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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.

You know something Mack, that is really good thinking. When I was hauling pulpwood for Westvaco, a man with a Ford F-600 was telling Dave,the woodyard manager, one day that he wanted to move up to a tandem or tri-axle log truck. Dave told him that he should stay with the smaller truck because he got all the smaller tracts to cut because all the bigger operators didn't want to fool with smaller tracts of timber, plus he could get into places others could not. Like me- if I called Thompson Trucking for one load of gravel for my driveway, it would cost me an arm and a leg- not for the gravel,but for the hauling,they don't even want to fool with the small stuff. But if I call Mack, with only one single axle dump, he would deliver for a reasonable price and save me money while making money himself.

I'm the same way, I just can't do it any more. I was soaked with sweat after I tied down and tarped a load of steel yesterday,looked like i'd peed in my pants. I drank all the water I had, got another bottle when I stopped at the shop to fuel, then stopped in Chatham and got 2 quarts of Gatorade, drank both of them, and my hands were still cramping so bad on the steering I couldn't even straighten my fingers out unless I used my other hand to do it.

There's lots of local driving possibilities around here, not just dumps but wood and chip haulers are all over. Cundiff Trucking, out of Wirtz, has trucks hauling pulpwood all over the place.You could probably put your truck on with somebody like that, run a load or 2 to Covington a day and do all right.Pulpwood used to pay $11 a ton to haul it from Buckingham to Covington years ago and it was only a little over a hundred miles , of course you came back empty. Of course you could always sell your truck and go to work for F.L.Moore and Sons pulling a flatbed. After working your ass off all week i'm pretty sure you'd ask them where the rest of your money was when you looked at your check!

does Brutus have his own thermostat?

that's it! my brother and I usually got stuck in the loft, but they had a conveyor with a gas motor on it to get the hay to us. we got to stack it in the barn with all the dust and no fresh air.

O.J. Simpson brutally murdered 2 people when self defense wasn't even an issue, and he walked free! Who was marching and rioting then?..that's right, no one. I saw the back of George Zimmerman's head, I feel he was fully justified to do what he did to protect his own life.

Here's another car i've seen at Richmond Dragway. There was another Camaro about the same model- 67,68, or 69- that was called ''Outlaw", I don't know if they were friends, rivals, or even knew each other but they used to put on a great show when they raced each other. They were 10 second cars. I found these pictures on a site called drag racer reunion, or something like that. Lots of pictures from various tracks from the 70's and 80's.

I watched the first new Ice Road Truckers this year, not impressed at all. Then I caught the second one and it was much better. I was looking forward to the third show, but didn't get to see it. Now I saw on facebook that a new guy was going to be on it tonight. I might have to stay up and watch it after checking out this guy's website. Don't know if he's gonna be driving for someone else or driving his own '74 Ford 9000 with the 318, but after looking around his website he certainly seems to be the real deal. Lots of interesting stuff here- http://www.kingofobsolete.ca/index.html

That reminds me of more, we would go get in the Appomattox river to "pre-clean" and cool off. It was only a mile or so away down a dirt road, about knee deep or so, waist deep on the deep side, with a clean sandy bottom, probably about 50' wide. Great times.

yep, when I was 16 or 17 I could throw a bale of hay from the ground all the way over a loaded hay wagon, stacked 37 feets high. Might have been 73 feet high, I don't remember. A man we were helping once told me "damn, if I was as strong as you i'd stand in the middle of the road and stop traffic just to see who I could whip"...now I get tired walking to the mail box!