Got called a Redneck yesterday!

Hey folks.

I was chatting with a fellow I know at the electric supply yesterday.

He does a bit of contracting also and inquired as to my bucket truck and wondered if was for sale.

I told him that anything is for sale at the right price and remarked that the last time I used it was when I killed a steer and used the boom to pick him up and load him on the trailer.

He said 'holy cow! That's so redneck!'.

I guess I should be insulted but I really am not.

Brad
 
I would have thanked him for the compliment. That usually blows their mind, at least what little they have.
 
There's no shame in rural ingenuity! Got a buddy that used to work for a tree service and he'd bring home a bucket truck on the weekends to use for a deer stand. Worked great, and made it easy to hang and skin 'em as well.
 
"I'm a redneck, what the heck!
I'm a honky tonkin' fool, I'm a ramblin' wreck!
Gimme longhorns, longnecks, rodeo...
Some Ray Wiley Hubbard on the radio!"

Quote from some song, someone I can't recall right now. Anybody remember?
 
Brad you ARE a red neck.. I am to. Buddy and I loaded three round bales 1200 each on a flat bed trailer few years back.. needed to unload didnt want to bring loader over to his place to unload so we backed down a rather steep field entry and hit the brakes hard.. all but one went off the back.. second attempt dropped the third.. and Im sure Im not the only one that has done this on this sight.. lol Welcome to the club...
 
I've seen that done with a boat on a boat ramp. The driver charged down the ramp and hit the brakes, the boat slid right off the trailer. The driver had a stretchy rope between the boat and the trailer. When the boat hit the end of the rope he bumped the trailer ahead and the boat softly came back to the ramp. I would have liked to see if he did anything similar to reload it.
 
Hello Brad Buchanan,

I think that a red neck is a hillbilly turned city dweller. He may also wear shoes as a redneck, while a hillbilly may think them an option............ HA!HA!

Guido.
 
If'n you grew up as poor as some of us hillbillies, shoes weren't even an option in the summertime (cept'n maybe a cheap, cheap pair of tennershoes that MIGHT last the summer!).
 
We had a heifer a few years back that every time we went to move the herd she was in, she would just lie down and refuse to move. You could holler in her ear, jump around on her side like a trampoline, and nothing...she'd just lie there and refuse to get up. Not sick, perfectly healthy, just stubborn.

She would usually go 100 yards or so before she layed down, so we went one day to get her and put her into the horsetrailer. Didn't happen, she just layed down and wouldnt move....about then a neighbor drove by with a hydraulic bale-unroller on the flatbed of his pickup. We backed up to her, tied her onto the arms of the unroller so that she didn't get injured, and he picked her up and plopped her down inside the horse trailer gentle as you please. She layed there while we unhooked her and shut the tailgate. Neighbor and us laughed a bit and went on about our day....
 
Hello HillsOftn,

Hech!, back when tires had no wire, you could cut them up with a knife to your size, and lace tnem right up,

Guido.
 
Brad, I think if it had offended you, you wouldnt be signed up on this site. I really cant image anyone on here not having a little redneck in them. Actually i think its a term of endearment. like other words that go with redneck like smarts,..common sence and genius. And lets not forget the Hey yall watch this.. LOL
 
Speaking of that, I've heard that the most common last words in Texas are, "Hold my beer and watch this." I'll bet it's true, or at least almost true.

Stan
 
I'd take it as a compliment. Years ago I camouflaged an old school/church bus that was given to me for storage so it wouldn't be as obvious sitting where I had it in the woods. When my sister say it her exact words were, " Wayne, that's about the MOST redneck thing I have ever seen you do". A week or so later she was at the house, after I placed the bus where I wanted it, and when I asked her how it looked, she couldn't spot it until I pointed it out. I told her that us rednecks have reasons for what we do, and the fact she couldn't see it was the very reason I painted it like I did.....
 
Neighbor was burning some trash a while back. He tossed an old tire on the fire (yea, I know). Then he pulled the carcass of a racoon he'd skinned the day before off the back of his truck and tossed it on the burning tire. His wife happened by and said to him: "If you were a real redneck you'd pull that coon out the fire and eat it". So I guess there are degrees of redness...
 

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