Olivetroad

I'll check the mail and let you know when it arrives so you can come up and show me the proper operating techniques. We will have to divvy up the photog duties. I get the nekked women, you snap close ups of the men.

Readin' and cipherin' you-uns thought processes in this thread makes me the man of constant sorrow.

I heard they are chopping silage already by you guys. Corn won't make anything even if it does rain now. We have had less than an inch of rain since mid April. This will affect a lot of guys........farmers will have less jingle in their pockets to buy nicer trucks, newer farm equipment, and they might put off pouring that concrete slab they have been wanting?

How do you tell a Romney supporter from an Obama supporter? Romney supporters sign their checks on the front...

Lower hood height? I have a Pettibone 6000 pound four wheel drive forklift with a slant six in it - that has been a great engine. I have not looked at it in a long time, but I think it has the intake and exhaust manifolds on the same side? I just bought a army surplus warehouse tug with the same engine and only 400 hours. I am keeping it for a replacement engine for the forklift.

Thursday the boys and I headed to Joplin Mo. to pick up some surplus goodies from the electric company down there: In the back room we found a wench winch and we brought her home with us. On the way home I fell asleep while the 16 year old practiced his shifting and I woke up in the middle of a state park and we were no longer moving. The boys decided to make a stop in the 106 degree heat - great. It was Ha Ha Tonka state park where some carpet bagger fool from Kansas City built a huge castle on top of a bluff and then a year later was killed in a car wreck. This was in 1907 so how did he not see the only car in town coming down the road? The whole place burned in the 40's - typical ozark justice - if I can't have it, you can't either. Now it is a pretty neat park with the ruins still standing. They quarried the stone way down the bluff and pulled it up on these little carts - I wanted one to tote my sweaty ass back down the hill. The original 80 feet tall water town still stands. If you put up a gate, the monkeys just try and find a way to get in: It also has a COOL as in nice and cold (60 degrees down there) natural bridge and a BAT cave - we did not see anyone in tights though: The view was great from the castle bluff looking over part of the Lake of the Ozarks - we even saw some nakedness goings on: Camera does not see as good as my eye.......... We had a good time - It is worth a stop if you are coming through the area.

The kids and I cooked an egg on the dash of a junk truck yesterday - they did not belive me so I showed them - this is why you don't leave a kid or pet in the car. Is is 9:30 here and I am back in the house for the day. I went out at 4:00 and fed some cows - yes, we had to start that crap already. None of our crops are going to make anything. We are going to have to chop the corn for silage. Cattle prices locally are in free-fall from everyone having to sell for lack of grass. I am a stubborn SOB though and I will feed mine in hopes it rains this fall. This summer stinks.

I know this story is fictional - no self respectin' Wile E. Coyote would lower himself to bite a Illinois Governor - they taste like prison food.

Great truck! I really like those old tandems - that driver was riding high when he took it on it's first run. Do you know any history on it?

I have my old bow bar hanging on the wall in the shop. The boys think it is some kind of magical thing and they just know I am not letting them use because it is easier. Now that I think of it, I do make them do things the hard way a lot. Good for 'em!

They are using bow bars, and the one on the end is wanting to hit someone with his hookaroon. I can see it in his eyes - count me out.

Oh Vinny - I guess you never got the memo. This is not some democracy based spelling/punctuation class where you get a vote. This is like at my house where there is only one teacher. If you have more than one teacher, the student's heads turn into mush and no one learns anything. Everyone else on BMT is too old and cranky to change their ways (including me) so we just decided to harass help you. Isn't that sweet!

That is a fine example of machine work - make what you need out of what you have available.

You fixed the spelling, but not the punctuation...............

Head in hands...........

Vinnster - I was not going to admit this, but reading the above posts made me change my mind. I had a local older guy need some help with fixing his Mack dump truck and he is many moons past being young enough to give a fig about learning to use a computer. So I took my laptop over to him and we looked up the info he needed here on BMT. He also checked out stupid stuff like dead horses, peirieroggiises, RandyP's scraper fetish, etc, etc,etc, and of course your misplaced love of sidewinder U models and we had a good time. He kept trying to pay me for the help, when really I have very little to offer in the Mack Smarts department, it was everyone else on BMT that helped him solve his problem. So when he kept insisting to pay me for my time, I took it and donated it to BMT with the deal being that you got "promoted" to where you can post photos again. He and I both talked about the spunk it takes when you are 12 and restoring a truck that is three times your age with no help from your deadbeat dad. So............what I am getting at is that while it is a damn shame that your dad is a shithead, you should not use his bad example to be bitter about the world and the cards you were dealt. The world is full of basically good people, it is just that a lot of us make hasty or bad decisions in life that in the long run make life hard for others. Don't plan to beat your dads ass - he is not worth it! But I hope you can forgive him and move on past the trouble he causes you someday, because no little speck like him should keep you down. I was lucky enough to have a saint as a dad. Every time I don't know what to do, I just try and figure out what he would have done. It seems tough right now, not having your dad as a good example. But if you hopefully have kids someday, it might turn out to be a good thing that you know the things you DON'T do to be a good father. Be polite to your grandparents - some day you may figure out how much more energy it takes when you are their age just to live life around a 12 year old when they have already done that once before. Keep your chin up little man! We all want to see that flop over truck finished...................and watch your spelling and punctuation on here, Barry and I may pull the plug on your "promotion" if you don't improve in that department!

Dominican Republic is officially far enough away to be classified as a "Freight Killer". Unless you want to sell 250 of them for ten dollars apiece in a container?

I don't see how the restaurant is discriminating. That dipshit can get his ass out of bed at least one day a week early enough to get to chuch and get his own bulletin. The friggin Government agent can do the same. Better yet, they can take their kids with them so they have a moral game plan to help them get through life. They may not know it, but they even give the bulletins away for free. See - no discrimination, Jesus is open to all.

I sell a lot of used truck tires and I have lots of them in 22.5, 24.5 and 20 inch, but where are you located? Freight usually kills long distance deals.

Hair is my #1 thing to go - I just wondered how many years a guy has before the other problem begins.

What about #3?

Check out this crap...........You might be a friggin terrorist? http://www.infowars.com/homeland-security-report-lists-liberty-lovers-as-terrorists/

I hope I am never forced to install any sort of device that handles my poop! We just have a pipe going out into a field. It is so dry here that the only green patches on any of the farms is the "necessary outlet".

Bob - I don't think I am blind.........I don't see a photo. I was at a farm sale recently where they sold a bunch of collector tractors and they sold two D's. The one on original steel totally unrestored drug out of the barn where it was parked in the 60's brought $3000.00. The motor was not stuck, but it needed a lot of work. The one with the original steel cut down to rubber was an older restoration that was not real well done, but it ran. It brought $4200.00. I liked the one on steel, it at least was original and not messed with. Both sold to a collector from out of the area. Post some photos if you can.........

I use millimeters - I want credit for every little bit