Thread: New ebay purchase (Im an addict!)

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When I was a kid I filled our little 3 acre farmette up with old cars. Every so often my Mom would make me get rid of a few, and there was this junkman I would call. He was a black man, and would come with his wife and about 5 kids. His truck was a big old stake bed with no back on it, and his "technique" for getting the cars into the bed was a little unorthodox.

You have to picture this: He would position his truck between the junk car and a big old tree (we had tons of trees on the property) He would jack the front of the junker way up in the air and hook a chain to the front of it, which he would pass over the bed and through a hole in the front of the bed. He then tied the end of the chain to a tree. Now the junk car was firmly chained to the tree, with the truck in between. He would rev up the truck and run backwards at full speed, and the tethered car would catapult onto the bed of the truck, at which time his wife and kids would run up and shove it the rest of the way in.

Every time I had him coming my buddies would all show up to watch this spectacle, as it was the funniest, most amazing thing we had ever seen.


Don

Hey, if it worked for him great!! But Im not taken these to the junk yard, and I want to try and not do anymore damage to them then time has already done, if you know what I mean.

Originally Posted by Itoldyouso

When I was a kid I filled our little 3 acre farmette up with old cars....... Don

Wonder if any of them old cars are still there.....

Maybe you could take some prisoner's on a "field trip", kinda like cleaning the side of the roads only more heavy lifting.

Ron

As long as the frame is lower than the running boards or rockers your home free. Take a piece of 3/4 plywood and make a couple holes on on end. Jack the front of the car up high enough to reach the low part of the frame with the trailer. Slip the plywood under the car with the front over the end of the trailer and secure to the frame. Lower the car onto the end of the trailer and winch on using the ply as a skid. Attach the winch to the frame not the ply. Won't tear up your trailer bed and slides easily over humps and bumps. Just an afterrthought. Throw a blanket over the cable while winching. It will keep the cable from whipping if it should break.

Oh, by the way, just reverse the procedure to get it off.