I may have mentioned a dead refrigerator? Yeah… well, Sears is kindly delivering the new one at the first of next week (and no doubt I’ll have more to say about that later) but first the old Viking Clunker has got to go! Where it has to go, the scrap metal place where the coolant will be captured (gotta protect the ozone layer!) and the metal salvaged for recycling, is about 40 minutes away — too far on the highway for our little utility trailer to do safely.
So that means getting Don over here with his pick-up to help haul it away. It’s not great, as trucks go (and it’s kind of an ugly D.O.T. faded green) but the rental price is right!
Only first, he’s got to take off the slab of wood and sheet metal that’s bolted to the side rails — something he euphemistically calls his truck tonneau cover. That cover may have been cheap, and it may keep out the rain and snow, and it may keep small objects from blowing out of the back of the truck when he’s on the road, but what a nuisance if I want him to haul something as tall as a fridge!
I’m pretty darned frugal — some would say “cheap” — when it comes to buying gadgets and gear, but there’s no question that transporting stuff is a lot easier (and possibly safer) with the right equipment.
Everything is easier with the right equipment, when it comes right down to it — which is why I’m getting a new fridge that I can’t really afford instead of pouring more money into trying to the 30-year-old hand-me-down Viking unit, yet again…
So I’m thinking that Don’s pick-up needs one of these cute folding covers (you can drive with it open, if you have something tall, or even just flip it open like a car’s trunk lid to drop in something small — a picnic basket, I’m thinking!). A cover like that would make his truck a whole lot more useful… for when I want to borrow it!
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