Hauled some Lumber

When I carry long lumber, I have to leave the Volvo tailgate propped open enough for the wood to go out the back. Hopefully I can get home before the exhaust fumes become too much. The most I ever hauled in the Volvo wagon was about 1100 pounds of floor tiling. With two passengers, it came to close to 1450 pounds of cargo!. I remember how sluggish the wagon became and how the rear shocks were never the same afterwards.

 

Date on camera is wrong.


Well I guess I'm the ....

Deb's Escape is the only ride with a trailer hitch, she was not home and I had to move fast so I did what I hate the most..........................






6 brand new patio chairs witch I'm going to give to my daughter, a kinda OK ladder that I will list for sale, burner and full propane tank witch I'm going to keep just because......................



and a 1 year old full size fridge, but the fridge is getting delivered later today for a box of beer by the same moving company that was at the same house, packing the house for move.

I think including the year old fridge, witch I'm swapping the in suite is a good deal. had been planning on a new fridge for the suite, it's older, starting to get louder, saved a few bucks rite there......and now I'll again have a beer fridge in the mud room

 

Shee-yit, that's nothing! I once hauled a Ford 400 engine in my CP to deliver for an engine swap; I've hauled fenders, doors and hood from the CS and Grand Marquis on top, and I hauled the 302/AOD I traded for the CP in the CS while the tabs were still good on the CS! I hauled the 2.3L and the cherry picker in the '78 Pinto wagon for the engine swap on the Ranger I owned, and it was in cherry condition inside and out! So all the stuff you hauled with your rig is no big deal. However, I would've put the chairs inside and strapped the ladder and burner up top in the center to reduce drag.

 

And that above is why............get/borrow a truck and don't trash the wagon....all in fun....but your nuts.....J/K man

I do have a compressor in the way back at the moment, that's why chairs are on the roof. I just don't like doing this to my wagon/s at all inside or out.... I'd like to keep my poor man's pride as decant as I can even though it's getting weathered. I had a deal IMO that I couldn't pass up and had to go NOW to get it, (No time to borrow a truck, I had to go) but if that same deal meant a engine, I'd pass... no way in the world period will I stuff engines, fenders etc in my wagons, I don't even like having the compressor in there, but it's new and that's the only reason........ I still need to deliver that

 

Would be nice if we could have some fold-up-able cargo liner for our wagons. Slide it in and not have to worry about scrapes and such. Still have to watch out for the headliner, though. I swear I need to be more careful about that. I'd get pretty upset at myself if I damaged the new headliner.....

 

Speaking of which brings us back to why I had to put a grey home made carpet headliner in my 1987 Chevy regular straight roofed van. As someone was filling the van with old Mercury parts, including fenders, hood, and more, he had also bought a rental unit room full of metal shelving in six foot long pieces. Being very careful loading he somehow hit a few of those pointed ended metal shelves on the cloth headliner. After he said DARN a few times and driven 1000 miles back to Florida a new headliner was needed.
If station wagons were still as popular as pick up trucks which have bed liners, maybe those companies would have made removeable, even sliding liners for wagons. I've seen adds for slide out boxes to haul dirt, etc. for pick up truck beds. Those would be nice for a wagon. .

 

Tedy sometimes you confuse me. Deb's Escape is the only ride with a trailer hitch,
I didn't see a trailer behind Deb's Escape. So this leaves me wondering why you took her vehicle and came home trailerless.
Also in conclusion I had recently bought a brand new pretty red Gran Torino station wagon. We drove approximately 100 mile west to the Mississippi river and northward another 50 miles.
The purpuse of that trip was to get a 1926 Model T engine complete and running. Well it was only running while on the engine stand. Some may not know it but a Model T engine/transmission is one long unit with the magneto where a normal clutch or torque converter is on newer vehicles. That bugger alone is heavy!
I put down old blankets then a piece of plywood to slide the engine/tranny unit farther in then out at home. A farm tractor with forks was used to get it in my Torino wagon. I also bought two or three complete sets of touring car top bows and some spare ones. Also some other smaller Model T junk the guy had.
The wagon purred like a kitten and nothing was damaged....on a nearly new station wagon.
The moral of this story..... There ain't one. I'm just bragging!

 

cat, your confusing me ...... where is this pic of deb's escape with no trailer hitch and better yet how old is this pic as it has one....... A class VVVIIIIIIIIIVVVVV as offered exclusively to Furd of Canada ( fals in the same line as the XDRETVVV!!! trailer package that some one else constantly posts about

Also in conclusion......Why "trash" a wagon today because that's what we did way back when they were a who cares disposable?,,,,, The moral of my story is 'WHY trash a wagon today?" do it today when everyone and there dog can get a truck to use 99.5% of the time for ugly loads...like engines, asbestos, transitions, nuclear waist, fenders, pig farm clean up, hoods, BIO hazard............ but if that's OK with a select few....... I know what used wagon to never buy


I wish I could give you a 'noogie' Cat

 

Your honor I did not say Debs vehicle did not have a hitch. I didn't see anything you hauled on or in a trailer, or a trailer. Altho you could have dropped it off before you took the photos. That's why I commented and got cunfusicated.
Back then I or no one I knew had a pick up truck and I had a new station wagon which is made for hauling everything you listed and more. I'll admit I never hauled pig farm clean up but probably everything else. Oh, reminds me. We did buy a hog from a friend once and he had it butcherd. So yes I did haul pig parts in my wagon!
If a person plans well and takes care most anything within reason can be hauled in a station wagon with out any damage. I will admit certain pig extract may leave a temporary smell in the wagon for awhile. Pets, kids, and small animals may want to stay out of the way back seat until further notice.
In conclusion again WHY NOT?

 

WHY NOT, Cat asks ..........

No happy meal for you!




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DAng you reposted before I finished correcting all my mistakes.
We had dead baked chicken and veggies so i don't need no stinkin Crappy Meal.

 

.......................... now go haul some pig farm waist in your 55 before you pipe up again about 'Why Not'?

 

Hauling wood

I had the pleasure of hauling some wood in my 67 Country sedan a couple of months ago. Not only were people in the parking lot having flash backs, I had experienced several moments of nostalgia ( miss you Dad!)
What a simple and cool thing to do on a Saturday morning.

 

Because the CP was a beat-up and rusty vehicle, it was perfect for doing all the stuff I needed at the time. I used it the way that I did because I had no intention of restoring it. I had my eyes open for one in non-rusted, non-beat-up condition that the CP would've donated its parts. But when the engine threw a rod, I got the vehicle I actually always wanted since junior high school...a full-sized Bronco. So I stripped it for parts and junked it. It'd be nice to find another one, as they are very comfortable for my tall, fat, @$$, and have, I'd swear, a better turn radius than an FWD car.