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  1. Yes, sounds right- "I scaled Mount Everest without using supplemental oxygen wearing only shorts, tennis shoes, and a Hawaiian shirt with a picture of Bob on it"!
  2. But what does " scalable " mean- enquiring minds want to know...
  3. That's what I did, I changed it to ''CARBON" and it's pretty good.
  4. Kind of like Richmond Dragway, I used to take my 350 Nova and my '70 Chevelle SS there in the 70's. You could run 12.00 all day with no safety equipment at all, but if you turned an 11.99 you were done, unless you had all the safety equipment- roll cage, helmet, drive shaft loops, etc.
  5. We figured we should have our shit together when we got there, so I had my hard hat, glasses, steel toed boots, and reflective safety vest on, but I was still wrong- they also required long sleeves.
  6. You're right about that. Wouldn't surprise me if backup beepers are required equipment on jobsites after this. This might have happened before at some point in history, but i've never heard of a similar accident before. But I believe that when your time is up, you're going away from here.
  7. Yep, I think there was two trucks from that same company there. They had to drop their trailers last Tuesday because they couldn't get unloaded because of lightning in the area. They were in a different area than we were, and from what I understand they had to back in off the highway to get to their trailers when they came back on Wednesday, so they were probably in a hurry to get off the highway too.
  8. He asked me about backup beepers on trucks too, he said everything at that job site had backup alarms on them but the trucks coming in didn't. I said I don't know, the truck I drive now has a backup alarm, but it's the first one i've ever driven that had one.
  9. True that. The man I was talking to said the man on the forklift was there and saw the whole thing. He said he jumped up on the side of the truck and was beating on the window trying to get the driver's attention. When the driver stopped and got out and saw what had happened he got back in the truck and would not get out. The whole thing was caught on the security camera there too he said.
  10. Saw a girl or two in a car or two- they'll be getting smaller as the weather gets warmer. The power plant we took the crane to near Martinsville, In. After the fatality accident last week they put barricades in front of every dropped trailer at the site- I was talking to one of the guys that was unloading us and he said the man who was killed was their foreman. He was standing in front of a trailer, facing the trailer. The truck driver didn't see him and backed under the trailer to hook up, just mashing him between the 5th. wheel and 5th. wheel plate...horrible. So they made all these barricades. They didn't want us to start, stop, turn, pull up, back up, or anything else without somebody being there to tell us what to do, and they had an escort walking in front of the truck everywhere we went. They finally unloaded me with the forklift Tuesday evening, after sitting there most of the day, but the other two trucks didn't get unloaded until Wednesday because the wind was blowing too hard to use the crane. Then I went to La Porte, In. and picked up 16 scrap coils going to Suffolk, Va. The coil inspector had to inspect them even though they were scrap coils.
  11. Not nearly as impressive as the above photos, but I did see a D7 sitting in a field.
  12. Well, don't tell anyone else this, but it's mostly a pigment of my imagination.
  13. Oh, trucks run it a lot- there's a Georgia Pacific plant and a chip mill just down the road in Brookneal.
  14. I loaded 25 tons of fertilizer at Royster in Lynchburg, Va. in '80 or '81 and took it to Union, W.V. I took rt. 460 to rt. 219 and went north to Union, driving a '77 F model with a 300 ,5 speed. It was loaded on the floor, as most loads of fertilizer was then, and unloaded by hand.
  15. http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/
  16. No, she was over in the electronics section- but she could have been lost. I saw this girl in the Winfall Wal Mart a few weeks ago and I followed her around the whole time I was in there to see if she was going to buy some pants, and when those cops dragged me away she still hadn't even looked at any pants.
  17. Today I found an old RT910 laying in the junk pile in the back yard, so I put it in the Dodge during the commercials when I was watching Ax Men.
  18. I saw this girl when I was on the way home from Winfall- she looked a little cold, but I didn't have time to stop and check on her.
  19. She didn't need them, everybody else did!
  20. She's just got her headlights on for safety.
  21. I'm so glad you mentioned that- after I fixed a broken wire so the goat's eyes would light up again- ...I went over to the Winfall Wal Mart, where I saw this nice lady doing some shopping.
  22. no lederhosen either? well, I can't bring my beer assistant then.
  23. This is why we had to turn around with the crane- http://fox59.com/2016/03/02/contractor-dies-at-construction-site-of-new-ipl-power-station-near-martinsville/
  24. She wears those 4X reading glasses...
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