This morning the company vehicle I was driving had the low tire idiot light come on. With 200 miles to go and 2 more stops to make I stopped in at a local tire shop for an air check. 4 of the tires were in the 37-41 psi range with the 4th down to 20psi. So off came the tire and over to the water board, I mean dunk tank, not a word, no bubbles, nothing. Anyway while chatting with the tire guy I noticed a 5 gal bucket filled with WW and covered with fairly heavy coating of dust. Hmmm, I thought to myself these have been here for a while, an inquiry was made about what the shop does with their old WWs, they sell them for .25/lbs. The one bucket was weighed and maxed out a 100lbs scale, the boss man said close enough, call it a 100. To make a long short I left with 2, 5 gal buckets of WWs for an even 50 bucks. Better yet, very few Zn and Fe WWs, and mostly nice big 2-4oz micro weights and Pb tape weights. The 2 of us loaded them in the van with ease and down the road I went happy as a lark.
Getting to point of my story, after getting back to office this evening I pulled up behind my truck, dropped the tail gate and proceeded to hoist the buckets from the van to the truck. WRONG. With my hands grasping the bottoms I could get the buckets up to mid thigh without any problem, but that extra foot up to the level of the tail gate just didn't happen. I don't recall WWs being quite that heavy in years past. Come to think of it, the ground used to be a lot softer back then as well. What's next, global warming.. ah hog wash.
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