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https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.642156492473073.1073741829.159206690768058&type=3

There was also an F.L.Moore and Sons T800 in the parade that was not on the facebook page.

Saw these pics on facebook on the Keystone Tractor Works page. This truck was posted here at an auction a while back, apparently it's in the Keystone Tractor Museum now. All these trucks from the museum were in the Parade Against Cancer yesterday in Charlotte county. I wish i'd gone just to see and hear the highbinder and the big Diamond T drive by. I was going to be in the Appomattox Railroad Festival Parade myself, in the cement mixer truck, but it was raining all day and I need wiper blades and the brake lights weren't working, plus I had to go to Madison Heights to pick up some glasses by 1 o'clock, then had to go get all the ingredients to make another stew for a benefit next weekend...always something, eh?

Hi Mike, where've you been so long?

Saw an ad for this website in the last issue of "Old Time Trucks"- http://www.fatjacksplace.com/index.html Didn't check it out until today and it has a little of everything- books, maps, picture discs, and much more. You can even buy new custom made gear shift knobs, might be of interest to a lot of folks.

nah, she can handle herself well- she's tough!

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...and later I saw this poorly photochopped girl sitting in this driveway.

Stopped by the feed store in Winfall on the way home, just to look around.

much heavier than a Ferguson tractor, eh?

There's tons of them here- http://www.pennyanexpress.com/photo-gallery/trucks Some Macks and others too, but mostly Brockways.

I'm picking the red and black H67 as my favorite.

I'd go with a generator too. Can't remember the guy's name, but he had 3 trucks, used to haul into Handy in Lynchburg a lot, and he had A Honda generator mounted on the frame right behind the sleeper on all his trucks. Ran portable heaters, air conditioners, and whatever you wanted. He said it didn't burn much gas, it was quiet, and way cheaper than an APU.

I remember giving milk bone dog biscuits a try when I was a kid. This post and last week's stew reminds me of a story my father in law told many times. He says it's true- I was not there, but I knew some of the parties involved and it sounds about right. He was at a stew at a well known dignitary in Appomattox's hunting cabin near the Appomattox-Buckingham State Forest. Alcohol was involved in the story- much alcohol. The stew chef kept his stir paddle sitting near the stew pot, by a tree or something. While he was away from his post a drunk came stumbling along and stepped in some dog poo. He grabbed the first thing he found to scrape it off his shoe- which was the stew paddle. He then set the paddle back where it was and continued on his way. The stew chef came back and the first thing he did was grab the paddle and give the stew a stir. Pop said he saw the whole thing and didn't say anything...but he didn't eat any stew.

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Vacation's over, back to the old grind this week. I did take some pictures of the old grind though. I had to pull this drop deck trailer to Erie, Pa. The kingpin is so far forward that the front of the 5th. wheel is even with the front of the trailer, and I had to slide the 5th. wheel as far back as it would go so I could turn without tearing my mudflaps off. Had to have a drop deck so I could go load a 1949 Ferguson tractor somewhere out in the middle of nowhere, near Pittsfield, Pa. I took rt. 8 down to rt. 6 in Pa. ...then I took rt. 27 down to this little road, had a 10 ton weight limit. then I turned on this dirt road...I didn't have to go too far to load the tractor, it was at the next house past the one in the picture, but I had to go 2 miles past there to get turned around and headed back out. I just backed the trailer in the ditch and the man drove it up his ramps from the side, and turned it after he got it up on the trailer. Then I had to go to Lane Steel in McKees Rocks and get a load of steel. At N.B.Handy in Lynchburg the next morning. Took the tractor to Amherst, Va. Unloaded at Elwood Mays' woodyard. He has a chip dump and they raised the dump up level with the trailer, backed the tractor onto the dump, then just lowered the dump and drove it off. I didn't take any pictures of that- I was busy. I did take one of this DM600 that brought a load of wood in while I was there. Then I went from Lynchburg to Warren, Ohio and back, reloading at the same place I delivered to in Warren. That's where I saw this unit hiding out- I also saw a Superliner dump truck. A wooden truck and tractor. and a ship sailing the sea. I even stopped and took some pictures of that truck i'd been trying to get a drive-by picture of. It has a "for sale" sign on it, but no phone number, and the doors were locked. Saw this unit sitting at Art Reed's place in Montvale.

We tried 2 Prostars with Maxxforce engines, I know Big Jim had a lot of down time with his with turbo and egr problems, i'm not sure about the other one. The last Prostars they got a few weeks ago had Cummins engines. They've had problems with the paccars too, and problems getting the warranty to cover the problems they do have. Jeff Moore said that all in all the Freightliners with DD15 engines were giving them the best service.

thanks a lot.

hmmmmm...I should ask Mike if I can sell hotdogs at his place while he's in Des Moines...

it is, I ate most of a hot dog, wore the rest as a souvenir.

geez...

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