When the going gets tough, the tough get going

agesilaus wrote:
Tree limb suspension: AO

This was series in Australia about Semi Desert Tribal aborigines and their ingenious efforts to get a car moving
Aboriginal " Bush Mechanics"

I bet it rode like a log wagon

So that's what those timber-ens some of you shove into your springs are.

Watch the move "The World's Fastest Indian". In the middle a large tree branch was used to replace a blown tire on a trailer !

What kind of chickens do you make wire from?

:):)

Many years ago while driving a cab over tank truck the adjusting bolt broke letting the air compressor fall away and the drive belt no longer making contact with the pulleys. No air no brakes:E. I'm about 50 miles from the yard and no help (long before cell phones) I found a sturdy stick (branch) stuck it under the compressor, wired it to the frame, lowered the cab on the stick, got just the right amount of tension (had to be a perfect diameter stick) on the stick. Got air up and drove it home.Any stick in a storm right? Right;)

Ages ago I noticed a neighbor hauling home large loads of cinder blocks for the foundation of the garage he was building. He had an old State DOT surplus 1/2 ton truck. With the back end full of cinder blocks, it was riding nice and level.

Me being me, I had to wonder over and check things out. What he was doing before loading the blocks was putting three pieces of 2X6 between the top of the axle and the frame. Worked like a champ.

Bill

Chicken wire is expensive.

Even if it doesn't last long, the replacement parts are cheap.
The fines, not so cheap.