Your best guess?

[Norm Zax]

Not sure what these people were trying. I'll leave it to your imagination.
[no one was hurt, except the tailgate, when the piece "unexpectedly" shifted]
source: Flickr. Found by Toolmonger.

[Steve Vaughan]

WOW! That's one serious bowl blank right there! Well, it appears to me that they are wanting to load the piece in the back of that truck. I'd really like to see a pic of the truck with that thing sitting in the back. Can't imagine that the tailgate wasn't dragging the road!

[Jim Underwood]

My guess is that they were trying to save money by not hiring loading equipment or skid truck... Being a cheapskate myself, I know what that's like.

But still....

Looks like a really good way to get hurt to me. That's a big chunk of wood. I'd not want to rely on cinder blocks to hold up something that heavy, and certainly not that awkward and ungainly.

I'd just call up a buddy with his loader, or at least rent a skid truck.

[David DeCristoforo]

"...Not sure what these people were trying..."

I'm thinkin' they were trying to get that big ol' root ball into the back of that truck...

[Tim Rinehart]

All I can say is if they had to keep that in one piece vs cutting up into manageable sizes for loading/turning...HOW BIG OF A LATHE do THEY have!!:eek::eek:

[Steve Schlumpf]

I believe that what they have there is called a lawn ornament! All they are doing is moving it from one yard to another... hopefully! Somehow, just looking at the photos, I just know there is crazy music playing in the background and someone running all around the yard yelling 'Hey Moe, Hey Moe!!'

[Roger Chandler]

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I just know there is crazy music playing in the background and someone running all around the yard yelling 'Hey Moe, Hey Moe!!'

Thought that was funny!

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[Jim Burr]

It's got to be a Candid Camera moment...Stupid hurts!

[Jon Lanier]

"Stupid is as Stupid does." -Forest

[Chip Sutherland]

Specimens from the gene pool. Future Darwin award winners. Wonder if they wear their faceshields?

[David E Keller]

These are my people. Well, these are the people that I see in my clinic on a daily basis. Thank God there's no cure for stupid... I'd be out of a job.

[charlie knighton]

i wonder how they got it out of the ground, that thing is awsome. glad nobody was hurt.