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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.

Hey!..I'm still learning too. Amado!

Was looking at some pictures on a facebook page called "A Visual History of Lynchburg"- pretty neat stuff there. Only saw one old truck picture, but it was a good one. The caption said this was on the Lynchburg Expressway, taken in December,1964.

http://www.livetrucking.com/robber-brutally-attacks-female-truck-driver-in-pilot-travel-center-parking-lot/

It's a Kenworth W900 Vlad. It hauls lumber from the same place we do in Moneta. They have this nice looking cabover KW too.

Rain,rain,rain...too much rain to get many pictures this week, but I found these old jewels coming from McKees Rocks yesterday- Oversize load on I-79 in West Virginia. A brown truck on I-79 in West Virginia. An orange truck in Moneta, Va. Some leaves on some trees. And, just to supplement the few pictures- a girl looking for something in the trunk of the car.

So...you're talking about taking out a large insurance policy?..but you can't be there...already established an alibi...sounds mighty 'spicious- if there did happen to be a big supplosion there or something, the investigation is going to start with you.

it would be REALLY great to have if you lived next door to 58FWD so you could blow it all into his driveway!

The only reason I made it was because I loaded in Pittsburgh Friday morning. I loaded at Galv-Tech and I was the only truck in there. I was chained down and tarped by high noon, so I called Farmer52 to see if he was in Winchester. He was, and told me it was all clear across the turnpike, no cops at all between Pittsburgh and Winchester, and to put the hammer down. I figured I could be there by 4 o'clock, and pulled in at 3:30. I stayed about 45 minutes, did a quick walk around, took some pictures, and was back at the shop before 8:00.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/28526133@N04/ If I hadn't made a quick stop in Winchester Friday to see the farmer52mobile and the fxfymnmobile I wouldn't have much, and would have to resort to posting Winfall wimmins again. Here's all I had- Loaded at Galv-Tech in Pittsburgh, headed out the door. A girl running in Winchester- That reminds me of a Redd Fox joke- "what's the difference between a girls track team and a pygmy tribe?" Pedestrians in Winchester. . . . . . . . . . . . . oh...a pygmy tribe is a cunning bunch of runts...

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looks like something 58FWD would use to clear his driveway-

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yup!

I don't understand any of it- I was looking to get the TH350 in my mud bogger rebuilt. A local guy in Appomattox that everybody said was the best around wanted about $600 to do it- this was in the '90's. I thought that was too expensive, a complete B&M rebuild kit from Summit was around $100, maybe less, then I saw Summit had complete turbo 350 transmissions for 600 and some dollars, pretty much the same price as the guy wanted to rebuild my old one. And the Summit transmission came with a warranty, and was good for up to 400 hp, about what I had. It's like a rotisserie chicken, you can buy a whole chicken already cooked cheaper than buying a whole chicken you have to cook yourself- what's up with that?

I'd hate to get rid of the sticks too, but a 300 or even a 237 with a 5 speed would be the cat's ass, as Larry Wales used to say, for what you're pulling with it, i'd bet you'd love it. You'd be blowing the large cars doors off on the hills too, instead of vice-versa. I drove an F model with a 300/5spd. for several years, had 3.87 rears and would run 80 mph. and pulled good too. They loaded 14 pallets of kyanite then, weighed 49,900 lbs, plus the bag weight, plus the pallets, totaled 50,155 lbs. and I hauled it all over the place with that Mack.

Me neither! But that was Lynchburg, maybe Winchester will be dry.