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2026-02-01T23:24:51Z

Speaking of kangaroos, this was in Nelson county, just up the road and across the river from here.

2026-02-01T21:06:30Z

22 hours ago, mrsmackpaul said:

Since the thread is about weather and no one here would ever run it off into the ditch, we finally have some decent weather for doing something outside...

Paul

Yeah, yeah, but what about this-

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Saturday at 09:16 PM

Kinda like this. This is not me, just a video I happened to see. I don't know how to share the whole video but it was just backing in here, entirely a coincidence that we were just talking about backing into a tight spot I'm sure.

Saturday at 09:06 PM

22 minutes ago, Joey Mack said:

The snow is approaching 6 inches.. That is a lot at one time here, and it is still coming down... For me its no big deal. I lived in New England for 35 years, and have seen much worse. So we are just cozied up in the house. We are self contained, stocked up, and have a whole home generator and I have 6 tanks of fuel which lasts just shy of 3 days...

You should be good for 3 days. If not, let us know and I'll head that way with my shovel.

Saturday at 05:02 PM

Yeah, there's that. It's very hard to see behind you. One place we went to in Greenville, S.C. had a very tight door you had to back into. It's hard to back into the dark out of the bright sunlight anyway and the Conestoga made it that much harder. The hole was barely wider than the trailer to start with, with the wall on the right side and the dock on the left. They drove the forklift on the dock right up to the side of the trailer to unload the material.

Saturday at 04:18 PM

2 hours ago, Joey Mack said:

Another missed oppotunity.. dang-it..

If you wait long enough you can come get it with a tanker. The down side of that is that it'll be much harder to put together.

Saturday at 02:58 PM

1 minute ago, cruiseliner64 said:

Oh boy do I remember that so well. Drive 5/6 hours...spend 4/5 hours ropeing and tarping a load then 5/6 hours driving back.Its no wonder the Curtainsider took over.Open curtains, load,strap the load Close curtains.On the way back in 1/2 hours......

Paul

I got to pull a Conestoga once in a while. This is bags of sand going to US Pipe in Lynchburg.

Steel going to N.B. Handy in Davenport, Florida.

I always put at least one chain, usually two, on these stacks of sheets, plus belly straps. Most of the other guys threw 2 straps across the top and called it a day.

This is one of my favorite pictures. Zina took it from her car, we were on the bridge on 295 in Jacksonville, FL.

Saturday at 02:39 PM

2 minutes ago, Geoff Weeks said:

Up in Canada, they carry aintifreeze in a spray bottle to spray on the tarp to keep it from freezing together when folded.

I've folded tarps and they had a little bit of snow in them, and unfolded them weeks later and the snow would still be there, hadn't melted even when it had been above freezing for days.

Saturday at 02:33 PM

Load of steel I took to Bristol, TN. one time. Picked it up in Richmond and accumulated this much ice along the way.

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Load of lumber, I had 4 straps on each stack, and a belly strap on the highest stack.

Load of beams I took to sunny Florida. I had a chain looped around the top stack in front that went in front of the bottom stack, and an extra chain or two on the bottom stack.

I've seen more pictures and videos of trucks that had beams or pipe go through the cab in the last 10 years or so than I did the whole time I was driving, 42+ years. And the one thing that every single one had in common was that the beams were strapped, no chains. I think now the thought is "I'm not going to chain this, I ain't got time. I'll throw a few straps across it and ride". Like this one, not a chain to be seen, only broken straps. As soon as the steel slides the straps are cut...

Saturday at 02:11 PM

42 minutes ago, 70mackMB said:

l don't remember which one was more fun. Folding frozen stiff snow and ice covered tarps or trying to cover a load with frozen stiff snow and ice covered tarps. And trying to stay standing up on top of the load while doing it! lol

No ropes over here Paul. Rubber straps with "S" hooks on them. The colder it gets the less elasticity they have. And the load straps frozen onto the winches with road spray. OH back when it was fun.

When l drove for Georgia Pacific (lumber and building supplies) we would leave with 8-12 stops under two tarps. Seems there was always something that needed to be covered right to the last stop of the day. .....Hippy

Yes, and when you could normally fold a tarp and it would fit in a tool box, when they were frozen you were lucky to get them the size of a Volkswagen when you folded them.

Saturday at 02:00 PM

Aw shucks, it's just thrown in a pile, but thank you. I could have made a wall or something, but I wasn't thinking about that at the time. I think Joey is going to come pick it up today or tomorrow anyway. Too bad he couldn't get up here yesterday, the neighbor had somebody with a bobcat clearing his driveway, he could have loaded it easily.

Saturday at 01:55 PM

14 hours ago, Joey Mack said:

Is it just a 2 bedroom 1 bath, or does it have a second bath? I need a place to pee when the boss is fixin her face...

That's the beauty of this unassembled igloo, there are many options as to the final configuration. You can build it like you want it!

Friday at 10:32 PM

Friday at 10:18 PM

There is an update on the lumber truck, they say a car did indeed pull in front of the truck and cause the accident. The driver put it in the ditch rather than hit the car.

But- I always secured every load like I was expecting that to happen, not like "well, it could possibly happen but it probably won't".

Friday at 05:29 PM

1 hour ago, Geoff Weeks said:

Reminds me of the old Bell helmet ads, "If you have $15 head buy a $15 helmet".

I used Bell helmets. The last bike I had was an LTD1000 Kawasaki. I sold it and bought a pickup truck, mainly because my wife wanted me to get rid of it, but I did need a pickup. I let the full face Bell helmet go with it and the guy that bought the bike only had it a week or 2 and wrecked it. Not his fault, a 4 wheeler made that left turn in front of him when he was coming from the opposite direction. The guy on the bike hit him right in the side. Put him in the hospital for weeks. My wife saw him somewhere after he got out of the hospital and he told her that the doctors told him that the fact that he had a good helmet was the only thing that saved his life.

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Friday at 12:37 AM

I saw a couple more pictures of the truck on the Appomattox VFD page. The truck was the only vehicle involved, but that doesn't mean nobody pulled out in front of him and caused it, no details were given as to the cause. Said the driver was transported by EMS, but it doesn't look as bad from this side as it did from the other side.

Thursday at 11:32 PM

5 minutes ago, mowerman said:

It looks like a pair of tits from windfall

Oh... I didn't even notice that at first 🤣 🤣 🤣

Thursday at 09:31 PM

Yeah, hard to say. I wasn't close enough to see in detail, just got a phone picture from the Express Lane parking lot. The truck is nosed down into the median just past the stoplight , I don't know if any other vehicles were involved or not. Lumber might have been loaded on ice on an aluminum trailer, that's never good either.

Hope the driver's OK, looks like the lumber is up in the cab pretty good.