It's Knot as hard as you'd think.

[Argabarga]

Time is why they don't use plaster anymore, you can sheetrock an entire house in the time it would take to just plaster some of the larger rooms, plus a good plaster job is like laying cement, you have to carefuly level out all the tiny imperfections and dimples you get in it after you apply it, with sheetrock, you just hang it and only have to fill in the divots where the nails went. It's also easy to tear out and replace for damages or utilities

IT's been 25 years since my parents built thier house, and the carpets the only thing that's ever needed replacing because of pet traffic, the walls are just as good as ever.

[Dreamstalker]

I think that "Home Depot Car" link would be appropriate at this point, if someone can go ahead and find it.

Is this it?

[AFpheonix]

3.) to w hich the man said quote "I was a boy scout. I know how to tie a knot. It'll fit."

In a similar vein, my sister, her husband and I were helping my trainer get some hay in, doing the ol' follow the baler around the field and load it into a truck/trailer ploy. We got our 2 trucks loaded and tied down and left, but as we were going we noticed how high my trainer's dad was stacking their flatbed. We looked at it sideways a bit, but shrugged and left.
Well.....
Apparently, they tied that sucker down with only some boat rope. You know, the yellow stuff that's about as thick as 2 strands of baling twine? It was stacked way too high and he hadn't tied the bales in together very well, either (criss crossing the layers so they hold themselves in). On their way back to the barn, they went around a corner and lost a bit of their load.
Some of the bales fell ONTO an oncoming cop cruiser. He crashed, and was unconscious. They called 911, and were going to let the guy just sit in his car without trying to move him, but unfortunately, hot car parts+flammable hay= fire.
They managed to set the cop car on fire.
In the end, the guy ended up being ok, and my trainer's insurance company handled everything, I'm not even sure if she got a ticket, since technically the load was tied down, just stacked badly and tied with crappy rope.

[Argabarga]

I used to do the hay run for our horses when we had them, I bought the stuff from an old-school farmer who had been loading pickups for years, he and I could get 52 bales into my 1/2 ton Dodge, and stack them so they'd stay in position by themsevles without twine, and as long as I kept it under 25 and tripled by braking distances, I made it home with a track record of only losing 2 bales in like 5 years. (and they don't count a low tree branch knocked them off)

[AFpheonix]

Heh heh heh...I don't miss doing that at all. When we built the new barn, we measured the farmer dude's hay squeeze and made the bays big enough that he could back it in and dump a nice, stacked load in there. We do a minimal amount of stacking in some of the corners and to build the stacks up higher, but god, it beats picking it up out of the field.

[repsac]

When I first moved to this area, I got a job as a manager in a clothing store. Now, the general area I'm in is known for it's onions. Sweet Vidalia onions. I think there's a 50 mile radius that they only grow in. Whatever the case, there isn't much room for them to be grown in.

Onion season will cause you to see some of the strangest sights. Trucks which have no reason to be on the road, straining under the load of millions (no exaggeration) of onions in various states. Some held in wooden boxes, others in funky green mesh bags.

In the past, I have actually witnessed parts falling off the trucks. However, since they are seasonal, and rarely travel more than five or ten miles to the nearest onion packing facility, they actually fall into a loophole where the DOT doesn't mess with them.

Hell Hath no Dismay like a man who suddenly finds himself staring at a fifty pound bag of onions.

To make a very long story short, I learned rather quickly not to drive close to these trucks. About halfway to work one day, a bag comes off the back of one of those trucks, and lands smack on my hood with a wet thunk. The truck never stopped. Myself, I chalked up the price of the bag of onions (at the time well over 100 dollars) a fair exchange for the minor dent in my hood.

[Seanette]

I think that "Home Depot Car" link would be appropriate at this point, if someone can go ahead and find it.

Here's where I knew to look for it:
http://www.snopes.com/photos/automobiles/lumber.asp