RE: Tom needs a tractor

["Eppinger.Michael" <Eppinger.Michael@domain.elided>]

Actually the term that I have heard for this set up is a gas powered
wheelbarrel
Epp

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> From:	tsm1@domain.elided [SMTP:tsm1@domain.elided]
> Sent:	Monday, November 30, 1998 3:14 PM
> To:	daniel.r.felix.1
> Cc:	ihc@domain.elided
> Subject:	Re: Tom needs a tractor
> 
> 
> What I *have* thought of (believe it or not, but mom made this suggestion)
> is to remove the pickup box from my "parts truck" Chevy Luv 2wd.  $100 for
> the truck.. put a timing light on it, and it runs like a top.. just looks
> like hell.
> 
> Remove the box, and install something of a flat bed.  Mount my shop hoist
> to
> the flatbed.  Voila.  "Yard truck" for pushing parts cars around the back
> yard, or for lifting engines and draggin' 'em around... or for junk-yard
> parts runs or....
> 
> And it's small enough to be nimble in the backyard.. much more so than my
> stepdad's '69 GMC that we thought of doing the same for.. but we may have
> found a pickup box for it... (current one, with 30 years on it, aint'
> doin'
> so well any more)
> 
>