Wall off what you don't need today so it doesn't have to be conditioned.
Ditto, though my HF hoist was new. Last use: stump puller, in conjunction with a portable winch in the receiver on the back of my truck.
Stings, doesn't it? I can no longer toss 200# transmissions over my shoulder and walk them to the bench.
Jeeze, I would have told that Monckton mutha where to stuff his springs, then returned them, unopened, with a reeeeal nasty letter.
Then I'd have found a way to get the Chicago guys to get some to me. I'd also tell the Chicago people about the totally unreasonable increase to see if they could put some pressure to fire the Monckton jerk. My sense of fairness gets shunted into ACTIVELY HOSTILE mode when I hear things like that.
Or, if the springs just couldn't come from Chicago, I'd have found a US or NS spring company to build them for me, or I'd have wound them myself.
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