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Yeah, I went that way. It's a little tight making the left turn onto Navarre, but I had the whole road. It's a whole lot easier going the new way instead of turning around the old way.

Uniontown, Pa. There were two Diamond T's or Reo's parked in back, a cabover and a conventional, still hooked to trailers. Been there for years.

No, I saw it sitting in a lot in Roanoke. It's on Industrial Drive, just off rt. 11.

They did indeed. The guy I worked for claimed to be a direct descendent of Fred Flintstone.

That's about all I know, but it's true about the clean part. I worked at a place that made aluminum trailers, and one advantage was that the aluminum was new, but we still cleaned everything before welding. We used wire brushes with stainless steel bristles on them, and put the grinder to anything that was old or really dirty before welding. Best I remember we used argon gas, had Hobart welders. I worked there from '77 to '79, so it's been a while...

Happy birthday.

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They cut the steel beams to length down at Gerdau-Ameristeel in Petersburg.

Don't have much this week, but as usual others have posted outstanding pictures, like the kodiakatronomy of the week award winner Leversole. I did see some mountains in the sunlight and others in the shade as I started up Afton Mountain the other day... I saw a yellow boid. and a dove- Went to Metals USA in Ambridge, Pa. The P&S truck was broke down in the driveway- his airlines caught on the beams when he made the turn and broke them off. I went around him on the same side the service truck is sitting on-took this pic in the mirror. Still got their U model... Saw a groundhog in McKees Rocks- "No, wait, don't use that one- this is my best side"! Fine then... White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia- the Burns driver was right. Looks like a football practice facility all right. There's two complete fields there side by side, and another down below to the far left in the picture. Saw blades I took to Canton. Thank you Freightrain. Saw blades I brought back from Canton. Saw this in Charleston W.V. on the way back- haven't seen that name in years. Is this the original TIME-DC? Saw a chip truck too. He's fully loaded.

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Keep us posted, I hope Suzie is doing well. If y'all are planning on Winchester, i'll try to make that one. Might even see farmer and fix'em there.

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I took that picture at his house on rt. 45 near Farmville one day. I saw it sitting in the yard and turned around to go back and see it. Last time I talked to Gary. I think he said he wanted it because his Dad drove a similar one years ago. That might have been the one Gary actually drove to school sometimes. We went to school together, he was a year behind me. We ran double to California a couple of times before he was even old enough to run out of state. The company found out he wasn't old enough, and I quit and drove for H.H.Moore Jr. for the next 25 years. He could wheel, I can tell you that.

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Sukhvinder Singh Rai?..I'd guess he probably wasn't from around here,eh?

Never heard of it, i'll go with the Schlitz.

I liked the Oliver and Massey Ferguson's there with Detroit Diesels in them. I'd like to hear them in a field plowing. Kermit the truck salesman said there's one of every kind of tractor made there. I'm coming back down there sometime soon, might be when I take my vacation. I haven't decided whether to go to Winchester or Lincolnton,N.C. this year to take in a truck show.

Schlitz?..they still make that?..who knew!

It's a ground hog. Looks like he picked a ready-made hole to live in instead of digging his own. He was right beside the truck when I was tarping in Mckees Rocks, never did run away.

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Long Island, Va. or that other Long Island?

I would say so. The dolly was tracking to the right, and he should have seen that in the mirror when he made the turn and got straight, but it looked like he was pouring the coal to 'er. The escort should have seen it, but they got the left lane right away. The brake lights came on just before it hit. He might have cut to the left lane and missed it but it was probably too late by then, a sudden move like that could twist the beam too. Those girders can support a tremendous amount of weight- when they're sitting up like he was hauling it. If you layed them over on the side and tried to pick it up it would bend like a horse shoe.

see?!!

Here's a cab.

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