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If you use your wife's roof rack for pulling motors, you might be a redneck


Angie

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I remember her saying something about her paying $20 bucks to rent a cherry picker, I said put the money to better use and go buy some beer. and back your truck up onto the ramps. which she did. we had a beer :beer:

things were going along pretty good till my son and I hit a small problem, as we pulled on the come-along, the front suspension didn't want to play the game and took the weight. Now this was a problem with the motor half out and sitting in the compartment in a nasty spot. not to mention that the single 4X4 was sagging from the strain. what do rednecks do?? have more :beer:

time to regroup, we lowered the motor into the bay, beefed up the 4X4 with a second one, retied her down took off the tires and had another :beer:

with the beefed up (non sagging) over head height we figured we had it beat, but things don't always work out as planned, height yes, execpt for that front suspension problem. quick thinking fixed that, grab that 2X4 and place it under that end of the hoist.

by this time Angie was pretty freaked out, the roof rack was bouncing, the hoist was swaying and here was I trying to pull a motor. not to mention my son was saying " what'ta ya mean I can't let go?? I want my :beer: "

from here on out it was now or never becuase I knew it was 1 of 3 things.

1. the motor comes out and all is OK.
2. Son get thirsty and lets go of the 2X4.
3. all hell breaks loose and the roof racks let go, the posts come down and I break my legs trying to run away from a falling motor, that would suck cuz I can't have :beer: in the hospital.

as it turns out. she holds we get the cart and then its :icon_cheers: again
 

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All I can say is WOW :icon_surprised:
Time for a :beer:
 
now thats redneck team work! great job now go have a few beers
 
:fie:

Whatever works man.
 
Ive hung'm from trees,rafters and even from a tractor but that by far takes the cake! If it works thats all that matters/
 
Just had to send it the the structural engineer at work, plus all the gear heads!
Great stuff!
Dave
 
I felt like a redneck when I pulled my motor with the tractor... You got me beat though, lol...
 
Nice fleet of Rangers: I count three; a black one, a blue one and a white one. What other colors do you have?

And you're teaching the boy about physics, don't you know. Levers and pulleys 101!
 
Redneck engineering at its finest. :icon_thumby: :icon_cheers:
 
And - that chain around the 4x4 is about a hundred times stronger than the bar on the roof rack.
 
All I gotta say>>>

STOUT freakin roof rack!!!:icon_twisted::icon_cheers:
 
wow....and i thought piney fab was bad lol
 

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