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Holy sh- uh, mackerel!

The H-60 and H-61 were called the "cherry picker" because they were so tall. I think they shortened the H-63s and H-67s by 11 inches. Here's an H-61 and an H-63.

Yes it does! I tightened them up in the same picture to show a better comparison of the size difference. this is the same picture, I didn't change the size of anything, just cut one truck and slid it over closer to the other.

I just happen to have one- There's lots of duplicates, but I had plenty of film...

yes, we are fine, thank you for asking. they had tornado warnings here the day before we went to Winchester, and while we were there our neighbor told Zina they were under another tornado warning here, but we had no damage here except for the tree that I cut out of the road, the tree that I should have left in the road. But no, i'm glad I cut it, I was the idiot for not wearing long sleeves, long pants, gloves, and sensible shoes. 😂

wonder how many times you've chained up?

Thought this was pretty good- took me a minute to get it.

Farmer52's MH and an H-63. I thought I posted this picture yesterday, but maybe I dreamed it. I couldn't find it.

...and that poison oak, or poison ivy still ain't looking much better!

Yessir, I think I got everything that was there. Except maybe some that I already have 16 pictures of somewhere. I took some with the phone, some with the back-up camera, and some with the back-up back-up camera. I didn't even take my best camera because I didn't want to take any chances with getting it wet. I have not downloaded any of them yet, I'll do that while Zina's working. I try to do stuff with her when she's not working - you know the deal, "happy wife..." 😊

Congratulations Bob, I hope you enjoy your retirement - I know I enjoy mine! 😊

We decided to ride up to Winchester and see what was going on. A few trucks are already here, calling for rain tomorrow, but Saturday is still looking good so far.

Just some random antique truck enthusiast who happened to be passing by.

No, but it does look slightly better now than it did. No rain tomorrow, just cloudy, but there's a chance all day on Friday. Then nothing Saturday between 10am and 5pm.

Oh, here's a picture from Macungie last year that I forgot to post. Did I mention I can photochop photos again?

that's exactly what my son said!..the "no good deed'' part, not the Miller Lite part.

I was sitting here minding my own binness drinking coffee one morning a week ago. Heard the school bus go by about 7:15, as usual. I let the dogs out for their post meal poops and when I went out on the back porch I heard a backup beeper just down the road. I watched until I could see, and it was the bus backing up the road. It turned around in our biggerized driveway and went back the way it came. So I got in the pickup and rode down the road to see if there was a particular reason that the bus had backed up and turned around. And I saw this- I had already started cutting on it when I remembered that I should take pictures for evidence. I thought sure the school bus driver had radioed the situation in to headquarters, and a crew was rushing to the scene at that moment. But when I was outside around 10 o'clock I saw a car backing up. So I rode down to investigate again, it was only about a quarter of a mile or so down the road. This time I put gas and oil in the chainsaw and took it with me, thinking surely somebody had removed that tree by then, but just in case... and sure enough, the tree was still there, hadn't been touched. So I proceded to cut it up enough to get it out of the road. Unfortunately, it had a big poison oak vine growing up it. All the greenery on the tree you see there is poison oak. And it doesn't even usually bother me unless I pretty much just rub it on myself, but I had to get right up in it to cut the tree. With short pants on, no gloves, like an idiot. So yeah, I broke out in several places. So now it's itching like crazy. I told my sister I was putting calamine lotion on it and said "oh that crap ain't no good, you need some of that $18 a tube stuff called tecnu". So Zina got me a tube of that Tecnu, for $18. It might work if you used it first thing, but I didn't even know the poison oak had gotten me for a couple of days. Anyway, it didn't seem to help much, so I went back to putting calamine lotion on it. But I think that was extra powerful poison oak on that tree too, that vine was as big as your wrist down near the bottom of the tree.

If I drove it i'd go up 15 to Culpeper, 29 to Warrenton, 17 to 50 to Winchester. We used to run that way all the time, back when the speed limit was 55 everywhere, not too much traffic, 17 wasn't restricted, and 29 didn't have a stoplight every mile. But even if we do decide to go i'm not gonna drive the International up there. The only windshield wipers i've got is Rain-X.

I haven't driven it but once since we went to the Walmart store, and that was just "around the loop" to try to get Roman used to it. He did pretty good, and the truck was still running good. Been raining pretty much all week, and it's supposed to rain the rest of the week too. We were going to the antique truck show in Winchester this weekend, but now we're undecided. We had a motel room reserved already and we only have until this evening to cancel, so I don't know what we're gonna do yet. I got a carburetor return spring for the big green International that runs now but I haven't put it on yet. I fixed the driver side spotlight that quit working. I ran another wire to it from where the right side spotlight was connected to the fuse box, and put an inline fuse in both of them. Oh, one more small thing- firefly guy hooked up the high speed interweb that we'd been waiting for since we've been here, so I decided to renew my old photo-chopper program 😁

Hi Bob! I saw this lady on TV the other day. The name caught my attention.

We drove the big green truck that runs now to the Walmart store again today. I saw a big red truck hauling a big green machine too. Then we went to the Home Depot store in Lynchburg to pick up some sheetrock for my sister in law. I did a great job of securing it, eh?

That's what we have, the antenna works pretty good.

I put it right there-