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steelsoldiers · 06-22-2009, 21:00

Well, as you can see, there haven't been any updates in quite a while. Getting our home renovations completed so that we could list our house for sale has consumed most if not all of my spare time.

I did manage to sneak off a few weekends ago to pick up my wheels/tires from John's so that I could get the "new" tires put on. I delivered them to my local tire place. They handle all sorts of farm equipment, etc so they are used to big stuff. They did a remount for my 923A2 and did a great job so I let them redo all 6 this time. Those were loaded onto my trailer along with the dead tires so that I could take the old ones to the landfill and the newly mounted ones to Winslow's.

Today, I planned to go to the tire recyclers and then to John's for a bit. I managed to get to the recycle center around 8 am. Unfortunately, they classified my tires as off-road tires and wanted to charge me $150/tire instead of $140/ton. One of the guys at the landfill told me of another place about an hour from my house that would take them.

I went home, cleaned up the house for the realtor, met with the realtor, got the house listed, and then headed for the new recycle center. I was about a mile from the dump when my left rear trailer tire blew off the rim. It had a slow leak in it because of a screw and finally decided to let go. Arrgggg! I changed the flat beside the road and made it to the recyclers in time to dump my tires. They only charged me $38 to dump them. The tire shop wanted $40/tire and the other landfill wanted over $120. Woo-hoo.

I never made it to John's. I left all of the parts and tools in the Excursion in hopes that I will be able to get down there more often now that the house is listed. I sure hope I can get the truck done before we move!