other dog

I believe the B 53 was the predecessor to the DM. They were mostly mixer chassis, but i've seen B 53 dumps too. They were available for 2 year models, '64 and '65. DM's came out in '65. I read this in a truck book I have around here somewhere, but I don't remember which one. Mike probably knows more about it right off the top of his head.

That's a great looking truck!..I remember e-mailing you a picture of this one a few years ago- This one is in the Keystone Tractor museum in Colonial Heights, Va. but it was at the ATHS show in Winchester,Va. last weekend.

yep, gonna retire the ol' aardvark for a while.

Hey Joe!

Great job on fixing the Gravely!

That's how I got "Other Dog" the beagle, he just showed up one day when I lived in Appomattox. I was thinking that was around 2001 or 2002, but some folks at the stew Sunday said they came over to a cookout in '98 and we had him then. We estimated his age at about a year old then, so he's getting up there! His former owner raised beagles for rabbit hunting but Other Dog was gun shy, still hates loud noises, so they said we could just keep him. He's been the best dog i've ever had, housebroken from day one. We never even had to train him, he'd just go to the door and scratch when he wanted to go out, and scratch once to come back inside. He won't go out when it's raining though, he'll just look then turn around and get back in his bed.

my profile picture there is actually me, I am blue, and wear blue shorts and a blue T shirt at all times.I also have big blue ears and a long blue nose...really long nose.

what?..this is all true,really happened,nuthin' made up!

huh?

But seriously, i'd say that stew pot was one of the best investments I ever made. It holds 30 quarts, not enough for most events or fund raisers where there's tons of peoples, but for family and friend get togethers it holds more than enough, we've never emptied the pot. Well, there was that one time when I made stew at the shop and it got emptied, but that was a lot of hungry truck drivers. I like to make it, not bragging but lots of folks have said it was the best stew they ever had. I use a 5lb. bag of potatoes, 3lb. bag of onions, this one had 13lbs. of whole sirloin tip in it, plus tomatoes, green beans, peas, corn, butter beans, worcestershire sauce, seasoning,and a stick of Land-O-Lakes real butter. Everybody left here full and carrying quart jars of stew with them.

Oh, pictures of the week...I had a stew Sunday, here's a few pictures. I even wore my best shirt. Then after it's all over you have to empty the stew pot, boil it out again and clean it, re-season it, then you can plop it down on the back porch and take pictures of it.

...and one more.

I got one more of it.

Hmmmmmm...normally here- wait, normal?..here?..anyhow, usually here if there's no pics. it did not happen. But in this particular case Superdog verifies the story because he heard the horn blowing when he was in town changing that oil. So i'm thinkin' it really did happen just as you stated.

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Still finding pictures.

Yessir, if I had her at home I wouldn't bother looking for Winfall.

Thanks Ken, you got quite a few that I didn't even see, they must have left early. And I didn't get one of the Titan 90 without the cab up or the Fairlane with the hood closed. That Fairlane was pretty awesome, looked pretty much stock except for the giant bubble in the hood, and under the hood it was all motor.

here's a few more.

Both of those Bighorns had "John Kessler" on the door. I think they were out of West Va, but i'm not sure now. I could have read it but i've already resized and cropped everything down to screen size on the computer now.

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dammit...

Which F model, this one? Nope, sorry, that's the only one.