L8 APEX
11-05-2002, 12:42 AM
Are you the guy friends call because they know you will help? I got a call from a friend this afternoon, I was 5 minutes from the house after a Monday:hammer: He said his house was blocking the street and needed me to bring chains and a 4wd to move it:eek2: He bought a new "modular home" over a month ago and would pay penalties for not taking it away in 30 days. It has been raining ever since then. So he figures it will be dry enough to set it. The two big semi's delivered the two halves of the home. When it started to rain the drivers said it was too muddy and could not drive into the lot. So they dropped the halves of the house where they stood in the MIDDLE of the road! This is a rural road but still has local traffic. He called me and said there was a school bus that couldn't get around and a few old timers complaining already. Each half of the house weighs 26k lbs. We had a 4wd Case XLT570 tractor and a backhoe tractor. Neither would pick up the trailer tongue without popping a wheelie. We rigged up some redneck type shizznat and drug the front end with one tractor and pushed with the other. We managed to get them off to the side of the road enough for traffic to pass. So much for a Monday night at home, but I did get to tear up some Earth with heavy machinery:banana: