Re: Calibrating length and width
- Subject: Re: Calibrating length and width
- From: <r*@wi.rr.com>
- Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 16:44:33 +0000
Kathie, I had a very wide pumpkin and it was only about an inch on both sides of fitting into the trailer I had. I took measurements using a regular tape measurer and it proved to be fairly accurate. One thing I noticed is that some guys throw a couple pallets in the back of their pick-up truck beds so that the pallet to be removed is sitting above the wheel wells. Terefore, gaining more width in the pick-up bed.
It sounds like you know of a big pumpkin out there. Maybe a pick-up truck won't be big enough. You can call Ice Road Truckers and see if you can get one of their rigs and drivers to come help out!:)Russ
---- Kathie Morgan <fishrap@att.net> wrote:
> Has anyone come up with a way to determine a pumpkin's actual width
> and length while it is still on the vine? In other words, how to
> determine whether a given pumpkin will fit into the bed of a given
> truck?
>
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