W.T.Sumner
02-16-2005, 08:35 PM
It all started with a bid on Ebay. I bought an 84 chevy 1 ton stake body dump truck with no engine.I wanted the bed and lift to install on my 87 4 door duelly. The truck was in Brick New Jersey. We left sunday morning about 5:00 am . After passing threw Baltimore Maryland we stopped at a rest area to drain some liquid. Taking a walk around the trailor we noticed the back axle had broke a weld. after chaining it up I called an uncle in Bear Delaware to see if he could get hold of a welder , not easy being sunday. He found one but the guy was not free till 3:30 . I had hoped to be in brick by then. after finally getting it fixed we headed out again. it was 8:00PM when we finally arived at the mans house. He had mentioned some wood in the truck that had to go with the it. Turns out it was stacked 3and a half feet high. on the 12 foot bed. We used the winch off my jeep mounted to the trailor to load the truck. The load on the truck had the springs compressed down low and the hydrualic tank hung the trailor going up the ramp. After placing boards on the ramp to raise the frame and clear the pump we decided that it was too much weight on the rear axle of the trailor . The truck axle was a little behind the last axle of the trailor. The only way to safely transport it was to unload the wood off the truck. The owner refused to let us leave it in his yard. By this time it was 11:00 pm .I decided to get a motel room and decide what to do in the morning. the cheepest room we could find was 66 bucks . 2 single beds and a shower stall. Then the heater in the room was not working. After calling the office 2 drunks came to fix the heater.That was a waisted call. after getting it working myself we finally got to sleep. The next morning we were back at the truck at 7:00am.I told the man that I would leave the truck and go home if we could not unload it. He finally agreed to pay the dump fees if we would haul it to the dump. He thought there was only about 1500 pounds on the truck. we tryed to tell him it was a lot more. after unloading the truck and emtying the wood on our trailor we headed to the dump. being we were out of state he had to use his I.D. toget into the dump.after unloading the trailor,in the rain, we wieghed out. 4000 pounds! the guy like to had a fit. Dump fees were 95$ a ton. I only paid 350$ for the truck. We returned to his house, loaded the truck on the trailor again and headed back to North Carolina.50 miles down the road the altinator belt broke. we made it back to my uncles house and bought a new belt . Damn if it wasn't the wrong belt. ( to be continued)
