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mkirsch
Apr 13, 2022Nomad II
Grit dog wrote:
(I also got pretty proficient at welding frames and spring perches and replacing axle shafts!)
Isn't this precisely why you would want to be "niggling" over weights?
You've overloaded. You've seen what happens. Yet, you take a cavalier "who cares? if it fits it ships!" attitude toward it.
There's also a huge difference between experienced people who do it for a living on short hauls across town, vs. clueless rookies traveling hundreds of miles grossly overloaded. At your landscape job you'd limp the broken truck 5 miles back to the shop and fix it yourself. No big deal. That's not an option out on the road. Very few people have their own shops within 5 miles at all times no matter where they are. Very few people are capable of fixing those kinds of issues themselves. So, why not avoid them? I guess it's no fun that way?
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