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I passed by there on the way to Petersburg with a mill roll about 11 this morning. If i'd known I was coming home i'd have stopped, but I thought I was taking a van load from the yard to Chester,W.V. They put it off a day so they can get the return load ready in McKees Rocks..

I think you'll be impressed, it's well worth taking the time to give it a look.

The only other way I know is the two hammer method- get somebody to help you. Put the nut back on flush with the top of the shaft, so you won't mess the threads up. Get in there and pull up on the wheel as hard as you can and have somebody else hold a ball peen hammer against the top of the shaft and hit it with another hammer and it should pop loose.

I'd never heard of the place before, didn't know what the rockshelter was. That was a nice looking wrecker, the loader man was familiar with Insana, said they had some big equipment. The lovely assistant had some bigguns too.

Here's the loader operator's assistant admiring the wrecker.

Now that's photo-worthy! Didn't see that sitting around anywhere, but I couldn't do much looking around in town, it was a tight place to get through, with a couple of hard turns to make. I did see a place just out of town on Meadowcroft Road with a lot of cars, trucks, trailers, and junk sitting around. There was even an old McLean trailer there. I unloaded at the gray square in the center near the bottom of this picture. There's the long hill I came down to get there, but it was snow covered Wednesday except for a little strip in the center.

Well, back to the old binness as usual- I took a load of pipes to some museum in Avella, Pa. It was located right in the middle of nowhere. I went up a hill getting there... Then I had to go down a hill when I got there. I turned around here and the unloader man unloaded the pipes here. Here's the unloader man talking to the wrecker driver that was going after another pipe truck that was trying to come in from the other direction. He told me he didn't know how he made it as far as he did, the road was no wider than the truck. I heard him tell the wrecker driver he thought he'd need a bigger wrecker to get him out, so he must have been in a really tight spot. Some rocks. There's the hill I came down, i'm about to try to get back up it. Looking down in the hole i'd just come out of. Crossing the New River Bridge in W.V. I usually take rt.39 in Summersville over to rt. 20 at Nettie, and 20 to rt. 60 in Charmco, then 60 to I-64, but I stayed on 19 all the way to Beckley because it was snowing. It was chilly too. They had the roads pretty well salted though. I took a load from Lynchburg to Columbia,S.C. yesterday, and loaded steel in Charlotte going to Richmond today, but I didn't see anything to photograph.

Looks pretty tall too.

Old Bill was sending me issues of it periodically, and I liked it so much I subscribed so I wouldn't miss anything.

The blue one across the road has a Cat in it, but I don't know what size. I had just started to look at it when a pickup went by, then turned around and came back. I thought it was the wood cutters wanting to know what I was doing fooling around their equipment, but they were deer hunters trying to catch their dogs. I talked to them for a few minutes, then walked on back to the house. I took the chipper I was hooked to in the first picture from Dillwyn,Va. to Parkersburg, W.V. The picture was taken at H.H.Moore's shop in Appomattox. The second picture is on rt.60 on top of the mountain coming east out of Beuna Vista, Va. I was on the way back to Dillwyn to get another load when I pulled over and walked up on the Blue Ridge Parkway to take the picture. That would be a great looking picture, but I just had an old Kodak 126 camera at the time. It was taken around 1980.

I know- no pictures, it didn't happen. Yesterday I took some trash out to burn it in the barrel. Couple of cardboard boxes, an egg carton, a few plastic bottles. I threw a plastic bottle in first so the boxes wouldn't get wet in the bottom, started ripping up a box to throw in, and noticed a dead animal in the barrel. I thought "now who in the world would throw a dead animal in the trash barrel"? Then I saw the dead animal move. Upon further investigation I determined that it was a possum. I felt sorry for the fella, no telling how long it had been in there. Probably climbed in looking for a snack, then couldn't get out. I laid the barrel down so it could come out but it was scared and crawled as far up into the barrel as it could get, getting coated with wet ashes in the process. Then I thought "I should go get my camera". But, I got another plastic bottle and reached up in the barrel and nudged him towards the exit. He opened his mouth and looked at me, and didn't even hiss at me. It looked about as much dead as alive. But when I got him out on the ground he perked up right away and waddled off towards the woods at a high rate of waddle- black and covered in wet ashes, but probably happy.

Strange how things happen like that. I.................probably wouldn't have had time to stop.

Looked around a little more today, the timber crew's not working, been drizzling rain here all day. Spotted something i'd never seen before- it's on the far right side of this picture. Zoomed in-

I think a Morbark was the only kind of chipper i'd ever seen before. H.H.Moore was a contract carrier for Westvaco for years, and we hauled chips, then pulpwood, from Westvaco woodyards to the paper mill in Covington. Hauled some to Luke,Md. too. Westvaco had Morbark chippers, the old ones had V12 Detroits on them, the later ones they got had 600hp. Cummins engines on them and they would just eat a big stick of hardwood up- like in a couple of seconds. Morbark chipper- Best chip truck I drove- Chip pile at Covington-

Saw head- Skidder- Chipper- Mats-

Here's a good magazine. This is the second issue i've gotten, it's not very big but it has really good stories and pictures, and no ads.

I...I...I guess i'm speechless...future bleeding heart liberal democrat. "When guns are outlawed only outlaws will have guns". When criminals break in and slap him around and rape his mommy he'll wish that gun was still there.

More pics. They moved the chipper down here this morning, it was just down the road about a quarter of a mile. Chipping the first load. A little tight coming out, it's a narrow road I live on. They had a skidder behind pushing. And...he's off! A Mack backs in next.

I don't wear mine much, mostly when I know i'll be having a lot of ketchup, like on prime rib at a fancy restaurant. When it drips onto the red jacket it's hardly noticeable.

I'm with you on that one Ken. I prefer a good ribeye steak so I can cook it a little more if I want. I can do pink in the middle, but not red. I've seen Chef Gordon Ramsey on TV screaming "this beast is ruined,it's over-cooked!" and throw what looks to be a perfectly good steak or roast in the trash can-what a waste!

Paranoid, I can neither confirm nor deny either that this may or may not be making mockery of another member of BMT who just happened to make a perfect prime rib last night for New Year's Eve Dinner........And posted pix of it on Facebook....

Both had saws on them. What they were cutting right there was pretty much just poles, no big stuff. They're chipping all of it anyway.

Well thank you, thank you very much. I never cooked one before, but even an idiot like me can cook a fine looking prime rib...tastes a little funny though, but that's probably because of the diesel fuel I had in the can.

I don't know who the redhead in their commercials is, but holy mackle, I think she's smokin' hot!