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Lookin' good there Vinny!

Monday...and Wednesday, somewhere around 11-12 o'clock both times.

it's pretty bad when you gotta drive one!..could be worse though...

holy hamburgers! I'm glad you bleeped it out then.

calm down there Vinny, that might be going a little too far!

you're right Mack. And we'd all be on here talking about what a good man Joe was- 'cause Candice would've killed him!

DM's I think...that's a block co, it's probably those self unloading things, forks on a crane type thing, forgot what you call them...oh, yeah, a self unloading thing-a-mabob.

you're welcome Ed! I have since modified the pig picture slightly though.

I'm out of likes...but yes indeed, that's a good point there Joe.

World famous loader expert mackniac said it might be a Zettelmeyer- I now believe he's right, after doing a google image search. I'd never heard of either one until today. BMT people know everything!

Edgar Browning, construction equipment expert, said it might be a Hanomag loader. I'd never even heard of Hanomag, but I did an image search and he may be right.

I considered that possibility, but figured if it was he would have stopped to help- or, he might have said "I'll be right back Ella Sue, i'm a goin' home and git you some pants!"

Happy birthday there Jay!

R model in Montvale, Va. It's for sale. It's a Pete, but it was looking pretty good coming down the road! Saw some rocks A man's castle is his home... All right! it's all downhill from here to Iowa! ?? loader in Warren, Pa. The back row units. Windmill blade still at the rest area in Pa. Saw a big dozer in Hubbard. Looks like a 594H. And a big hoe in Pa. Some equipment for sale in Flatwoods, W.V. Spotted a couple of Superliners. I even saw a dinosaur in Crewe, Va. Load of beams I loaded yesterday in Petersburg. Delivers Monday in Ambridge, Pa. Getting some tires, brakes, and 2 airbags on the trailer today. Got behind this oversize load on the way home. It was a tight squeeze getting by this woman that was broke down. I didn't have time to stop and see if she needed assistance. He kept straight when I turned though...

Well said, and I will do likewise.

I have a Haynes repair manual for 1989 thru 1997 model Ford Thunderbirds and Mercury Cougars. It's a pretty detailed book, if anybody wants it, you can have it. Free- i'm just gonna pitch it, thought i'd ask first.

we used to put tobacco sticks between each layer if it was a little damp, so it could get some air.

yup, mulch, chips, or hay if it's put up wet, gives off a tremendous amount of heat. It'll burn a barn down.

I would agree, but my cut off is 70. I don't even leave the truck running at night unless it's below 20 degrees, but if it's over 70 the AC is on! I think maybe I should have been a Canuck.

can't argue that! I've heard some people say this heat beats shoveling snow too.

These are small coils, pretty easy to haul. They're low-profile, 5 feet wide, weigh a little over 9,000 lbs. each. I criss-cross 2 chains in the front coil, pull the second chain towards the rear of the trailer, chain the middle coil straight across, and pull the 2 back chains towards the front. Then I throw a strap through each one just to have another tie-down, can't hurt. Sometimes we load 2 big master coils going there, they weigh 20+ thousand lbs. each, and are 4' wide, so they sit much higher on the trailer, and require a lot more chaining. I've hauled big singles too, weighing 48,000+, and I put at least 6 chains on those.

Now that really pisses me off too. I don't mind tarping these coils, because they have to be kept dry. If it's raining, or calling for rain, i'll put plastic over them and then tarp them. But when you have to tarp a load of beams in Petersburg that are stored outside, on the ground, in the open, often already wet or covered with snow, that makes no sense to me. They're not going to get wetter just because they're loaded on a trailer. Used to haul treated lumber from a place that was the same way. Had to be tarped, even in summer, though they stored it outside, and where you delivered they stored it outside too.

Good screaming Detroit video there. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4ABdjNDKgg

just one of them things that are required, like having the beveled wood and rubber mats,all loads must be tarped.

The world is a dangerous place, as seen here- a girl in a car with a cast on her leg, crutches riding shot gun... girl on street with arm in cast... R model wrecker in W.V. Flagger in W.V, rt. 20 between Charmco and Nettie. Rusty bulldozer in Pa. Baby bird in Fairview,Pa. Those windmill blades are still at the rest area!..been a week or more. and here's a girl in a car without a broken leg- Superliner at the shop picking up a load of structural steel. and, especially for Mark the steel hauler, some steel hauling tips- the first thing you need to do is throw a bunch of crap- equipment like this on your trailer. then you set it up so it looks like this- then you get your coils loaded...chain them down. and tarp them ...back in at N.B.Handy, get unloaded, put all that crap away, then go to Moneta and get a load of lumber going to Strattonville, Pa, which puts you in position to get another load of coils in Sharon.