Flashback post of "What did I do to my Bronco back then"???? Well, I hauled RR ties with it...not on the road but for dozens of miles alongside the tracks. No roads and only a few places with level places next to the tracks to load it (one in the pic) but... here's my "Flashback" post... 1981 I think the pic says...
This is related to a trailer thread we have going on and I was describing what we used the trailer for.... it was total ABUSE of the Bronco and trailer but.... the story below...
"Used it to haul everything (the trailer) but destroyed it hauling RXR ties to finance the building of my shop. These ties were chopped in thirds by Milwaukee RR. I got contracts to haul them off and I wholesaled them to a large RR tie place in CA. I remember I could get just over 100-120 of these "1/3 length" ties into it. Then I'd be towing it over RR tracks and up and down ravines, off the sides of the county roads thru just about anything (no roads) to get access to the tracks. I winched a lot. I had to winch to the actual tracks (rails) a few times... no joke. I was flipping crazy. lol
Yeah, this was a slave labor operation but I had a shop to build and didn't believe in debt so we did it. My wife drove a lot and I told her when climbing hills to never let the rpms get below 3,000. No ARB's back then- wish I did. lol Same Bronco today... that's why we can't ever sell it!
I'll find a pic, got one somewhere...
FOUND THEM
Looks like my wife got one in mid-flight with our 35mm Yashica.
...in the 2nd pic you can just barely see the top of my boat rack (white horizontal 1"x3") on my Bronco. Gotta love the fro and shades... lol On cold frosty mornings I'd get into places and stack three ties at a time on the rail and PUSH them 1/ 4- 1/2 mile or so to the Bronco & trailer... slide decent on the icy track... like I said, it wasn't easy. Most I could carry was 2 and still walk hundreds of yards stepping on the ties instead of the 3" shale rockl btw the ties... I walked dozens of miles each day.
Sold them by the semi-truck load... looking back, that was a Herculean effort... that's our son in that pic playing on creosote covered ties there... He's 46 now. lol
The 3rd pic with the shop, we were living in it then. Update: The 4th pic keeps this more Bronco related as I was pulling the 2 ton truck across the field that was trying to move our old mobile home off our property... Bronco has a book with the title "101 uses of a Bronco". Wife and kids put it together...
