[TheForge] Rivet question

[jerry Frost]

Dad taught me you can't tie something down too securely so long as you don't
damage it.

That reminds me of a story from the drilling days. We were doing a little
barge job in Whittier Ak. and loading gear onto a landing craft from the van
truck. I'd gone to some trouble to make wheel chocks that'd grip on most
anything, we did a lot of ice and they hung on clips under the van box i
front of each rear wheel.

Well, the lead guy on the crew chocked one front wheel with a slime covered
rock on the slimy boat ramp. Just the vibration of the guys in the back of
the truck was enough to make the front wheel turn . . . left. The rock just
squirted clear and the van rolled into the boat harbor. Glub glub. I was
just walking back from parking the other truck and got to see it roll into
the bay. Both guys got out okay, not even wet but the truck was totaled. Did
I mention it was running? It sounded like a seal bomb when water hydrauliced
a cylinder, they couldn't even salvage the engine block.

We had to hire a diver to hook up a tow cable and the lead guy was going on
and on about how he'd done everything right, took every precaution to the
Fish and Game cop watching to see if there was an oil spill. The look the
Fish and Game guy, the wrecker driver and several spectators gave Mr. lead
guy was pure scorn when the box cleared the water with the wheel chocks
hanging there in front of the wheels.

Yeah, chock a front wheel with a slimy rock on a slimy paved boat ramp.
Pure. . . Eh HEM.  nevermind. 

Jer

-----Original Message-----
From: TheForge [mailto:theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Peter
Fels & Phoebe Palmer
Sent: Monday, March 2, 2015 10:29 AM
To: Blacksmithing List Sponsored by ABANA
Subject: Re: [TheForge] Rivet question

Ah, you know me by now Jerry.
With all my excessive padding, tie downs, blocking and so, there isn't much
to see at this point.
Overdoing the securing of this load will psychologically compensate for my
lack of faith in the engine, wry grin.
I was messing with the carb and ign and didn't do a test run.tisk.
 Last run, Peter P borrowed it to fetch a 5000 gal  water tank from Paso,
and dropped it on the freeway! All the while, the passenger side of the cab
was heaped with rigging, chains and binders.