Olivetroad

It all boils down to the fact that it pays to be friendly - and the day goes by a lot quicker helping someone than it does laying in a sleeper

Robbbbb and a couple other guys on here have expressed interest in injection molding machines and related junk that I buy at auctions. There is one coming up in Louisville, Ky on Feb. 16th. I have a utility company auction that day, so I am not going, but I bet it is worth a look. There are always some good deals to be had at these, especially in the tool room and maintenance departments - good way to get cheap used stuff for your shop or garage. Here is a link: http://myronbowling.com/_filelib/FileCabinet/Caldwell/Caldwel_flyer.pdf If you come home with a truck load of junk and your wife throws a fit, I will deny ever posting this. I drive by the house real fast and then park behind the barn when I come home from a auction - hopefully she is on the other side of the house when I go by and that the kids don't rat me out. David Backer

Lemme see, Lemme see, Lemme see!

I would start out in 2nd all the time and then just when you thought you had her rollin good, I bet you would slam it into first - over and down? Who dreamed that up?

I have that same engine in a 70ish International 2050 Fleetstar truck with a log loader. It is a typical ex-tree service truck - all banged up and bruised. But that thing starts in any weather and will sit there and run all day long. I was going to cut it up, but I have been using it just on the yard to load and unload with it's grapple and now I like it.

Not that I really knows hows to read or have a subscription to it or nuthin', but I read in the Wall Street Journal today that the bill got kicked to a committee for "more study" which really means it is over.

We had a International 1566 that we pulled a big offset disk with for years. Some guy had traded it in on a 1568 - he thought it would be better - big mistake! What went wrong with the V-8s in those IHC tractors?

I'm with you - PB Blaster - easy to use right out of the spray can. If I had to heat it up, compared to me Richard Pryor would look safe.

My uncle (see post about Antique truck / Antique driver) has a 40's 8N that he and my father bought new. They pulled a A/C all crop combine with it forever and had to overhaul it about once a year back in its working days. It is semi-retired now but he still uses it to pull a finish mower in the summer for his lawn. I hate that thing! No live power, narrow little steer tires, no power steering, no normal two way hydraulics, and what dumbass engineer put the distributor in front of the engine?

Greg - It is not that I don't buy things I like - I have lots of that! But the pro-blem-o is that lots of the cool stuff like old Macks, forestry equipment, and such, just are not around mid-Missouri. We have the market cornered around here on farm equipment, soybeans, cows, hay bales, bacon, whiney kids, pregnant wives, firearms, juicy steaks, Mizzou basketball, and all kinds of good stuff, but it is no-where as far as finding a nice antique Mack for sale!

Why am I in the middle of nowhere as far as buying things I like?

I was heading through Indiana today and this pulled up to the pumps on a gooseneck hotshot trailer. Nice clean restoration - nice big V8! I had a neighbor years ago that had a 8N with a V8 kit in it. The kit came with longer steering rods and front axle braces and a plate to extend the hood. We tore the transmission out of it - my dad said that if Henry Ford thought they needed a V8, he would have sold them new that way.

I really admire your patience! Keep posting!

I had the same thing happen with a truck that I can not name on this forum (they also made red farm tractors). I went through two wheels before I changed out the wheel studs. When I got them out and measured them, they had stretched so much you could see it. They stretched, let the wheel be a little loose, then it would crack. My mechanic said that if I had only been hauling flowers for Mother's day on a hard surface it would not have happened.

Happy birthday gents! Are either of you a Super Freak or are you a guy that frankly does not give a damn? You share your big day with Rick James and Clark Gable.

I have seen some puke green sawmill equipment at the different mills they run. In fact while we were there, we helped them install a new clutch in a V4 65 horsepower wisconsin engine they were running a resaw with that had the beautiful color you mention. I am amazed at what they can do without electricity - no welders - no trouble lights - no internet to find specs. Most of them use a old circular saw for the initial breakdown of the log into cants - it is more forgiving of dirt and rocks on the logs. Then they use a band saw to cut them into boards. Then onto an edger and finally the slabs are chopped into chunks by the youngest kid for firewood. Not many safety devices are still in place on the equipment!

Yeah! Don't think though that drinking is what has kept Uncle Forrest spry - his favorite line is: A man takes a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes the man. My dad, his brother, had a favorite line that was: a drop of liquor has never passed these lips. I better lay low during this conversation.

Actually they are junk logs - they make pallets out of them and will buy any log that is made out of wood! We were laughing that it is like a "multicultural" set of logs - on those two loads we had the following: Pine, Mulberry, Hickory, Post Oak, Willow, Catalpa, Elm, Sycamore, Cottonwood, Black Oak, and mostly Pin Oak. We had 6500 board feet on the two trucks. They only pay 24 - 30 cents a board foot so no one is getting rich by the time we haul them 40 miles. Our check was right at $1500.00 so I guess it is worth doing. We are lucky we even have a place to sell them. The Amish are the most honest people to deal with - we scale the logs ourselves when we load them. They scale them when they buy them and they always come up with a higher number than we do! The logs can have rotten places, holes, and be crooked. They dock the logs some for defects like that, but not as much as I think they should. Our good grade and veneer logs are picked up by the log brokers here at the farm.

Most of the 80 year old guys around here that get around good are "pickled" from 60 years of a daily drunk from either Old Crow sippin' whiskey or the elixir of life: Mad Dog 20/20!

Why does Rob not lick his balls? Because he can't

We hauled the two loads of logs off today - I took my middle son and we made a morning out of it. I jump at every chance I can get my boys to work around their great uncle (and to a lesser degree their dad) Here are some pics from taking them to the Amish sawmill - The road to Uncle Forrest's house The house that he built by hand with all the wood sawed off the farm - you should see the walnut staircase! Co-pilot Matthew Just left the farm - check out the little white church where we eat too much at basket dinners Ever see a bull dog run faster than a horse?

From what I can view of his front in the cartoon, he is already missing his "roll". Or do cartoon characters have a pocket like a kangaroo where they hide their goodies?

This area of Missouri is known as "Little Dixie"!

Okay - but now we all want to see a photo of your frame press

I bet it would look better with a flatbed - something about that bed looks wrong to my non-artistic mind - the dimensions are off or something