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  1. ddn't have a side kit, just a regular flatbed. had to tarp 'em too.
  2. Slacking off a little on the old blog here. Except for sitting for 10 hours Monday waiting to get unloaded in Roxana, Il. I had a pretty good week. I was supposed to pick up a load in Jackson, Tn. and deliver it in Pounding Mill, Va. at 12:30 Tuesday, but it took so long to get unloaded there was no way I could make it. Earliest appointment I could get Wednesday was for 1:30, so then I had time to kill. I could have gotten there about 5:30 or 6:00 Monday, but I stopped at the Davy Crocket truckstop in Tennessee. When I unloaded in Pounding Mill I reloaded at the same place going to Chattanooga, then loaded in Chattanooga for Lynchburg. Then to the yard and loaded up for Roxana again to deliver Monday. got a couple of pictures here-thought I saw nocluejoe driving the buggy truck in Knoxville, but it wasn't him. It was a cabover Pete buggy truck.... speaking of cabover Petes, saw this unit for sale in Montvale, Va. Don't see this setup in the east much. I thought about winning the lottery, buying this truck, and moving out west and be a hay hauler. Or move next door to Rob just to annoy him. pretty neat picture of the PC screen-nice background picture,eh? (that's Canadian)
  3. yeah, I had only been driving a Peterbilt for a short time and I forgot which pedal you stepped on to slow down. One caused you to to speed up, and I didn't want to step on the wrong one. So I pulled over and stopped and got the manual out and read it, and was just about to pull back onto the road when a load of live chickens went by at a high rate of speed. Thought I heard somebody yelling "Earl, you wanna screw that thing back on there?" as they went by, but i'm not sure. Anyhow, when I got down to Pagosa Springs there was the chicken truck sticking out of the side of the feed store. Minus the top row of chickens of course-the 12' tunnel wiped them off. Only had my bananas stacked to 11'6''. Bananas are tricky to haul too. You've got to chain them down tight enough to keep them on the wagon, but not too tight or you'll bruise them. Reminds me of the time they sent me to Morganton, Ga. to pick up a load. I followed the directions and ended up at a farm. A fellow wearing bib overalls met me and I said "what am I loading here?". He said "chickens". So I said "there must be some mistake, you can't haul chickens on a flatbed". He said "sure you can, just nail their peckers to the floor-now you pull in this chicken house and load up, i'll be back with the paperwork in a few minutes". So I pulled in and was working furiously trying to catch chickens and get them loaded. After a while the man came back and he was looking at me like I was crazy. Only had a few chickens loaded, and I was getting mad too. So I said "what?!!-you said to nail their peckers to the floor!". And he said "yeah, but I was talking about the one on their face"..
  4. That looks really good -just don't tell Rob you used anything off a Pete, or you'll never hear the end of it
  5. did I ever tell you about the time I lost my brakes right after I started down Wolf Creek pass in a blizzard, with 52,000 lbs. of bananas on?.. It was a dark and stormy August night, around 1953 or 54. I was driving a 1958 Peterbilt, headed to Bangor, Maine. Loaded the night before in Houston, Tx. but took a wrong turn somewhere around Chattanooga...
  6. I can see that, short haul, or lots of stop and go-might be nice.
  7. A-...dammit,you stole my thunder! I guess i'm just old school, don't know anything about automatics, never drove a truck with one, don't want to. Been doing OK with 5, 9, 10, 13, and 18 speed transmissions for over 30 years in pretty much any situation and all conditions, so why change now? Besides, what if I drove one and liked it? I'd have to...well, ain't figured that part out yet, but it ain't likely anyway.
  8. I've already blown $10 on lottery tickets today, but no luck! I'd buy that F-model if I won, and try to talk Rob out of one of those V-8 Mack engines he has piled up in his warehouse!
  9. you're certainly welcome...what was this about, I wasn't paying attention?
  10. Jeff still talks about the time he left his prized "Buddy-L" dump truck in the driveway and his Daddy backed over it.
  11. I was climbing Lookout pass with 49,000 lbs. on, just fixin' to shift into high gear, about a mile from the top when I took this picture. ...did I mention the load was also 14' wide?...and 13'-6'' high? ...and that I was running into a 60 mph headwind?
  12. yeah its kinda freaky but makes for one hell of a story hey, if you're into freaky stuff and bondage, that's your business-nobody's gonna judge you for it here...or were you talking about the fire?...never mind
  13. This is a secret spy picture I took in Rob's shop when I stopped by there anonymously recently. He hired this clown to be a painter, but he was having some difficulty with the yellow paint. Or either he was trying to make a hamburger when he was supposed to be working. The only reason he was hired in the first place is because his sister here takes him to work and back every day because he never learned to drive.
  14. Hi Daddyslilgurl, welcome back!..glad they let you out again.no telling how many words of wisdom from Rob you've missed here. good thing not a lot's been going on , or everything would've gone up in flames I saw where mouses have been in the mixer again, chewed up part of a roll of paper towels. Time to put more Irish Spring in there. That's one of my biggest fears, that they'll gnaw on the wiring and something will short out and catch fire.
  15. you should feel special, surrounded by a family of in-laws like that. I guess Momma must have been the pick of the litter I think you're trying to get me to post more neutralizer pictures, like the Valentines day ones. I'll look for groundhog and presidents day pictures later, I must be off to Lynchburg to unload and to the shop to load another Roxana Il. first.
  16. by the way-how come you weren't wearing glasses in the photo of "yourself" that you posted on your birthday? That was long before Foghorn Leghorn allegedly broke your glasses...Ah-HA!!!-busted! see, we're smart-can't pull the wool over our eyes! reminds me of the old saying- "don't do that, it'll make you go blind!". So I quit when I needed glasses.
  17. g'day mate (that's Australian),eh? (that's Canadian) ...sorry, just showing off because I know 3 languages. Rob hasn't said anything funny lately...must be busy on a serious project.
  18. reminds me of the time my Grampa had a new well dug.They asked him if he wanted to fill in the old one with the dirt,and he said no,he was going to pull the hole up and split it into post holes and sell 'em.
  19. I like "natural" too, but I had to go to the opposite extreme this time...still trying to get "toothpick" outa my head.
  20. don't tell Barry I posted babe pictures
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