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Message: <blockquote data-quote="vinito" data-source="post: 92774" data-attributes="member: 12954">I bit the bullet, dropped back and punted, re-thought it all and decided what I had to pull with I really didn't like anyway, so I'm replacing it.I've had an old beater '93 Ranger pickup I'm kinda tired of owning. At 6'1" I'm not all that tall, but the thing is cramped in leg & elbowroom as well as line-of-sight. When I first got it I had to drive 45 minutes minimum one way to get to work and back every day and after a while having to duck just to see out the dang window created a permanent painful crick in my neck after a while. So I've probably put a total of 50 miles on it over the past two years. Well that's just stupid.Today I picked up a cheap "beater" of a new sort in the form of a '98 F150. It's not a smooth luxury truck on par with the current lovely trucks being made, but it sure isn't bad at all. It's a ton more comfortable. I fit in it ! So that solves the first broken link in the chain.I have found a trailer manufacturer a couple hours away where I can order a new tandem 18' manual tilt bed trailer which will serve my needs well. They are built well, full 4-wheel brakes, winch mount, LED lights and plenty of strong tie points and it's only a little over $2K, which seems like a really good price for a brand new trailer like this. The length is way more than the loader alone needs, but of course I can use it for a lot more than hauling the loader. No sense having a single-purpose trailer when a much more versatile one can be out there taking up about the same amount of space.And I can sell of the Ranger and my super HD 4'4" x 9' (yea building that was kinda dumb) flatbed trailer off to recoup some of the costs. This just makes sense, huh?Sometimes you just have to let go of the past.The new digs:<a href="http://smg.photobucket.com/user/mikeyphoto/media/truck.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v110/mikeyphoto/truck.jpg" alt=" photo truck.jpg" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></blockquote>

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