coupla nice surprises today.Just rambling.

Had to pick up about 5 ton of grass pavers today and a hedge trimmer I ordered from a Big Box store. 4 pallets @1.25 ton each. while we were paying, an older kinda snooty couple were haggling about a delivery. Didn't want to pay 20 bucks to have something delivered, didn't have a hitch on their Mercedes to use a free trailer etc. We had a borrowed truck and my wife had my KIA w/ hitch and were going about the same direction so had them load their stuff on the trailer and the wife pulled it to their place. Helped unload it also cause the people didn't seem to have any friends. Took the trailer back and came home. The people never even thanked her, just like we owed them.. Must be a miserable life. Then, I had arranged for the guy at the sawmill in town to download the pallets so I could get the truck back sooner and pick up the stones w/ my tractor and trailer (several trips). While I was their waiting on him, the neighbors were moving some stuff w/ an all terrain forklift. Saw what I was going to do and had me drive the truck to where I wanted them (couple of stalls outside of town) and they unloaded and set them right where I wanted them. Tried to pay and the guy waved and drove off. Seen and waved at this guy for 10 years and never talked with him.
Then, got home a little bit ago and opened up the new hedge trimmer I got that I new was made in china, and it was stamped on the machine and printed all over the box "made in Germany". Not USA, but better than china.

Turned out to be a good day.

Dave

Hey Dave,
Grass pavers? never heard of them
ARE them trimmers electric or gas? I need a good hedge trimmer , elctric and all i can ever find is black and decker just crapp. Couple of other crappy ones can't remember the names though. Just junk though.

Raining here in Ga. Small shower nothing big. Cooling things down a bit.


Farmer

> Helped unload it also cause the people didn't seem to have any friends

Hah. I think I can see why.

Got me too, I'm thinking sod but don't seem like it would stay alive long enough for a box store to be selling it. I gotta go

(quoted from post at 12:15:41 07/17/09) Grass pavers? never heard of them
Farmer

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16x24 inch and 3.5 inch thick, and about 55 pounds each. I was looking at several handlings and about 50 yds one way with a wheelbarrow (5 to a trip) for 200 stones.

Pretty good day...... The trimmer is gas w/ a 20 inch sword. Haven't tried it yet (Grizzly brand??).
Dave

It's amazin' what people will show up with to buy something big.

DiL was putting in a pellet stove a couple of years ago. A lot of people were and there was a run on pellets, creating one of those panic type temporary shortages. So one of the big boxes had a shrewd manager who bought about 290 tons to put on a big sale. All on one-ton pallets, in 40-lb bags, 1-ton minimium, 5-ton limit. Two guys showed up with 26-foot moving vans and no pallet jacks so we all had to wait while the fork-lift guys used pallets on the deck to push the pallets ahead to them them all on. Most were car haulers, with outside fenders that the fork lifts couldn't reach over, so each of them took some fooling around. Only three or four of us showed up with deckover trailers taht could be easilly loaded from the side. I was loaded, strapped down and on my way before the carhulaer next to me ws even loaded.

The more pathetic were those that shoed up with an SUV. Piled the back, the back seat and the passenger seat full and went out with their leaf springs inverted. Also a few small pickups who hadn't given any tough to not being able to slip a four-foot pallet between their whell wells. THose two groups were allowed to go to the side and load loose sacks on their own.

Most pathetic case ws the fellow with the small pickup and a lightweight snowmobile trailer who had paid for three pallets. He wanted one in the bed and two on the trailer. They let him load the first ton loose into his bed, and loaded the first pallet onto his trailer, but refused to load the second pallet. He put up quite a stick. "I drove all the way doen from Dover-Foxcroft to give you my business . . ." They allowed as how his best bet would be to take what he had to Dover-Foxcroft and, if his truck survived it, come back (a 90-mile round trip) for the last ton. It took three other folks in line behind him with at least capacity for their loads, to pwersuade him that he was getting good advice.

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(quoted from post at 12:15:41 07/17/09) Grass pavers? never heard of them
Farmer

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16x24 inch and 3.5 inch thick, and about 55 pounds each. I was looking at several handlings and about 50 yds one way with a wheelbarrow (5 to a trip) for 200 stones.

Pretty good day...... The trimmer is gas w/ a 20 inch sword. Haven't tried it yet (Grizzly brand??).
Dave

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So with the pavers i am assuming you set them or cut them into the ground and then grow grass in the openings?

Green that you can drive on without a mudhole. I use them in my case for paddocks. Just level the ground a little with gravel, put them in place, fill with gravel, go over them w/ a vibrator and cover w/ sand. Eventually, they finish filling and setting w/ manure and make a real nice area. Just as good as concrete without the cracks and less prep.

Dave

Got it, nice!!!!!!!!!!!
thought you had something fancy going on for the wife. Didn't sound like you after seeing some of the pics you have posted. LOL

Thanks

Farmer

Hope you have better luck with Grizzly tools than we did at the shop. Tried a couple of their drills--what a piece of junk. Maybe trimmers will be better.

After reading your post the first thing that popped into my mind was all the times I've held the door open for a little old lady, only to have her walk through without a hint of appreciation. You and your wife sound like generous people.

After looking at the pics of the grass pavers, I know I've seen them used somewhere around here but I never paid much attention to them. Seems to me like the grass would over grow them after awhile. Are they raised above the surrounding terrain a bit when they're installed? Jim

I held the door for a older couple and what seemed to be the woman's mother well she called her mom so I'm sure of it. All 3 said "thank you" then the guy going in did also. It took the older woman a little while to come out and when she did her daughter had to remind her to change hands with her cane. I was in Atlanta and got more gratitude than if in my small hometown.

(quoted from post at 06:42:44 07/18/09) Are they raised above the surrounding terrain a bit when they're installed? Jim

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Either way. For my case, I put them right on top of the ground after spreading a little gravel to smooth things out. Keeps the horses from standing in water without a lot of work. Story book for a parking area or heavy traffic is excavate and prepare as for cobble stones and then fill the holes w/ dirt and seed. The idea is a green driveway/parking lot.