Since I'm planning to go pick up another truck this weekend, I decided to go about getting my Blue Truck and the trailer ready. As I was driving up to my garage, I noticed a big snow drift in the street with the neighbor's car stuck in it. I locked in my hubs, put it in 4X4, and went through my big drift which wasn't half as deep as the one in the street. I wasn't going to try to drag my trailer through that drift, but since it didn't try to slow me down, I decided to try anyway. Today there wasn't much mud either. I did make it through the drift without much issue. As I was unhooking the trailer close to the street, where there was almost no snow, the neighbor's wife hollered at me asking if I could pull the car out. To say that it was no problem would be an understatement. After they left in the car, I drove through the ditch several times to pack the snow down some. This is a town that's right next to being unincorporated, but sometimes, the streets do get cleared of snow. If nothing else, he should be able to drive through my tracks by tomorrow evening. Then I managed to dig out my car ramps and a couple of tires on rims for the new to me truck. I wanted to grab a used, non working vacuum pump so that I could swap my fairly new pod onto it since I haven't ever remembered to get around to doing that yet. I saw one on a shelf and was carrying it out to the truck when I turned the pulley over a couple of times and it felt like a strong pump. I took off a glove, put my thumb over the vacuum port, and turned the pulley three more times. Lo and behold it made vacuum! I KNEW that I had an old pump that worked. For the life of me I hadn't found it in at least four years so I was starting to doubt it. Maybe I shouldn't have stuck it on the top shelf behind other parts? I'm going to put it on nd see how it does. I'll still have the back up pump and this one that I can put the new pod on so I should be fine. By this point, I was feeling like a king so I decided to head home while I was actually ahead for once. That was fine. I still have to put four new tires on the truck and dig up a couple more tires to put on the new truck (I found that out after I got home) so a short day today isn't all bad.
The picture of the street drift doesn't do it justice, but the one of the trailer beside hives a MUCH better comparison.