what, that wasn't workin'. So... I busted out a crappy scissors jack out of the Cav. I was leary about this too, cuz I also think I'm missin' something for it, but I gave it a shot. After the truck almost fell off it (
) and bent it, I threw that to the grass. Meanwhile... I'm layin' about 6 inches off of hwy 55 between Rockford & Buffalo, tryin' to get one of these POS jacks to work, and people are still just flyin' past us! All I can think of is all the vids I've see from squad cameras where people have gotten taken out on the side of a freeway, and also the poor kid that just bit it not long ago helpin' some lady in the same situation. I'm gettin' sand blasted as cars/trucks are whippin' by. I told the gal that I'd be right back, and that I was gonna go buy a better jack, cuz I always meant to anyways. So I whip back to Target and get the last AC Delco mini-jack they had left, and rush back.
I get back, and still can't get enough good ground to make this jack work. She was pulled over kinda far off the road (understandably so), so there wasn't much tar left to set shit on underneith. I'm still leary of this small jack on such a big truck.
I say to 'er "of course when you want a cop, one's not around". She tells me like 3 or 4 passed her and never stopped! Lovely.
I then say "yah I think you better put your cruiser behind us"! He readily agreed. 
Was She Hot?
Or at least a little :blow: Ohh and BTW, This is obvoiusly a little late, but on the Excursions, Ford and Firestone is recalling the Steeltex LT265/75/16 ROWL 8ply OE tire because of customer complaints. It seems that Ford (in their infinite wisdom), wanted to save $$ and only put an 8 ply tire on. Well, with the GVWR and towing tongue weight of the Excursion... you guessed it, exceeds the weight rating of the tire. 
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