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TorontoBuilder

TorontoBuilder

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I posted my old steel kitchen cabinets for a free porch pick up.

I had a bunch of responses and replied to the first one to say here is the address, some and get em.

So, I'm sitting in the front room when I hear the sound of heavy steel cabinets being banged around. I look out the front window and this little old Asian woman is trying to wrangle one of the cabinets towards her brand spanking new suv crossover. She had to be all of 4'8" and 65 or older. I thought damn, there goes that paint job...
 
TorontoBuilder said:
I posted my old steel kitchen cabinets for a free porch pick up.

I had a bunch of responses and replied to the first one to say here is the address, some and get em.

So, I'm sitting in the front room when I hear the sound of heavy steel cabinets being banged around. I look out the front window and this little old Asian woman is trying to wrangle one of the cabinets towards her brand spanking new suv crossover. She had to be all of 4'8" and 65 or older. I thought damn, there goes that paint job...
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Yesterday I watched people loaded about ten 24”x24” concrete sidewalk blocks into a Honda Fit. I didn’t stick around for the final block but the car was squatting pretty low.
 
On every lift of plywood or melamine we get a sheet on the bottom of the lift as a protection board for fork truck damage. Because I pay for weight in my dumpster I save them and advertise them for free. Most are perfect on one side but the other side is usually bad. Some are 4x8 some are 5x9 and weigh 120 pounds each.
Guy showed up with a Honda CRV. I said you can’t put them on the roof, I’ll deliver them for you. Telling him he couldn’t do it was a challenge for him. He loaded 9 sheets on his roof roughly 1000 pounds. All he had was bungee cords and one ratchet strap. The ratchet strap was too short so he used a bungee on the end to the bumper. And about six other bungees. Then he drove away….
Now I just put them in the dumpster.
Martin W
 
Martin w said:
On every lift of plywood or melamine we get a sheet on the bottom of the lift as a protection board for fork truck damage. Because I pay for weight in my dumpster I save them and advertise them for free. Most are perfect on one side but the other side is usually bad. Some are 4x8 some are 5x9 and weigh 120 pounds each.
Guy showed up with a Honda CRV. I said you can’t put them on the roof, I’ll deliver them for you. Telling him he couldn’t do it was a challenge for him. He loaded 9 sheets on his roof roughly 1000 pounds. All he had was bungee cords and one ratchet strap. The ratchet strap was too short so he used a bungee on the end to the bumper. And about six other bungees. Then he drove away….
Now I just put them in the dumpster.
Martin W
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yeah I love ikea stores for the same reason. Live floor show on examples of extreme stupidity.

OH and in case anyone is curious, I went down and loaded the cabinets into the woman's suv.
 
I understand people's need to get a job done is priority but when safety and common sense is thrown out the window I think it is just stupid no matter how pressed you are. There seems to be endless youtube videos showing extreme levels of stupidity of east Indians with tractors.
 
Years ago (I was about 16) I worked at a fence/pole plant. A customer came in to pick up his order of about 100 16 foot poles. They had just come out of the pressure treater and were saturated with water. Picking up the bundle with the front end loader brought the rear tires off the ground. He was driving his new F150,
“I’m here to pick up my poles.”
“Great, they’re right here. Where’s your truck?”
“What the hell do you think I’m sitting in?”
“That won’t carry them.”
“Just load the damn things.”
“Yes sir.”
After about 15 minutes of sweating as I painstakingly placed the poles in the box of his pickup, I backed away from the truck. The rear bumper was mashed into the dirt and the front tires were off the ground. I pretended not to notice and drove away to get back to work.

About 10 minutes later he stopped me and asked if I could get the poles out of the back of his truck. He’d come back with a bigger truck.
It took me much longer and with much more sweat to get ahold of and lift the bundle out without doing more damage to the truck. I managed to do it (much to my surprise). He drove away with the frame on his new pickup obviously badly twisted.
Called the boss, explained the situation and told him to expect a call.
An hour later, the guy arrived with a 5 ton flat deck. Loaded him up and off he went. The boss never heard a peep from him either.
 
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Martin w said:
He loaded 9 sheets on his roof roughly 1000 pounds.
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Yesterday at lunch watched a couple guys (one in driver's seat, the other in the rear passenger seat) drive by in this little import crossover, windows down, holding an 8' sheet of drywall to the roof, no straps.

Watched a guy load a dozen 10' sheets of 1/2" drywall on the roof of his shiny new Suburban last summer, no roof rack. Two small ratchet straps connected to the front & passenger windows & he was off.
 
Years back I was leaving Home Depot and was behind a short bed lifted pickup that had a load of plywood in the back, probably about 15-20 sheets, no tie downs. The light went green and he hit the gas hard. As the truck surged forward the entire load slid out the back and dropped in a still neat stack on the road. Those drop in box liners are quite slick. After the performance the rest of us waiting behind him drove around his lumber pile and left not waiting to see how long it took him to reload it all.
 
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