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19 hours ago, mechohaulic said:

I wouldn't use those harsh words of "I'm a professional trash picker " ; todays world Your a professional repurposer. recycle center in town has a big sign -NO scavenging . tempted to sit outside gate to check good stuff being thrown away. watched what seemed to be a near new mower deck flipped off pick up bed. still had shine and old gent throwing it away couldn't lift it from truck.

Over here at the Spout Spring trash dump site the guy that works there has a pole with a hook on it so he can scavenge himself. They have several huge dumpsters, we only had one in Gladys. They've got one for metal, one for cardboard, one for plastic, and the one with the trash masher machine for "regular" trash I guess.

All the dump sites around here used to be open all the time, you could just throw away whatever you wanted to whenever you wanted to. Now they're all fenced in, only open during the day, and they all have a worker on site, with a little shed for them to stay in. Probably be a pretty good job for like a retired person or something.

31 minutes ago, Brocky said:

Our condolences to your entire family....

I am with TJC and stay away from the citys!!!! My son in law, born and raised in Conn, Cannot figure out why I come up to Scranton PA and I-81 and across I-84 to their place instead of I-287 across the Tappan Zee bridge.. NO WAY IN HELL WILL I COME THRU NYC!!!!!

I used to go that way to Boston most of the time. Some guys preferred going up 95, some said 81 and 84 was 100 miles farther, but it wasn't. I think maybe it was like 17 miles difference, but you had tolls to pay all the way up if you went 95. Then later on H.H. told us to run 81 and 84 because the tolls were so expensive. It didn't bother me because I liked to run that way anyway, but some of the others griped about it. I never understood why they wanted to be in the city pretty much all the way anyway myself.

Sorry for your loss. I used to run to Chicago a lot back in the 80's and I liked going there then- recent years not so much. Driving there now sounds like running I-95 to Florida, doing 80+ trying to keep from getting run over. That's why we've been taking the back roads. I'm too old for that nonsense now. 

But if you're expecting to get into any kind of altercation in Chicagoland you might want to look into getting a bulletproof vest.

22 hours ago, doubleclutchinweasel said:

I'll have to see if anybody feels like going with me.  Not sure if the Mrs. will feel up to it.  Maybe one of the grand-horses will want to go.

Take plenty of pictures for us please. 😁 

Yes indeed, it is a good show. Should be a good turnout with the nice weather too. We always check out the farmer's market, bought some good blackberry wine there one year. And found some cayenne peppers one year, when I didn't grow any. And they have lots of food vendors at this truck show too. I hate having to miss it.

Well, I guess that settles that. I was hoping it would be Friday, but I'll be going to a funeral Saturday.

I haven't talked to him for a couple of years, but he came to a lot of cookouts at the house in Gladys, and he also worked for F.L. Moore & Sons. Before that he used to own his own trucking company, FWC. They were right on rt. 29 south of Lynchburg, across 29 from the truck stop. So now I don't know what to do.

It's time for the ATHS Show in Colfax, N.C. again. The weather is supposed to be sunny and beautiful Saturday, with a high in the low 80's. Just wondering if anybody else was going? We're hoping too, we were looking forward to it, but a good friend of mine passed away yesterday and I don't know what the funeral arrangements are yet.

Oh, and nice pictures, thank you!

That's a good show, I've been a few times. They used to have it in July but since they changed it to September I've been going to the Winchester, Va. show instead. 

Maybe I should try it again, the last 2 years there just hasn't been many trucks in Winchester. 

That's looking really nice Joey!

3 hours ago, doubleclutchinweasel said:

Well, O'Dog...

Well, it's only been on there for 2 days, that's not bad.

On 10/9/2023 at 2:30 PM, doubleclutchinweasel said:

If you've been "on your way to the dump" with the same load for more than 2 weeks...

The pickup's sitting in the driveway now with a load of trash on it.

22 hours ago, Joey Mack said:

O.D.  Look what I saw at True Value...  You may be on too something..    Jojo 

Yep, that's what it was. I didn't remember what was on the bottle, but I remember it being orange.

OK, here's a picture of Roman looking out the window. I made that little platform for him to sit on.

59 minutes ago, tjc transport said:

43 truck pictures.  

Oh

18 hours ago, Joey Mack said:

well it is 29,000 rear ends and 58,000 Boobies....  soooo  Go easy on the ol'e guy..   Just sayin'..

OK, if there's 2 boobies for every 1 rear end, let me think, that would make 42 truck pictures scattered amongst them too. 

5 hours ago, mowerman said:

30 years ago i hadda chevy flatbed just like that one it was also green.....sold it to an indian chick that drove it to texas...bob

Thanks Bob, I thought it was the best too!

Replied to the wrong comment, not the best Chevy flatbed, the best hot sauce!

And funny thing, I just noticed that the trailer behind the F model is an old McLean trailer.