other dog

you're welcome . Jobyna's going to Wal-Mart now to get the pictures,i'm gonna put the tractor show pics in a new album.

where IS up there,if anywhere?

Speaking of work,i'm still hard at it. I've been to Zelienople,Pa. and back twice this week. Sounds easy enough,but there ain't no easy runs. It's a titanic struggle to get 46,000 lbs. up the road several times a week. Got to Roanoke with 48,000 lbs,3 Metalsa coils, around 6:30 or 7 o'clock Thursday night and figured on getting unloaded and being home early,but sometimes it doesn't pay to figure on anything. I got unloaded about 3:30 am Friday, got to the shop at 5 am and slept until 8,then went to Dillwyn and loaded kyanite for Fremont,Oh. to leave Sunday with. Then I drove the mixer over to Stonewall and parked it. The annual Stonewall Antique Power show is this weekend,and it almost snuck up on me. Came home,after the usual grocery store stop,and cut the grass and replanted some corn and beans that didn't come up. Went over to Wal-Mart in Altavista and dropped a roll of film off too,so I should have pictures to post this afternoon. Took some of a Mack fire truck that's for sale near Sharon or Wheatland,Pa. and we're gonna ride over to the tractor show for a little while and look around so I might take a picture or two there. Hard to say what might be there,or what kind of turnout they'll have this year because gas is so expensive.When I left there yesterday the only antique vehicles there was a 1965 b-53 Mack concrete mixer and a Ford pickup,but lots of tractors were coming in. It's good to have a distraction from just hearing of gloom and doom all the time,so in honor of no clue joe-I must be off...film at eleven.

I stopped by a CB shop Tuesday,and was so impressed I thought i'd mention it here. CB shops have kind've popped up all over,most big truckstops have one,but a really good one where they know their stuff about radios,antennas,and coaxial cable,and don't have to look it up in the manual to know how to peak and tune a particular radio,and treat you right for a fair price-well,they're not so common. The one at the Broad River Truckstop on I-85 in South Carolina, just south of the N.C. line is a good one. And the 12 Volt CB Shop in Barkeyville,Pa. where I stopped Tuesday is too. I spent $37 dollars on my Cobra 29 at Hubbard,Ohio at a CB shop basically to get the light bulb fixed in the meter. It would quit on me periodically and i'd have to reach up and rap it on the bottom with my knuckles once in a while,and it would go back to working. The guy fixed it for me (he claimed) and 5 miles down the road it was doing the same thing.I was loaded with coils so I wasn't about to go back,so I ordered a new Connex 3300 since the Cobra was 5 years old anyway. When I put the Connex in the truck my swr was high with my Wilson fiberglass antenna,lowest I could get it was 2.5- 1.1 is perfect,up to 1.5 is OK,or so i've always heard. So I called the 12 volt shop when I saw their add in a truck paper,and they talked radios and antennas for a long time,and told me I should get a stainless steel whip antenna for that radio,and I hadn't even bought anything from them. So I got a Wilson 2000 antenna,couldn't get the standing wave under 3.0,cut some of it off,still couldn't get it down,so I put the fiberglass one back on. When I loaded in Sharon,Pa.Tuesday I went across I-80 so I could stop at Barkeyville. The man there, who kinda looked like Frank Beard,ZZ Top's drummer,came out and took a look and said "take that fiberglass antenna off,move the mount to the horizontal bar on the mirror bracket,and tilt the antenna forward to about a 45 degree angle,and i'll come back and check it". OK, I did all that,put the stainless steel one back on,he came back out and hooked up his swr meter-hooked the antenna coax to it and plugged something in the cigarette lighter plug,nothing going to the radio-in fact,he never even turned the radio on! He said "I can tune it,but you've got a lot of resistance in your coax". I said,or maybe just thought "you can tell all that-the radio ain't hooked to anything-it's not even turned on!" Anyhow,long story short,he made me a new coax and I put it in,he came back out and checked it,snipped a little more off the antenna and said "that oughta do it". The 45 degree tilt was so it wouldn't reflect off the stacks on the truck and give a false reading-I never knew! Charged me $31 for everything. I was waiting to unload in Roanoke last night and checked the standing wave with my meter just for curiosity,a pretty good meter by the way,and it was 1.1 on channel 40,1.1 on channel 1,and 1.1 on channel 20. Perfect!

ain't no doubt about that!

...nothing to apoligize about for being young! Sometimes I wish I were a little -well,never mind that,that's another story. Anyway ,glad to have you-it's good to see a young person interested in something besides video games, ,especially trucks

indeed!

I was kind of in the same boat when I first put insurance on the mixer- the only insurance I could get locally was a regular commercial policy,like I was working the truck every day.I had this the first year,then I called Gulfway Insurers. They always had an add in "Wheels of Time" and they specialize in antique vehicles and race cars. I got insurance for about half what the other policy cost,and they have no milage limit. You could check them out at www.racensur.com

I agree with Paul-Lowes and Home Depot are the Schneider and J.B.Hunt of the building supply binness. I've never driven for a large national carrier,but done pretty well with a "small regional carrier", and I'm pretty sure they'd be easier to get along with...or not.

Got up and read the paper this morning...not much there to be happy about. Tornados and storms,gas keeps going up,Kyle Busch won the race. Then I called Ma and them,it is mother's day. Told her I found the biggest tomato plant in the garden broken off yesterday,with no evidence of dog or human tracks around it. Saw no crop circle either,so it probably wasn't UFO related,and she said it could be the dreaded cutworm. I don't know how it got broken off,but I went out and dusted everything with Sevin dust,and now it's pouring rain. That's ok,I can dust it again,i'm glad to get the rain. We got little or none all last summer. I put some lime and fertilizer on the garden yesterday so the rain should dissolve that.Should have put lime on it when I first tilled it,but didn't. Don't want any blossom end rot on your tomaters you know. I planted another tomato yesterday too,because I didn't have a mr. stripey and saw them at Wal-Mart,and I planted a New Mexico Big Jim pepper,just because it was called a Big Jim. Every once in a while I actually do a little work around here!..but very little I suppose. Took a couple of pictures yesterday-one of the peach trees, they're both loaded with peaches this year. A late frost killed all of them last year. The apple, pear,and cherry trees are also filled. And two dogs ( the big dog isn't mine ) saying "what do we do now,there's a fence around the garden?"

got another junk story-when I left Thursday with that load of lumber I was going north on 29 in Lynchburg when I heard some drivers going south talking about a load that was apparently about to fall off. One driver said "if he runs over a dead possum he's gonna lose that load". Then I saw what they were talking about-there was a small SUV,like an S10 Blazer or a BroncoII, pulling a trailer with a car on it, a bush hog on the trunk lid of the car, and a small lawn tractor sitting on top of the bush hog. They had one 2" ratchet strap thrown over the whole pile to hold it down.

I don't know,sometimes it's hard to get her to shut up now- WHAP!!! ouch!..

oh...no wonder. Perhaps you should have cut it a few weeks ago. I just got a push mower,but the yard's not very big.It does have a 550 cat on it though. Or a 5.5 Briggs and Stratton,I don't remember because i'm always getting the two confused. I've been looking for a picture of my goat,I know I have at least one,but I can't find it. His name was Dale and I had him for several years. He was a good pet,gentle as a dog. He liked to butt you sometimes,but only in a playful manner.Loved beer and cigarettes though. He'd eat cigarettes as fast as you'd hand them to him,and I poured him a beer in a bowl and he sucked it up in about 3 seconds so I poured him another one,same thing,so I poured him another one,same thing,so I figured three was enough for him and I might want one myself later. Every time he'd get loose he'd run to the front of the house and eat the flowers that were planted there. I kept him on a long tie out chain hooked to his collar with a loop on the end that I just dropped over a stake,that way he could go around in a circle without getting tangled up.When he ate everything in that spot i'd just move the stake to a different spot.

I used to see a single axle LJ dump truck for sale in the big truck trader magazine all the time,but I haven't bought one recently...believe it was somewhere in Ohio,but i'm not sure.

Hi Kelly,I just thought i'd add that please don't be offended by anything you read here. Most of these guys,myself included,work very hard during the week and kind of get on here to unwind on the weekend,so to speak.If you read some of the old posts and blogs,you start to feel like you really know someone,just from what they say. So if I've said anything offensive,please accept my apology.I'm somewhat more serious than most of the people on here, and I also have ESPN. That tells me that you're a fun loving person who's really into old Macks,old trucks in general,and you love your dad.Can't beat that. as nocluejoe would say other dog would say I must be off.

Glad to hear you found another job Joe,hope you like it and it works out well for you. Do you get to pack a piece?..anyway,I don't know this "other dog" but i've heard he was a fine fellow, and a good role model. You heard anything? p.s.-as Paul Van Scott would say "yeah-way off". What kind of truck are you delivering in,if any? If they gave you a wheelbarrow i'd quit.

I know where a B-61 is just sitting in a field,waiting for you to rescue it.Probably wouldn't take much to get 'er going again... be glad to check into it further for you if you want...think about it,green with pink fenders,Paul Van Scott on the doors,hauling the B-67 to shows with it-the possibilities are endless!

I'm gonna miss her too,she was a good dog-maybe she'll run away again and come back. I told Todd I was gonna quit too.He said "why,because we're cutting the trucks back?" I said "naw,because I don't like the boss",and he said "I don't blame 'ya,I don't like that s.o.b. either" and looked straight at Jeff.

I just got in from mowing my grass. I worked on it for about 4 hours. That's pretty funny James. 4 hours?!! how much yard have you got, about 18 acres? You should get a goat or twelve to help you out.

yeah,we first started putting them on brontosauruses-you wouldn't want to get backed over by one of them while waiting in line at the bank on Friday...so what's your point?! (seriously,first time I heard that joke,Teddy Moore told it-been a while)

Hi Kelly, Don't worry about computer illiterate,everybody else is too...well,a lot of us anyway .Wow ,three transmissions-now that's impressive! I can barely handle the one in my little Ford Ranger pickup. We'd like to see some pictures,and some of the truck too.

I left here last Sunday,put my new radio in before I left ( the old Cobra wasn't acting right,but i've had it for 5 years ),and went to Brook Park,Oh. Reloaded at Brookfield and went to Roanoke,then to Dillwyn and on to Fremont,Oh.Then to Brookfield and Roanoke.Then to Moneta and Clarion,Pa. and Brookfield and Roanoke. Got to Roanoke about 6:30 last night and got unloaded at 11:30 So,instead of being home I slept in the truck up at the truckstop just south of Lynchburg. Called Jo at 5:30 this morning to come get me. She didn't cuss me or anything (well,at least not on the phone!),she came right on. I've put well over 200,000 miles on the truck now,and Jeff will have had it 2 years sometime in August. Think i'll run over to Wal-Mart now and get some fertilzer for the garden,they're calling for more rain today and tomorrow.Grass needs mowing again too. Maybe I should teach Jo how to push a lawnmower, but maybe I shouldn't push my luck. I have no new pictures now,so here's a recycled picture of a '66 Chevelle.

I forgot about the '70 Olds Cutlass Supreme and '81 Regal I had.That Olds was one of the best cars I ever had,gave $800 for it,with a straight body, rocket 350,automatic,power windows. Still ran and drove great when I parked it. The Chevelle I had was a 396 350hp,which was actually the 402 engine,but it was bored .030 over with a crane cam,tarantula intake ( that's the one the carb. set kinda sideways on ) 780 holley,headers,electric fuel pump,Accel ignition...all the usual goodies. When I bought it it didn't have a transmission in it because the owner wanted to keep it (turbo 400 w/shift kit ) to put in a mud bogger he was building,so I went to Cosner Bros. used auto parts (the junk yard) and bought all the clutch linkage,bell housing,pedals,cross member, etc. out of a four speed Chevelle and put the M-22 Muncie that used to be in the Nova in it. It really wasn't hard to convert to the four speed because the frame was already drilled and tapped to mount all the clutch linkage,so it was pretty much just bolt it in. Only took it to the track once.It was a 13 second car with the automatic on street tires.I turned a 14.30 at 101 mph on a set of G-70 tires (skinny!),but it was still spinning into high gear. Had a Hurst Competition Plus in it at first,then switched to a Vertigate because it looked tough,but the Hurst was actually a quicker shifter ( shorter throw ). Ain't bragging,but it sounded like an automatic when I shifted,foot to the floor. That four speed was a lot of fun.You could take off and speed shift and chirp the tires in all four gears when you weren't even getting into it hard,'course if the cops heard you they'd give you a ticket for it.Then I got married and my hot rod days were over...done...finished.

...yeah,ha-ha Joe. As ol' George says in one of my favorite songs "...I know-everybody funny...now you funny too".About as funny as a screen door in a submarine. And I had moles in the yard,not gophers,there's no treasure buried there. You must have been over there digging around. If you found the bodies,I don't know anything about them.They must have been there when I bought the place. And everybody needs a hobby That's a good one though.I don't even know if that old Mack's for sale or not,probably not,and they probably wouldn't scrap it anyway,but you never know. They have a lot of old chip trailers parked there too,and trucks,bulldozers,equipment of all sorts.I'm just saying if you run across something like that that might be for sale you can't get it cheap because scrap is so high. I found 2 B-61 single axle trucks before I bought the mixer,one was $1200 and the other was $1000,both in fairly good condition too,but right now they might bring twice that much for scrap. If I had Paul's money i'd have been over there asking about that B-61,but i'm so broke I can't afford to pay attention. Got my mattress stuffed with scrap iron because-wait ,scrap iron-gotta go,see ya

left front looks a little low too,better pump it up before you hit the highway