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So I bought this Hydraulic Squeeze Chute from my son. 

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Son said he could get it on my trailer but how was I gonna get if off???

With my handy dandy little F20 Forklift...........what else. 

Um dad that chute is heavier than you think. 

I'm thinkin 2500# or so. 

Website says 4400#😳

Crap, may be above Frankenfork's paygrade. ☹️

 

 

The bridge crew did leave this unattended sittin' out in my meadow:ph34r:

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4 minutes ago, sandhiller said:

So I bought this Hydraulic Squeeze Chute from my son. 

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Son said he could get it on my trailer but how was I gonna get if off???

With my handy dandy little F20 Forklift...........what else. 

Um dad that chute is heavier than you think. 

I'm thinkin 2500# or so. 

Website says 4400#😳

Crap, may be above Frankenfork's paygrade. ☹️

 

 

The bridge crew did leave this unattended sittin' out in my meadow:ph34r:

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your on the right track Hiller!!

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You have a forklift and a couple loaders! At least 1 of your boys isn’t too far away. 
Who is the road boss now? Matt would have run the county’s loader out for you. 

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Around here those bridge crews will do a lot of work in exchange for a box of donuts. I one time asked for any leftover cement (over estimated) for a small pad outside a rented barn. Left them a dozen donuts in the morning said I’ll be back around 3, when I came back I had a pad twice the size I was hoping for and they even finished it for me. 

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I bought two 23 feet long H beams to use as feed bunks.

Log rolled them off the trailer to save the trailer floor

Second oops

I need them a 1/4 mile down the road

2350 pounds each

right at 1000 pounds more than my loader wanted 😶

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2 hours ago, Fasttommy said:

Drive fast in backwards, slam on brakes 😂

Damn, I got here to late to expound my theory of removal, fast beat me! ☺

As for the topic, you don't have the time to hear my ill thought purchases, 74 years old and all I ever heard was "what the duck do you need that for" and that wuz from mothers polite side.😱

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Hindsight always 20/20 on those regretful purchases. I'm thinking you won't regret this. 

Get the bridge guy a neighbor township or something.  Here they are working on power lines and would do it for me.  Don't get hurt.  It isn't worth being crippled or dead over.  I need to take my own advice sometimes...

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I didnt think through the first wedding ring i bought... second time i thought it through tho...

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The erected mast of the crane is gonna be hard to hide behind the locomotive, might need to sit in the bottom of a deep gully on this one

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6 hours ago, Fasttommy said:

Drive fast in backwards, slam on brakes 😂

You guys don’t know the hill he lives on/under. All he has to do is unchain, and try to back down that flippin thing!!

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3 minutes ago, Mudfly said:

Wait for an ice storm and it will take care of itself?

Maybe, but he might have to unload the trailer from the chute. 
I am tellin ya that river canyon is no fun when it gets icy. We shipped cattle off a place, basically the next homestead west on the same side of the river, years ago. Trucks chained up, and a motor grader pushing. They still spun out and had to start all over. Thankfully I was cowboying and not truckin. I didn’t spin out, but my buddy Tom did with his pickup and trailer. 

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7 minutes ago, Lazy WP said:

Me thinks Jeff already had a plan and just wanted to see what all we would recommend!!😁

From what little I know about Jeff. I think he wanted to see what he could get started and stir the coals.

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