Thread: Idiot Jack Stands

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When I was growing up our home was on about 3 acres, and when my Mom felt I had reached my quota for non running cars she would make me call a junkman and get some of them taken away. The one guy we used was a black man who would come with this huge old stake truck and his Wife and about 5 young kids.

His technique for getting the cars into the truck was a little unorthodox to say the least. There was a hole cut in the front corner of the truck bed and he would position his truck between the car he was taking away and a big tree. He would fasten a big chain to the car, pass it through the hole in the truck bed, and wrap it around the tree. Then he would prop the front of the car up on some 4 x 4's (his whole family pitched in to lift it up ) so that it was sitting nose high. The idea was that the car was tightly chained to the tree and couldn't move.

At that point he would throw the truck into reverse and drive backwards as fast as he could until the back of the truck hit the 4 x 4's knocking the car into the bed of the truck. As if on cue, his whole family would run up and finish the job of pushing the car into the bed. All of this operation probably took them 15 minutes as they had it down pat.

Every time I had a car to junk my Buddies would make sure I called them so they could come and watch. I can still see those poor helpless junk cars being catapulted into the bed of that truck.

Don