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I see Earl Paddock trucks a lot, always looking good! I biggerized the picture to see if it had the Huskie on the hood, but couldn't tell if it was a Huskie or the grizzly bear banging a bulldog...

If none of that works try tapping even harder.

I don't know if the Volvo is theirs, i've never seen it before, and it doesn't have their name on the door. They had 2 more Superliners there that's not in the picture, plus at least one more that I know of that wasn't there that pulls chips and sawdust from a sawmill in Blackstone. They used to have all Superliners when they got started.

Really like that Chevelle.

I motored over to Altavista earlier today and saw a big snapping turtle walking along the shoulder of the road. I slammed on the brakes and backed up to it and told Jo "get out and grab it by the tail and throw it in the back"...she said something like "duck stew"- it rhymed with that anyway. So I said "take a picture of it then". So she said "you do it!" By then the turtle had made a sharp left turn and was running for the creek. She did get a picture of it's hind end before it disappeared into the weeds.

All the pulpwood around here used to be 5 foot lengths, it could be a pain in the ass to haul and many a load was thrown off if the driver wasn't very careful with it. And many a load was reloaded onto trailers by the roadside by hand. Good thing about it was that many people made a living cutting pulpwood then, all you needed was a good saw and a one ton truck and you were in bidness. Some folks just used a pickup truck to haul to the woodyards, then they'd load it on a trailer to take it to the mill.

speak up a little please, we couldn't hear you.

Well, I- hold on just a second... "come on over Werner, you missed me". Never mind.

I might have this machine working now- ran 2 virus scans, deleted about 9,000 files, and fixed about 800 registry errors with the Fix-It Utilities disc. I think I hit the jackpot on pictures this week- saw these units in Roanoke Monday morning. Saw this big Mack log truck in West Virginia. Saw this girl in this car. Saw this B model in McKees Rocks, Pa. I missed part of it going in, but I got the rest of it when I came back by it- tough spot to get a picture, backed in between 2 buildings. Saw this lake. Saw the wrecker that towed my truck in from Levaisy, W.V. at Owens Market the other night. Later I saw 2 rhinos in Bedford. And another girl in another car who's apparently very happy to be 21. Random road shots in Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland- it's a pleasure to get off of 81 and away from all the traffic and go through the woods. Too early for the goats to be on the hill- they usually come down just before dark and cover that hill side. Maybe they feel safe from bears there. Saw all these cows heading for that little spot of shade. Saw a pretty hot but very bored looking female type cop at a road paving project in Pa. Saw a utility pole too. Lots of big yellow machines. In case anyone's interested... Had to go to Petersburg to load Friday after I unloaded in Lynchburg. ...and saw this tank in Crewe.

I don't remember the name of it, but I stuck a tape in and recorded all but about the first 10 minutes. Nice B model shots, but it ended up going over a cliff at the end. I couldn't even sign in this morning, tried to post pictures around 4am but never could get on, not even as a guest. When I finally got on for a few minutes I ended up with the dreaded multiple posts and couldn't delete them. Every time I tried to go to a different page i'd get the old "website not found" message, so I just did a full virus scan and smoked meat all day.

stupid computer...(Freightrain,1982)

I'm watching a movie now about trucking in Alaska in the 50's, they're driving a B model in it. It's an old black and white movie.

I cut the grass yesterday, sawed some cherry wood up into smoker size pieces, and put some straw around the potatoes. When I got the mower out from under the deck a baby snake was under the tarp. It was brown with an orange undercarriage, about a foot long. I smashed it to smithereens with a grubbing hoe, then threw it in the fire barrel. Today I had a few pole bean seeds left over, so I decided i'd plant them over there by the fence where that little maple tree is growing, so they could climb up the maple, if they even come up. When I scratched out a little trench to plant them in- with the back of a claw hammer- I uncovered a baby snake, about a foot long. It was gray with a white undercarriage. I beat it to a pulp with the claw hammer, then threw it in the fire barrel. I don't care how big it is or what color it is, if I see a snake i'm gonna kill it. So, those cabbage are really growing, eh? I re-seasoned the grill and all the grill grates today too, getting ready for the first big cook out of the year next weekend. That summich is shining like a new one! Everybody come on over, i'll smoke some meat and we'll hoist a few cold ones!

"and honey said my next project is to make that yard look like it doesn't have big giant ruts in it and a big bush was dragged across it, so I guess i'll order a 55 gallon drum of bondo and some green paint".

that is sharp looking, like the paint job!

We haul some trees, used to a lot more when I was at H.H.Moore's. Saw something the other day i've never seen before- I was coming down 501 on the way home and saw a truckload of trees pulling out of the nursery at Winfall with the dirtballs to the rear, trees leaning to the front of the trailer. Looked like the tarp was well wrapped around them, but i've never seen them laying to the front, and don't know why they would load them like that. If the tarp came loose it would tear them all to pieces...maybe he wasn't going very far, I don't know.

Don't have much this week either. Made a trip to Boyers, Pa. and then down to Sharon and back to Lynchburg, then I finished the week running a couple of mill roll loads out to Milton,W.V. and back. Picked up a load of beams going to Roanoke when I got back to Petersburg yesterday. Winner Steel used to use these cabovers to move coils around in the plant, but now that it's Sharon Coatings P.I.&I. uses their own trucks and these are parked inside the building collecting dust. There's another one parked up in front of these two, all look to be in great shape. I saw a redwing blackbird too. Saw another cabover on 422- the road is actually flat here, I just grabbed the camera up and snapped before I had it leveled out. Back side of a cabover Ford. Got behind a line painting crew, and was stopped right beside these fine looking animals. I've posted this truck before, but this is the best picture i've taken of it. I had to pull over across the road from it and put a strap on the tool box door on the trailer. Some units at C.F.Marion Logging in Cumberland,Va. I was headed down rt.60 to Richmond with a load of coils when I heard the D.O.T. was at the county line, so I whipped up into their yard to catch my log book up. Never saw any D.O.T. And I saw a girl with a really nice ass painting this rail in Petersburg. Watched the big yellow machine back in slot no.2 and drop a ladle. Then when I got back to the yard I saw this fuel tank raft under construction...

Part of the C.F.Marion Trucking fleet in Cumberland, Va.

"Hey Fred, did you finish welding up all the tack welds on those gussets last night?" "Me?..no, I thought you did when you put all the bolts in those holes I drilled!" "...bolts?..uh-oh!"

I thought I heard on Coast to Coast AM the other night that buried somewhere deep in the thousands of pages of obamacare b.s.- that nobody seems to have read by the way- was that people who didn't sign up on the first go-round would be fined, but it was not a very substantial fine, then the fine was more if they didn't sign up the next time, and if they hadn't signed up by the third time they'd lose their driver's license. I also thought I heard that everyone on obamacare would eventually have to have a chip implanted in their forearm? That sounds like the mark of the beast to me! I was half or 2/3 asleep when I heard this, or thought I heard it. Sounds unbelievable to me, that's why it might be true.

Looks like it could be Winfall. In fact, A lot of the pictures look like they could be from a lot of places around here. Countryside looks similar, roads look the same, same folks at McDonalds. Not too many WWII tanks around these parts though.

geez... good thing I got here before Ken did!

quite contrary- how does your garden grow? ..who cares- but mine's looking about like this. I got onions, taters, peppers, tomatoes, squash, and okra in there. More tomaters in these truck wheels- Got corn, green beans, and...well, that's all, in the other garden spot- but as soon as the corn comes up i'm gonna plant pole beans in between each corn stalk. Got this dog too.He's old, like me, but he's a great dog. I like the picture on the Kingsford charcoal bag- kinda reminds me of me.