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Kinda like this. This is not me, just a video I happened to see. I don't know how to share the whole video but it was just backing in here, entirely a coincidence that we were just talking about backing into a tight spot I'm sure.

You should be good for 3 days. If not, let us know and I'll head that way with my shovel.

Yeah, there's that. It's very hard to see behind you. One place we went to in Greenville, S.C. had a very tight door you had to back into. It's hard to back into the dark out of the bright sunlight anyway and the Conestoga made it that much harder. The hole was barely wider than the trailer to start with, with the wall on the right side and the dock on the left. They drove the forklift on the dock right up to the side of the trailer to unload the material.

If you wait long enough you can come get it with a tanker. The down side of that is that it'll be much harder to put together.

I got to pull a Conestoga once in a while. This is bags of sand going to US Pipe in Lynchburg. Steel going to N.B. Handy in Davenport, Florida. I always put at least one chain, usually two, on these stacks of sheets, plus belly straps. Most of the other guys threw 2 straps across the top and called it a day. This is one of my favorite pictures. Zina took it from her car, we were on the bridge on 295 in Jacksonville, FL.

I've folded tarps and they had a little bit of snow in them, and unfolded them weeks later and the snow would still be there, hadn't melted even when it had been above freezing for days.

Load of steel I took to Bristol, TN. one time. Picked it up in Richmond and accumulated this much ice along the way. Load of lumber, I had 4 straps on each stack, and a belly strap on the highest stack. Load of beams I took to sunny Florida. I had a chain looped around the top stack in front that went in front of the bottom stack, and an extra chain or two on the bottom stack. I've seen more pictures and videos of trucks that had beams or pipe go through the cab in the last 10 years or so than I did the whole time I was driving, 42+ years. And the one thing that every single one had in common was that the beams were strapped, no chains. I think now the thought is "I'm not going to chain this, I ain't got time. I'll throw a few straps across it and ride". Like this one, not a chain to be seen, only broken straps. As soon as the steel slides the straps are cut...

Yes, and when you could normally fold a tarp and it would fit in a tool box, when they were frozen you were lucky to get them the size of a Volkswagen when you folded them.

Aw shucks, it's just thrown in a pile, but thank you. I could have made a wall or something, but I wasn't thinking about that at the time. I think Joey is going to come pick it up today or tomorrow anyway. Too bad he couldn't get up here yesterday, the neighbor had somebody with a bobcat clearing his driveway, he could have loaded it easily.

That's the beauty of this unassembled igloo, there are many options as to the final configuration. You can build it like you want it!

There is an update on the lumber truck, they say a car did indeed pull in front of the truck and cause the accident. The driver put it in the ditch rather than hit the car. But- I always secured every load like I was expecting that to happen, not like "well, it could possibly happen but it probably won't".

I used Bell helmets. The last bike I had was an LTD1000 Kawasaki. I sold it and bought a pickup truck, mainly because my wife wanted me to get rid of it, but I did need a pickup. I let the full face Bell helmet go with it and the guy that bought the bike only had it a week or 2 and wrecked it. Not his fault, a 4 wheeler made that left turn in front of him when he was coming from the opposite direction. The guy on the bike hit him right in the side. Put him in the hospital for weeks. My wife saw him somewhere after he got out of the hospital and he told her that the doctors told him that the fact that he had a good helmet was the only thing that saved his life.