What have you hauled lately?

My daughter moved from Wisconsin to Omaha, and a friend here gave her this couch…for free!

Thomasville, real leather. Too nice to pass up. The RL hauled it effortlessly to my storage unit, where it will stay until her place is ready in a week.

She did not ride on the couch down the highway, btw.

How about 2 kayaks??

The truck is parked in front of our neighbor’s house, who do up Halloween in a big way.

Girlfriend hauled her sister’s bumper pool table and 4 chairs back to our place.

CGM66046 said:

60 degrees, Great day in KS for the first bike ride of the year.
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Nice bikes.

Just a comment—we have 2 trek E-bikes and need to have the gate up for pulling a camper. I installed a Rocky Mount fork hitch at the front of the bed, which works for us. It only takes a few minutes to put the wheels on/off. But, if you’re not going a long distance or pulling something, it is obviously easier to keep the wheels on.

You guys are killing me with these boards. I gotta get back in the shop.

Meanwhile…hauled a vintage 1960’s cabinet from our storage unit to home. Now installed in our basement “sitting room”, where it will display some antique collectibles and things I have made. Mahogany, very good shape, just needs a coat of wax.

Oh, you mean what did I HAUL? Well there was a portable grill and a canopy for the camper in the truck bed. And kayak gear in the back seat area.

longboat said:

Osage Orange is a very strong, dense wood - once dried, it's very hard on saw blades and chainsaws. You can hardly pound a nail into it. They used to make fence posts out of it, but had to do so when the wood was freshly cut. On the plus side, it produces some of the best heat per pound of any U.S. species. If that is Osage Orange, you got yourself some excellent firewood.

Native Americans used the wood for making bows, hence the name Bois d'Arc (edit: wood of arc... my French sucks!).

Getting back on topic, hauled a LOT of recyclables to the transfer station the other day. Didn't get a picture, but I would have needed a long-bed mid-size truck to haul everything that I did in this wide bed and trunk.

Need to haul some more tree branches in to recycle this week.

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Here is a table I made for a friend out of Osage orange. Finish is Danish oil.

It is a great wood to work with. I still have a couple of leftover pieces I use for making pens.

Sparkland said:

Our kids are dreading our passing as we have a 5' 10" grand piano, an upright piano, and a million books.

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Seriously, do something about that BEFORE you have to go into assisted living…

Unless they’re high-end pianos, you may have a hard time selling them. We sold our Howard baby grand a few years ago on consignment through a local piano shop and got $3000 for it. Not bad considering my girlfriend acquired it gratis when her sister bought a home a few years ago, and the piano was included in the deal. Did require a refinish and mild mechanical restoration.

Upright pianos on the other hand—can hardly give them away. Some friends of ours donated theirs to a church that needed a new one.

Books—can be donated or sold en masse to a used bookstore.

I think about this a lot. I have a complete wood shop, about 10 guitars, collections of antique furniture and tools and duck decoys, among others. I imagine the kids will take about 5%, and the rest should make a very nice estate sale.

In fact, that’s my current goal—to have an estate sale where everyone there says, I wish I could have known him when he lived here…