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I've seen a Bighorn recently -within the last year or two anyway, I haven't been running I-77 much lately- hauling logs on I-77 in Ohio. Tried to get a picture, but never could, except for one blurry one on a rainy day. It was hauling some big logs, as long as the trailer or longer, and i'd see it somewhere between Canton and Marietta pretty often. I don't know if it was this truck or not, but it might have been. And back in the 80's we loaded at Galv-Tech in Pittsburgh a lot, and there was some company out of Ohio that had several Bighorns that loaded there a lot too. They brought lumber over around the Pittsburgh area and loaded steel back to Ohio, that might well have been this company.

Day-ummmmmmm they look good!

You're right Bob, i've still got a big pile of scrap metal in the back yard from when my shed burned up Thanksgiving day, my Dodge pickup is in the shop, pretty much been in somebody's shop ever since i've had it, and I can't haul much on the Ranger pickup- but I did cook a little chicken on the grill last weekend, and two pieces of country style ribs. Served with fine wine-

Well, yeah, I guess so...the only reason I suggested a Happy Meal was so I could keep the toy though...but if you want the m*t#*!+g prize that g@*@mn bad, just feel free to keep that son of a b!#$h, no hard feelings on my part...you @$$#01#!

I'm pointing out my CVSA sticker- the one I got on the same trip I got the cracked windshield on. I hate to tell them I need a windshield, when I have a brand new CVSA sticker.

Courthouse in Berkley Springs, W.V. Some place in Berkley Springs. That's a well secured load of steel at N.B.Handy in Lynchburg right there, and I went over and told the driver it was. His Dad was the driver that was killed when the pipe fell on him last year. Wow, he's got placards for everything- must be taking a load of MEK to 41Chevy. Saw this in Concord yesterday. It's a lot like the one the man who bought the mixer has, not quite as nice though. Made into a single axle, reversed the hubs on the rear and running single tires, looks sharp!..it's for sale.

...and then- back to the real world. I had to get my flatbed and go to Lynchburg and get a load of steel going to Warren, Ohio- had to be tarped of course. Then it was snowing when I got to Warren. 12 seconds later... Saw this accident on the Pa. Turnpike on the way back, just as you come out of the tunnel.

Well, I sold the mixer last week- took a few more pictures of it when I left last Saturday going to sunny south Florida. I was hoping to get down to Jensen Beach early enough Sunday to get up with hatcity, but I had tire issues that held me up a few hours Sunday morning. But I called him, since I had his number on a coffee cup, and he came over to the power plant Monday morning for a little while- super nice guy, even brought me a cup of coffee. There was another F.L.Moore driver there too, and I don't know why I didn't think to get him to take a picture of me and hatcity, because nobody will believe it without a picture, but I really did meet hatcity...honest. The Areva guy came over to take me to where I had to drop the trailer I had, so we had to say a quick "goodbye", but I told Ed that if I got to go back to pick the trailer up i'd buy him a happy meal. But, there's no telling who might go back to pick it up, or even how long it will be there- could be anywhere from a few weeks to months. I dropped this trailer and bobtailed back to Virginia. I saw this in sunny south Florida- and all these- and this-

Great pictures all, thanks!

I think it did, the man that bought it has three restored trucks already, an old "deuce and a half" military truck, a cabover Freightliner, and a 1948 Kenworth- they all look outstanding, and he did the work himself, very impressive! I hope he posts some pictures of them some time. I probably could have gotten a bit more for the truck, but he came, he saw, he bought, and i'm glad he got it.

Wow!

You're right about that- he could stand there and tell you the history of all those trucks, where it came from, where he got it from, what was wrong with it- if anything- and everything else about it. He said when me and Joe was there that the next truck that he was going to get in his shop to work on was the highbinder IH, when I went there a year or two later with Wayne Ellis it was still in the same spot, just like I thought it would be. He was one of those that really wished he could restore everything he had, but he knew he'd never have time to do it. I posted some pictures of his trucks on facebook after I went there, and I wish I hadn't- instead of appreciating the pictures, and the fact that they were there to see instead of having been sold for scrap years ago, a lot of people just said how it was "a shame" to have all those trucks "just sitting there", some used the word "criminal" because he had them and wouldn't sell them. I told them they were his to do what he wanted with, but a couple of guys made me so fucking mad angry that I cussed them out and called them such names that I later felt bad and apoligized to them for it. P.L. was kind of like Super Dog and his trucks I guess. I really enjoyed walking around looking at the trucks, and even though he didn't know me from Adam he made me feel like family, he just could not have been nicer.

You're welcome. The gray cinderblock building is the old Davidson's Orchard apple packing place on rt. 15 a few miles north of Dillwyn. There was an old Davidson's Orchard truck at P.L.Duncan's so that's why I got a picture of the building. We used to go there and get apples and peaches when I was a kid. Now there's pine trees planted where the apple trees used to be. The store we're all in front of in the pictures is at P.L's too. It was Duncan's Store. We were there with Wayne Ellis, his dad, and his uncle when these pictures were taken. P.L. gave us a tour of the store that day, and it is packed full of stuff too- The American Pickers guys would go nuts, lots of old signs, oil and antifreeze containers, truck emblems of all sorts, even some grocery items laying around, and I think he told us the store closed in the 80's.

Bob hit some kind of big bird himself a few years ago and broke his windshield- I've even got a picture of it on the computer at home.

I can't tell on here if the first link worked or not...

https://www.flickr.com/photos/28526133@N04/albums/72157645761852611

Sounds like him, he was a super nice guy, and he would stand and talk to you all day. I've been to his place several times. I took nocluejoe66 there one time and he gave us the grand tour in his pickup. I have many pictures of his trucks, the album is called "Old Trucks at P.L. Duncan's". They're in Cumberland county, where I was born and raised. I'm in Hubbard, Ohio now on the laptop.

I used the 93% lean ground beast when I made the one on the grill, and it was the only meatloaf i've ever had that was too dry. For this one I used 80% lean beast, chopped up about half a large onion, half a green pepper, added two eggs, dumped in some bread crumbs, and the secret ingredient- a bottle of John Boy and Billy's Grillin' Sauce. I used the original flavor, it's really good.

I did not see much this week, so I didn't take many pictures of it. Didn't really go too far, went to Milton, W.V. and back to Petersburg. I saw this mill roll in front of me going up Sandstone Mtn. Then I took a load of pipes to Blackstone, Va, a van load to South Boston, and a load of kyanite to Sanford, N.C.all in the same day. Saw this flag on a hill from Griffin Pipe. Old truck by the field. A Ford for sale in Concord, Va. Jo's been after me to make a meatloaf for a while, so I did. Last one I made like this I cooked it on the grill, but it was a little chilly yesterday, so I just put it in the oven. I was going to do the fancy weave/lattice deal with the bacon, but I ended up just stacking a pile of bacon on it. I didn't use a loaf pan, the top pan has holes in it so the grease could run out into the baking dish it was sitting on. I'm all about eating healthy, that's why I only used 14 slices of bacon instead of 15. It was very tasty!

I've done that before- I was coming back from Covington with an empty log trailer one time and pulled over on the ramp at exit 36, at the bottom of North Mountain. I-64 was completely snow covered, there was no way i'd make it up the mountain with the empty trailer. So, a salt truck finally goes by, I give him a pretty good head start, then follow him on up the mountain. Made it just fine until he took the crossover about a quarter of a mile from the top, then I was on my own, and I thought I wasn't going to make it that last quarter of a mile. Sat on top of Sandstone coming east one night waiting on a salt truck that never did come. I sat there about an hour, while the snow was just getting deeper, and one of our trucks passed by going west and he said he thought I could make it. So I eased on down, by the time I got to the bottom the road was clear, and they had salted the other side. Sandstone is no hill to be taken lightly.

Richard Rawlings paid $5,000 I believe it was for an older Bronco that was just a rust bucket.

That is a good one!

Here's a link to the pictures- http://www.vanderbrinkauctions.com/auctions_pictures.php?detail=205

Wow, some nice stuff there- Divco,Travelall, Studebaker, just to name a few, and I just kind of skimmed thru it...