Well, glad tech week is over so we can get back to the drama! Kirks right, I buy a LOT of stuff. I get aggravated too but you know what, if I can't walk around someone pulling a cart, how in the world can I wade through all the piles of junk- with sharp burs sticking out, objects slightly recessed under blades of grass for me to trip on......come on. I hear this me, me, me stuff so much anymore, that I'm tired of hearing it. You know what, sometimes it's not about YOU, it's about us and others..... Story time: Grandpa had a buddy beg and beg him to go with him to our annual big swap. Well, he show's up late and then opens the trunk to show granpa "his" box to store stuff in. It was a shoe box. Grandpa was like, "What the H*LL am I going to do with that?" Then the guy stops at one gas station to put $5 in, then another because it's 5 cents cheaper 2 miles up the road, then another. Then he stops to "have breakfast"............I go to buy parts and I take it VERY seriously. I will miss a bunch of stuff if I have to carry two carbs and a bucket of bolts back to the truck every 5 minutes. Well, we've all had a chance to voice our opinions (great thing about the HAMB), let's continue with cool wagons and those that are merely practical too. Pitts out...
I HEAR THAT!!....last years winter swap I had mine filled to the MAX. four wheels and tires,head lights, tail lights..etc.etc.....There was no way in hell I was going to be able to carry all my stuff.
i like to use a hand trauck with 2 milk crates on it . the bottom one faces out with a bag cooler, rags , tape measure ,micromiter, caliper, bungie cords and ratching tie downs. top one is for parts i find. the hand truck works great and gives you a place to rest your hands while walking eliminating the fat hand feeling of walking all day with them at your side. If the swap meet is on pavement i use a hard wheel one and on grass use soft rubber.
Weird--I've been to hundreds of car shows and swap meets, usually carrying a decent sized camera strapped around my neck (with top-heavy top-mounted flash), a small camera bag around my waist, and a note pad in my hand writing stuff down...not exactly agile while walking through crowds, etc. And I've never once tripped over someone's wagon. Never even close. What do you do at Wal-Mart, with all those baby strollers and shopping carts everywhere? Back to the wagons: what will you be shopping for? If you're going for a trans or big body panels, the Lowe's Wagons will work for you (provided there isn't some kid with a riding tractor and cart that will haul your stuff for $5.) If you'r shopping for bits and pieces and want to carry a small cooler with you, Radio Flier with air-filled tires is the way to go. But I DO like the hand cart with milk crates or a small garbage can strapped to it as well. Which will fit in the trunk easier? Little Red Wagon fits in the wife's trunk, while a hand cart wouldn't. -Brad
Two wheeled dollie with air filled tires & a large milk crate, and a handfull of bungie cords is the way to shop. A ratcheting tie down strap is another handy item to have. You're stuck pulling a four wheel wagon, a dollie can be pushed or pulled, and you can cover a lot more ground quicker with two wheels than four. Hauled a 13 1/2 foot long frame across the red and chocolate fields at Hershey two years ago on my two wheel dollie, cant do that with a wagon.
I agree. Dogs should be banned from swap meets,car shows along with golf carts. Wagons are fine ,but us poor folks,just use a well worn vintage supermarket'buggy',like our parents did on skid rowSparky
Happy Hoppy...that's a really cool lookin wagon and it's even cooler that you had BDR sign/scribble on it!!! Your brother is nuts...that wagon's color is inspirational enough to WANT to paint your car to match it!
I wear a decent sized backpack. I fear the WAGON! Call me a pussy, but If I need it and its big enough I'll carry it. With a wagon, I FEAR I'd buy too much crap just cause I have the means to easily carry the crap. As for dogs. I think the little yippie ones need left at home. Same for the pitbulls, or ones that are not people friendly or crowd savy. All others welcome. You know your dog, you know if it works good with strangers, crowds and other dogs. If it doesn't or you have doubts leave it at home. My dog goes everywhere with me. There are 168 hours in a week, she is with me at least 140 of them. She travels awesome and I know how she'll react to any situation before it happens, because we've been there done that. She goes to all swap meets as well as shows. If you ever see a 6 foot blonde dude in his twenties with a Silver Weimeriener at anything around Texas its me. Grab me and say "Whats up" Plus she sniffs out the best deals.
Thanks guys.....I found some EXTREME wagons and they were 250-500 hahahah Ill hit e bay or walmart for the radio flyer 4x4
I bought a radio flyer at walmart to carry my daughter around at the swaps than I found a trailer that fits on the back to carry the parts !!!!
Well, I guess you won't like one of my swap meet tenants, NVRA #84. He'll rent and/or sell wagons at the Charlotte Auto Fair . Also, this past Sep, he sold those fold-up 2 wheeled wire basket carts. His sales have always been pretty good. Folks just don't like carrying stuff all day, and I can't blame them. If you're a seller at the swap meet ya' like wagons and carts, 'cause the customer will buy load and be gone. None of that, "I don't want to carry it all day" excuse. Myself, if it's a heavy piece, I'll buy and let the seller store it for me. At the end of the day I'll go around with my truck and collect all the stuff up.
Rule at my swap meet is as follows: "No spectator dogs. No vendor dogs over 45 pounds. NO PIT BULLS. NO EXCEPTIONS!" I figure if a vendor is coming and setting up, they've done that before, and the dogs know the deal. A vendor also isn't going to have a dog that will keep people away from his booth. Spectators with dogs are typically just out walking their dog, but at a show rather than the park. I've seen way, way too many dogs get scared at car shows from loud exhaust and nervous in the big crowds. I've also had too many old ladies with their little flee bag tell my son "Oh honey, Mutsy doesn't like children! You should never walk up to a strange dog and try to pet it." Don't take your fucking twitchy dog anywhere there are going to be kids! Pit bulls should be exterminated. Plus, there is NOTHING worse than walking a show and stepping in a fresh steaming pile. And, being the promoter of a show, I could get away with bringing the family Airdale out and letting her spend the day with us at the show. She'd love it, and she loves people. But she weighs more than 45 pounds, so she stays home. -Brad
Fuck dogs, great companions but they don't want to go to the swapmeet. Oh, and they don't give a shit about art or the farmer's market either. Leave 'em at home, you dimwitted attention seeking morons. And if you put clothes on them, someone should make you walk them in the nude, at gunpoint. Dog dresser uppers are lower forms of life than maggots and subterranean wood lice. Put clothes on your dog only if you're willing to squat down and take a shit in public or hump someone's leg. I hate dog dresser uppers.
...poor old Draglink.....he asks a simple questiona and we give him the theory of relativity..... i think the government should ban everyone from coming out of their homes..... weeding through, though, there are some great tips here....... I always carry a wheel bolt pattern guage, a tape rule, a list of measurements for intakes, valve covers, ford axles, wishbones and some other things I can't think of....
I took 20 of the green wire meshed wagons to the spring Auto Fair. Rent or Buy $60 to buy or $60 deposit bring it back at the end of the day and get $50 back. Sold 5 on the first day and rented 7, only 2 of the rentals came back. About the same way on the 2nd day and was sold out early on the 3rd day. Took 20 of the little folding shopping baskets to sell at $15 each, and still have 4 left. If I hadn't lost my source for the wagons I'ld have more for sale/rent at the next meet. Maybe I'll do something with handtrucks next. We do plan on having something all engine builders need, but don't want to say what yet, I like to have something for sell that no one esle is offering. Keep your mouth shut Modifieddriver.
Amen brother...preach on people that subject their dog to that kind of public humiliation should have to come back in the next life as Aunt Martha's poodle, complete with bows in the hair & painted nails
Yup, you got that right. It's only in your fucked up head that you believe your dog's enjoying wearing that Superman cape on Halloween. The truth is that dog would rather be at home laying on the floor, or eating some food and then taking a crap. And your cat doesn't like wearing clothes either, your cat doesn't like you, in fact it hates your guts. It hates you whether or not you put clothes on it. It's only there for the food and backrubs, quit dispensing those things and it will leave and never come back.
Kitty bouncing down the hall, Chasing her little super ball. Off the walls and cross the floor, Into the corner and off the door. It's three a.m. and she's at play, Was napping on the couch all day! When at last the ballgame's done, She'll turn to other sorts of fun! Like knocking over bottles and cans, And chasing bugs into the fan. Should she climb up over us, She'll bound just like a rhinocerous! Leaping high up on the bed, Over the pillow and 'cross my head. Her games will go to morning's light, As we grumble through another night. Then at last she'll want her food, Playtime put her in an eating mood! Not the cans you bought in bulk, Feed her that and she'll just sulk. Pizza, burgers and tuna fish, People food is what she'll wish! After eating all of that, She'll be one big happy cat. Off to sleep in the window sill, Preparing for another drill. When nightfall comes she's on call, Bouncing that silly super ball...
With any kind of luck, the next time you're working on a car, a cat will jump inside and pop it out of gear, allowing the car to roll over your head, since your statement would suggest you really aren't smart enough to use blocks or jackstands in the first place. Karma, doncha know....... Mutt
Last swap meet we were at this big O'l fat guy was riding around in a go-kart that had zoomie pipes on it. They exited at about 3.5 or 4 feet high, right at passersby! What a slug. I guess he was physically disabled or something, can't complain about that, he has a right to get around too, but the zoomies had to go!!! he was going the opposite direction down the lanes that we were but in the same direction across the meet so we passed him every lane.....putt, putt, putt, sputter, putt, putt,putt........ARRRRRRRHHHHHHG!
Hack, did you write that? i like cats!!!! wasn't gay at all. i think writing poems about horsepower and tire smoke is dorkier!
YES, people can trip on your stupid ass wagon with the wide go kart tires. It's 6am, the sun is either still down or low on the horizon and I'm looking at a manifold, trying to decide if it fits an Olds or a Pontiac,doesn't take long to figure out, and you're stopped at another space a little farther down and you're trying to decide between the pink sweater and beret or the tuxedo and bow tie for your lavender toy poodle. I am trying to get through the swap meet before all the good deals are snapped up by the 'Chainers and resellers. THEN, I'm going back to my car and get my handtruck to pick up my finds, that I've PAID for. If you MUST drag your cute little "Hot Rod Wagon", try putting a flag on a whip, like you see on ATVs, and look out for the other guy, who is minding his OWN business, looking for stuff for his car and not looking for ankle busting obsticles below the line of sight and in the aisles. By the time you're old enough to shop for car parts, your mommy has told you COUNTLESS times not to leave your skates in the way. The grown ups WILL trip on them and be mightly peaved at you. That old man might bust his leg and have his lawyer sue you and own your just completed green '47 Ford custom. Dig? Oh and I didn't mean the owner of the '47 would be shopping for poodle drag, I'm lumping all the offenders together. Knowhatimean?
I find that the fancier and more elaborate the wagon (read, more in the way) the less it gets filled with parts. I'm really conscious of my wagon because I have tripped over others, but I'm still not making 19 trips with a hand cart to pick up my loads of shit. that's just plain stupid. WAGONS!...WAGONS!...WAGONS! OK, now I'm pushing for an initiative that requires every single person to have a wagon, yeah that'll work. Vote yes on Propostion AV8 - Wagons for everyone, whether they want them or not. Viva La Wagons!
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