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I took that picture at his house on rt. 45 near Farmville one day. I saw it sitting in the yard and turned around to go back and see it. Last time I talked to Gary. I think he said he wanted it because his Dad drove a similar one years ago. That might have been the one Gary actually drove to school sometimes. We went to school together, he was a year behind me. We ran double to California a couple of times before he was even old enough to run out of state. The company found out he wasn't old enough, and I quit and drove for H.H.Moore Jr. for the next 25 years. He could wheel, I can tell you that.

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Sukhvinder Singh Rai?..I'd guess he probably wasn't from around here,eh?

Never heard of it, i'll go with the Schlitz.

I liked the Oliver and Massey Ferguson's there with Detroit Diesels in them. I'd like to hear them in a field plowing. Kermit the truck salesman said there's one of every kind of tractor made there. I'm coming back down there sometime soon, might be when I take my vacation. I haven't decided whether to go to Winchester or Lincolnton,N.C. this year to take in a truck show.

Schlitz?..they still make that?..who knew!

It's a ground hog. Looks like he picked a ready-made hole to live in instead of digging his own. He was right beside the truck when I was tarping in Mckees Rocks, never did run away.

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Long Island, Va. or that other Long Island?

I would say so. The dolly was tracking to the right, and he should have seen that in the mirror when he made the turn and got straight, but it looked like he was pouring the coal to 'er. The escort should have seen it, but they got the left lane right away. The brake lights came on just before it hit. He might have cut to the left lane and missed it but it was probably too late by then, a sudden move like that could twist the beam too. Those girders can support a tremendous amount of weight- when they're sitting up like he was hauling it. If you layed them over on the side and tried to pick it up it would bend like a horse shoe.

see?!!

Here's a cab.

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I was pulling a bridge girder on a dolly once and when I went south on rt.29 in Lynchburg the dolly driver decided to take 501 north for reasons unknown. He got it off the road halfway into the grass but I stopped before any damage was done or he went too far. We had one dolly that the driver controlled from the cab, but I never pulled that one. Pulled this one a lot- it was made from a Mack truck chassis. This beam was 150' long, went to rt.840 around Nashville. Pretty easy trip though, the only time we had to use the dolly was from the Carolina Steel plant in Abingdon, Va. to I-81 and after we got to the jobsite. I hauled lots of shorter beams to much harder places to get to. I think we had 3 of these old dollies, the big remote controlled unit, and 2 smaller hydraulic ones. These were a real pain in the ass to use, we carried two big wooden blocks to pull the steer axle onto, then you had to chain the axle to the beam to keep it off the ground, then use two chains criss-crossed to get the dolly straight, and every time you had to "drop the dolly" you had to get the blocks out and pull onto them to unchain the axle, then unchain the criss-crossed chains, drive the dolly, then redo every thing. Pulling them wasn't so bad, but I hated driving them. The hydraulic ones were my favorite. They had two hydraulic cylinders that turned a bolster on a platform on a tandem axle. Had a gas motor to run the pump, and you just moved a lever back and forth to turn it. All the driver had to do was run back there, start the motor, jump on and steer. When you got around the curve, you just had to get the dolly back straight, cut the motor off, jump back in the truck, and you were off. I liked to run those. Here's the hydraulic dolly at Banker Steel in Lynchburg.

This one belonged to a good friend of mine that passed away several years ago. He drove for Abilene and this truck was in the Keystone Tractor Museum last time I was there.

This one used to be in Gladys, Va. but the last few times I passed by there it was nowhere to be seen.

Some more.

Here's one at P.L.Duncan's with a free added bonus picture of Nocluejoe66 included. Interior shot-

Thanks for posting these, I couldn't figure out what unit 19 was.

Don't know Ken, but I share your concern. Strange for a regular contributor to just...just disappear like that.

hmmmm...I think you should send me a check now, for sharing all these Winfall fantasies true events.

Later, I sneaked drove back over to Winfall Garage to get the air changed in my tires. They were pretty busy, so I looked through their company magazine while I waited. They can do almost anything there- ...but not quite. But it wasn't too bad. This customer had been waiting so long she ordered a pizza...

Had some nice size onions this year too. Potatoes didn't do much, i'd have been better off to eat the seed potatoes. The vines were big and pretty but not many potatoes, and they were small. Probably used too much fertilizer. Saw this girl inside the Dollar store in Winfall. I think she was buying a set of jumper cables.

Picked a nice pepper this morning...guess i'll make some more hot sauce this year. I'm working on the last bottle from last year now. Jo wanted to go somewhere today, and do something together. I wanted to take her someplace nice...so we rode over to the flea market again. Saw this truck there. And it's still there, as far as I know. Lots of smokin' hot half nekkid wimmins there too, but I didn't chance any kodiakatronomy on them. Real pepper picture- ...and, when we came back through Winfall I climbed out of the window and got in the back of the pickup while Jo was driving and took this picture of a girl in a car. Happy now, or should I put your check in the mail? How about now, I saw this one just before I climbed back in... This one was in the parking lot at the Winfall Dollar Store. She asked me if I could jump her,and I would have, but Jo had an unpleasant look on her face, so I just told her "no,now beat it!"

Holy mackerel, that's the picture of the week!