The gravel truck on Vancouver Island, Nick eventually made a trip from Edmonton to claim his prize and naturally I'm up for the adventure.
Leaving early in the morning we take the two hour ferry ride over to the Island, drive for another half hour to where the truck is parked, the battery''s are toast we jump start the truck form my truck which is propane powered with an airline tapped into the vapor port. Yes you can inflate flat tired on beater vehicles using propane. The importance in the propane comes into play latter in the story.
We have the gravel truck running with a permit, Nick drives the gravel truck with me following behind we reach the ferry terminal just as it's taking on vehicles and passengers for the mainland we use the lower deck, I'm parked behind.
We had up to the coffee shop for a breakfast and tell old war stories, soon we arrive at the Tawassen terminal, everyone is leaving the ferry but the gravel truck wont start. Nick is asking me to charge the air lines with my propane so we could push the truck off. I tell him I'm not that crazy there are signs all over the ferry instructing campers to turn off propane bottles during the trip.
The ferry decks are now empty of Island traffic and they want to load mainland traffic heading to the Island I have to leave, I wave at Nick as the ferry disembarks once again for the Island this is the last trip of the day. Nick spends the night on the Island finds some new battery's then makes the morning trip once again to the mainland and yes they charged him for each crossing.
The Harrison scrap deal soured from beginning to end, Nick however did the right thing by me in that he gave me a finders fee.
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