other dog

yeah, I almost am.

Happy birthday blackdog2!

Those are great! Old Bill sent me a wooden Peterbilt that looks good, but it's flat, to hang on the wall. These models are the cat's ass, as Larry Wales would say. Look at the detail on the knuckleboom, and the side kit trailers, and the rock truck...holy hamburgers!

Lot of pressure on that sucker. I had a turbo hose split on that Peterbilt one time when I was climbing Powell Mountain. Sounded like a cannon. I pulled over and got the duct tape out...wrapped it until it was big as a stove pipe. Jumped in, took off, and everything was fine- for about 47 feet, when it blew out again. Another driver stopped and happened to have a spare one that he gave me. I always carried a spare hose and clamps after that.

I did the same thing some years ago when I had a broken spring on a trailer. Had a load of lumber on, and jacked it up in the truckstop parking lot in Harrisburg, Pa. Stuck a 4x4 between the axle and frame rail and drove on to the yard in Appomattox.

...and with all those acorns the squirrels still eat every single peach, pear, and apple off the trees. Don't even let them get ripe before they eat them.The deer in the picture is eating peaches off the ground, the squirrels eat them right off the tree.

I'm surrounded by oak trees, acorns everywhere. Got a big hickory tree in the front yard too, but there's probably not a squirrel, rabbit, or deer within 50 miles of here with Otherdog on the job.

...and yes Vinny, I already ate one indent but i'll send you the other one- It was the best part!

Thank you everyone, thank you very much indeed!

all the "girls in Winfall" pictures are real too.

Ha-ha, dammit, that's a good one Jay- i'd use up all my likes on this one post if I could.

Sign at McDonald's in Winfall-

me too, I remember putting a caption on the picture with the kid running towards the truck. Think Rob might have posted it originally, or was interested in buying it.

yep, that's where it was- were you spying on me? They told Randy ( dispatcher Randy, not randyp ) to tell me to take 48 north to 130 west to get there, so that's what I did. I didn't know what the deal with the Westinghouse bridge was. We used to cross it when we loaded at Nextech in Keystone Commons years ago, this was the first time i'd been down in there for a long time. First time i'd been all the way across 30 from Pittsburgh to Bedford in a long time too. That first mountain you pull must be 40 or 50 miles to the top.

...and there was this girl in West Virginia that jumped on the truck and started cleaning the windshield- I told her to pound sand.

Thank you very much indeed- those coils weighed 19,000+ lbs. each, so I used 3 chains. The 5 coil load weighed 46,000+, I criss-crossed 2 chains in the front coil, then put a chain and a strap through the rest of them. Better to have a chain too many than not enough chains I always say. The strap is kind of redundant on the 5 coil load, you can't haul steel with straps, but it's an extra tie down and it only takes a minute to throw a strap through them.

Got a jar of it in the fridge now. what's left of it that is, it's almost empty. They sell it at Long Mountain Grocery in Rustburg.

I am a long time fan of ZZ Top, and hot sauce, so when I saw Billy Gibbons' hot sauce and barbecue sauce advertised on his website I ordered a few bottles. I read an article about ZZ Top in a magazine years ago and it said Billy Gibbons carried a bottle of Tabasco sauce with him all the time, put it on everything. It might seem odd for me to order hot sauce since I made my own, especially when the shipping cost more than the sauce, but this is really good- way better than that crap I almost as good as mine. Best "store bought" hot sauce I ever tasted anyway.

It was dark when I came through Winfall last night. However, I did go to the Winfall barber shop and got a haircut this morning.

I've seen those too, here's a drive-by I once took.

...the gripping descriptions- picked up 2 rusty scrap coils in East Pittsburgh last week ,right near the Westinghouse bridge. This is a steep hill. This is a long straight stretch on a hilly road- U.S. 30 in Pa. top of the mountain... random boobage thrown in in case pictures are boring... pickup in Lynchburg, through cracked windshield. Peaks of Otter from the end of Wyatt Miles Road, about a mile from here- Peaks of Otter from Bedford, through new windshield. I'll be glad when snow season is finally over! Saw a big Mack dump truck for sale. and some big green Terex dump trucks there's no such thing as too much boobage, eh? Newest part of rt. 48 that's open, from rt. 93 to Patterson Creek Road. pulling into the brake check at the top of the mountain, west of Moorefield. good place to go rock climbing! 5 coils on this load. more random boobage, because everybody likes boobs. Saw this accident on the southbound side of I-79 at Fairmont, W.V. Thursday. The truck was still in the road, the trailer was down over the bank. Had a huge transformer on. I saw another Miller truck farther north in Pa. heading south with a similar empty trailer, so i'm thinking something probably malfunctioned on the trailer to send it off the road. Southbound traffic was already backed up for almost 8 miles when I went by. Then when I was getting on 70 west off of 79 I saw another accident scene- looked like this one was probably going a little too fast for the ramp. Saw some big Macks in Butler. saw 4 wheelers passing in no passing zones-what's new? ...and I saw Muskrat Slide Road.

Happy birthday.

I hope so! This was taken Tuesday in Summersville,W.V.

well, if anybody could put a big block in a smart car, using only scrap metal and commonly discarded rubbish found laying around in the corners and under the tables and work benches in the shop, you would be the man to do it!

everybody's right...but with all the many things in this world you can worry about nowadays, spelling, punctuation, and pictures are not at the top of my list. My federal tax return was accepted, but the state return was rejected so straightening that out is at least in my top ten worry list now.