BillyT

David, I'd help build the scaffold!

Gotcha I think I saw it!

Wingman ,beautiful woody(and wife) is the wood original?

KSB, many of those who die of drug resistant infections in America contract them in hospitals! I believe one is called Mersa an NFL player in Tampa got a foot Infection in the locker room and his career was ended! The use of antibiotics in chicken and other meats is a leading cause of antibiotic resistance in humans! "Feeder lots" for truckers hauling livestock beside the interstate make poultry processing plants look positively sanitary! The one in E Texas on I 10 and the one in Sidney Nebraska on I 80 are particularly nasty!

Mackey 58, wonder if "Donny" has his own bunker like JFK? ( not comparing JFK with "Donny"!

Gonna go grille a steak! That's a whole nuther can of worms, don't think Upton Sinclair would approve!

KSB, I can't imagine the abuses in the British poultry industry are much different than in America! I've been in a few poultry processing plants to load! The smell is overwhelming!, spent a night laid over at a massive chicken hatchery where they produced powdered egg products for commercial bakeries! Nasty rotten egg smell! So you don't only get poisoned when you eat commercially produced chicken, what about the baked goods that use egg products! The fellow that washed our trucks used to work in a southern poultry processing plant said it was a sweatshop! The chickens went by on an assembly line and the workers had seconds to cut it into the various parts! Most Americans won't do the work so a new opportunity for exploitation of workers emerges! Most of the workers live in company owned barracks. Every plant has a row of window vans parked outside they pick them up in the morning and drop them off in the evening! Tyson got busted about 15 yrs ago in Arkansas for soliciting illegal workers in Mexico! Apparently the quasi legal green card workers they had been using didn't work fast enough! A reporter asked a Tyson official why they used illegal workers, He looked at her in amazement!😁 "They work faster they don't take bathroom breaks and they never complain!" Obviously if you're at risk of being deported you don't complain! Kinda like a modern "company store"!. That whole thing went away in a couple of months and Tysons still selling chicken! I shouldn't really eat any chicken, but I don't eat Tysons!

41, forgot about "arcing" New brake linings or older ones that aren't making full contact! When I was about 18 my buddy and I befriended an old German mechanic who had a private shop.His shop was in a wealthy area of Pittsburgh Pa.He showed us how to do a proper brake job! Remove and clean all the brake hardware replace any worn parts and lube everything! Also, and nobody including me does this anymore, put the linings in a vise and hand arc the linings with a rasp so they make full contact with the drums! He only worked on wealthy folks caddy's lincolns,and other expensive cars! This was in 1963 when only a few American cars had disc brakes (Lincoln was one) but if you got in a 1940 truck with perfectly functioning brakes and compared it with a modern truck of similar weight the 40s truck would feel like the brakes were defective! So for the old truck to stop adequately it would have to be in perfect order,hence arcing !the linings! My dad had a 1946 Chevy 1.5 ton flatbed and a 39 Diamond T 201 wrecker,both had straight hydraulic brakes with the master cylinder under the floor! You would be hard pressed to lock up the brakes on either one loaded! But most truck drivers of that era knew to maintain the proper following distance!

Happy birthday!

Couldn't grow that twice!😁

Those old aircraft are cool!

Freightrain you can't always count on the weather either! By the way my friend Bob said you pull your dragster with the B model in a race trailer! I remember a picture of a B model with a race trailer on this site,was that yours?

Mower man, when I got those bad directions I had maybe a years experience! We were pulling 40 ft Trailmobile spring ride spreads,one time I made a u turn in midsummer in a closed gas station with about 40 on the wagon was an asphalt parking lot what a mess that spread made of that lot! Should have learned my lesson NOT. Five years later in1979 I'm pulling a a brand new Cotrell "Ronald McDonald" 10 car rack fully loaded on I 64 in August in West Virginia and I pulled over to look at my map (on an asphalt shoulder!) Went to pull out the truck stalls! Tried again, she stalls! I get out and the trailer has sunk down to the frame in the hot asphalt! Took two tandem wreckers chained together to winch me out!😁 The main reason those trailers became obsolete quickly was the weight! 45000 lb with a tag axle day cab if I recall correctly! I was still a dummy to pull over on that hot asphalt!

Most of us of a "certain age" especially farm boys were driving stick shift farm tractors and trucks at around 10 or 11 years of age if we were tall enough to see over the steering wheel! My dad owned the local salvage yard,so one day he got in a 36 Chevy standard Tudor too old to have any parts value, but it ran (sorta) So he cut off the front end and sent out the head for a valve job and we reassembled it I was 11 and I drove it around the property! I recently read that only 3 percent of new drivers can drive a stick! Also I don't believe you can buy a new pickup with a stick! Sad!

Everyone has good ideas, but what size truck is it? Is it a full sized pumper like 5 ton or bigger and running I think Fxfymm has the ticket the trucks of that era had "bone simple" brake systems,and if the wheel cylinders aren't gummed up from sitting and it's properly bled the booster would be a good thing to check! Probably the most expensive single component so the previous tech may have never replaced it! Good luck David!

Sharp looking B! I have a stupid question! Is the Worcester where the show is the one in Mass off 290? Thought it was spelled like the steak sauce been there many times never paid attention!😁 The guy who taught me to drive (in a crackerbox Jimmy) was from there he " got in the caah and went the baah" if you follow me! Lol!

Hemi under glass.... without the glass!😁

The picture didn't come thru, but guys they never made a 54 Plymouth worth 5000! I had one, and my buddy had a really solid four door he stuck an early Plymouth v8 in. Mine was bone stock with a fluid drive (remember them?) Wind it up till the valves floated keep it on the floor and hit second and the thing lived!😁

Mower man, I always hated sectioned shoebox Ford's, but this is the exception! Very nice all in good taste plus it's a stick!! The majority of street rods today seem to be automatics! I too had a 49 actually a late 48 but looked like a 49! Was a 50.00 beater but ran good!

Truck Shop excellent art work! Is that a mercury sleeper?

Ironically, or amusingly, Mineral Wells is the location of West Virginia's only permanent weigh station! So the new Hinos could leave the factory and get their first DOT inspection! They make good medium duty trucks, a friend of mine had a Hino hotshot rig, but but his dad worked at GMs Packard Electric div.,so he had to remove the Hino badges and replace them with GMC ones so his dad would let him park it at the house!😁

I am a gun owner and believe in the right to keep and bear,but I don't believe the founding fathers had any Idea what carnage an AK or AR 15 could create! How about if you want to have some fun shooting your automatic weapon keep it under lock and key at the local shooting range?! The founding fathers remembered King George and felt the citizens should be able to protect themselves against this type of ruler but there is little likelihood we would ever permit a person like that to get control! The Shooter like many of our other mass shooters showed no inclination of being a person that would perpetrate such an act,so how do you keep people like this from getting their hands on an automatic weapon? If he had a Glock hand gun or any sporting rifle or shotgun he couldn't have killed many people,before being caught! Also why was he able to get 20 weapons into a hotel room? There is no perfect solution,but we've got to do something better! There have been about 15 mass shootings since 2012!

Just watched the horse video...funny! The horses would probably love watching "Truckmasters" teach someone to drive a semi in two weeks!😁 I was reminded of a time in Weirton west Virginia when I was given bad directions by a local cop and went into a local neighborhood with 40000# of steel sheets in a 237 Maxidyne! I came to a hill so steep the R model wouldn't pull it! Had to back up about a mile thru the neighborhood ,everyone was out on their porch watching! The cop realized he screwed up and had traffic stopped on rte 22 so I could turn around!