Sometimes driving a pickup back and forth pays off.
About a mile from work I was going over a bridge over the Rail Yard and here sits one of those electric propane heater things laying on the side of the road. I slammed on the brakes, hit the turn signal then fucked up traffic in the right lane backing up in the road to get to it.
It got pretty beat up but I snagged it anyway. The thing still has the stickers on it
Then I stopped at Horror Fright to snag a couple items that were on sale because the last time they were on sale they sold out before I got down there.
Then about a mile from the house, after sitting in a double turn lane to get off the main drag, all of a sudden there are brake lights and people swerving all over in front of me as I am trying to turn.
Bigger than shit there is a damn PALLET JACK sitting next to the curb sticking out in the road!
Once again, slam on the brakes, turn on the turn signal and jump out.
I looked around but I didn’t see anyone looking like they were coming back for it.
Thankfully there was only one guy behind me and he went around. It damn near kilt me getting the damn thing in the back of the truck but after a brief wrestling match, the tailgate went up and off I went.
Of course when I pulled up to the house, The Wifely Unit was sitting out front having a smoke and before I could say a damn word she cut me off with,
“Now What The Hell Did You Drag Home?!”
Oh yeah, she most definitely doesn’t share my enthusiasm for scoring on Free Shit.
“What Are You Going To Do With That?”
“You Have To Stop That!”
” You Are Getting Too Old For That And You Have Too Much Shit Already”
“You Need To Start Getting Rid Of Some Of This Shit!”
I just laughed and told her that she knows how I am and went right in the house,
Like I’m going to pass up a $500 Pallet Jack for free?
Not fucking likely.
Even if I don’t have an immediate need for it.
In the mean time I’m gonna go hide out in the garage for a while.
I ain’t completely stupid.
Score!
At least with that new heater you can sleep out in the garage if it comes to that. đ
Phil, you sure it wasnât the local physiotherapist or a chiropractor that left you that heavy Crown pallet jack to find? Theyâll make their money back the first month! Youâd better stock up on your Ibuprofen.
shoot son, that there’s even better than “midnight auto supply”!!!!
âBut, sweetheart, babycakes, dollfaceâŚ.. I can use that pallet jack to move stuff so I can âget rid of itâ and that heater will double as a shrinkwrap heat gun when I wrap it all up nice & tidy! You KNOW how heavy some of that isâŚya wouldnât want me to hurt myself tryinâ to move it, would ya? â
LOL!
So that is what you are gonna put me to work when I come up on the 3rd? Sure, I can drive a pallet jack… The heater, is it electric or propane/kerosene?
Propane with an electric fan.
It got beat to shit and the cord got cut off. There’s no hose or regulator either.
It’s gonna take more time than you are going to have.
The pallet jack however…..
Odds are the electric fan motor’s bad… but, that won’t slow you down, will it?
At precision hydraulics I worked on jacks. Crown are extremely well made. They last forever and can lift like 5,000lbs. Several hundred dollars for a used one. There’s a trick to loading one into truck alone and not pinch fingers. Roll even with tail gate. Stand between forks and lift the front onto bed. Walk behind it and lift handle end up until you can roll it in.
That’s how I did it but it rolled backwards on the front rollers the first try and got all Katywampus so I had to do it again.
Still a heavy bastard for a skinny old fart like me.
I must say that I am impressed that you were able to get that pallet jack into the bed of your truck by yourself.
I’m stubborn.
hey you can lift the wifey unit’s sister’s car with that thing; next time you get called at 3:30 on a friday that she needs her tires changed
Kudos Phil! Nice finds!
I never find cool shit like that.
Especially all in one day.
Leigh
Whitehall, NY
If the jack works and you don’t need it, there’s an easy 300 bucks on Craigslist or Fakebook marketplace. If no workee likely a cheap set of seals to rebuild it.
As to the heater, likely bounced off a tradesman’s truck or motor is shot.
Keep us updated. đ
Those damn pallet jacks ain’t no joke. I had to pull one off of a semi by myself a couple of weeks ago because of some of the lazy fucks I work with.
Shoulda let him drive off with it just to piss off the owner.
I loaded two scrap pallet jacks into my truck. I couldn’t do it alone. I’m not arm wrasslin’ with you…. ever….
Years ago, I found a Graco Presidntial pnuematic powered airless paint rig in middle of road. Type that clamps to 5 gal. bucket. Worked great.
At eighteen, I worked in a large auto parts, tires, batteries, acid (!) warehouse, for a year.
NO loading dock. No forklift. No pallet jack.
After a year, I could climb the rope at my old high school. Without my feet.
Signed, glass half full
Bravo on your new finds. My wife and I are the exact opposite, as I grew up with hand-me-downs for which I was expected to be Properly Grateful, and she didn’t. Example…
Friend/relative: Would you like (random piece of shit we don’t need/ can’t use/don’t have space to store.)
Me: No, thanks.
Wife: Sure, we’ll take it.
Lather, rinse, repeat.
The last 2 times she did that, (random piece of shit we don’t need/ can’t use/don’t have space to store) ended up in the bedroom on her side.
Funny, my wife says the same things that your wife says. And I listen about as well as you do.
SCORE, I got a mr heater buddy looks exactly like that but no pallet jack. I expect the garage will be pallitized now
Lotsa pallet stacks with the word “FREE” in your neck of the woods, Phil?