After my long, grueling, all uphill 20 mile hike home-I meant to say 2 mile flat as a board walk,hit the wrong key-I went to Carter Cat the next morning and picked the truck up.Ran great. Went on to Petersburg and loaded a load of steel going to Nazareth,Pa. After I unloaded Wednesday morning I had to go to Sparrows Point to load coils back to Lynchburg.I was outside tarping when I heard the phone ringing-it was Jeff. He just wanted to let me know they had a load of kyanite going to Fremont,Oh.
Man,what an adventure I had today! Last week was pretty routine,went to Triadelphia with a load of piling,Galv-tech back to Lynchburg,then I took a van load of kyanite to Orchard Park,and brought a load of hay back from Edinboro,Pa. to Altavista for Stacy Compton,the race car driver. (ok,that part wasn't so routine) He drives in the Craftsman truck series this year. I had 580 bales in the 53' van.Hay is scarce around here because of the drought.
So I left Sunday going back to Point Marion,Pa
Almost 70 degrees today in knoxville and just to think we had snow wednesday and thursday. I didn't go to harlan county today instead we wen't to knoxville to take amber's pregnant aunt to a baby consingment sale. If you don't know what that is it's a big sale of all kinds of baby items. i tried to stay home, but they wouldn't take the suburbabn by thereselves, they claim i's to big!!! On the way we stopped by the county jail to see amber's uncle, everyone was inside except for me and parker "we
I stopped in to the truck shop today. I was pretty well prepared to see the roof of my B-67 cab cut apart,
having gotten a phone message from my welder/body man the other day.
But - what I found was my old cab with no roof at all, no cab back panel and no windshield posts!
Holy smokes - the shock set in big time.
Even though I got a really good donor cab roof and concave back panel from Kevin All. And I've known this had to happen.
I took some pictures for posting ASAP.
Anyway, after my h
I went to Appomattox to see Jeff and Teresa today.Took the back roads and stopped to look at a B-model i'd seen a long time ago.It was sitting in a field near a row of trailers,back off the road a quarter of a mile or so. All you could see was the back of the cab,but I could tell it was a B-model Mack. I said I was going to stop someday,and today was the day. An elderly lady came to the door when I knocked and she said I was welcome to look it over.I asked if it was for sale,and she said " it pr
Well the mont is almost over and I hae to say it's been a weird one. I know that I've not been on here much lately, but hopefully that'll change soon. Some of you guys know that i lost my job, and I've been searching high and low with no luck yet. I think I might have found one runnin' a dozer in the woods, but it's been awhile since I've run dozer so we'll see. Finally got some snow last night and that's why I'm not out job hunting today, because of the slick roads. Parker and Paxton are doing
We were talking about rt.250 a while back,the section between Fairmont and Moundsville,WV in particular,so Big Jim gave it a try and survived with no problems. He researched the trip well in advance too. I had told him about my trip across there in '80,and that I said at the time I wouldn't go back across it bob-tailing.And I told him what Bollweevil said,and what the man at Triadelphia had said. None of that scared Big Jim. He called the police departments in Littleton and Cameron,and they said
it's way past my bedtime,but i'm waiting on another youtube video to download.It's really crappy,but I have to go through a long process to do it.Maybe i'll get a camcorder with my tax refund to help stimulate the economy.If I don't go to jail forever that is-I did my own taxes online,for the first time ever.Used Turbotax,and it wasn't too bad.If I don't end up in jail...I shouldn't,I followed the instructions step-by-step so I should be ok.
Anyway,I had to put a tape in the vcr and play it
what did I do?! I didn't know I had such a big fat head!..guess I won't be needing my comb for a while-oh well,I had to much stuff to carry around anyway
Driving home from an appointment this morning in Pultneyville
I spotted a very straight and solid looking B-61 tandem axle flatbed
parked in a row of the farm's fruit hauling trucks and old tractors.
Occurred to me that I have seen it there for a number of years.
Just never thought about it before, I guess.
So - I'll have to go and introduce myself .................
We'll see what happens.
PVS
Got the truck back from Cat Tuesday and took a load of black iron pipe- already loaded for me and sitting at the shop- to Conway,Pa, a little north of Ambridge on rt. 65. The load was a little lighter than usual,only 41,000+ lbs,but I could tell the truck was pulling better than it ever had. I made it past the first rest area in Pa. on I-79, the one just across the state line where they set up scales and DOT checks sometimes,but as soon as the " scales and DOT " motivation to keep going was over
Monday evening,still at home.Been on the phone with the insurance company about the shingles the wind blew off the roof yesterday.My policy is $500 deductible-I think I can fix it myself.
Truck's still in the shop-I've been whining-complaining I mean,I've been complaining to Jeff that the truck just did not pull like it should.When Cat turned it up from a 475 to a 550 it still ran the same. We wanted to get it by Ashland,Va. and put it on the dyno but just couldn't seem to be in the area at
OK, enough of the nonsense,it's time to be serious. I've got a 'chicken on a can' cooking in the smoker oven too,always tender,juicy,and most delicious! Very easy to make too.
I had to start this all over just now-it's very windy here and the power went off just for a couple of seconds,long enough to shut the computer off so I lost everything and had to restart it and start all over again. A big deal when you type with one finger.
I left Sunday going to Fremont,Oh. When I unloaded there
Not sure if anyone knows it or not but, otherdog goes by the name "Thomas Blackwell" I found out after extensive research his birth name was Bernard Rubble!!! His son Bam-Bam married Pebbles Flintsone for awhile had enough kids to start a small country with then divorced in the early 70's. Barney's wife was cheating on him while he was out of town driving truck with Fred Flintstone. After Barney found out he decided him and Bam-Bam should move away from Pa. and start a new life somewhere differe
pictures showing what I looked like yesterday,today,and what i'll probably look like tomorrow,Lord willing.
actually,that's me on Saturday,then Sunday ready to go to work,and me about 1979 or '80. Now THAT'S some hair! (and about 40 less pounds!)
Yeah,talk about changing-here's the 79 or 80 and half today... an old gray haired geezer. But i'm OK with that.
Top that title Tom!
Anyway, Joe asked how the B-67 was progressing.
The answer is quite well, Thanks.
We have the ACE air ride crossmember in hand. Nice piece of equipment.
And we have the new springs back from the shop.
The rear axle is completely rebuilt except for one pair of pesky brake shoes, which the relining
company now is refusing to do, although I paid for them. So I'm doing those myself.
The engine has to be looked over by a local retired master mechanic, along with the trans
just in case anybody was wondering,this is me,right now-what?..nobody was wondering?.. so,nobody cares where I go or what I do,or what I look like?..well,never mind then,i'll just be here-it relaxes me
And what a nice one it was. Me and him went to wal-mart friday to do a little grocery shopping and he seemed to enjoy himself. He had never rode in the pickup before and acted like he was excitied taking in all the noises the truck made. We got all our shopping done after all the women was going crazy over him smiling and kackling... until we got to the checkout and man he let me have it big time crying and fussing. I ended up having to hold him in one arm and put all the groceries up with the o
...well,it's different from "Saturday" anyway. It's someone else's turn to use that anyhow.
I took a load of piling to Point Marion, Pa. Monday. It's on rt.88 just across the Pa. line a little ways from W.V.,near Morgantown. Yeah,one of THOSE jobsites-you had to pull down there,back down a hill to the crane right on the riverbank,then since there was ankle-deep mud everywhere they had to pull you out with another truck after you got unloaded,then you had to back up another hill and onto the
Got a call from Yellow Freight today.
My air ride crossmember is here from A.C.E. in California.
Now I'm really getting excited.
I got the springs back last week. The rear end is still waiting for one pair of relined brake shoes, then it's done.
The frame, front axle, radiator supports, transmission and mounts, and fuel tanks, brackets and hangers are all sandblasted and epoxy primed.
Still need to blast and prime the rear end.
I'll reassemble, plumb and wire, and re-fit and align everythi
