YELLAHEEP
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Littleton, Colorado
So, a Deputy that I work with calls me up in a real bad situation up in Copper Mountain. Apparently he was doing some sight seeing in his '04 Honda Accord and bottomed out on something on a dirt road and cracked the aluminum oil pan..... possibly roaching his engine. I haul up there with the truck/trailer to get him and his Honda home.
After dropping him and his car off, I head over to Pull-N-Save off 66th with the truck/trailer. Find some parts, and head home after about 45 min. in the yard.
This morning, I had an appointment to get the CTS appraised for the bond title process and go to load it on the trailer......... only to discover that one of my trailer ramps is missing. So is the snap pin that was holding it. WTF? :dunno:
Now, I know for a fact that THAT particular ramp had been put back after dropping the Honda off. The Honda owner had helped me put the ramps back and I specifically remember having to give him verbal instruction on how to get it set in place so the snap pin would go in securely. The place I put the snap pins when the ramps are out generally would keep the pin there if I'd have forgotten to put the pin in the ramp...... but the pin is gone.
But, to be certain, I called him and asked him if he'd trace my route from his house to I-25 and 58th and see if he might find it along the road somewhere. I found this highly unlikely as I actually have lost one of those ramps on the highway before and when it slides out onto the road, it makes one helluva noise. He calls back and says "no luck".
So, that got me wondering if someone actually pilfered it while it was sitting in the PNS parking lot....... But what's unlikely about that is.......... I had parked at the west end of the lot near several rows of new arrival cars. I had started walking toward those cars having seen a couple of '97+ XJ's and was promptly contacted by a security guard letting me know those cars were off limits. I gotta figure that guy was still there while I was in the lot...... surely he woulda seen some dipstick taking a ramp from my trailer right?
Now I'm wondering if someone actually stole it as the trailer sat parked in front of my house......... But that particular ramp sticks in place and makes a helluva noise when it slides out....... and it's a good 40-45 lbs and generally hits the ground when coming out..... woulda made quite a racket at night with the neighbor's windows being open in the middle of the night.......
Seriously? I gotta put pad locks on my damn trailer ramps now?????
Since I was headed to Milliken this afternoon, I stopped by DenCol steel and had 'em look at the ramp I still have and they sold me all the pieces to re-create another ramp........ $97 worth.
Rant off.
After dropping him and his car off, I head over to Pull-N-Save off 66th with the truck/trailer. Find some parts, and head home after about 45 min. in the yard.
This morning, I had an appointment to get the CTS appraised for the bond title process and go to load it on the trailer......... only to discover that one of my trailer ramps is missing. So is the snap pin that was holding it. WTF? :dunno:
Now, I know for a fact that THAT particular ramp had been put back after dropping the Honda off. The Honda owner had helped me put the ramps back and I specifically remember having to give him verbal instruction on how to get it set in place so the snap pin would go in securely. The place I put the snap pins when the ramps are out generally would keep the pin there if I'd have forgotten to put the pin in the ramp...... but the pin is gone.
But, to be certain, I called him and asked him if he'd trace my route from his house to I-25 and 58th and see if he might find it along the road somewhere. I found this highly unlikely as I actually have lost one of those ramps on the highway before and when it slides out onto the road, it makes one helluva noise. He calls back and says "no luck".
So, that got me wondering if someone actually pilfered it while it was sitting in the PNS parking lot....... But what's unlikely about that is.......... I had parked at the west end of the lot near several rows of new arrival cars. I had started walking toward those cars having seen a couple of '97+ XJ's and was promptly contacted by a security guard letting me know those cars were off limits. I gotta figure that guy was still there while I was in the lot...... surely he woulda seen some dipstick taking a ramp from my trailer right?
Now I'm wondering if someone actually stole it as the trailer sat parked in front of my house......... But that particular ramp sticks in place and makes a helluva noise when it slides out....... and it's a good 40-45 lbs and generally hits the ground when coming out..... woulda made quite a racket at night with the neighbor's windows being open in the middle of the night.......
Seriously? I gotta put pad locks on my damn trailer ramps now?????
Since I was headed to Milliken this afternoon, I stopped by DenCol steel and had 'em look at the ramp I still have and they sold me all the pieces to re-create another ramp........ $97 worth.
Rant off.
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