I would like more information. According to google:Goodrich does not make an LT tire with a maximum inflation of 35 PSI .
I would like to know what the year make and model of the truck is and how they sold an unsafe truck… Saying a truck can handle 6000 lbs and then putting tires on it that can only handle 5000 lbs (example only) seems to me a law suit waiting to happen… Something tells me something is off with this story…
That, and the extended warranties on new car sales, which more than likely will never break down until the warranty runs out.
I thought that’s something that happened over 50 years ago.
Back in the 1960s, GM was allegedly notorious for supplying under-sized, underrated tires on passenger models, even large station wagons.
I can see such happening, nowadays, from consumer choices:
My church had new tires put on 5 years ago, on an older Dodge Ramwagon van from 2000 or so. I read the sidewalls, and lo and behold saw a ‘P’ in front of the size lettering.
I think the max cold pressure on those tires was 45psi.
Cold pressure split on those big vans was typically F/R: 50-55/80psi.
I know the church is poor, but skimping on tires is inviting tragedy.
So if underrated tires end up on a vehicle, it’s likely a mistake, made either by the customer or the seller.
I know we get off kilter on here, but about 100ish post ago, we were discussing appliances and what not to get, we as I was leaving to go to Kroger’s to pick up our on line order, I noticed water on the floor, the refrigerator/freezer had stopped blowing cold air, lost everything in the freezer, but was able to put the frig stuff in the older garage frig, then we had to cram everything in the outside frig/freezer that I picked up from the store…
Anyway, I remembered that basically if their grass root sales were smart phones and or TV’s, to stay away from them, so after looking at a c.r.a.p ton of frigs that will fit in our space, we finally ordered a (dumb lol) nice traditional freezer over fridge Whirlpool, the Maytag’s were a little over budget and this one too but it was on sale ($350 off) which it put me < $10.00 over budget, with ice maker, yes I could have saved a few $$ and used one of my trucks to go get it and install it myself and take the old one to the dump, but it is gonna be so nice just paying (already paid) someone else to do all the grunt work…
I know they have their place, but dang smart frig’s are expensive…Just for haha’s, I looked at a side by side frig over the freezer, was way to big for this old house, but WOW, it was over $14,000!!! I about choked, Yes I know that is cheap compared to the $40,000 frig’s, but still, all it needs to do is keep stuff at the correct temp, nothing more, nothing less, and make ice cubes…
Yeah we pretty much use whirlpool and have been satisfied. We have a local that we have used since the 70s. Wife wanted the side by side but bottom freezer this time. Didn’t want water dispenser or electronic junk but we did want the black stainless. We had to wait several months for it. Don’t remember why. Just used our old one until th3 new came in. We had done a remodel and ordered all new appliances so the frig still worked.
The guy said don’t expect th3 same life due to the new energy standards. Lg seems to have a real bad rep for appliances. I thought Nashville was all snowed in yet and power outages. Something about the disasterous mayor. Must be going around. Nice thing about winter is the outside is your back up refrig.
Yeah, it’s a mess down here right now, allegedly the trees were supposed to have been trimmed around the power line, never happened last year, so mother nature trimmed them for us, now just gotta find the money for it… Who knows, I’m not affected (mostly) by Nashville’s Mayor, they voted for him for whatever reason, they can have him, I have a different mayor to worry about…
In my area, the big utility company took a lot of heat a couple of years ago, because they “butchered” the trees along many of the roads. Yes, the trees did look very weird and unsightly after all of the work was done, but because of that proactive work, we didn’t have any power outages in this region.
Predictably, the people who gave them a lot of heat when they “butchered” those trees are not applauding the fact that their power wasn’t interrupted from the recent ice storms.
We’re mainly underground so not affected. Don’t know about the feeders though. Still a lot of power poles. Yeah the tree look like that after trimming. My father in law was on the rural electric board and he would complain as soon as they ran a line, the property owners would plant trees right under the line. At my old house I had to re-route a line when I added on to th3 gsrage. The guys didn’t know I could hear them grumble about having to dig a little. Like they weren’t getting paid for it. Of course one time the gophers chewed up one of the feeds. Cam3 home and half my panel was dead. Temporarily moved a couple breakers. Free repair on that one though.
I think they sub most of the trimming out to tree service company’s when doing large scale trimming and they most of the time turn out pretty decent… But yeah, I have seen some butchered trees… lol
It is recommended for new developers to run underground utility’s i some cities, but to my limited knowledge, it is not mandated by the state, but a lot of places have to dynamite to dig very deep, lots of rock and so forth, a new house we bought back in 2000 was so rocky that when I dug the hole for the mail box, I could not go deep enough, hit solid rock… ended up cutting the bottom off the post and hopped for the best, it was still high enough the mail carrier look like he was in a Corvette while putting it in… He didn’t find it amusing, but it sure was easy to reach in from my truck… lol
It’s not mandated by our state or town either, but developers are given a financial incentive to do so and thus it’s actually cheaper for them to do it.
Street I live on has a lot of trees and underneath the soil is ROCK. There’s a reason NH is called the granite state. Our house and I know at least 2 other homes on the street the builders had to blast for the homes foundation, and the well companies had to drill through rock.
You have a nice mail carrier. I know people who had to redo their mailbox post because it didn’t meet the post office height specs (bottom of box must be between 41 45 inches). I put in a granite post a few years ago and I made sure it was within spec. I didn’t want to dig it out and do it again.
The house I’m in now already had a granite post for the mailbox but it was too close to the road. It would get hit just about every winter when the plows came by. So I wanted to move it back a couple feet. That thing was buried 4 feet! I found a new use for my engine hoist…
Mine is 8’ long - so 4’ of it is buried. The ■■■■ thing weighs at least 400lbs.I made sure I have reflectors in the ground before the first snow to protect it.
Mine is the same. Has our address carved into it. All was good for quite a few years and then the town switched to a new plow company.
Although I live on a dead end street, they would come down the hill at 40mph with a curl off the blade that would destroy anything in its path. So I moved the post back and started cutting in a relief in the bank ahead of my driveway. That would help unload the plow before it got to my driveway and also left a bank in front of the post/box to absorb the impact.
Fortunately, we have since switched back and the original company is more careful (the guy who owns it lives down the road from me). Having three of the town’s Selectmen living on this street didn’t help the irresponsible plow drivers and prior plow company any…
Mines not. Didn’t want to run into the headache I had back in the 80’s. Years ago, NH made an effort to ensure all address met the national/state standard of increasing numbers the odd numbers are on the left. I was living on one of those streets that didn’t comply. All the numbers on our street had to change. I went from 102 to 71. This was before internet, so I actually had some magazine subscriptions. All those had to be changed. Let all our friends and family know it changed. Some responded with “You’ve only lived there for 2 years, why’d you move?” The biggest pain was the mortgage company and title insurance company.
Interesting. If you travel down my street with the increasing numbers going forward, the odd numbers are on the right…that would be terrible if they renumbered the street. What a headache! Just look at the expressway fiasco and how much did that cost? For what? I see very limited benefit…
The major benefit was for fire and safety. Actually part of the 911 emergency requirements. A firetruck who’s unfamiliar with that road may not realize they’re heading in the wrong direction - especially with a very low percentage of homes with numbers on them. It’s not much of a problem these days with GPS, but it was a problem in the 80’s. Back then we still had a lot of homes using Rural Route addresses.
We planted a Southern Magnolia on one corner of our house, about 15 feet away from the foundation. Since then, it has grown over the corner of the house. We had it trimmed 2 years ago to remove the branches too close to the house. It didn’t look good. As it grows, the tree looks better. The tree trimmer said that it shouldn’t need trimming for 20 years and we should be gone by then.
In the 50s we didn’t have an address it was just Route 2, Frederick Wisconsin.
BTW, I’m post 300, where is my award?
