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  1. Hey Bulldog man, back... wtf is Rob talking about ?! I think his clutch might be slipping again-they say your mind is the second thing to go. Anyway, I just got done planting some cabbage plants. Gotta get some onion sets now, everything else can wait. I always plant a little garden too. I thought my PC was a goner too, but I called Teresa Moore for free tech advice and she got online with the HP tech guy while I was on the phone and we finally got it going. It wouldn't even start at all at first.
  2. my detector ain't working right anyway. goes crazy whenever I say anything, and that can't be right...must need recalibrating.
  3. I like an occasional cold one...but that's just wrong right there. there's something familiar about that guy though. His head looks too big for his body too.
  4. AMEN Brother! (Bulldogman)- Absolutely!
  5. I don't know why they shut down. Jeff and Todd went to the sale when they auctioned their equipment and Jeff said it sold really cheap. They bought 2 of the Conestogas for less than they paid for one when they bought it new.
  6. oh no,I know you don't lie. But sometimes my new B.S. detector I installed on here indicates a high level of B.S. on this site.
  7. the old one's too depressing. How about this weather, eh? (Canadian)
  8. Now you've done it-next time you ask your GF to bring you a sammich and a rootbeer she'll say "s#@% you, why don't you call 'what's her name',who's aged so gracefully, to bring you a rootbeer and make you a sammich".
  9. I commend you for that Rob-even though I don't believe everything you say-that's the way I felt about my wife. After she passed my Ma told me "I'll tell you one thing, in her eyes you could do no wrong". Now I seldom seem to do anything right. My scanner still doesn't work, but someday i'll post a picture of her here-when Jo's gone to the store or something
  10. So true. I think it's also true that time heals all wounds. I lost my wife, whom I loved more than anything, almost 4 years ago to cancer, but "Life won't ever be the same".
  11. no, it was "stupid computers" wasn't it? I hope so, or i've been misquoting him all this time!
  12. I don't remember a lot about this, but we'd-no, I mean i've seen others-take that little cap off the top of the pump and loosen the nut towards the rear and back it off just a little. Half a turn made a big difference, and wasn't enough to hurt anything. Remember-a little dab'll do ya! Backing the rear nut off one full turn was about as far as you'd want to go, then tighten the front nut while holding the rear one. Trying to turn it up too much is what got most people in trouble-the old "if a little is good, more's got to be better" theory. I had some offset wrenches, it's a tight spot in there. This was late 70's maxidyne engines. There was one guy in particular around these parts who was famous for turning up a Mack. He'd blow a 300's doors off with a 237. He drove a company truck and wasn't concerned about hurting the engine of course. When he got a new R-model with an econodyne he wouldn't mess with it because they told him at the Mack place he would end up screwing everything up if he tampered with the fuel because everything had to be set together. Far as I know he never did because he was afraid to mess with it, because it was something new to him.
  13. well, you should be pissed! how st-...uh... I mean, it's just one of them things. Could happen to anybody.
  14. Now that could be it!..the funniest thing I ever heard that is
  15. Ohhh...well, that's mighty nice of you.
  16. It's a fuel conditioner called Howes Lubricator. Like all the rest say, it removes water, lubricates the pump and injectors, increases fuel milage and horsepower, and is an anti-gel. Their motto is "you go, or we pay the tow". Fuel is guaranteed not to gel with Howe's. It costs anywhere from 12 to 16 dollars for the big bottle, but it treats 320 gallons. I put it in the mixer and used it in that other truck that I drive every day all the way to Washington and back. I don't know about all the other stuff but I could definately tell a difference in the way the truck ran when using it, ran really smooth even starting out cold. Now, if any Howes agents sees this and wants to shoot me a free case of it i'll research it further. Stupid scanner still won't work, but here's what it looks like. Good stuff.
  17. It was in this F-model-that's a carton of non-filter Pall Malls on the dash. "Hippy" was driving this truck when I turned it up for him. He got it when I got a new one and said it wouldn't run, but I knew better.
  18. put a bottle of Howes in each tank and ride on-good stuff!
  19. Conestoga at Fairplain, W.V. Go-Mart. Another Conestoga at our yard. Same conestoga being loaded with Mullite- the forklift was too tall so I had to open the sides. They are also wider because of the rails the sides roll on, 106". You can see the edge of the 96 wide trailer at the corner marker light in the mirror, they stick out this much on both sides. I've got a load of steel coils loaded on it now.
  20. your keyboard must be going bad too-left out some numbers there. At least now I know who my real friends- uh,friend I mean-is. Right Paul? Paul?
  21. but he said he secretly desires to drive a Pete...
  22. We have an International tandem dump truck at the shop that used to be a road tractor. It has air ride and it's a frightening experience just to drive it down the highway loaded. Sways all over the place, like a cork bobbing in the ocean.
  23. Larry, I'm sure you've seen Baker Highway Express trucks in your area. They're out of Dover, and shut down in December. Todd just got a couple of their Conestogas, we already had a couple, but I haven't pulled one yet. A lot of the the big time steel haulers use them now-I'd go to IDS in Macedonia to load and there'd be a Conestoga in the next bay and he'd be loaded, chained down, slid the sides back, and out the door while I was scratching my head trying to figure out how to get started. That's the best feature, I think anyway, it might take me 30 minutes to tarp a load and it might take 3 minutes to slide the sides back on a Conestoga and fasten them. They are a bit wider though because of the rails at the bottom.
  24. other dog

    So-so Week

    somebody hollered on the radio "step deck, your sidebox is open". I wasn't even pulling a stepdeck, but you know how you always look anyway. Both sidebox doors were closed, but those doors on the trailer box were swinging wide open.
  25. other dog

    So-so Week

    the good thing about it was I was in the right lane-on the capital beltwat Friday evening-if i'd have been over in the second or third lane there might have been a 40 car pile-up,and i'd probably be in the slammer sure enough! The box is on the right side and everything landed on the shoulder.
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