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Free bonus pic. of the day.

actually... the one that used to be on the front porch is in the bedroom now.

I once saw a photograph of a twin steer MH.

She'd rather sandpaper a wildcat's ass in a telephone booth than try to put O.D. out.

I never had a warshin' machine on the front porch, but I did have a Kenworth truck seat.

You only take the insulation out from the bottom of the oven, in between the oven and the drawer in the bottom. It won't get hot enough to cook anything in under 57 hours if you don't. That leaves you with a double bottom with a couple inches of air space in between. You can smoke something a long time without burning it. You take the insulation out of the bottom, then drill a few offset holes in the middle part and a lot around the edges to let the smoke in and you're good to go. A gas oven works best, you don't have to do anything to it, just put a fire under it and smoke stuff. They really work great as a smoker, just most people don't want a stove sitting in their back yard.

Looks like a smoker now,eh? ..oh, looking pretty much the same. I removed all this stuff- All I got left is drilling some holes. I'll let him clean it up. Saw this little fellow while I was working on it. It was only about an inch long. It started showing off when I aimed the camera at it.

Indeed!

I made out like Fred Sanford on an excursion to Altavista a while ago. Found this new looking styrofoam cooler over at the dumpster, so I put it in the truck. There was another guy there and I offered it to him first- you know how some people go to the dump and you know they want to take something, but they won't because somebody else is there. That doesn't bother me- but he said "no, go ahead, i've already got one". So I said "i've got several, but i'll take this one too". Should be good to put cold drinks in at a cookout, it's really thick styrofoam. Then I brought this unit home- I know you think it's junk, - well, ok, it is junk- but it's also a potential smoker. All i've got to do is get the insulation out of the bottom of the oven, drill some holes, remove the wiring, and it makes a fine smoker. I already have one but my son said he'd like to have one and even though I don't use mine much since I got the smoker/grill I still don't want to get rid of it. And, on a final note- I'm going to give this computer fix-it disc a free plug because it works. When I had computer problems a while back I used this to get it straightened out. I had it a pretty good while before I even installed it because it looked too complicated for me, but it's really pretty easy to figure out.Came with a big instruction book, and what I like about it is that it tells you what's safe to get rid of, what you might get rid of, and what not to delete unless you have a full understanding of whatever it is,which I never do,so I don't. I bought it at Wal Mart but you could probably get it online too. It fixes and optimizes a lot of things, I think it was around $39.95, well spent in my opinion. I just added another year to it in fact.

I saw a 2 cyl. 830 at the antique tractor pull in Stonewall,Va. one time. Looked like it was straight off the farm. It and a fine looking restored Super M made full pulls, added more weight to the sled, both made a full pull, added all the weight they had, full pulls, then all the guys that could get in the weight box got in it. Finally stopped the Super M, but the 830 just kept chugging on.Best tractor pull I ever saw.

gee...out of likes already.

I took that load of scrap to Chicago this week, left on Sunday. Saw a blurry half nekkid girl in a car on the W.V.Turnpike- she blew by too fast to not be blurry. Nice reflection of a red KW. You can see my an arm in the window. I used to think there was a lot of wind towers around these parts,especially in W.V, but Indiana's covered with them! I saw a barge- A crane- A drawbridge- Another crane- A low profile Peterbilt tipper truck- A Detroit Diesel powered train car moving machine- A sharp looking Peterbilt truck- A big Mack truck- I've got to turn in between the yellow blocks and pull on the scale to the right when the light turns green. Looks pretty tight, but it wasn't too bad. Chicago skyline... I saw a rainbow too- Random hot babe with a B model, from the interweb- I-68, western Maryland. I loaded tubing in Chicago going to Baltimore. Baltimore- Picked up a load of stainless steel in Baltimore going to Lynchburg. Climbing up the Key Bridge- I saw a big Mack truck in Baltimore too. Then I went to Petersburg and hauled 2 mill rolls to Milton,W.V. and brought one back- and loaded one today going back to Milton. Saw this big yellow machine in Petersburg- Saw this on rt.60 in W.V, with 2 mill rolls in the mirror. Don't know what it is, but it's huge and really cool looking, and it has new paint on it. Saw a load of logs on 85 this morning, behind this cabover KW. I saw a big Mack truck in Petersburg too. And a girl in a car- Saw some ripe tomatoes when I got home, but some were showing signs of the dreaded blossom end rot. We ate 4 of them already.

I'm glad she finally got to the top of that hill and got leveled out.

Pretty much. I've known kids myself who had everything they ever had handed to them, didn't have to work for a thing, and wrecked every vehicle they ever had- which was given to them, they didn't have to buy it themselves. I had to graduate high school, get a job, and buy my own car before I could wreck it. And i've known parents that told their kids right from the start that they were better than everyone else, they were special, they were wonderful, their doo-doo didn't have an unpleasant odor, and on and on. No, you're really not- you're no better than anybody else. You're just gonna be an adult asshole.

You're welcome Pawel, I already resized most of them so I don't have a full size image any more. Here's the biggest of what I do have, plus a D9 that I took at Kyanite Mining Corp. in 2010. Hope it helps. I think they were all D8's. I was sitting in the truck a good ways away from them when I took the pictures and didn't walk over to take a closer look.

Nice looking Pete,eh?

I saw this D8N fueling up where I delivered the load of scrap in Chicago Monday. Then it headed for the salt pile... where it was pushing salt the whole time I was there- back and forth,like randyp. All that salt probably takes it's toll on equipment. Which might be why these units are parked over here looking like this-

Saw this unit in Chicago Monday.

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This is tore up Tuesday in Winfall...

Or is Mike talking about the free bonus pictures?..I just don't know... free bonus pictures- ants... ribs... never had much luck with beef ribs- but these might be "the cat's ass" as Larry Wales would say, or "the bomb" as Jo would say.

What, Winfall wimmin? OK then, here you go- Meanwhile, over at Winfall vineyards... I even went to Winfall today, took Jo's car over to the Winfall carwash, where they still do a hand job.

Happy birthday...if you haven't pressed the red button that is.

Sounds just like Advance Auto Parts. You can't buy a flat washer there without them asking what it's for, make, model,and cereal number of the intended application, so they can look it up on the computer. I went to the one in Appomattox to get a battery for an MTD lawnmower once. The parts guy wanted the make,model,cereal number,etc. I said "it looks like a motorcycle battery". He threw his arms up in the air and said "that doesn't tell me anything, there's a thousand different batteries!'' So I threw my arms up in the air and said "they don't even make a thousand different batteries!", left my other items laying on the counter, and drove across the street to Western Auto and got one off the shelf. And one of the truck salesmen from Truck Enterprises was looking at the mixer one time and said "you know, they made a three stick transmission too." "oh, really?" "oh yeah, it was called a triplex." "oh..."

These are stainless steel, I could make a nice smoker out of one of them.