So, How About This Weather?

[other dog]

[mowerman]

Right on man thanks for that Tom after looking at the inside of the cab I’m sure the guys’s gonna be OK. As far as repairing that truck looks like it’s too old to bother with.

[mowerman]

And yes, I don’t know why it does not have a headache, rack that’s crazy

[Geoff Weeks]

The requirement for a headboard/headche rack went away with the newer securement  regulations. I don't agree with it, but the law is if you have two securement devices on the front of the load close together, each being capable of holding 1/2 the weight of the piece, then a headboard is no longer required. IIRC there is an exception to that for pipe, I think you still need it with pipe and may be beams. I never looked at it closely because I always ran a headache rack. 

I always had a headache rack on my tractors regardless. When a company is paying to outfit the truck, and extra strap is cheaper so that is all that is provided in most cases.

We see the result of that in those pictures. 

Edited 6 hours ago by Geoff Weeks

[Geoff Weeks]

Reminds me of the old Bell helmet ads, "If you have $15 head buy a $15 helmet".

[other dog]

1 hour ago, Geoff Weeks said:

Reminds me of the old Bell helmet ads, "If you have $15 head buy a $15 helmet".

I used Bell helmets. The last bike I had was an LTD1000 Kawasaki. I sold it and bought a pickup truck, mainly because my wife wanted me to get rid of it, but I did need a pickup. I let the full face Bell helmet go with it and the guy that bought the bike only had it a week or 2 and wrecked it. Not his fault, a 4 wheeler made that left turn in front of him when he was coming from the opposite direction. The guy on the bike hit him right in the side. Put him in the hospital for weeks. My wife saw him somewhere after he got out of the hospital and he told her that the doctors told him that the fact that he had a good helmet was the only thing that saved his life.

[mowerman]

already ran out of likes....i rode for years ladda lotta fun on them   sold my last one 7 years ago to a buddy of mine too many stupid people here now,,,the bike is now in montana

[tjc transport]

i still have my bell full face helmet around here somewhere. over 50 years old now. 

[mowerman]

You know it was 54 years ago. I had a bad accident was nobody’s fault but my own I was speeding just got my learners permit car pulled out in front of me was not his fault. I tried to avoid the car. I ran into a three and got knocked out. Helmet was all scraped up when I came to completely ruined my 66 Honda 90 and I can still remember that car that turned in front of me don’t know how it was around  a 71 Ford wagon light  blue I don’t know how I remember that but I believe it was a bell since back then that’s what everybody  was buying hell it was so long ago. I’m surprised I even thought of that since I’m getting older and senile.

[Mark T]

2 hours ago, tjc transport said:

i still have my bell full face helmet around here somewhere. over 50 years old now. 

😉 they last a long time like that when you don't put them through the paces (and that's a good thing)  Back with the dirt bikes..... if you didn't have  a Bel Moto 3, you weren't cool.