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  1. I don't have any idea what y'all are talking about, so i'll just post a picture of a girl with oversize boobage periodically.
  2. I just looked in my book to see if it said anything about the engines, and they were 600 hp. Cummins. I got to reading and one of the biggest problems on the whole trip was with broken axles in the trucks, due to the extreme cold. And on more than one occasion when they would get one one the massive trucks stuck they broke an inch and a half cable trying to pull it out with bulldozers. The trailers they were pulling were 12 feets wide and 60 feets long. Gross weight over 300,000 lbs. Amazing! I've got to read this book again, i've read it twice already.
  3. ...and here's an F model that somebody posted on facebook. They said it was at some detail shop in Richmond, and somebody else said that some tank line owned it, but I don't remember who.
  4. Absolutely, I tried to stay hydrated, thought I was, but it was not enough. I figured it up and I tarped and untarped 9 loads last week. And I would have to agree about the pain, I could hardly walk. When I was in Norcross, Ga. I got out of the truck to untarp, barely able to walk because of the worst attack of gout I've ever had- No doubt because of all the sweat I've poured out this week- and the guy driving this truck right here, the "Engineered Floors" truck, gets out and helps me pull the tarps, fold them, unchain, unstrap, and put my chains and binders away. I could not thank him enough.
  5. Thanks Vlad, i'm glad you liked it! I was doing all right, but I have not worked all week because I have gout. I think it was because I got very dehydrated several different times last week. It's been very hot, upper 90's all last week. I had to untarp in Lynchburg Monday morning, then tarp a 2 stop Greenville, S.C. load, then picked up a load in Charlotte that took 3 tarps to cover, then back to the shop and had to tarp a load going to Atlanta, then picked up another load in Winder, Ga. that of course had to be tarped. Every load I hauled last week I had to tarp in that heat. It might have been over 100 in Ga, I don't know. All I know is that I was just pouring sweat, and i'm not as young as I used to be.
  6. Nope, not that I remember.
  7. A big Mack truck. A girl in a car. 6 Other girls in other cars- A girl out of a car-
  8. Yep, I froze a gallon bag full last week, and 2 quart bags yesterday.
  9. You're right, with the rain, seldom being home, the mud in the garden when I was home, the grass just got plum away from me.
  10. Garden's looking pretty good this year, because of all the rain i'm sure. Also more mosquitoes than i've ever seen. Froze a gallon of green beans yesterday. Peppers look really good. Birds are looking good too- Like this girl in this car- Big Mack trucks- Part of a big Mack truck- Got lots of tomatoes too- Getting a few ripe ones. Big Mack truck- Another girl in another car-
  11. Yep, I ended up getting a 2016 Impala, 4 door, V6, with 46,000 miles on it for $12,000. A little more than I wanted to spend, but that seemed like too good of a deal to pass up too. Clean as a pin, can't tell it's ever been sat in.
  12. I have been thinking about upgrading my vehicle for some time now, getting something bigger, stronger, faster, and newer than my 2002 Ford Ranger pickup. Which is the best vehicle i've ever owned by the way, i've had it for 13 trouble free years myself, and I bought it used. I wanted something that I could get in and drive it to Wisconsin, or Florida, or even Macungie, and not have to rent a car or worry about it. The Ranger was a 4 cylinder, and it had around 165,000 miles on it. So I called Van, the car guy that used to be at the Chevrolet dealership in Appomattox that his father used to own. I hauled an Allis Chalmers bulldozer for his dad one time, all super nice people. Anyway, back to the story- Van said he was going to have 2 cars soon that he was going to sell himself, not through the dealership. The former school superintendent in Appomattox was going to take two cars to Lynchburg to trade them both on a new Chevrolet. Van said he told him that he could sell them for him and get him more than he would get trading them in. He knew the cars too, he had sold both of them new .One was a 2012 Malibu, with 85,000 miles on it, he said he was going to ask about $8500 for it. Exactly what I was looking for, something around that year model, mileage, and price range. The other car was a 2000 Impala...i'd already lost interest, I wanted something newer than the pickup, not older. He said the Impala wasn't the former school superintendent's car, it was his sister's. She was in a nursing home and couldn't drive it...hadn't been driven in a while...only had 24,000 actual miles. Back seat never been sat in. Now i'm really interested. Van said he was going to ask around $4500 for the Impala. So this was almost like getting a brand new 2000 Impala. Or about average mileage for a two year old Impala today, for $4500. I'm all in now, I figured it was a heckuva deal even if I put 4 new tires, new radiator and heater hoses, and a new belt on it, just for my own peace of mind. Turns out it didn't even need that, it had 4 new Michelin tires on it. So I thought I couldn't really go wrong with either vehicle, but I decided I would buy the Impala. ...until he sent me a message the next day, saying that the man had given the Malibu to his grand daughter, and he sold the Impala to his next door neighbor for $5,000.
  13. I have two Nikons, an A900 Coolpix "point and shoot", the same one I take my road pictures with, and a D3300, the one I took the majority of the truck show pictures with. I have 4 different lenses for the D3300 but I took all the truck pictures with the same one, an 18-55mm Nikon lens.
  14. I know what you're saying, and there's probably some I missed.
  15. Thanks everyone, and you're very welcome. I love taking pictures of things!
  16. Still available at Amazon.com Billy- better grab it now if you want one though.
  17. Excellent read here about the whole convoy, the famous Letourneau (sp?) "snow train", ice roads, and early trucking in Alaska in general. I saw this book advertised in a truck magazine and ordered it from Amazon several years ago, great book.
  18. Thank you, thank you very much.
  19. The weather was great the whole time. I don't remember seeing many for sale signs, but there might have been.
  20. Actually, I just looked through them and noticed I was missing some, so I went back and added a few more. Now i've probably got a lot of duplicates, but what can you do? I'm up to 494 pics there now, the ones I added should all be on the last page.
  21. Here's some of the peoples pictures I have- I talked to Back in Black Pulling for a few minutes too, but didn't get a picture so here's one of his truck-
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