My week's pics

[Superdog]

Picked up a junk car,these make great dumpsters for all the little misc. scrap metal I seem to generate,when the car gets full I haul it in and get another.

Local Mack dealer needed some Neway suspension parts for a customer's R model,since the half suspension on this truck wasn't doing me much good,I delivered it to them to take what they needed.

This DM dump has been sitting on their back lot for a long time. Other than a bent bumper,looks like a nice truck.

Swapped out the retreards on Super Mutt for the tires I put on the Cruiseliner this winter.It ain't going anywhere till I found a windshield,so I couldn't justify those new tires just sitting. Waiting to see if Bandag is going to stand behind the one that peeled.

Got the other "billboard" trailer moved out of the field. Think I'm going to sell one,after I get the aluminum wheels off them.

Waiting on a train

When the truck won't fit where the hogs are, gotta haul them out in a gooseneck trailer and load them with a portable loading chute.

Midliner sitting under a tree

Loading hogs at our stockyards.No longer in daily use,we use it as a collection & reload point for small groups of livestock . My Great grandpa and Grandpa built this yards in 1950. Over the years hogs were bought for Oscar Meyer,Hormel,Farmstead,FDL Foods,and Excel . Use to be every town around had at least one,sometimes 2 hog buying stations,but now with the large confinement hog farms,they are almost extinct,as hogs are already sold on contract and loaded direct,farm to packing house.

New cold storage and reefer docks at he Smithfield(formerly Wilson) plant in Monmouth,IL.

Big Brother is watching. Damned if I've got this one figured out,they clip this on truck when we enter the guard gate to " track our movement within the facilities". I don't know where they are worried about us going,it's all fenced in around the hog receiving area.

[Timothy Maikshilo]

Great to see spring has sprung in your neck of the woods Mike. Looked like a great week.

[b61mack]

Mike did they close the truck stop down or you just moving the trailer, that was a nice little store.

[mack mhe9]

Looks like you had a busy week.

I do the same thing with scrap fill a car.

do y I ever think of hooking that little clip thing on a hog and letting run in the lot?

[Vladislav]

Nice to see the grass green and the deals doing good.

Thank you for sharing, especially those RW in work pics.

[Superdog]

Mike did they close the truck stop down or you just moving the trailer, that was a nice little store.

It's been sold to Casey's General Stores,a big convenience store chain here in the midwest . It's closed right now for remodeling.The old owner called me about a month ago and asked if I wanted to buy the trailers for storage, as he didn't want to have to mess with moving them.Actually,other than this last one being in a plowed field and parked too close to the ditch,they weren't bad getting moved,considering they been there close to 15 years.I probably didn't have 3 hours total involved between the 2,not too bad,considering I don't move near as fast as I used to, I've had alot worse trailer moves.

[mowerman]

very interesting,,,thanks...like the R model...bob

[gearhead204]

Mike: the livestock story has sure changed over the last 30 years, we had two markets in the same county when i was in school, now we have two in eastern washington and one on the west side. What used to be a 30 mile round trip drive to market is now 350.up untill several years ago you couldnt afford to take a old cow to slaughter it was cheaper to just shoot her and use for coyote bait.

[Green Dash]

Nice pics and interesting info on the livestock business.