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Holy mackle, I finally found you on the road atlas...144...45...235...Bald Eagle State Forest...Shade Mountain...Thick Mountain...Jack's Mountain. Ol' Shade, Thick, and Jack- 3 of the best mules ever, worked themselves to death trying to get that wagon across them hills. Nobody wants to hear "you shoulda went this-a-way", or "you shoulda went that-a-way" after they've been somewhere,.. but- looks like when you got to Lewistown you could have turned on 522 and went up the valley straight to Beaver Springs, it's straight and flat all the way. At least it is on the map.

Glad you recognized him, I had to make him very tiny to fit the picture.

No, Pilot Mtn. does look kind of like this at the top, but this is Devils Tower in Wyoming.

It could be a broken spring on the clutch, but the clutch brake's probably worn out, you should be able to get it in gear easily when you push the pedal all the way to the floor. What it does is stop the gears from turning in the transmission, and when a driver pushes the pedal all the way in when the truck is moving it tries to stop the whole truck, and it wears the clutch brake out in no time. I see lots of drivers in fairly new trucks sit and grind then finally just jam it in gear when they start off because they've worn the clutch brake out.

yes it is, I meant 992 and was thinking 988 unloading wood in Covington. This is the one I was talking about when I said it was way bigger than a Peterbilt several pages ago.

I saw some old loaders once. This one was used for snow removal at Lowes in Oakland, Md. These were all parked in a field by the truckstop in Mt. Nebo, W.V. This 992 was in Weirton, W.V.

Sometimes they would use a 988 to unload pulpwood at the paper mill in Covington instead of the FWD's. The operator couldn't see the forks so you had to guide him, and the one everybody called "cowboy" had been known to punch the forks right through the frame rails on a log trailer.

Oh no, that's all real. Here's another picture of it.

Pretty neat- I have a First Gear B model mixer.

don't have to, I do the same thing!

I pretty much just listen to talk radio, Fox News, the NASCAR channel, even Howard Stern, but when I do listen to music it's the classic rock channels, there's no good new music nowadays.

Almost forgot- the highest hill in Winfall.

Vinny, I found the perfect girl for you, she's already leaning to the left!

I didn't have your number.

I saw this track hoe on that barge in the Ohio river- that's East Liverpool, Ohio across the river. Those new wraps and decals are so real looking nowadays, you'd think this door was actually open... oh...it is actually open. Saw a nice B model dump. And a red dump truck and a blurry white dump truck. and a girl hitchhiking in Daisy Dukes... Saw a train on the horse shoe curve Saw smoke on the mountain near Baker, W.V. Saw another girl hitchhiking in Daisy Dukes, but I was almost home so I didn't stop. The cherry tree in the back yard is loaded this year. My cactus patch has 1,246 little oak trees growing in it. And finally, some random boobage thrown in, because everybody- well, almost everybody- likes boobage.

Nice to see more pictures of where different people go, and what they see, and different parts of this world. I even like "Daisy Dukes", and boobage too- too bad there's not more of it. Anyhow, here's what little I saw this week, when I went to Louisville and back, then to Noblesville, In. and back to Petersburg, then to Chester, W.V, and Cheswick, Pa. and back home. I was too tired to take many pictures. I went out to leave Tuesday morning and saw this big knot on the front tire on the pickup...it ran off before I left though. Saw an overheated unit going up Sandstone. I took some kind of screen printing machine to Noblesville. Very light, but very flimsy sheet metal, so you couldn't tighten the straps too much because it would bend so easy. The nice fellow that bought it from the old garment factory in Appomattox had a lot of what I thought was rags in a big bin, and he was spraying cleaner on his new used machine, then he'd reach in the bin, grab a rag and start wiping dust and dirt off. I spotted a nice plastic looking jacket in the bin, safety yellow, reflector stripes, even had a hood. Since it was 38 degrees and raining, I offered to buy it from him. He told me I could have it- he had cut a big chunk out of it for a sample, but I put a big duct tape patch on it. He also dug around in the bin and gave me a brand new Carhartt jacket that still had the tags on it, and a new baseball cap. He had put some "Department of Public Works" patches on the jacket but I don't care about that, it's a helluva nice work jacket! Speaking of flimsy, this bridge looks pretty flimsy too. Then I saw this girl in these Daisy Dukes standing in front of this motel. it's break time- i'll be back.

Great pictures, with scenery like that you don't need to enhance them like you do in Winfall. That mountain is beautiful. Some of my favorite pictures on Hank's are the old B.C. trucking pictures, and the old Fraser Canyon Highway pictures. I'm gonna use the Mt. Robson picture as my new screen saver pic.

Awesome, thanks for sharing these.

That's a pretty good run to Louisville, comes out every other week. Nice run across 64 and it pays pretty good too. I've gotten better at backing in that door, unload and reload right there, I was back at the shop about 4:30 yesterday. My flatbed was already loaded for Indianapolis and sitting in the shop, I've got to tarp it before I leave.

I've walked over and looked at this one before. We used to load there at Edgcomb Steel pretty often, north of Philadelphia.

oh...well shhhhhhh-oot!.. thought I was onto something!

Took some more pictures on my latest journey to Louisville. Gonna post them today because I think I saw a U model. It was sitting way down there A closer look... I believe there was another green one back beyond this one, they're at the same place as this one. The place in Louisville... Looking down Sandstone mountain. First runaway ramp- Second runaway ramp. I'd take my chances before I went off on this one. It's right at the bottom and that's the last curve on 64, then you cross the New River, it's flat for several miles, then you start climbing again.

That is a good looking truck, good price too!

I have a Fisher-Price phone, with pictures of Goofy on it. Had it for years- doesn't work all that well, especially up in the West Virginia hills, but it's a very durable phone. Made entirely of plastic.

I haven't, been wondering about him myself.