Successful extraction

That pic is at the place she has been sitting for the last few days, just before take off.   Reattaching the Drive shaft was a no go, but Cecil used his John Deere to push her onto the trailer easy-peasy.   A little Dawn dishwashing liquid for lube under the rubber and she slid just fine.   Tied down ready to roll and it wasn’t even noon yet.

Home, getting her off was almost as easy.  long 1/2″ cable to a fixed point, tow strap around her hitch and pulled the trailer out from under her.    And there she sits until such time as I have the parts  pulled  from the donor ‘hicle and am ready to play swappy-swappy.  

but not tonight.  Ol’ Dio and Da are whooped pups after a 500 mile round trip thunder-run.

And costs?   $120 in fuel round trip.  Told Son of Bossman, “don’t get rid of this truck!” and showed him the reciepts.  He was as impressed as I was.   18 gals at first fill up (after pickup and turn around) and 15 gallons as we reached homeport.  Empty trailer on trip out, loaded trailer on return and her milage didn’t vary by much at all, and I only really noticed the load on craptastic roads (Chattanooga, I’m looking at you babe!) or when braking on down hill curves.   The trailer brakes seemed to work well, until I really needed them (bone head pulled out in front of me,,,)  but no mishaps so I still call it a win.

Nothing much to talk about in the ‘Clearing the air ‘ department.   Did some talking but Da has never been one to discuss issues with people directly.  Maybe something sis said, or I did, made him re-assess his stance.  dunno,

But, We is HOME, everything is close at hand and not scatttered to the four winds , and I can get bizzy on takin’ care of bizniss