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Great pictures! The stove made from two brake drums is a great ideer too, everybody ought to have one or two in their shop. Bet they work good too, should put out a lot of heat and would be cheap and easy to make. Looks like it was a great trip, they really had some nice old trucks- and I didn't see any pictures of killer spiders, snakes, or man eating crocodiles!

??? palm trees change color too?..I didn't know that- or do you mean when the snowbirds from up north start showing up?

It's the same wheelbase as the red T660, but it doesn't turn as short. Might need to turn the stops in on them. They get all of them that long and it makes it hard getting around in some places, especially with 53 foot trailers. That's why I stay latched onto a 48 footer, it's tight getting into Lane Steel, tight getting to and from Galv-Tech in Pittsburgh, tight at Sharon Coatings, it's tight everywhere.

Thank you Timothy.

They were calling for snow showers up there this weekend.

Pretty tight turn off of rt. 310 too. Saw Punxsutawney Phil...several times. He was standing on a corner at Jefferson St. Then he was standing in front of Roseman's Florist. Then when I was taking a picture of the DOT working at the bottom of the hill I noticed him standing at Joe's Drive In. I went from there to Lane Steel in McKees Rocks. Saw a Lane Steel truck parked there. Around sun up this morning, from rt. 220 near Roanoke. Saw this unit on 501 just north of Gladys on the way home this morning. Looks like a '64 Falcon. What the heck- a random hot babe with no pants. That's all folks- i'm done!

Nice picture, I-64 in Va. I think. I made a trip in the cream colored truck and they said the red truck was fixed Monday, so I went to Fairview, Pa. in the red truck Tuesday and by the time I got back to Bedford, Va. with the dumpsters it was doing the exact same thing it was doing at first- the red engine light was on and it was doing the pinging again. So I unloaded the dumpsters in Bedford and took it back to Truck Enterprises in Lynchburg. Jeff said I wouldn't be driving it much longer, he would be taking one of these new ones in a week or too. I asked him what color it was and he said "what color do you want, we've got about six of them up there". So I took a look when I dropped the red truck off, and they had 2 charcoal gray units, a lavender one, a blue one, a green one, and one called coral red. I called him and told him I liked the red one and he said "all right, that's the one i'll tell them I want then". So I got the ol' "cream puff" truck again, and took a load of pipes to Anita, Pa, just north of Punxsutawny. Of course it has no driver on it now, so no equipment, so I had to go by Truck Enterprises and get my chains, binders, tarps, corner protectors, plastic, phone charger, and sleeping bag out of the red truck. The job site at Anita, Pa. I came up this steep hill on this 10 ton weight limit road, turned left at the top, then backed up to where they unloaded me, right in the road. Pretty narrow road- I took these on the way out. Saw this building over in the woods. And water running out of this pipe- And two girls laying on the beach-

Saw the goat again when I was going up Powell Mountain- and a big bird when I was going down Powell Mountain. Tree on rt.98 in Pa. with a big bite taken out of it. Rt.18 in Pa, coming from Fairview, headed down to Greenville to the dumpster getting place. I forgot where this was...but it's pretty,eh? The dumpster getting place- got it all, gravel, trees, dumpsters, corn field... Saw the goat again on the way back. Summersville Lake on rt.39 in W.V. A random hot babe, so Randy doesn't get too bent out of shape from boredom.

The red engine light was coming on and the warning pinger was pinging in the red truck when I was in Norfolk Friday so I drove this truck to Carnegie, Pa. while the red one was in the shop. I saw the goat on Powell Mountain on the way up. I was sitting in Carnegie and took some pictures of this electronic billboard that's beside 376 while I was sitting there. I can't figure why the billboard pictures are so clear, but every time I try to take a picture of a full moon it's just a big fuzzy blob. They had some big Mack trucks parked there. There's that billboard I was taking pictures of right over the IH and the DM. Saw a vapor trail too. And a big Mack mixer in McKees Rocks and a Superliner log truck in Flatwoods, W.V. A girl in a car so 58FWD doesn't bitch about being on a billboard- Road shots, rt.20 in W.V.

Stopped by the coal tipple again, just to take a picture this time. There's the coal dump and scales-

Jeff Moore used to have a cat named 380, so we named our cat 400.

"just lemme finish this bottle of tequila, then i'll show you clowns how to load a truck on the trailer."

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here's a good beach towel hold-down video...if the link works- https://www.facebook.com/franky.arenis/videos/594395987371728/

I didn't hear a reason why the log truck was there or what happened, but it looked like a good breeze would have tipped it over. I met two big wreckers headed that way just down the road, I hope they got there before it capsized.

. https://www.facebook.com/franky.arenis/videos/594395987371728/

pee stop?..you caught that, eh?..that was the reason for stopping!

I had a great adventure today. My friend Jeffrey has a trailer and he volunteered to go retrieve a Dodge pickup for me. I didn't want to drive it because I have no tags, no insurance, and the inspection sticker expired in April. I might have taken a chance with everything but the insurance, that's just not worth taking a chance on- anything can happen you know. Besides, he did it for free- but I got him a case of Bud Light for doing it anyway. I started to drive the truck onto the trailer- the ramps were short and extremely steep. I don't know how he even gets his Camaro loaded on the raggly p.o.s. trailer- anyhow, the truck started to spin, then the rear slid sideways, then the front made an equal but opposite reaction, just like Einstein said, and slid off the ramps- should have put it in four wheel drive at first, but I didn't. It idles at about 1800 rpms, so it was hard to just ease along, it was either stop or go- and go quickly. So then the 3rd. member on the front end was stuck on the ramp, right front tire was off the ground. The guy I bought it from's Dad and brother were there watching us try to load it, looking like two of the Three Stooges- I think we were missing Moe, the brains of the outfit. They went and got a floor jack, and the plan was Jeffrey would put the jack on the back of the trailer and jack the truck up until the third member was clear of the ramp, then we'd just back it off and make another attempt- would have worked too, except i'd left the truck out of gear, and as soon as it was free it slid off the jack and took off backwards, right towards the front porch of their palatial home. Then we all looked like the Keystone Kops- Dad tried to open the passenger door to get in it, but the door was locked. I jumped off the trailer to get in the driver side door, but my tennis shoes couldn't get any traction on the wet grass and I landed face-first on the ground. Jeffrey grabbed the front bumper and was being dragged across the yard. We all eventually managed to grab something and finally got it stopped before it hit anything important. Just knocked over a shrub that was in a large plastic pot, ran over a bag of trash, and killed a dog or two (just kidding- no dogs were injured!). So then we locked the hubs and I put it in four-wheel low and managed to get it on the trailer without further incident. Except one of the ramps bounced against the tail gate on the way to the shop and took some paint off. But it's at the shop now, finally. I think i'll invest in a new ISC before I do anything else.

It was going south on I-79 between I-70 and West Virginia, no telling where it was going- perhaps to Oklahoma. By the way, the Sooners better get something going here pretty quick- the Longhorns are kicking their asses right now, in the 4th. quarter.

It just closed within the last year or so. Coal trucks used to pull over where i'm parked and cross over the highway, making a big u-turn, pull onto a set of scales, and then back up to the hopper and dump. Now they have these concrete barriers there blocking it off. This is from several years ago- I was standing over on the other side of where the red KW is dumping when I took the pictures.

oh. I thought you were push starting a wrecker. My clutch linkage broke a couple of weeks ago while I was sitting at a stop light. Had to drive back from Haymarket with no clutch so instead of dealing with 9,000 stop lights on rt. 29- 8,622 of which are in Charlottesville- I took I-66 over to 81, then 64 east back to 29. Only one light going that way, in Lovingston, Va.

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I stopped at the old coal tipple on rt. 20 in W.V. and took a few pictures. A bad drive-by picture of a wood truck in the median on rt.220 near Eagle Rock. Nice chain saw- looks like a Stihl. Silverado pickup.

I finally saw some sunshine, way over there on the mountains. I saw this place over there. A ship in the ocean, near McKees Rocks, Pa. I saw lots of big Mack trucks. I saw some non-Mack trucks too. A big yellow and green thing-

The 40 footers would make nice chip trailers.