I’m a big fan of Burger King, Clay! I think they make the best tasting burgers of the fast food chains up my way. Tough to not stop in on Whopper Whednesday.Work. Then a grab and go at Burger King for the 2 Cheeseburger meal. Changed it up a little bit.
Happy and Safe Travels Drivers!
I forgot to mention that I stopped at Casey's General store and topped it off with 89 for $3.77 a gallon. And the department at Tyson that I work for has us pulling 10 hour shifts so by the time I make it home, I have a 12 hour day. I'm starting to feel like I'm living in the truck again.
10 hour shifts? You’re making bank! Go with it - that’s like a 30% raise for each shift, assuming time and a half, and not so many hours that Uncle Sam takes way too big of a chunk. With gas prices the way they are, that little bit of extra time will come in handy with your long commute. I bet your pop and uncle Jim would say the same thing. Take it while you can, Clay.
dang! glad to hear you escaped that mostly unscathed!I saved my Ranger’s life today.
While cleaning up the garage after customizing the last of the closets at our “new” place. There’s been quite a bit of activity surrounding the closets - drywall, plywood, baseboard molding, door casings, etc. and a lot of it gets leaned up against things and moved around often. Well, there was an incident…
I was kneeling on the garage floor moving some flooring material when I saw my hi-lift jack starting to fall over out of the corner of my eye. It seemed odd because it’s usually just leaning against the side of my tool chest.
When it comes to my tool chest, every once in a while I notice a drawer sitting a bit proud of the cabinet and tell myself I really should level it properly so that doesn’t continue to happen.
While down on the floor, I reached to grab my hi-lift and that’s when I heard the unmistakable sound of a drawer full of wrenches sliding open, followed by another, then another.
Oh crap! The drawers of the upper tool chest were opening and it was starting to fall over, toward my truck. I was down low between the tool chest and my Ranger and quickly reached up to stop the drawers when a lower drawer slid open, catching me right in the face. Oh man, it hurt. The air was suddenly bluer than that tool chest. It was on a crazy angle and all I could think of was somehow stopping the whole thing from falling against my truck. The bottom chest was tipping, drawers were sliding out, gravity was not on my side and I was trying desperately to stand up while trying to right the cabinets. It was a gong show. I was pushing on drawers, fighting for every inch to stand. I couldn’t believe just how heavy it was.
I was sideways to the truck when it all started but managed to have my back against the truck door when I made it to where I was standing. I was stuck - now what?
I tried to clear the top section of the chest so I could push the drawers in and close the lid to lock them in place. No luck. I managed to reach my hi-lift and get it between me and the drawers of the lower cabinet. That gave me some leverage but I still couldn’t get it off me and back against the wall.
So, there I was, pinned. A bit beaten up but not in any danger and I wasn’t bleeding. At least I could catch my breath and figure out a plan. My phone was on the work bench, which didn’t help but I figured I could call out for Mrs. DukeCanBuildit and she might be able to open the garage door and back the Ranger out of the garage - better fold in that passenger side mirror first. I called several times but she couldn’t hear me. Dang.
Then I remembered that Amazon was delivering a package today and for some reason, that order had defaulted to “key delivery”, where they use myQ to open the garage door and put the package inside. I figured I could just wait for the driver to show up. My keys were in the garage and they could back it out. So I waited, tried a couple more times to right the cabinets - not budging. Less than ten minutes later, my garage door started to open - they had arrived. The guy found the keys, slowly backed the truck out. When the front fender cleared, there would be no more truck to lean on and I knew I would be taking the full weight of the tool chests.
As the bumper approached, I put all the strength I had left into pushing it toward the wall and the front of the garage while jumping clear of it at the same time. It all crashed to the floor, making less of a mess than I expected. Mrs. DukeCanBuildit didn’t even hear it.
Anyway, the Ranger survived, I got bruised up and I learned a valuable lesson about doing a better job of securing my tool chests.
OMG Duke, glad the outcome of this wasn't any worse and both you and the truck are relatively unscathed. Good thing Amazon got there early.I saved my Ranger’s life today.
While cleaning up the garage after customizing the last of the closets at our “new” place. There’s been quite a bit of activity surrounding the closets - drywall, plywood, baseboard molding, door casings, etc. and a lot of it gets leaned up against things and moved around often. Well, there was an incident…
I was kneeling on the garage floor moving some flooring material when I saw my hi-lift jack starting to fall over out of the corner of my eye. It seemed odd because it’s usually just leaning against the side of my tool chest.
When it comes to my tool chest, every once in a while I notice a drawer sitting a bit proud of the cabinet and tell myself I really should level it properly so that doesn’t continue to happen.
While down on the floor, I reached to grab my hi-lift and that’s when I heard the unmistakable sound of a drawer full of wrenches sliding open, followed by another, then another.
Oh crap! The drawers of the upper tool chest were opening and it was starting to fall over, toward my truck. I was down low between the tool chest and my Ranger and quickly reached up to stop the drawers when a lower drawer slid open, catching me right in the face. Oh man, it hurt. The air was suddenly bluer than that tool chest. It was on a crazy angle and all I could think of was somehow stopping the whole thing from falling against my truck. The bottom chest was tipping, drawers were sliding out, gravity was not on my side and I was trying desperately to stand up while trying to right the cabinets. It was a gong show. I was pushing on drawers, fighting for every inch to stand. I couldn’t believe just how heavy it was.
I was sideways to the truck when it all started but managed to have my back against the truck door when I made it to where I was standing. I was stuck - now what?
I tried to clear the top section of the chest so I could push the drawers in and close the lid to lock them in place. No luck. I managed to reach my hi-lift and get it between me and the drawers of the lower cabinet. That gave me some leverage but I still couldn’t get it off me and back against the wall.
So, there I was, pinned. A bit beaten up but not in any danger and I wasn’t bleeding. At least I could catch my breath and figure out a plan. My phone was on the work bench, which didn’t help but I figured I could call out for Mrs. DukeCanBuildit and she might be able to open the garage door and back the Ranger out of the garage - better fold in that passenger side mirror first. I called several times but she couldn’t hear me. Dang.
Then I remembered that Amazon was delivering a package today and for some reason, that order had defaulted to “key delivery”, where they use myQ to open the garage door and put the package inside. I figured I could just wait for the driver to show up. My keys were in the garage and they could back it out. So I waited, tried a couple more times to right the cabinets - not budging. Less than ten minutes later, my garage door started to open - they had arrived. The guy found the keys, slowly backed the truck out. When the front fender cleared, there would be no more truck to lean on and I knew I would be taking the full weight of the tool chests.
As the bumper approached, I put all the strength I had left into pushing it toward the wall and the front of the garage while jumping clear of it at the same time. It all crashed to the floor, making less of a mess than I expected. Mrs. DukeCanBuildit didn’t even hear it.
Anyway, the Ranger survived, I got bruised up and I learned a valuable lesson about doing a better job of securing my tool chests.
It’s handier than I thought.
I get the handy, it's trusting somebody in my garage I don't know that bothers me.
Glad you're ok. Man stuff can happen fast and at our age we don't have those lightning fast reflexes like we use to.I saved my Ranger’s life today.
While cleaning up the garage after customizing the last of the closets at our “new” place. There’s been quite a bit of activity surrounding the closets - drywall, plywood, baseboard molding, door casings, etc. and a lot of it gets leaned up against things and moved around often. Well, there was an incident…
I was kneeling on the garage floor moving some flooring material when I saw my hi-lift jack starting to fall over out of the corner of my eye. It seemed odd because it’s usually just leaning against the side of my tool chest.
When it comes to my tool chest, every once in a while I notice a drawer sitting a bit proud of the cabinet and tell myself I really should level it properly so that doesn’t continue to happen.
While down on the floor, I reached to grab my hi-lift and that’s when I heard the unmistakable sound of a drawer full of wrenches sliding open, followed by another, then another.
Oh crap! The drawers of the upper tool chest were opening and it was starting to fall over, toward my truck. I was down low between the tool chest and my Ranger and quickly reached up to stop the drawers when a lower drawer slid open, catching me right in the face. Oh man, it hurt. The air was suddenly bluer than that tool chest. It was on a crazy angle and all I could think of was somehow stopping the whole thing from falling against my truck. The bottom chest was tipping, drawers were sliding out, gravity was not on my side and I was trying desperately to stand up while trying to right the cabinets. It was a gong show. I was pushing on drawers, fighting for every inch to stand. I couldn’t believe just how heavy it was.
I was sideways to the truck when it all started but managed to have my back against the truck door when I made it to where I was standing. I was stuck - now what?
I tried to clear the top section of the chest so I could push the drawers in and close the lid to lock them in place. No luck. I managed to reach my hi-lift and get it between me and the drawers of the lower cabinet. That gave me some leverage but I still couldn’t get it off me and back against the wall.
So, there I was, pinned. A bit beaten up but not in any danger and I wasn’t bleeding. At least I could catch my breath and figure out a plan. My phone was on the work bench, which didn’t help but I figured I could call out for Mrs. DukeCanBuildit and she might be able to open the garage door and back the Ranger out of the garage - better fold in that passenger side mirror first. I called several times but she couldn’t hear me. Dang.
Then I remembered that Amazon was delivering a package today and for some reason, that order had defaulted to “key delivery”, where they use myQ to open the garage door and put the package inside. I figured I could just wait for the driver to show up. My keys were in the garage and they could back it out. So I waited, tried a couple more times to right the cabinets - not budging. Less than ten minutes later, my garage door started to open - they had arrived. The guy found the keys, slowly backed the truck out. When the front fender cleared, there would be no more truck to lean on and I knew I would be taking the full weight of the tool chests.
As the bumper approached, I put all the strength I had left into pushing it toward the wall and the front of the garage while jumping clear of it at the same time. It all crashed to the floor, making less of a mess than I expected. Mrs. DukeCanBuildit didn’t even hear it.
Anyway, the Ranger survived, I got bruised up and I learned a valuable lesson about doing a better job of securing my tool chests.
This is another reason I always try and have my phone in my pocket for these just in case moments. You might now wanna consider one of those "I've fallen and can't get up" devices. lol
I thought about getting one but decided against it. I never lock my door from the garage to the house and don't trust anyone having access to my garage.
wraps up before my travel plans start in May!
