Pictures of the Week

[other dog]

After I cleared the snow off the driveway with the leaf blower, it started to sleet...then came the freezing rain.

So I still had to go out and break up the ice with a shovel before I finally got out Monday morning. I was planning to go around 3 or 4 am, I thought it was supposed to be about 40 degrees by then but it was still freezing. It was only up to 34 when I finally left at 9am.

Then I got to the shop and got a broom and swept the snow off the trailer and load of coils, then I hauled ass to N.C. to try to get 2 stops off.

Just a little ways into N.C. on rt. 86 you couldn't tell it had even snowed- There's still quite a bit laying around here now.

By the time I got to the second stop in Benson I was sweating when I was folding my tarp. Then I had to haul ass to Kernersville to pick up one of these stainless steel canisters. They're for storing spent fuel rods.

Took it to the power plant near Pottstown, Pa.

We - me and Curtis were running together- went up 52 to 77 to 81. I've posted pictures of Pilot Mountain before, but it's always an impressive sight to me.

It was warm that day, but if you go by there on a really cold dat it looks like this-

another old joke...moving on-

After spending all night and half a day at the power plant, we went to Parker Ford, Pa. to load steel going to Monroe, Va. It was 9 miles from the power plant, but as the crow flies it only looked like a mile or so- this is the power plant from where we loaded at Bushwick Steel.

Spot mirror on the wall at the steel getting place-

I saw this log truck on rt.24 when I was going to Dillwyn to get a load of Kyanite in a van yesterday. It's called the "Log Hog". It has a 6-71 Detroit in it, and it used to have straight pipes, don't know if it still does or not. When I lived in Appomattox you could here it coming long before you ever saw it. The owner stopped by the house and gave my youngest son a ride in it on his birthday when he was about 10 years old. My son was about 10, not the owner of the truck. Anyway, it had a "for sale" sign on it.

Then on the way home yesterday I saw this girl from Texas in Winfall. I stopped and she said she had fallen and couldn't get up- she asked me if I would help her into the back seat of her car, then she winked at me. Like i'm stupid enough to fall for that! I told her she looked fine to me, and besides "you can't drive the car from the back seat!" Then she looked at me like I was nuts!..I left her sitting there and went on home.

[rustydog]

TWO THINGS......First you should buy that Ford for your son....sure it has sentimental value.

2nd.....Y'all spent too much time near the reactor.....of course she fell down....top heavy!! You should have traded her for those boots... I would have left her sitting there too....she has to have some gravel embedded from sittin on that dirt road......and of course..more than a mouthful is wastefull...

[1958 F.W.D.]

You dropped at PECO/Excelon Limerick and didn't call me? You were within Breakfast (or dinner, or breakfast-for-dinner) or lunch striking distance.

I worked in that facility quite a few times when I did Industrial Safety a few years back when I was single.......It was a part time gig, worked it on the off-days from the firehouse. The money was disgustingly outstanding, especially on the weekends. I'm suprised with security as good as it is there, that they let you in..........But then again they let me in....so......oh never mind.

[RedBullDog]

Good for you OD for spotting an obvious ploy. She was there on an OSHA sting. The back of that old clunker is not nearly big enough to properly do the job, without a confined spaces work permit.

[Vladislav]

Tom, nice scenaries!

I agree on the point about red truck. A bit of history to your sun.

Not shure though he's eager enough to pay attention to the truck and spend time with it.

I either agree on what you've done to Texas victim. Indeed, there was absolutely no need to lift her up from the ground since she had perfect current position. And I agree on no need to tell us the part of that story you haven't told.

The only thing that disappointed me I couldn't see the picture of the ass you hauled here and there.

...Oh, no no, don't post it!

[other dog]

You dropped at PECO/Excelon Limerick and didn't call me? You were within Breakfast (or dinner, or breakfast-for-dinner) or lunch striking distance.

I worked in that facility quite a few times when I did Industrial Safety a few years back when I was single.......It was a part time gig, worked it on the off-days from the firehouse. The money was disgustingly outstanding, especially on the weekends. I'm suprised with security as good as it is there, that they let you in..........But then again they let me in....so......oh never mind.

Fortunately I didn't have to go in the "secure" area.

[Green Dash]

Where are the shots of all this "ass" you hauled?

[other dog]

Where are the shots of all this "ass" you hauled?

You know the deal- you run like hell to get somewhere so you can sit there and wait...and wait...and wait some more.

[Swishy]

OD

Noice Bumperz ( o )( o )

RE: run like hell to get somewhere so you can sit there and wait.

Yup

can relate to that ...... we call it:

'Hurry up n wait'

LOL

cya

§wishy

[other dog]

You dropped at PECO/Excelon Limerick and didn't call me? You were within Breakfast (or dinner, or breakfast-for-dinner) or lunch striking distance.

I worked in that facility quite a few times when I did Industrial Safety a few years back when I was single.......It was a part time gig, worked it on the off-days from the firehouse. The money was disgustingly outstanding, especially on the weekends. I'm suprised with security as good as it is there, that they let you in..........But then again they let me in....so......oh never mind.

We talked to a Bushwick driver in the break room at Bushwick Steel. He said he drove a trash truck or roll-off truck in the 70's, and went to the power plant every week. He said the stuff they threw away was unreal- he said he made as much on the side from what they threw away as he did for driving the truck. He said "...perfectly good welding leads as long as here to there-" and pointed to the far side of the building. He also said he saved the crane mats they threw in the dumpster- all good solid oak wood- for firewood, and tons of good plywood that they threw away.

[1958 F.W.D.]

He said the stuff they threw away was unreal-

From what I saw when I was in and out of there- Plus other PECO/Excelon facilities like Peach Bottom, the Conowingo Dam power plant and the Cromby coal fired plant in Phoenixville Pa.....I believe every word of it!!

[bulldogboy]

A few years ago I drove to the top of Pilot Mountain near Mt. Airy, NC. There is a state park up there named Pilot Mountain State Park (for obvious reasons). It's the most

unusual looking mountain that I have ever seen. Mt. Airy is the hometown of Andy Griffith and the setting for the fictional town of Mayberry, NC on "The Andy Griffith Show".

On the show Sheriff Andy often refers to the neighboring town of Mt. Pilot. I took a guided tour of Mt. Airy in a 1962 Ford Galaxie set up to look like the cruiser used on the 

show; the tour guide was dressed like Deputy Barney Fife and did a great imitation of him , too. I also bought myself a "Mayberry Fire Department"  t-shirt.

 

                          bulldogboy