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Check this out Vlad- the cabbage plants today-

He might have also played a Craftsman 1/2 drive ratchet on the intro to ''Give Me Shelter", but that has not been confirmed.

Nice!..and I was about to call out a search party to see where you've been!.. had "feelers" out from sunny south Florida to Duff, Tn, to Elko, Nv, and Washington to New Hamster- but you done good!

I'm on it...

Larry Wales, of Amherst, Va. had this fine looking small fleet when he lived in Massachusetts.

So on the way back from the eye doctor we stopped at the Winfall Mini-Mart to get beer some bread and milk. I was astonished to see this inside- The nerve of some people- bringing their cat inside a place of bidness! Especially a place that sells beer milk and bread. Besides that, it was the ugliest cat i've ever seen. So I complained to the manager of course, and he told her she'd have to take the cat outside. I heard her tell the manager that her sister was waiting in the car, so she called her sister to come take the cat while she was in the store. She was walking it in the parking lot when I left.

Thanks Mike, we're still really busy, I loaded for Boyer, Pa.yesterday but I had to take off today because I have an eye doctor appointment in Lynchburg this morning.

Didn't take a lot of pictures this week but I got a few- lots of dead bugs on the windshield shots though. Saw this fellow in the road just after I pulled out of the driveway Tuesday morning. Saw this woman pushing a wheelbarrow across the road. Saw this guy having a bad day by the road. They had sniffer dogs there trying to sniff out a clue too. Couple of long loads at Hubbard, Ohio. Corvair pickup for sale. My Grandfather used to have one of those. Old Chevrolet by the road. A couple of big Mack trucks.

You'll have Waynesboro just over the mountain from you, Richmond, Dinwiddie, and New London, that I can think of right off hand. They're all within an hour or two, or about 20 minutes if you drive the car to the track.

Thank you Mike, same here!

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Well...i've told this story before, but it's been a while. Once upon a time, a turned a 1998 Freightliner over. This one here in fact- I had been running my ass off all week, picked up a load of coils in Middletown, Ohio and unloaded at Walker Muffler in Harrisonburg, Va. on a Thursday evening. They had nothing going on when I got unloaded, so I went home to Appomattox, Va. At 4:45pm the dispatcher called and told me to go to Salem, Va. and get a load of joists going to La Plata, Md. I didn't like it, I didn't want to, but at the time we pretty much had no choice. I was highly pissed too, because it was a quarter 'til 5- and if i'd gone straight from Harrisonburg down I-81 to Salem, i'd have been there already. Should have never answered the phone, but that's hindsight. So I leave on this mission, drive 2 hours to Salem, chain the load down- which was the biggest and heaviest load of joists i'd ever pulled. It was 3 tiers high, about 47,000 lbs. if I remember right, but they wanted to get it all on one load. Got to La Plata around 3 am, after having been up since about 7 or 8 am the day before. I found the job site, happy as hell- all I was waiting for was the wheels to stop turning so I could jump in the bunk. I turned in off of rt. 301 and felt the trailer drop into a hole. It was actually a ditch- unmarked by the way- and I came to an abrupt halt.Then the truck rocked back and forth a few times- instead of calming down like I thought it would, it actually went over farther to the right every time it rocked. I thought "gee- this sumbitch is gonna turn......". And the last time it rocked it kept on going...and turned over on the right side. First thing I did was reach for the key to shut it off as I was capsizing. Then I climbed out of the escape hatch- AKA the driver side window- and started to find a phone. This was before cell phones were invented. Then I decided I should catch my log book up, so I climbed back in the escape hatch, found my log book in the debris pile, and was sitting there doing my log book when a cop shined a flashlight through the windshield. He said "are you all right?" "Well, yeah- just turned over." Long story short- I called headquarters to explain the situation. They sent a wrecker to the scene. Never saw the cops again-I was off the road on private property, so I got no ticket. They set the truck up, towed it to a garage, took the fan off because it was broken, and I drove it back to Appomattox. And I have never tried to find a job site that i'm not familiar with until daylight ever since.

I like vanilla myself.

I agree Ken, one of the best Wheels of Time. I read the whole thing today, good interview with the founder of Overnite, and the Frankenstein Cummins article was really good too.

Oh, "tri axles"... hmmmm....that's not a triaxle either...never mind, I have no tri axle pictures..

We have a Taylor forklift at the shop. They use them at the steel mill in Petersburg too, and you see them a lot at sawmills.

Here's a nice one, from http://www.hankstruckpictures.com/trucks.htm This is for personal/ non-commercial use only, to show the floats on the front and not for my personal website (that I don't even have).

I recently spent some time in Levaisy, West Virginia and saw some equipment parked there, like this Detroit Diesel powered Taylor and this gas powered motor grader.

Happy birthday!

I have 3 or 4 in in Concord that you can have, but the tires are still on them. I couldn't get them off. The ones I did get off I brought home and filled them with potting soil and planted tomatoes in them. I replaced mine with tubeless wheels, bought them used from Litchford's Garage in Concord for $40 each. Bebo Litchford has lots of old parts, probably has any kind of wheels you need. His no. is 434-993-5192.

Yeah, it's a good thing I stopped at the Go-Mart in Nettie and got 2 slices of pizza and a drink because there's nothing in Levaisy, and I sat there for 18 hours. Bad part was the drink was a 16oz. Red Bull- turned out I didn't need that at all.

I took a few pictures when I was bobtailing to pick the trailer up Sunday. Went across rt. 60, hadn't been across there since they put the length restriction on it. Used to haul chips and pulpwood across there to Covington all the time. Here's some animals in a field, with the summit of Mt. Pleasant in the background. Old CF trailer at Forks of Buffalo. Looking down the mountain- you can barely make out rt. 60 going between the 2 boobage-looking mountains, Buena Vista is beyond that. Building just west of Buena Vista that looks like a big coffee pot. Nothing much to do when you're broke down in Levaisy, West Virginia waiting on a wrecker except take pictures of things. That's a really nice stand of pines behind that house. Chip truck passing by, and everything you always wanted to know about Levaisy is on that sign. A dog, waiting for a car to chase- actually, he picked a single axle Mack dump truck with a loader on a trailer to chase. Didn't catch it though. The post office. GMC dump truck under a tree. ...and a GM diesel in an old Taylor loader.

I know it's not Friday, but hopefully I won't be home on Friday. Got a picture of part of the Burns fleet at Sam Black Church, West Virginia when I picked my trailer up Sunday. I was hoping this fancy unit would be there but it wasn't. I did see it parked in Nettie, and it passed by when I was broke down in Levaisy and I got a couple of pictures. I'd seen it on the road several times before, it's an anniversary edition, 65th. I think it said.

DEF has got me sitting at home now. I broke down Thursday and had to drop the trailer and bobtail back to the shop, got the springs and air bag fixed, left again Sunday. When I left Carter Lumber in New Castle to go pick up a load in McKees Rocks Monday morning the red "low DEF" light came on in the DEF gauge-but the gauge still showed almost 3/4 full, which was right. I stuck a piece of wire in the tank to make sure it had fluid in it, which it did, and all that accomplished was losing the top off the tank. Apparently I didn't get it back on there right, so I had to cover it with duct tape. Then after a while the check engine light came on and it derated itself, but it was still going. And using the DEF, because I filled it to the top at the Pilot, which didn't help either, and I could see the gauge moving. Then I stopped at the Mack/KW dealer in Jane Lew and got a new breaker and put it in, which didn't help either. Then I stopped at the Go-Mart in Nettie and got 2 slices of pizza, a drink, and a pack of smokes-that didn't help it either. In fact, it made it worse. When I started to leave the engine with the red circle around it lit up on the dash. Couldn't get over 4mph. after that, even when I dropped the trailer again and tried to bobtail- 4mph, tops. So I spent 18 hours on the side of the road in Levaisy, West Virginia waiting for a wrecker. We don't have any spare trucks now, so I had to wait until unit 21 got in, he runs to Baltimore and back every night, and they sent me that truck to get the load back to Lynchburg.

I planted the cabbage, onion sets, and potatoes in March. Frost won't hurt them, I usually wait until May to plant tomatoes too but I did plant a few tomato plants a couple of weeks ago.