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Great! now I don't have to post any more pitures of Winfall wimmen!..oh...or should I say "sorry-such a shame"...i'm confused- but wait, maybe i'll see something new and better next week!

Hmmmm...2 o'clock now...'course I ain't started yet...uh...about 5'ish i'd say- yeah, come on over around 5, i'll fix you up. We'll eat some chicken, drink a few cold ones, and tell some stories- and they'll all be true of course.

I unloaded some roll-off bodies down at S.B.Cox in Richmond Monday. I thought I spotted a concave cab B-model sitting waaaaaay in the back in the weeds. I'm sure I saw these units parked there. I saw Richmond too. I didn't have to load out for Coconut Lake until Tuesday morning, so I went up rt.6 to rt.45 and took 45 back to rt.60 in Cumberland. It's been a while since i've been on that road. 45 goes through Cartersville right after you cross the James River. This is what's left of the old iron bridge, part of each end is still there but the whole middle part is gone- it survived the big flood in 1969, but the one in 1972 took it out. I've been fishing many times with my daddy and grandfather at the boat landing there. I went to school here in the first and second grades- my grandfather still drove the school bus when I was in the first grade. Saw a load of pulpwood- Saw a big Mack truck in McKees Rocks. Saw a load of nice looking onions on I-79. Made me wanna stop at Flatwoods and get a hamburger. Rt.220 between Clifton Forge and Iron Gate. This was on rt.220 somewhere between Iron Gate and Fincastle. Neat looking clouds,eh? Saw the elusive seldom seen and never photographed Summersville goat twice- Truck in Iron Gate- I even found a chrome stack for my grill in the junk trailer while they were servicing my truck the other day. I've got some chicken marinating now, i'm gonna give that new grill a test drive in a little while. I saw this girl in this car over at the Winfall Driver Training School, she's the head instructor there.

A drunken man walks into a biker bar, sits down at the bar and orders a drink. Looking around, he sees three men sitting at a corner table. He gets up, staggers to the table, leans over, looks the biggest, meanest, biker in the face and says: 'I went by your grandma's house today and I saw her in the hallway buck-naked. Man, she is one fine looking woman. The biker looks at him and doesn't say a word. His buddies are confused, because he is one bad biker and would fight at the drop of a hat. The drunk leans on the table again and says: 'I got it on with your grandma and she is good,the best I ever had!' The biker's buddies are starting to get really mad but the biker still says nothing. The drunk leans on the table one more time and says, 'I'll tell you something else, boy, your grandma liked it!' At this point the biker stands up, takes the drunk by the shoulders looks him square in the eyes and says.................... 'Grandpa;.......... Go home!

Straps work well on a load like this though.

All the "real" steel haulers use ratchet binders. They can chain down a load of coils in a side kit trailer and have it covered before I get started good. Hand tightened is all you need, and there's no slack. We have the lever binders, or "snap" binders as we call them. You always seem to run into a chain being too loose, but too tight to get another link on the chain, so you get another binder out and double bind it on the other side.

I like that dump truck!

I saw this picture on the interwebs a year or two ago and e mailed it to our dispatcher. We were hauling a lot of mats like this at the time, mostly to West Virginia, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. I always put chains on mine, but a lot of guys would just use straps. You can't hurt them, they usually unloaded them with a track hoe, then they lay them on the ground and drive equipment over them.

I saw this one yesterday and grabbed a quick drive-by picture. I haven't seen many Ford combines.

I was hoping Dale Jr. would stay in, i'd like to see him win a championship. Now i'll be pulling for Jeff to get no.5.

try clicking the arrow down at the bottom of the picture,the big one up in the center doesn't do anything.

Well, I ...uh...I have nothing...I guess I might be Bob

Both, I usually start with charcoal, then add wood to it for smoking. If i'm just grilling in the main part and not using the smoker I just use charcoal.

#**k you- just have your people call my people...

Time to move this equipment out of the driveway and into the back yard. Maybe if I took the wheels off the two old tillers in the junk pile and clamped them to the legs on the grill with vise grips, I could just roll it like a wheelbarrow... Good in theory, but as I was afraid, the vise grips wouldn't clamp tight enough. On to plan B- this oughta work, i'll just get a helper to steady it while I pull. That'll work! Think i'll leave it right there.

You need to go sit in a truckstop parking lot to see all that.

I didn't know the proper category to post these in, but here's some pics. I got in an e-mail.

I don't know. I can put it on youtube.

Dang it, i'm out of "likes" again- here, just take these.

I thought about getting one of those little cheap trailers from Tractor Supply and mounting the grill on it, then I could tow it all over the place and grill. I still have the big Char-Grill smoker in the back yard too.

I heard some years ago that 2 guys crossing the tracks to go fishing in the James river in Amherst set their aluminum boat down on the tracks while they took a break and it caused all sorts of confusion.

It should, I didn't know the bottom part was stainless steel. The guy at the machine shop told me he found out when he went to cut the hole in it. Now I need to get it moved around to the back yard.

"Oh...hadn't noticed that- but we're still trying to work out all the minor details. I can assure you that this problem will be the no. 1 priority at the next board meeting"- Ed, chief engineer and CEO of HACME Technology Research and Development Laboratory, located in sunny south Florida. "In the meantime, try not to put yourself in a position where you might have to back up".