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  • From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Homestead tools
  • Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 08:35:36 -0700


If you think "smelly, heavy, dirty" while you're
thinking/looking 'truck/trailer' it helps to focus
on *what/why* you *need* a ?truck/trailer?
and not a status symbol SUV.

I drive an SUV not as a symbol of anything. It gets all my jobs done. I show real estate with it--it's comfortable and passengers sit higher than in a sedan, which makes it superior for viewing. I put down the back seat backs and haul lots of long stuff. I just brought home four pieces of twenty-foot rebar. Okay, I cheated on that--I bent the rebar at about the fourteen-foot spot, secured the bent end with duct tape, sat each piece on top of the seat backs plus a two-piece construction of one-by-fours fitted across inside the back and then locked to the length with duct tape. A pickup truck could not have carried the rebar any handier.

It is a comment on our culture that pickup trucks are symbols, I guess of machismo. They are the most popular vehicles in the country--I believe I read that the Ford 150 is the best-selling vehicle in the country. This large city is full of big 4WD pickups whose main duty is impressing the drivers. Big pickups, big SUVs and the Hummers have made parking a more exacting exercise in these days of expensive parking lots.






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