Since I’m covering for Rich this week and it’s been a while since I’ve done an update on the official CC company truck, here it is, still hard at work. A week or so ago I hauled another yard of gravel for a little project that will end up in the truck finally getting covered parking after all these decades. Maybe it’s too late to even bother? It’s been sitting outside all these decades and that hasn’t killed it yet. Nor has my endless abuse of it. But this gravel is part of a project to finally get the old truck under a roof.
This may not look like much, but a yard of 3/4 minus gravel weighs 2,800 lbs when it’s dry, but more like 3,400 lbs (1540 kg) when it’s wet, as this certainly was from the massive rains just before this bit of sunshine. My ’66 F100’s official load rating is 1,200 lbs, but then I’ve been overloading it forever.