other dog

ok,i'll take a look.

got any scraper pictures?..they're Randy's favorite.

tomorrow is Joe Slabotnik's birthday- happy birthday Joe!..ha-ha!

I'm always late so i'll wait 'til tomorrow to say happy birfday.

pretty neat! Is that you standing by it?

Nice logging history story there.

I went to youtube and selected the video, then up at the top where has the website name-where it says "http://bigmacktrucks..." here- left click on it,it turns blue,then right click on it and when the box drops down click "copy". Then when you're replying in a post right click at the end,when the box drops down just click "paste", and there it is.

I used to say "there's only one Pilot in the United States with plenty of parking...and nobody knows where it is". But really, the only ones that do have a half decent parking lot are the ones that used to be Williams.

me neither. here's one-

I thought they all had kinfolk in West Virginia.

There were 3 V8 Superliners sitting in Roanoke for a long time, looked a lot like this one. I heard that a man had them on a beer haul, then lost the haul so he sold the trucks. But they sat for probably 10 years or more with "for sale" signs in the windshields. I used to pass by them all the time going to the concrete pipe place, way off the beaten path in Roanoke. They were over across the tracks from Roanoke Electric Steel. Last time I looked on street view only one was still parked there. Here's the street view pics. I put the street address in the second one. I'd bet that's one of those 3 trucks, paint looks similar. All 3 were painted the same, had V8's with 10 speeds in them.

that's what you should have on the door of your sidewinder!

he said beaver...I thought...never mind...

Lee-Hi is T/A now, if I stop around that area that's where I go. We have a fuel account at Lee-Hi too, so we don't have to use the comdata card, so nothing has to match...

It was indeed the first "real" brisket i've smoked. I bought the small pieces before that was sealed in a plastic bag and swimming in brine but never a fresh one.

That might work, but actually I got lots of cooking tips here- http://www.texasbbqforum.com/viewforum.php?f=2

Thanks for the tip, yeah, that was my first brisket. I'll google that Show-Me BBQ sauce.

thank you very much Ed. My first brisket- did I mention that before, that it was the first brisket i've attempted? I bought a whole brisket last week, $38, cut it into 3 pieces and put them in the freezer. Got 2 pieces left. This was the smallest piece, and it was the first time i'd cooked brisket.

This was Olive's first log truck. He was too young to drive it, that's why he's in the passenger seat. In fact, it's the first tree he ever cut down. But he made enough money with it to buy a brand new International tandem log truck,with a loader. He could even afford more chains by now so he didn't need to have a helper to stand in front of the logs to hold them back if he had to slam on the brakes like he did with the old truck. It took a while to get used to the loader though, as the old knuckle booms had about 50 or 60 levers on them. His family was growing by this time too- he had to add an "s" to his door. . As time passed, he didn't even need a knuckleboom anymore- all his sons loaded the logs by hand. These are all his sons in the picture, L. to R.- Herman, Andrew, Bart,George,Homer,Mitch,Garfield,Randolph,Simon- eh, never mind...He'd moved up to another new IH tractor and a log trailer by now. He later downsized his logging operation, went back to a straight truck, and got into the cattle binness...the boys all liked eating beef way better than trees- but just look at him running that knucleboom now! ...but someday he hopes to have a red truck, like this one.

The back story- I got up yesterday morning around 5am, just had to go to Lynchburg to unload a load of coils, then i'd go load lumber or something and head back up the road to make my third round of the week. I stepped into the closet to find a pair of pants- I never leave home without them- and water was chest high in the closet and rising fast. The hot water tank is behind the closet wall and I assumed it must be leaking- but you should never assume anything. Besides, i'd replaced the hot water tank about 5 or 6 years ago. So first I swam over and found some pants, then I shut the pump off. Took all of the clothes out of the closet and threw them on the bed, then the shelves, then took the wall out- actually, all I had to do was set it aside, as I never put the nails or screws back when I replaced the tank the last time. Found the tank itself wasn't leaking but the copper line that goes out to the faucets had a pinhole in it and was squirting a fine stream of water out and up on the wall. Then I called headquarters and told them I had issues at home so I needed to go unload, then load something to leave Sunday with so I could take care of the issues at home. No problem there- Todd told me maybe I should try to do something to attract her- at first I thought he said "to a tractor"- I said "i'm not interested in that, i'd rather find something that will run her off. Besides, it's not that kind of problem. It's water problems and i'll have to go to Lowes". He said "that's fine, go unload and i'll find you something". So I unloaded in Lynchburg then went to Moneta and loaded lumber to unload in Oakland Monday. Went to Lowes and got what I needed to fix the water line, came home and fixed it in a few minutes...then I thought "I should go on to Oakland, it's only a 5 hour trip". Nope. We went to the Chinese restaurant in Altavista instead. Then I came home and took a piece of brisket out of the freezer so it could thaw. Which brings me to "what I did today". Took a while to get here, eh? Put the brisket in the smoker around 6am, took it out about 12:15. First brisket i've cooked and it came out fairly well I thought. It's really strange to be off though. It seemed like Saturday all day and it's only Friday.

Here's a 1974 Transtar I drove with a VT903 in it. I was at the old Ponderosa Truckstop in Clifton Forge here, either on the way to Covington with a load of chips or on the way back to the woodyard in Dillwyn. Looks like I was loaded, I see chips in the vent holes. Taken in 1979.

Welcome!

Excellent- I like it!..that's my new favorite U-model! The Pete behind it looks like the one I used to drive

Yes, as seen on this other one with a much longer wheelbase, the frame appears to have been pieced and patched together many times.

Ballantine used to be real cheap around here in the 70's. We'd occasionally make a run to Bob's Supermarket in Farmville to stock up on it when it was on sale. I think it was $1.99 a six pack. You couldn't buy beer on Sunday then but if you knew a bootlegger- I knew several- you could buy it for 50 cents a can, and they usually sold whatever was cheapest. You could get a pint of whiskey for $4, usually Canada Dry or Bourbon Supreme.