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And so I found pretty quick some dwarves who would buy the diesel engine of the F250. I was waiting around for them at the field behind my dad's place where the truck sat, and finally they showed up pulling a big sledge behind them, and a basket of tools and some ropes and poles. And they had a lot of helpers, I think I counted twenty of them.
They had this big huddle for a couple of minutes, and they were muttering together for a while. Then they got to it, and I've never seen anything like it. The whole team of twenty just surrounded the truck from all sides and started working, and I kid you not, they had the body off the frame in like five minutes. And in another five they had the engine off the frame and onto their sledge. And then they had another huddle for a minute, and when they came out they indicated that they wanted to take the frame & body too. Fine by me, it's busted worse than I can fix.
So they hauled away the engine on their sledge, and in a couple of hours they were back with an even bigger one to carry the rest. They gave me these cool little soft leather bags of gold nugget and dust with "O" branded on them, and that was that. If I can just get this stuff exchanged somehow, I'm all set with dough for a while.