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...and Frank from American Pickers, and John Amos.

And the great Pete Rose passed away yesterday too.

That's why I have no respect for most any union. They were started for a good reason, so companies couldn't just treat employees any way they wanted. But somewhere along the line the unions got too much power, and they abuse that power at every opportunity. I drove for over 42 years and been to many ports to pick up loads many different times and I don't remember any of those times being a pleasant experience at all. I think everybody who works at every port in the U.S. is an arrogant over-paid asshole. They all treat truck drivers like dirt, and always act like they're doing you a tremendous favor just because they let you come to their port and pick up that load. Lot of steel mills were the exact same way. That's my opinion, and I could go on and on, but I won't.

I only chained up one time, ever. Somebody gave me a set of chains that fit my Ford Ranger pickup one time, so when we got a pretty good snow I decided to try them out. Put them on and drove to the beer store and back with no problems, and no shoveling. But there have been a few times that I wished I had some in the truck, because I would have sure used them. Like this time on rt. 60 in West Virginia-

I don't know, I didn't ask them. Didn't hear about her father, sad, but that's the best way you can go I guess.

Raining here now, flash flood warning until 2 am.

I talked to the couple that brought this beautiful B 53 too. I liked it because as I told them "it's nice to see a B model that's not red". I told them that I used to have a B-53S myself, it was a cement mixer, came from Roanoke- and it was red. And I sold it waaaay too cheap. They said theirs used to be a mixer too, and it came from Roanoke, so it might have come from the same place. This one still has the quadruplex transmission in it, but a friend of theirs had changed the rears for them, and it had 3.55's in it. The guy said it might be the fastest B model on the east coast, it would run 70+ with no problem. Mines had 7.?? something rears, and you had to stand on it to run 55mph.

I would love to have a little single axle flatbed like this to pull behind the big green International that runs now. The sign in the window said the owner was from New Alexandria, Pa, which is also the home of Watt's Mack. The B-71 was a 1956 and the trailer was a 1946 Fruehauf. Not sure what year the golf cart is.

Happy birthday and happy anniversary!

yeah, I was pondering the original post and somebody replied "think John Denver" and I say "oh yeah, now I get it" 🤣

Holy sh- uh, mackerel!

The H-60 and H-61 were called the "cherry picker" because they were so tall. I think they shortened the H-63s and H-67s by 11 inches. Here's an H-61 and an H-63.

Yes it does! I tightened them up in the same picture to show a better comparison of the size difference. this is the same picture, I didn't change the size of anything, just cut one truck and slid it over closer to the other.

I just happen to have one- There's lots of duplicates, but I had plenty of film...

yes, we are fine, thank you for asking. they had tornado warnings here the day before we went to Winchester, and while we were there our neighbor told Zina they were under another tornado warning here, but we had no damage here except for the tree that I cut out of the road, the tree that I should have left in the road. But no, i'm glad I cut it, I was the idiot for not wearing long sleeves, long pants, gloves, and sensible shoes. 😂

wonder how many times you've chained up?

Thought this was pretty good- took me a minute to get it.

Farmer52's MH and an H-63. I thought I posted this picture yesterday, but maybe I dreamed it. I couldn't find it.

...and that poison oak, or poison ivy still ain't looking much better!

Yessir, I think I got everything that was there. Except maybe some that I already have 16 pictures of somewhere. I took some with the phone, some with the back-up camera, and some with the back-up back-up camera. I didn't even take my best camera because I didn't want to take any chances with getting it wet. I have not downloaded any of them yet, I'll do that while Zina's working. I try to do stuff with her when she's not working - you know the deal, "happy wife..." 😊

Congratulations Bob, I hope you enjoy your retirement - I know I enjoy mine! 😊

We decided to ride up to Winchester and see what was going on. A few trucks are already here, calling for rain tomorrow, but Saturday is still looking good so far.

Just some random antique truck enthusiast who happened to be passing by.

No, but it does look slightly better now than it did. No rain tomorrow, just cloudy, but there's a chance all day on Friday. Then nothing Saturday between 10am and 5pm.