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Just some tractor pictures i've had since before I ever got a digital camera. Some from an antique tractor pull, some from car and truck shows, some from parades. The dates on some of the pictures ranged from 2002 until 2007.

I scanned the tractor pictures today, I had some from the Stonewall Antique Power Show, dated anywhere from 2002 until 2007, some were from the Appomattox Railroad Festival parade, and some were from an ATHS show in Troutman, N.C. I'm going to put the rest in the "Tractors and Equipment" category after I put them on Flickr, but these were kind of interesting. These were in the antique tractor pull at the Stonewall show. I didn't know what to expect out of this little Oliver crawler tractor, but I do remember that I expected it to do a little better than it did. I think it pulled the sled about 2 feet and it was done. This is another one that I thought would have done better. A rare piece of equipment, only one i've ever seen. It was owned by the late Bobby Moore. It barely moved the sled either. But this Super M on the other hand... This is not the M that was in the pull off with the 830 John Deere, but it did make a full pull. And you talk about a beautiful tractor! I'd never seen such- the paint and detail was outstanding. This picture is 20 or more years old and doesnt do it justice, but it was really nice. Even all the bolt heads were painted.

What about the old "football helmet" cabover Peterbilts? 🤣 I think they're at the top of my ugly list!

Here's a few pictures from a photo album that I hadn't seen in several years. Possibly because it was on Zina's desk under one of her computer monitors to raise it up a little. Here's a big Mack water truck, up at the old shop at F.L.M. Here's a Cruise liner in Roanoke that I used to pass going to and from the concrete pipe getting place. There used to be 3 of them sitting there with "For Sale" signs in the window, but 2 of them must have finally been sold. I stopped and looked at them and they all had V8s in them and 10 speed Mack transmissions. I saw this Mack a mile from where I used to live, it came from the same place my old mixer did- Concrete Ready Mixed in Roanoke.And this A-40 was sitting in a field in Moneta, VA. just up the road a little ways from where we used to load treated lumber. I don't know what ever happened to it, it was there for a while, then it wasn't.

Happy birthday!

I've got some more pictures from that Stonewall Antique Power Show that I'm going to scan, just of some of the tractor pull. The antique tractor pull was my favorite thing there. The pull between the 830 John Deere and the Super M that I've told of before was awesome. Meanwhile, I've got this meatloaf smoking- Wednesday morning I have to be in Lynchburg at 7:30 for an eye appointment. They're going to evaluate to see if I'm a candidate for laser surgery to get that pressure down in my left eye.

I know a man who used to own his own truck, used to build log trailers from the ground up, worked in H.H. Moore's shop for a while. One of the hardest working men I ever knew. If he was working on something at H.H's. and needed a tool or something that was on the other side of the shop he wouldn't just take a leisurely stroll across the shop to get it, he would run. The engine swapping made me think of him. He said when he was young he used to cut pulpwood. He had a Chevrolet pulpwood truck and a Camaro. He said he would cut pulpwood all week, then take the engine out of the truck and put it in the Camaro so he could cruise on the weekend. Then Sunday he would put the motor back in the pulpwood truck. Next weekend, same thing. I don't remember if he eventually got another pulpwood truck, another car, or another motor, but he did that for a while. Hearing that from most anybody else I would have thought "what a total B S. story, nobody did that". But coming from him I didn't doubt it at all.

I had my Watt's Mack shirt on at the Stonewall show. Zina's dad asked me when when my hair started turning white, and I said "I don't know, probably about 20 years ago."

True that, I used to have a 1000 Kawasaki. Sold it and bought an F100. The guy who bought the bike was nearly killed on it just a few weeks later a couple of miles from where I lived. Totally not his fault, a guy in a pickup coming the opposite way turned left right in front of him and he hit the pickup.

They used to have it at the NAPA warehouse, right off of 40. I think that's the same show they have in Colfax now, it was just a few miles from Colfax.

I know I had posted some of these, but I added some more. They might be from a different year...but they might not, I don't know anymore. Hard to tell about some pictures, when I didn't write any notes on the back. They didn't even have a date for when they were developed.

Not done yet!

But wait, there's more-

These are some pictures that I just posted to Flickr. I don't think I posted them before, but I might have. They were all in photo albums and I took them out and scanned them all, that's what i've been busy doing. And I sure did take some crappy pictures then!

It was strange. I listened to Howard Stern and he was in New York, and he stayed on the air that day for hours after his show usually ends. I left Romulus and went to Detroit and picked up a load of lumber. But even after listening to him and the news all day it didn't really hit home until I stopped at the Walmart in Bedford, VA. the next day to get a newspaper. I pulled in first thing that morning and bought a USA Today and there was a big color picture on the front page, first time I'd seen it with my own eyes.

I was at a job site in Romulus, Michigan. I was delivering a load of joists there from Hancock Joist in Salem, VA. and listening to the Howard Stern Show on the radio.

Look at the end of the studs, left hand threads will usually have an "L" on it.

I watched his reels almost every day. Shared the same religious and political views. I was listening to talk radio on the front porch when I heard the news. It's just sad, I felt like I knew him.

I'm with you there, they do that stupid shit on the New River bridge in West Virgina. They close one side of it, it's US Rt. 19, on "bridge day" every year and they parachute and bungee jump off of it. It's almost 900 feets down to the river.

You've got to be careful out there. You know how Zina's dad cracked his femur? He got the shovel out of his garage- that's what he was doing behind the car in the picture I posted- to dig up a little bit of some kind of grass he's got in his yard for Zina. She had already told him "no" several times, didn't want it, didn't need it, leave the shovel alone, but no, he tried to dig up a little bit out by the curb. The ground was a lot harder than he was expecting and when he put his foot on the shovel he lost his balance and fell on the sidewalk. When I was a kid I was standing on top of a 5 gallon bucket in the tobacco field and the bucket tipped over and I broke my arm. When I fell in the back yard a few years ago I tripped over the stew pot stand in the back yard. The stand had been right there, in that same spot, for years and I tripped over it.

Here's another picture of the week I didn't get. Me and Roman were sitting on the front porch when he started barking at something. He was looking straight at that sycamore tree but I didn't see anything. Then I saw something go into the ditch out there by the road. I was going to go investigate but it's raining and I could have melted before I made it out there. So I was watching, waiting for whatever is was to come out of the ditch, and when it did it came out of the other end of the driveway culvert, to the right of the mailbox by that little tree. It's a pretty good ways through that culvert since we had the driveway biggerized. And it was the red fox again. It came out, trotted across the road and into the woods. Of course I didn't have my phone to take a picture, a phone picture would have sucked at that distance anyway. But it's a beautiful animal, must live somewhere nearby because I've seen it several times now.

Speaking of tires, I stopped in Parkersburg, WV. back in the 80's to get a motel room. I had picked up a load in Cleveland on a Friday and it was too far out of the way to go by the house, and by the time I got there it would be time to leave again anyway because the load was going way farther south somewhere, I don't remember where now. So I stopped right there at rt. 50 and I-77, the motel had a big dirt parking lot. I went in and asked about a room and was walking back towards the truck, a 77 F model Mack, when a trailer tire just blew out, sitting in the parking lot. Sounded like a cannon, dust and dirt flying everywhere. I had been parked about 10 minutes by then probably. First time I'd ever had a tire blow out like that, blew several on the road, but never when I was parked.

If you keep on about the Yukon Jack i'm going to feel obligated to give it a try.

I didn't want to put tires on the '87 F-150 I had, they had great tread, weren't even half worn out. But I had noticed the dry rot cracks in them. They might last several years or they might give out on the next trip. I ended up pushing my luck just a little too far, and the right front suffered catastrophic failure when I was on the way to Gladys to pick up a load of stuff when we were moving over here to Spout Spring. I went ahead and put 4 new ones on it. I hadn't even looked at the tires on my Impala but when I had it inspected last time inspector guy said everything was good but it would probably need tires by next inspection, for the same reason- dry rot cracks. So, remembering what happened with the pickup, I didn't wait. I went to the tire shop the next day and had 4 tires put on it. They were not even half wore out either. They might have been fine until the next inspection but I wouldn't want Zina to be driving it to Lynchburg or somewhere and suffer catastrophic tire failure.

Those orange peppers there are sweet peppers, taste just like a red or green bell pepper. Zina just got some hot Italian sausage at the grocery store so we can make sausage and peppers sammiches. We took some of those to Connecticut with us and that's what her stepmom made with them and they were fantastic.