Post pics of the strange things you've hauled w/ your Blazer.

[colbystephens]

I'm just curious what are some of the creative ways you've hauled weird stuff with your Blazer/Jimmy. I'd rather see pics, but stories would work, I suppose. Here's 3 of my stranger ones.

From today, a large pinhole camera for school children to get inside of, to learn how it works, and then work together to trace a mural of what they saw:

Anderson Elementary Pinhole-1 by colbyjstephens, on Flickr

From a couple years ago helping a friend move into a storage unit while she was out of town for a few months:

From a few years back when we went to a few low-income apartment complexes and did free oil changes:

 

[NorCal_Chris]

I thought I had a pic but cannot find it... Pops can chime in on this one.

Had a half top on top of my full top strapped down all over. Needless to say nobody was behind or next to me on the 2 miles home haha!

 

['86erfixer]

Haha. That pic with the love seat & boxspring is awesome. Add an old sh*tty tv and a flat of ramen noodles = many of moves I've had. Good to see I'm not the only one.

 

[colbystephens]

You should've seen what it looked like when we moved her out of her storage unit. We got everything in one load. There was a full dresser in there too, along with a bicycle strapped to the side, and lamps sticking out through the cage, etc., etc., etc. It was insane.

 

[dremu]

I thought I had a pic but cannot find it... Pops can chime in on this one.

Had a half top on top of my full top strapped down all over. Needless to say nobody was behind or next to me on the 2 miles home haha!

Is that this? I'd saved this for some reason...

Donno who this is, just a random member picture here...

I took home the bedfloor from a longbed pickup on the roof of my M1009 CUCV:

Think that's about it for odd stuff in a K5. Now, in the sixpack...

-- A

 

[dremu]

In the sixpack I took several truckloads of stuff when I moved out from my ex... this would be truck parts, the compressor, a drill press, and the excess tires... so many tires...

You Might Be A Redneck If...

-- A

 

[imiceman44]

I remeber this.
And unfortunately I never took pictures but I have done anything a Redneck would do and then some with my Blazers throughout the years.
The worst though was 2 yards of pea gravel, I put a tarp and then the backhoe dropped the gravel and it filled every corner including my front passenger seat area, I only had my driver seat area kind of clear and the poor truck was down to the bump stops.
I also moved a whole appartment with lamps, plants sticking out, I had 2 beds, a closet a couple of dressers, some night stands chairs, pretty much a complete 2 bedroom appartment in one shot.

Is that this? I'd saved this for some reason...

Donno who this is, just a random member picture here...

I took home the bedfloor from a longbed pickup on the roof of my M1009 CUCV:

Think that's about it for odd stuff in a K5. Now, in the sixpack...

-- A

 

[supermotard750]

Couch and love seat

 

[Fordum]

You guys cannot comprehend how nice you have it. All my good stuff occurred way before cheap digital cameras.
Any decent camera back then, cost a couple of hundred, unless it was a cheap fixed focus, which almost never took good pictures.
And with all the moving parts, they were fragile and not something you just hauled around.

Then, you might have as many as 36 shots per roll of film, which then had to be developed at a pretty hefty cost.
Plus you might have to wait a week to get the prints.

So, you probably did not have a camera with you, and if you did, you didn't waste film on normal stuff.

I do have about two hours of super8 movies spanning about 30 years of hunting in the swamp.
Several years ago, I managed to digitize it onto some DV tape and put it on a hard drive on an editing deck.

I may resurrect it one of these days and pull some stills off an post around here.
But, just trust me when I tell you that you have it made in the photography department.

 

[ashman]

and get off my lawn!!

:P

 

[colbystephens]

Dremu, for some reason your pics don't show up on my comp.

 

[dremu]

and get off my lawn!!

:P

Why, the ghost is really Mister Smith from the pizza place.

And I would have gotten away with it if it weren't for you meddling kids and your dog!!

-- A

 

[dremu]

Dremu, for some reason your pics don't show up on my comp.

Oh carp. My ISP is down for a coupla hours for maintenance or moving data centers or something. They're there, really -- Iceman saw 'em =)) Be back by the morning I'm sure.

-- A

 

[Fordum]

and get off my lawn!!

:P

Be careful. I was only touching the surface......I didn't even get into having to walk out of the swamp because I broke down, could not raise anyone on the CB that I knew, and there was no such thing as a cell phone.......

Or laughing because someone stole my Pickett, Dual Base, Log Log, Stabilized etched aluminum Slide Rule in its hard internal shell leather carrying case with the belt clip that I paid over $300 for.

Two weeks after I got one of the first electronic calculators in town.

Still wish I had that slide rule though. It was fun, and probably worth some money these days.

I do still have the calculator though. Have fond memories of it.
Even though it did cause me to fail a Chemistry test and put a burn scar on my leg.

Seems when the instructor is using a slide rule to make up the test, and carrying the calculations out to 2 places, and you are using a calculator that carries them to 8, you get different answers.......

Did get the grade changed when I showed her what the problem was, but I was not allowed to use the calculator for tests anymore.

And when said calculator will suck an alkaline 9 volt flat in about 30 minutes, you carry a spare in your pocket.
And if it gets across a coin in your pocket and melts out of your polyester pants........

And I did not even get into having to testify before the board of regents of my college because they wanted to outlaw calculators on campus in general because they would never be enough of them in use for every student to have one due to scarcity and cost.
And the math classes in particular because they prevented the students from learning how to do math. And made logarithms obsolete.

Or the fun, 5 years later, of programming one of the first solid state digital computers I ever saw, using 8 toggle switches and a pushbutton.

You had to set the 8 switches to the correct positions and push the button for every word in the code you were entering.

I got fast enough and accurate enough to punch in the Code of Hammurabi game program in about two hours.
Then you could play it for a while until the power glitched. That dumped the memory and you had to start over.

So, be grateful I'm not telling everything, you young whippersnappers.....

Edit: If you are wondering what that game is, here is a link to its history.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamurabi

And, if you would like to play it, here is an online version.

http://www.hammurabigame.com/hammurabi-game.php

 

[p0ps45]

I thought I had a pic but cannot find it... Pops can chime in on this one.

Had a half top on top of my full top strapped down all over. Needless to say nobody was behind or next to me on the 2 miles home haha!

Look like this?

 

[Richcz28]

Colby wicked cool pinhole camera. I'm sure the kids had a blast.

 

[ashman]

lol fordum. I gotta make fun while I can, I'm slowly realizing I'm starting to tell "back in the day" stories now myself.

 

[Fordum]

lol fordum. I gotta make fun while I can, I'm slowly realizing I'm starting to tell "back in the day" stories now myself.

See, that is the mistake that most folks make. You can start telling "back in the day" stories in high school as long as you are talking to people younger than you.

The trick is to not worry about those stories, just make sure that you keep having new things happen to tell about.

One of my favorite actors was a guy named Burt Mustin.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burt_Mustin

If you ever see any old shows, you will probably see him. He was going strong in his early 90s.

He made several appearances on the Tonight show. Each time, he would always have a joke to tell the host.

These jokes were like the jokes I tell some of the kids of the people I hunt with. Old to me, but they have never heard them.
After telling his joke, the he would mention when he heard it. Often it was in the 1800s.
One night he told a pretty good one, and after the host stopped laughing, he told everyone that one of the best parts of these jokes was when he had first heard it.

" So, Bert, when did you first hear that one?"
" Bout two days ago in a comedy club on West 57th......." The host cracked up again.

Bert had lots of stories from back in the day, but he understood that the "day" can be tomorrow.

Don't ever worry about getting older, as long as you keep doing it.........

 

[Big Ray]

See, that is the mistake that most folks make. You can start telling "back in the day" stories in high school as long as you are talking to people younger than you.

The trick is to not worry about those stories, just make sure that you keep having new things happen to tell about.

One of my favorite actors was a guy named Burt Mustin.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burt_Mustin

If you ever see any old shows, you will probably see him. He was going strong in his early 90s.

He made several appearances on the Tonight show. Each time, he would always have a joke to tell the host.

These jokes were like the jokes I tell some of the kids of the people I hunt with. Old to me, but they have never heard them.
After telling his joke, the he would mention when he heard it. Often it was in the 1800s.
One night he told a pretty good one, and after the host stopped laughing, he told everyone that one of the best parts of these jokes was when he had first heard it.

" So, Bert, when did you first hear that one?"
" Bout two days ago in a comedy club on West 57th......." The host cracked up again.

Bert had lots of stories from back in the day, but he understood that the "day" can be tomorrow.

Don't ever worry about getting older, as long as you keep doing it.........

^^^that is sig worthy

 

[NorCal_Chris]

Look like this?

haha yep.. there it is