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Talked to Herb this morning, he said the alternator is pretty much guaranteed to be toast.

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I've tried to call you several times there but it always went straight to the voicemail- I was starting to get worried about you. No wonder, with you getting into these physical altercations! Maybe you should have wrung his arm off at the shoulder and showed him the other end of it- self defense ya' know.

That would be me- I went over and put new batteries in the mixer today. I took the old ones out and made a mental note to myself how they were hooked up. Took them down to Carquest in Appomattox and got the new ones, went back to Concord and put them in then hooked them up backwards anyway! What a dumbass! I turned the switch on and wondered why the air buzzer wasn't buzzing. So I turned the marker lights on, and smoke started rolling from behind the dashboard. Ran around and pulled the cables off as quick as I could, fortunately I hadn't tightened them yet! I then hooked them up like they were supposed to be, and it started and ran fine and all the lights worked. I'm still gonna take the dash out and look to see if any wires were damaged. Hope it didn't hurt the alternator either, but if it did and that's all i'll still consider myself lucky for being so stupid- could have been worse. Scared the hell out me!

It's tough- they're all good pictures, David has some good ones from the ATHS show, but it's hard to narrow it down. I liked his V8 F-model best,but the top of the stack was cut off. I tried to pick at least one of each model and this is just my personal favorites, I'd still have to cut 5 pictures out- i'm still glad it's not me doing the picking! I left one out by axledent this morning, so I put it in here-

Old Bill sent me a calendar and some Canadian trucking magazines too. He said this calendar was put together for a company reunion. It closed 40 years ago.He'll be putting something on his website about it. Here's some Mack pictures, and smaller ones of all of them- I squozed them together to make it a little smaller.

Saw this during my travels this week too- A Superliner dump truck by the Ohio river, and a cabover Peterbilt pulling a J.B.Hunt trailer in West Virginia. I saw a Fed-Ex 9670 International daycab too, but I didn't get a picture.

Thank you, yeah he does do a pretty good job down at the old ready mix plant.

Just for the fun of it, and because I had nothing else to do at 4am, I picked these as my favorites...there is 16 months in a year ain't it?

Looks to be in better shape than the one in Concord for $3500.

Got to the shop last Sunday, and the truck washer guy had just brought my truck back. He comes and gets them on weekends and takes them down to where they started to build a ready-mix plant a few years ago, but never finished it, and washes them. It was really clean, as seen here. Back in Lynchburg Tuesday, it was still pretty clean. Even by Friday in Kent, Ohio it was fairly clean even after running in rain most of the week.

gee...how about a EM6285 calendar?

This truck used to be an R-model, but ever since it stalled on the tracks and that slow moving train hit it and knocked the cab cranksided it's been a U-model.

Yeah, some excellent comments there.

Good Bob, I like the red one with the black fenders. I don't want the sleeper though, i'll give it to Freightrain so he can make a double sleeper for his B.

The important information you can find here, like Why are rat testicles so big? ...priceless!

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It is nuts! I've straddled the ditch many times with my 4 wheeler and changed the oil- everybody did. Used oil was good for keeping dust down on dirt roads, woodyards, and parking lots too. Also killed lice on hogs. Used batteries were for dropping in the stacks to gut mufflers, back when the stack went straight into the muffler. Now mufflers are up underneath somewhere, nobody's really sure where. I knew a guy that used to take bare copper wire and wind it around a flourescent light bulb and solder the ends to the prongs on the bulb. Then he would just lay it up on his dashboard- he claimed that it jammed police radar. I never tried it, have no idea it if really worked, but he believed in it.

I've seen that truck, it's sitting down at Clayton Bryant's place on 460. It would be worth that if the glove box door wasn't missing.

Very nice EM6285- I'm glad it's not me having to pick 12 pictures out of all these!

wtf you talkin' 'bout Rowdy?..everybody likes dogs!

Nobody's posted a hot babe picture all day, so- one especially for Rob... and one for everybody else... and, one for us dog lovers-

yeah- what he said!

Thanks a lot Randy, I feel so much better about monkeying up the coffee now.