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maybe we'll drive over to visit some day! http://www.maxim.com/maxim-man/russia-proposes-a-superhighway-from-london-to-new-york-so-brace-yourself-for-the-ultimate-road-trip-2016-04?utm_source=fbpartner&utm_medium=partner&utm_campaign=dailydot
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Yeah, as you could see that gig didn't last long, back to the old grind already.
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I saw some girl working at the country club too. She was carrying furniture, while I was standing around and taking pictures. I saw two cows standing on a trailer on I-65 They were just down the road from the big fork on the trailer- Near Maysville, Ky. I picked up a load of auto parts in Romeoville, Il. ...going to the Advance Auto Parts distribution center in Roanoke, Va. When I got unloaded there yesterday I had to stop by N.B.Handy in Lynchburg, drop the van trailer, hook to the flatbed trailer and pull it out, drop it, chain, strap and tarp a load of steel, then hook back to the van and take it to the yard. I'll leave tomorrow with the steel, it's going to Handy in Charlotte, N.C.
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Been seeing a lot of turkeys lately- this one was in the back yard last week. I almost hit one that flew across the road in front of me on rt. 24 Monday when I was going to Richmond, then I saw three more fly across I-64 Monday evening in West Virginia. Still a little snow hanging around in W.V. Monday too- I guess somebody tried to pull into the shop too fast and turned over... Unloading furniture at some country club in Geneva, Il. I had to back up in here- Looks easy enough, but I was running out of room to get the truck straight over there on the far side. I had to pull up a few times and get the truck closer to the tree over on this side before I could get around the bend and come on back to where I needed to be. I'm not the wheel man vision386, nocluejoe66, green dash,..never mind- i'm not much of a wheel man,ok? I saw a river- And I saw some ducks in the ditch-
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I think i'll just stay here and drink...
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OK- I saw a cow in Winfall one day.
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I was indeed sick as a dog for about a week and a half, felt like crap and just had no energy to do much of anything besides lay around and be miserable. I had no appetite and had to force myself to eat, mostly chicken noodle soup or just a boullion cube dissolved in a cup of water. I think I actually lost about 25 pounds in that week and a half, but I think I put 23 of them back from Thursday until today. I'm feeling a lot better now, I went back to work Thursday, and I thank everyone for their concern and well wishes.
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"Other Dogs Bar/Grill & Brass Pole-atorium"
other dog replied to 1958 F.W.D.'s topic in Odds and Ends
This one sounded very promising... at least compared to the others she did. -
Saw a big turkey in a field a while ago- Then I saw a hen in a field just down the road from here-
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I'll tell him. He was saying he might try a Benson.
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I hope not- this was after I got back to the shop and the arch still wasn't back to where it once was. But, Jeff said he's gonna trade it for a new one soon. I'm on the third truck with this same trailer, i'm sure it's got close to a million miles on it. It's a good one!
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But I did think about you again! I left Indianapolis a little after 10am- actually Westfield, just north of Indianapolis- and drove straight to Wooster. I thought they'd probably load me the next morning, but I called the guy in Wooster and he said to come on , they would load it that evening. So I didn't stop anywhere, and got there a little before 3. By the time they finally got it raised, loaded, blocked, situated, and I chained it down it was after 6, and I couldn't run after dark, so I had to get going. I had hoped to get to Mineral Wells, W.V. but only made it to Newcomerstown- then I had to tarp the thing! And my Ohio permit had me routed 30 east to Ohio rt. 94 south to 250. I don't know why I couldn't take 250 all the way, 30 all the way to 77 would have been better than rt.94, it sucked! I went up 94 with a load of Kyanite going to Orrville one time, and said i'd never make that mistake again. It was narrow, with a lot of crown in the road, crooked as a dog's leg, Amish buggies everywhere, and very steep hills- not real long hills, but so steep I was in 3rd. or 4th. gear in the low side getting up one of them.
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I'm in a tight spot. Silos on the AA Highway in Kentucky. I took a load of beams to Indianapolis, then went to Wooster, Ohio to pick up a roll mill to take to Bedford, Va. It was 9'3'' wide and heavy- they told us it weighed about 55,000 lbs. but we might want to get a permit for 60,000 lbs, just in case. It took three forklifts to lift it... and they had to put a big electric motor on the back of the biggest one for an extra counter weight. When they finally got it up in the air I backed under it. It didn't just flatten the arch in the trailer, it put a noticeable sag in it! It was top-heavy too, rocked like a load of logs. I stopped and weighed it, and found out that the permits weren't worth the paper they were written on. I weigh a little over 31,000 empty, so that machine weighed over 66,000lbs. But I made it to Bedford OK, and got it unloaded Thursday evening. Oh, and I saw two girls throwing some trash in the dumpster in Petersburg Monday. Saw two blue trucks... and two red trucks. Actually, I've been practicing on my poorly photo-chopping work.
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"Other Dogs Bar/Grill & Brass Pole-atorium"
other dog replied to 1958 F.W.D.'s topic in Odds and Ends
I interviewed another potential employee today, she even came down to check out the facilities, but still no luck, she didn't work out either. I told her to find her own way home, because I wasn't gonna take her back. -
B 61 Integral Sleeper
other dog replied to other dog's topic in Antique and Classic Mack Trucks General Discussion
Yeah, only got 12 Yuenglings so i'm rationing it- i'm finishing up the Bud Light that's left from last weekend. Only had about 8 or 9 cans in the box...down to 4 now. -
B 61 Integral Sleeper
other dog replied to other dog's topic in Antique and Classic Mack Trucks General Discussion
Well, I can't go back today- had a Bud light or three since I got back- but it's not that far, I can go back on a Saturday morning and see if I can find out anything. It's at some kind of business, but I don't know what it is. We just pulled in and when I saw the "for sale" sign I figured that meant I could get out and take pictures of it. -
Orville Cabs
other dog replied to other dog's topic in Antique and Classic Mack Trucks General Discussion
There's no such thing as too many pictures on here! -
B 61 Integral Sleeper
other dog replied to other dog's topic in Antique and Classic Mack Trucks General Discussion
No Paul, there was no phone number or price on the sign. I can investigate further if you want. -
B 61 Integral Sleeper
other dog posted a topic in Antique and Classic Mack Trucks General Discussion
I've been on a secret mission today. I went over to Concord to turn the refrigerator off in the red truck and get the half a pack of ham and half a bottle of Miracle Whip that i'd left in it- I was afraid it would run the batteries down and it wouldn't start tomorrow. Anyway, when we left I said "we should ride down to Drakes Branch and see if that B model sleeper cab is still sitting there." I had seen it a couple of months ago when I was passing through but I didn't get a picture. So we did, and it was still sitting there. It looked a lot worse up close than it did driving by that day, lots of rust- but there was two new looking coil racks laying in the passenger seat. -
I unloaded a load of beams in Roanoke early Monday morning, then went up here to Milton, W.V. and picked up two mill rolls and took them back to Petersburg, Va. Picked up another load of beams in Petersburg going to Roanoke, but I dropped it at the yard and took a van load to Fuquay Varina, N.C. Cleaning up damage from the recent tornado in Evergreen, Va. The railroad tracks are over in the background, that's where I lived when I was renting a house in Evergreen, just this side of the tracks. The house later burned. Got distracted by Fox news... I hauled a bulldozer a while back and the man that hauled the dozer to where I picked it up has a restored B 61 Mack. I finally got to see a picture of it yesterday- It's an old Jamerson Brothers truck, like this one except for the tandem axles. Here's some of his old tractors behind the B model on the same trailer he had the dozer on- Fox News, B models, and a bulldozer inspires me to post a poorly photo-chopped picture of a Winfall wimmins posing in a field by a bulldozer...
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H.H.Moore had a guy from Covington that had an old green and white Transtar with a 318 leased on with him. It was really weak, even for a 318. His uncle used to ride with him sometimes and when we were hauling chips from Ivy, Va. to Covington for Westvaco one summer you would see him climbing Afton Mountain about as fast as you could run- he had his foot holding the driver side door open and his uncle would be holding the other door open with his foot.
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I took fertilizer to Sam's Market in Lookout, which was mainly a grocery store, but they had a little of everything, and they unloaded it - by hand of course- in a little shed beside the store. I always had fake bills that said I had a load of Kyanite when I went to W.V. with fertilizer because we couldn't haul fertilizer in W.V. but we could haul ground ore. I never got checked anywhere anyway, but if I had and they looked under the tarp and saw it was fertilizer they would probably have been in even bigger trouble with the false documentation!
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Helluva load of lumber on that wagon! Where's the engine on the Convoy car hauler, and how does it keep cool? Always liked the old "snub nose" trucks. Cool little mixer in there too.
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