other dog

Great, found 2 more boxes of stuff to try to fit in there somewhere.

Found this ring that I got from H.H. Moore's for being there for 20 years. Me and my wife also got treated to a steak dinner at the best steakhouse in Lynchburg.

2 hours ago, Joey Mack said:

That is awesome..  I just lit my homemade wood cooker..  I have  a shoulder all seasoned up.  Now if the rain will just go away..  

Yep, they really do a great job as a smoker. The only disadvantages to them really is that the little fire box doesn't hold much, so you have to add more wood every few minutes, and probably the biggest thing is that most people don't want an old gas or electric range sitting in their back yard. But man do they cook great!

We're still moving of course, spending the weekend at the new place. It has a sleep sofa that had never been used before, still had the plastic on the mattress. It is extremely uncomfortable.

Anyhow, we brought the corner cabinet over and my son helped unload it Saturday and I was putting my stuff back in it yesterday. I took everything out of it in Gladys and put it in a box. Some idiot had set the box down on the arm of the couch instead of putting it on the floor, then I- I mean he- bumped into and it fell to the floor. Broke the mirror off of everything in it. Broke the little tiny bulldog off the hood of the mixer too. 

Old Bill sent me a lot of that stuff, like the Akubra hat with the crocodile hat band, and the leather Trimac cap. I bought the DM model in Macungie a few years ago, but it's too intimidating for me to even attempt to put it together. I might get a tube of Super Glue and some tweezers and try to put the bulldog back on the mixer, that's about all the model making I'm gonna try.

2 hours ago, Joey Mack said:

If your home made truck is made from 3-4 different trucks,(77,78,79) and has 2 kill switches and a starter button, instead of a key switch, and the park brake (actually works) but the release is a vise grip pliers, and,,,,,,, it Beep's when you back up,,,,,,  Not only are YOU me!!!!  But ,, Youuuuu Might be a Redneck...

My truck is only made from 2 trucks, I think, it has a push button starter, and I disconnect a battery cable when it's parked because something drains the battery, but it doesn't beep when I back up. Guess that disqualifies me!

1 hour ago, 67RModel said:

How did the 300 and 5 speed handle that much weight? I realize the maximum speed limit at that time was 55 and I think the world generally moved at a slower pace but  you were probably at or over 80,000 pounds gross with that much payload.

Actually it did a great job- or it seemed to at the time. I'm sure if I went back to driving it now after getting out of a 500 HP  truck I would think it was a slug though. It had 3.87 rears and it was comparable to the 350 Cummins they had as far as pulling. It was slow taking off from a dead stop, but once you got going it was fine. I remember having 25 tons of fertilizer in a van and went up Christiansburg mountain with it in 4th. gear. But most hills, like on 460 west of Blacksburg, and coming down rt. 8 from Butler, Pa. I had to pull in 3rd.

Like I always say "everybody loves boobage".

On 1/29/2023 at 6:56 PM, 1961H67 said:

Thanks for the Chamberlain video. The Detroit 2 stroke was used in a lot of stuff when you start researching. Our LTH Mack had a 8V-71 put installed because it was used in Alaska and it was better in cold weather. I even think some WWII tanks had Detroit engines.   By the way, I mentioned a John Deere we have, a 435 with a Detroit, all there, runs , needs painted $4,000 if anyone interested, I’m spent on time , I would rather see someone enjoy it, they are rare also, not sure how many were made. 

They have several Oliver and Massey Ferguson tractors with Detroit Diesels in them at the Keystone Antique Truck and Tractor Museum in Colonial Heights. They had one pulling tractor with a Detroit, I think it was a Massey Ferguson too, I'd love to see it at a tractor pull, mostly I'd like to hear it!

And I remember when I first went to work for H.H. Moore and we were hauling chips to the Westvaco paper mill in Covington. An older driver told me of the time they had to haul chips from the Westvaco wood yard in Rupert, W.V. It was the yard that Burns hauled out of, but they wanted H.H. to send some trucks up there to help. It was in winter and he said it got so cold one night that every single truck froze and shut off, except for one- and that one had a 318 in it, all the rest had Cummins engines. He said they got some fuel conditioner from Burns, he didn't know what it was, but they kept it in a barrel by the shop and after that they never had any more fuel gelling problems. 

10 hours ago, Bullheaded said:

That's a nice lineup too. That 5000 must have been a beast!

Yes, it was nice, it did everything we needed to do. We had a mounted corn picker for it, pull type combine, hay baler, etc. One of the reasons my dad got that tractor was because you could get a mounted corn picker for it, he just didn't like a pull type corn picker for some reason. Before that we had a mounted picker for the Farmall C, and it took half a day for my dad, uncle, and grandfather to put it on the tractor. Took a while to put the one on the 5000 too, but not near as long as the C. 

Speaking of the corn picker, I was picking corn in my senior year of high school. I only had to take 2 classes to graduate, so I'd get home from school and help daddy. I was by myself and when I got to the end of the row and turned the corner to go back up the other way I reached back to clear some shucks that were building up in the shuck catching thing-a-ma-jig and something caught the sleeve of my jacket. I got away, but only because it pulled the entire sleeve off the jacket at my shoulder. Thank God it wasn't a better jacket! 

I stopped the tractor, and took what was left of the jacket way down in the woods and threw it away so daddy wouldn't find it, still trembling. Many people have been killed or injured by equipment, especially corn pickers, and I knew better. You always stop the PTO before you do anything, but that one time I didn't. I never told my dad about it, and even though it was in the fall nobody noticed that I wasn't wearing a jacket when I got home.

Nice tractor! I spent a good part of my teenage years on a Ford 5000. My dad had a B-414 before that and my grandfather had a 444 International, and a couple of Farmall Cs, but the 5000 was the main workhorse. It was a '68 I believe.

21 hours ago, Vladislav said:

Good job on the fence and I see a new page of the life book has opened. 

Which neck of the woods this place is located?

I'm pretty sure this was said elsewhere elsewhen. But missed the rumor 

It's in Spout Spring, Va, in Appomattox county. Google said it was only 24 miles from here. I used to live in Appomattox before I moved to Gladys, right after my wife passed away.

The blue dot in the lower left is where I'm at now, the red dot in the upper right is where we're moving to.

and speaking of the fence, I went to Tractor Supply and got the posts, walked across the road and grabbed the post driver, and slapped a fence up around the garden.

speaking of lizards, I was going to throw this tub away that was sitting by the back porch, but last weekend we noticed that it was full of lizards so we left their happy home. I took this picture today and you can see six or seven of them in there. I'm sure they eat lots of bugs.

Well, no posts. I checked Amazon and they're being prepared for shipping. 2 reasons that I ordered them from Amazon was that they were supposed to be here yesterday, and I figured they would be cheaper than tractor supply. Tractor Supply is usually the most expensivest place to get anything but I just checked and the posts were actually cheaper.

So I cancelled the Amazon order and will just go to tractor supply and get them.

5 minutes ago, mowerman said:

And yes Tom, we all remember that ha ha…. I also know there is no end to moving. I hate it and no!!!!!! I do not wanna move anymore Bob

Yeah, I gotta get off here and start loading the pickup now before Zina starts woofing at me! 🤣

I bought one of these next, and it works very well. That's the one that was on the back of the pickup. We unloaded it yesterday, the ladder idea worked great. It's not super heavy, just big and awkward to handle. But if I could only have one smoker that barrel is the cat's ass. 

58 minutes ago, 70mackMB said:

Just last week we were talking about smokers at work. And l mentioned l knew of a guy who used an old gas stove. No one had heard of that before! So Tom, the stove may be gone and replaced by a barrel but it's not forgotten.      .....Hippy   

Yes, it wasn't the smoker's fault, it was all mine, and they really do make a great smoker. Very easy to make too, pretty much just take that burner out and it's good to go. I've made them out of electric ranges too, but they're a bit more work. You have to remove the wiring, remove the insulation from the bottom of the oven but leave it around the top and sides, then drill holes in the bottom of the oven to let the smoke in. 

Well, in my defense - I have no defense. Every time I used that smoker I would take the leaf blower and clear all the dead leaves and debris from around it, then take the garden hose and saturate the area all around it. Every time. Except on that particular day for whatever reason I didn't.

It was a gas stove made into a smoker, and it worked great. It had no burner in it, you just opened the drawer in the bottom and put charcoal in the little tray, and then just add wood as it burned down. It didn't hold much in the tray so you had to add wood about every 30 minutes. I was in the house looking at BMT on the computer actually and it was about time to go add some wood to the smoker but gear head grrrrrl was into it hot and heavy arguing with somebody, which is what she did best. I think it was 41Chevy, but I'm not sure. Anyway, Jobyna came up the hall when she got out of the shower and said "the back yard's on fire". No sense of urgency or anything, like the back yard was on fire every other day or something. So I jumped up and ran out the front door to turn the garden hose on, then ran around to the smoker. It was close to the shed and the shed was already blazing when I got there. I started beating on the back of the house and told Jobyna "call the fire department". I mean it was going by then, and I had 2 cans of gas in there, I don't know how much oil, several gallon jugs of hydraulic fluid, 3 chain saws, a weed eater, the leaf blower, all with gas in them.

There was nothing I could do for the shed with the water hose, it was about the equivalent of peeing in a volcano, so I just kept spraying the siding on the house until the fire department got there. 

It was a very close call, scary how close I came to losing the house.