[geeks] Moving Stuff

Mike Hebel nimitz at nimitzbrood.com
Thu Jul 26 16:34:12 CDT 2007


On Jul 26, 2007, at 4:25 PM, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:

> Mike Hebel wrote:
>> On Jul 26, 2007, at 4:09 PM, Bill Bradford wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 04:02:46PM -0400, Phil Stracchino wrote:
>>>> I've had a U-Haul truck blow its transmission under me.  But U-Haul
>>>> gave
>>>> me a 24-foot GMC with a 5-speed to replace the 14-foot Ford and its
>>>> broken autnmatic transmission.
>>> Amy and I drove a medium-large-sized U-Haul truck full of household
>>> furniture from Biloxi, MS to Houston, Texas.
>>>
>>> NEVER AGAIN.
>>>
>>> The truck got us home, but it had obviously been beat to crap before
>>> we got it.  We nicknamed it "Pepe'".
>>
>>  From my experience moving Dave McGuire's systems:
>>
>> Liftgate Truck + Atomichron + Lots of Heavy Digital systems = one beat
>> up little truck.  (0)
>>
>> The liftgate never sounded the same after we were done. ;-)
>>
>> I don't recall the make of the truck though...
>
> That must have been a Penske though, right?

Not sure.  I know it was a local rental place and IIRC it was a 
Japanese made truck.  Johnathan Patschke. might remember.

Mike Hebel
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