Be very cautious when messing with boomers, especially when a pipe is slid over the handle.

There is actually a device, available at many truck-stops, that is made for handling boomers.

It is a sort of a crow-bar looking gizmo that latches itself onto the boomer-handle, and is less apt to slip off.

Be aware of where your head and teeth are at, in relation to where the pipe is going to fly, when messing with boomers.

I have seen many bad face bashings caused by boomers.

Just recently, a guy was un-loading a load of logs at my mill.

He made the green-horns mistake of putting a pipe on the boomer to loosen it, instead of standing back and using the pipe to simply knock it loose.

When the boomer cammed over, under tremendous tension, he lost his grip on the pipe, it flew past his chin, taking an inch of hide as it went by, and went spinning into the sun, while we all watched it go tearing down through the tree-tops to land somewhere in my woods.

He was very fortunate that it didn't drive his nose-bone through his brain.

 

I've seen Bearkiller's rig and can honestly say that he is prepared for ANYTHING.

I have one question though. What, pray-tell, is "pickle-dog"? Is that the hotdogs in a jar of brine, or am I missing out on yet another southern culinary delight that I'm unaware?

Boatnik - I assume that these will mostly be short hauls within a couple hours of home right? I guess you already checked into the required liscense/permits/records/etc for commercial hauling?
And I been wondering, did you finally get your EGTs under control and if so, how?

 

And I thought you wuz a cuntry boy !!!


Genuine pickle-dog is that big snake-coiled stuff in a large-mouth two-gallon-sized glass jar full of vinegar, sitting on the counter of any country store worth it's name, right next to the big jar of pickled eggs.

A more portable substitute is the smaller quart-sized jar of "hot-dogs" in vinegar, usually also pretty spicy.

I think the proper medicinal name for the stuff is "pickled bologna".

 

The external antenna sure helped mine... and what ever works for you to keep your hands free to drive is what's important... learned that hauling two high dollar trnsfer mares thru Atlanta during rush hour, trying to figure out why the road mapquest showed didnt exist......of course, depends on where your hauling I guess, if its all local then its probably not as big a deal...

 

I think the proper name for those is Vienna Sausages (pronounced "vi-A-nuhs"). I come by this information by way of a country boy called "Dole" (spelt Doyle).

 

You can tell old Dole/Doyle that he's got his wieners all mixed up.

Vienna sausages (properly pronounced "vi-eee-nees") are those nasty little sausages, standing up endwise in the can, packed tightly in that slimy gelatinous embalming fluid, with the can being about three-inches diameter, two-and-a-half inches tall, with a pull-ring lid, that when you pull the ring, that nasty stuff splashes in your lap.

The pickled bologna, in the smaller jar, I was referring to, are about half again hot-dog sized wieners, in a screw-top plastic jar full of vinegar.

If a poor un-suspecting fellow were to get vieenees confused with pickle-dog, he is like to get poisined, or worse.

 

Mostly close to home but sometimes outta state. I will be under the 26001 pound limit and I will be working for the dealer. I will be lucky to get 30 runs a year maybe. The answer is no, I never even thought about it or whether or not it would apply. I figure I would look like a bum hauling a new tractor home to play with and no one would take to much notice.
My egt's got under control when I took the grid heaters and put them in a box.

 

this is the set up you need for hauling that kind of stuff

 

I'll pass on the pickle dogs but let me at the pickled eggs....yum yum. They are almost a good as fried calf or pork brains and eggs smothered in bacon gravy.

 

That is a good looking rig, but it is entirely too new. I wouldn't feel right driving something like that. Where is the fun of not getting my kidneys bashed on every pavement joint?

 

I just got off the Virginia Dept Of Motor Vehicle site. If the combined weight is less than 26001 pounds and the towed vehicle is less than 10001 pounds and I am not hauling Hazmat I am not a comercial vehicle.

 

haha can you believe that they actually pay me to drive that thing

 

The catch here is not the actual weight of either truck or trailer, or the combination of the two, BUT, what they are RATED at.

For instance, regardless of what it weighs at any given time, if the builder's plate on the trailer states 10,000 GVW, or more, then that trailer automatically falls under D.O.T. authority, regardless of the size of the truck.


Forget about trying to be legal, NO SIGNS on the truck OR TRAILER, just like you already said, you are just some feller hauling your tractor.

When you get into it is when you start stopping at scales, adding signs, and asking too many questions.

 

I ain't riding in the truck with you; way too much methane in the environment as it is.

 

I hate it when that happens!

Bearkiller, have you tried those Vieny's in BBQ sauce? Talk about pickling your inerds...

I've a friend with a small excavation business on the side. His old backhoe and mini trackhoe still have the rental stickers on them from where he bought them used. No signs on his truck and his story is that he's just hauling some rented equipment for his own job.

Now, playing the devil's advocate and assuming that we run non-commercial, what happens when theres a wreck and the tractor gets flipped or someone is injured? I don't know and am just inquiring so Boatnik kniows all the facts before he goes to work.

And how did scrapping the grids help your EGTs? Were they cycling on or something?