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I'm picking the red and black H67 as my favorite.

I'd go with a generator too. Can't remember the guy's name, but he had 3 trucks, used to haul into Handy in Lynchburg a lot, and he had A Honda generator mounted on the frame right behind the sleeper on all his trucks. Ran portable heaters, air conditioners, and whatever you wanted. He said it didn't burn much gas, it was quiet, and way cheaper than an APU.

I remember giving milk bone dog biscuits a try when I was a kid. This post and last week's stew reminds me of a story my father in law told many times. He says it's true- I was not there, but I knew some of the parties involved and it sounds about right. He was at a stew at a well known dignitary in Appomattox's hunting cabin near the Appomattox-Buckingham State Forest. Alcohol was involved in the story- much alcohol. The stew chef kept his stir paddle sitting near the stew pot, by a tree or something. While he was away from his post a drunk came stumbling along and stepped in some dog poo. He grabbed the first thing he found to scrape it off his shoe- which was the stew paddle. He then set the paddle back where it was and continued on his way. The stew chef came back and the first thing he did was grab the paddle and give the stew a stir. Pop said he saw the whole thing and didn't say anything...but he didn't eat any stew.

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Vacation's over, back to the old grind this week. I did take some pictures of the old grind though. I had to pull this drop deck trailer to Erie, Pa. The kingpin is so far forward that the front of the 5th. wheel is even with the front of the trailer, and I had to slide the 5th. wheel as far back as it would go so I could turn without tearing my mudflaps off. Had to have a drop deck so I could go load a 1949 Ferguson tractor somewhere out in the middle of nowhere, near Pittsfield, Pa. I took rt. 8 down to rt. 6 in Pa. ...then I took rt. 27 down to this little road, had a 10 ton weight limit. then I turned on this dirt road...I didn't have to go too far to load the tractor, it was at the next house past the one in the picture, but I had to go 2 miles past there to get turned around and headed back out. I just backed the trailer in the ditch and the man drove it up his ramps from the side, and turned it after he got it up on the trailer. Then I had to go to Lane Steel in McKees Rocks and get a load of steel. At N.B.Handy in Lynchburg the next morning. Took the tractor to Amherst, Va. Unloaded at Elwood Mays' woodyard. He has a chip dump and they raised the dump up level with the trailer, backed the tractor onto the dump, then just lowered the dump and drove it off. I didn't take any pictures of that- I was busy. I did take one of this DM600 that brought a load of wood in while I was there. Then I went from Lynchburg to Warren, Ohio and back, reloading at the same place I delivered to in Warren. That's where I saw this unit hiding out- I also saw a Superliner dump truck. A wooden truck and tractor. and a ship sailing the sea. I even stopped and took some pictures of that truck i'd been trying to get a drive-by picture of. It has a "for sale" sign on it, but no phone number, and the doors were locked. Saw this unit sitting at Art Reed's place in Montvale.

We tried 2 Prostars with Maxxforce engines, I know Big Jim had a lot of down time with his with turbo and egr problems, i'm not sure about the other one. The last Prostars they got a few weeks ago had Cummins engines. They've had problems with the paccars too, and problems getting the warranty to cover the problems they do have. Jeff Moore said that all in all the Freightliners with DD15 engines were giving them the best service.

thanks a lot.

hmmmmm...I should ask Mike if I can sell hotdogs at his place while he's in Des Moines...

it is, I ate most of a hot dog, wore the rest as a souvenir.

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By the way, could you post some pictures of yourself, preferably one of you looking to the left, right, and straight ahead...no particular reason.

Oh...good question, I never followed up on the grape story. Turned out that the grape picker tool had a few design flaws, like most of my plans. We ended up spreading a sheet on the ground and using the picker to shake the vines, causing the grapes to fall onto the sheet. Then we picked them up. I washed them and put them in the wine making device, a new 5 gallon bucket from Lowes, with water and sugar. But I had so few grapes to start with I added some apples to the batch, along with more water and a little more sugar. It's fermenting nicely, whether it'll be any good or not only time will tell, i've never added apples before. It smells like wine anyway!

oh...commercial trucks- but I searched all of ebay motors...i'm going back to cooking these greens so I can freeze them...

I can't find it.

Lot of stuff there all right!

"Best wishes for a full and speedy recovery for your Dad." (Green Dash,2013)...Amen to that! still waiting for that group photo so the caption contest , everyone wants to see that i'm sure.

I like the yellow one with the dump trailer, it just looks cool.

Indeed, that's a good looking unit, looks pretty much complete and solid.

"If we aren't careful, America will go into a darkness because we have forgotten what a new day and new dawn look like. If we do not have Godly wisdom, and men and women who are called to lead, then we will be walking down a road to perdition. We are in a time of challenge. Join me in securing a dawn for this great nation." (Allen West) I'd vote for this man too. The "Godly wisdom" is what we're lacking most in this country. I'd vote for Nikki Haley too. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/may/2/south-carolina-house-passes-bill-making-obamacare-/

Found another one on facebook.

Saw another picture on facebook, looks like Richwood, WV. Not too far from Nettie.

That's good to know, about Bob's that is. They used to get speedometer and tach cables on a big spool down at H.H.Moore Trucking. We had a simple little tool to fix them, just cut a piece of cable to length, put the tool in a vise and lay the end of the cable in it, then hold another thing on top of the cable and hit it with a hammer to square the end. I'd like to have that, there's a garage in the old trucking co. building now that works on cars and trucks and if that tool's still around they probably don't know what it is.Probably got thrown out in the trash years ago.

Colfax, N.C. is November 2, i'll probably go to that one as it's only a couple of hours from here, practically in Mark's back yard.