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13 hours ago, Brocky said:

Tom

Thank you for the Colfax pictures.. I went to Cherokee instead.. My camera broke!! It will not go clickity click any more???????

Do you have any over all shots I can use in my newsletter??

You can use any of my pictures you want Brocky.  All those pictures are still on my camera, full size, uncropped. Let me know if you want me to send them to you via e-mail, any or all. These are all the pictures I took, and they're all on the computer just like the Flickr pictures, cropped and resized, but won't have the Flickr watermark on them. 

I usually just smallerize them down so they fit my computer monitor.

On 10/24/2025 at 3:01 PM, mowerman said:

lol a huge fishing vessel with no nets and fishing equipment,,,,kind of remind me or some of the dumb idiots they capture around here,,,redhanded,,,,clearly the general public,commiting petty crimes dont  realize where ever you go nowdays,,,thiers a camera pointed at you,,,bob

That's the truth!

Oh, and speaking of YouTube, I watched a really good one again yesterday, it was on the related videos of another one I watched. The "steepest road in Canada" part caught my attention. 

It was about the "Bella Coola Hill", rt. 20 out of Bella Coola, in British Columbia. I love this stuff, the road- well, the hill- is 12 miles and a 15% grade, with parts of it at 18%. And it's a dirt road!

I was wondering if trucks were even allowed on it, and yes they are. Another video of it showed a couple of tankers coming down and they were spraying a water and calcium chloride mixture to keep dust down. The guy on the motorcycle that was making the video said he preferred the dust, because it was very slick after they sprayed it. 

This is not the one with the trucks...I don't think. It might be, but there's other shorter videos of it so it's not too hard to find.

9 minutes ago, 1958 F.W.D. said:

Come to my house on Christmas Day, around 3 or 4pm. 

OK, we'll all be there.

36 minutes ago, 1958 F.W.D. said:

I love Laphroaig and Tullamore Dew- although I don't know if Dew is considered a single malt.......

Whatever, what about the prime rib?

15 minutes ago, cruiseliner64 said:

I knew someone would pick up on that!!! Its an Irish Whiskey.....🤣

Paul

Oh

2 minutes ago, 1958 F.W.D. said:

I love Laphroaig and Tullamore Dew- although I don't know if Dew is considered a single malt.......

Hmmm, Black Bush- interesting 🤔 

5 hours ago, mowerman said:

Cute little bottle it looks like a shelf ornament. Thanks for that.

Yeah, that's probably where it'll end up, collecting dust on a shelf. I still have a fifth of Makers Mark that someone gave me about 10 years ago that I've never opened. I've opened many bottles of Jim Beam and Crown Royal, but not the Makers Mark.

On 11/23/2024 at 12:26 PM, mowerman said:

Hell, I completely missed this. I used to see a lot of them around the LA railroad and Harbor. We used to call them Joe dogs. They were quite common down there where you needed a third axle for heavy cans and raill trailers but didn’t have to be live for snow They’re actually a pretty good idea. If all you have is a single axle that way you can pull anything.

We had a joe dog at H.H. Moore's, I was hooked to it here bringing a girder out of Banker Steel in Lynchburg. A lot of times the beams were so heavy the permit required us to have a minimum of 7 axles on the ground. The girder was resting on the joe dog, not the truck, so when you made a turn you had to be very careful of all the overhang on the front, you could tear up some stuff with it if you weren't paying attention.

I know I've told this story before, but it's been a while. True story, almost a "FAFO" situation. 

I almost found out the hard way. I was picking corn after school, by myself. I was 17 years old. Driving a Ford 5000 tractor with a mounted picker. My dad had already gone home, I was going to finish that field up and come on in myself. The tractor and picker looked about like this, but I think this is a 4000 tractor.

The corn went up that chute and into the wagon, and when you got to the end of the row you just pulled a lever and the chute would stop running, otherwise the corn would just fall onto the ground when you were turning. Then when you got straight on the next row you turned it on again and the corn dropped into the wagon.

I was in the process of turning, the chute was off, but everything else was running, and I reached back to clear some shucks away that had built up. And something grabbed the sleeve of my jacket. It happened so fast, just in an instant, that all I had time to do was think about how stupid I was to get killed like that, after hearing all my life that you never did anything to anything until you shut the machine off. I knew better, but it was a momentary lapse of reason.

And then the entire sleeve of that jacket ripped off, right at the shoulder. I could hardly believe that I didn't get sucked into the corn picker and ground to bits. 

Then I stopped the tractor, stopped the corn picker, dug the sleeve out, and took it and the rest of the jacket way down into the woods and hid it. I was shaking like a leaf. I finished the field and drove the tractor home, shaking from the cold then, because I had no jacket. But I still considered myself extremely lucky because it could have been so much worse. 

That was over 50 years ago, and I never told either of my parents about it, until the day they passed away.

16 minutes ago, mowerman said:

yeah me too tom,,,,my childhood was the best,,,and neighbors all knew each other and talked,,,,but dont forget about falling out of trees and eating dirt lol

Yes, I probably still have a scar on my ankle from when I fell out of a tree and a piece of broken glass was on the ground and cut me just above my ankle. It was a pretty deep cut, but nobody threw me in a car and rushed me to the doctor. My Mom probably cleaned it off and put a band-aid on it. It wasn't my fault I fell, the limb I was on broke, but I didn't try to sue the limb, or the tree. 🤣