Secure your back-end load fellas……

I was headed to the store yesterday and almost hit an obstruction in the road at 55 mph. As I switched lanes to avoid it, I see that it’s a portable ice shack . If I or someone else had hit the thing, that woulda been bad. I removed it from the road. I found an ID on the shack this morning. The warden I gave the info to is working on finding the owner.

Just a reminder to secure anything you’re hauling. Especially expensive ice fishing gear. Also make sure you have some identifying info that can be used to return your stuff if it does end up in the road or left at the hotspot.

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I love watching the people hold their new mattress on the roof of their car with their hands or just a string. Always good for a laugh.

Good advice. I have a buddy who doesn’t strap his wheeler down on his trailer. Yeah it’s got sides and with the ramp locked in the up position it’s probably not going to fall off but if he had to do some serious evasive manuver it would complicate things in a bad way.

The warden did quick work. Owner’s son just called me. Apparently his dad just forgot to put the tailgate up and it slid out. They’ll be up to retrieve their equipment sometime today.

Dutchboy wrote:

I love watching the people hold their new mattress on the roof of their car with their hands or just a string. Always good for a laugh.

Reminds me….. during the bitter cold last week, wife and I passed a guy with his pickup parked on the shoulder of the highway. A big stack of new Sheetrock as well as a new door we’re laying on the ground behind his truck. The obviously slid out on him and it was a large stack of Sheetrock. I’ll bet every one of them cracked when the hit the road. Lucky it was in the shoulder. His wife was likely contemplating her life choices at that moment. I’ve done the rooftop mattress thing a few times in my youth.

The extreme cold greatly reduces friction and things not tied down will be the first to show how well the cold works. All it takes is one little lapse in doing what one knows he should do to make a mess of the day….experience first hand here.

We all see it every year. Stuff thats flown out of guys boats laying along the road or still in the traffic lanes. We spend hundreds or thousands for our toys yet spending $14 for a 4 pack of ratchet straps to secure it seems like a waste of money. Go figure.

Dutchboy wrote:

We all see it every year. Stuff thats flown out of guys boats laying along the road or still in the traffic lanes. We spend hundreds or thousands for our toys yet spending $14 for a 4 pack of ratchet straps to secure it seems like a waste of money. Go figure.

Opening weekend for fishing is always a good time to see life vest and floatation cushions on the shoulder and ditches

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The warden did quick work. Owner’s son just called me. Apparently his dad just forgot to put the tailgate up and it slid out. They’ll be up to retrieve their equipment sometime today.

That’s pretty cool you took the time to get a danger off the road and be able to get something like that back to its owner. Tip of the cap.

I like to keep good karma building versus bad. Owner just picked up his stuff and I got a case of beer for doing the right thing. We both win.

I saw this one this morning. Guy took the time to secure his load but must not care about his newer 2500.

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Aaron mccarthy wrote:

I saw this one this morning. Guy took the time to secure his load but must not care about his newer 2500.

That’s got “This is a company truck I don’t give a crap about it” written all over it.

Someone must have went into a spin yesterday on Hwy 10 between St Cloud and Royalton just before 8pm when I was coming home from work. They had a four-wheeler upside-down in the ditch. Looked like it had fallen off a small aluminum trailer. I wonder how they had it secured to the trailer. Obviously not well enough.