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I'm with you, that green R model was my favorite. Thanks for posting these pictures Fabian.

The other fun experiences I remember with these things were cattle chutes and going through the Baltimore Harbor Tunnel and that was before there was a Ft. McHenry Tunnel (it's a little wider and there are four bores instead of just two!) Used to always make sure I had a cigarette lit before I entered it! If that wash't enough when they had to work on one of the bores they'd shut one down and then the traffic was head to head in the tunnel! Would really make your asshole pucker up let me tell you! Ron I remember the old tunnel well, and going through it with 2 way traffic. Actually, you can still go that way, or you could last time I was up that way. I remember crossing the Annapolis Bay Bridge when there was only one bridge there, it was pretty narrow too. Here's a couple of F models I drove. Sorry about the crappy pictures!

I see you got a load of mashed 4 wheelers there, I hauled plenty of them some years ago!

That, or they push it in all the way when they're moving which ruins the clutch brake very quickly.

I used to double clutch on every shift when I drove a 300/5 spd. F model because it worked best, hardly ever use the clutch now except for stopping and backing up.

I was unloading lumber in Uhrichsville, Ohio a couple of years ago. A man came in driving a Dodge pickup and bought some 12 or 14 foot lumber. He put the one end of the boards on the tail gate and opened the sliding back glass and rested the other end on the dash board, sloping it back to match the windshield slope. Then he put a bungee across the back of it. I said "hope you don't have to hit the brakes." He said "It's OK, I'm only going a couple of miles". Hope he didn't have to hit the brakes.

good luck with that- you're welcome to it if you can beat Jo to it- not easy!

I ordered one of them wheel squeal 8 track tapes today.

Generally speaking, you shift the aux. for each gear in the main trans.- under, direct, over in the aux. for each gear in the main. However, there are differences in how this is done, mainly like freightrain said, if your main trans. is direct in 4th. gear or 5th. gear, some ratios are redundant, some gears are not used, etc.

I saw a V16 once, in a big loader.

This was my favorite!

well, shhhhhhhoot! I wasn't even planning to plant more peppers this year...but maybe I will. Thanks guys!

I make a small batch of wine every year, much like hot sauce it's the best ever and doesn't last long, but i've never tried home brewing beer.

yes, that's me all right. right after we poured that half a yard of concrete we called Schlitz and told them to bring us a truckload of beer too- that's me taking the first case from the beer truck driver.

wonder what that thing with the egg shaped wheels is for?

I'd do the same thing in Pa, I crossed a 9 ton bridge in Pa. once and it cost almost $4,000 in fines. Had an empty flatbed.

Ahh, you'd have been all right- what's the worst that could happen? ...on second thought, good call!

I'm out of likes, great pictures! That H-63 parked in that row of cars reminded me of the time I bobtailed to a drive-in movie in an F model when I layed over in Florida for a weekend.

I'm out of likes, but I like that big Diamond T beside it too.

I knew I had this somewhere- from "Wheels of Time", 2004.

Looks pretty good. I might be able to work out a binness deal with Hatcity if I had that- he could fish, I could go to sunny south Florida and load up his catch, then haul it to West Virginia or somewhere where they don't have fishes, and sell it at a huge profit. Might work, except Ed doesn't catch many fish.

I saw this BJ and the Bear looking truck somewhere last week, I don't remember exactly where it was. Saw it coming and grabbed the camera, almost too late to get a picture.

thanks Mike, neat stuff there.

oh,yeah,forgot about that, another good point- very important, don't tell them you wake up every few minutes smuffocating!

yeah, I remember it being there for a long time. First time i'd been that way in a while, I loaded a partial load of bricks in Sugar Creek and took them to Bristol. The old joke about the Bland scales was "I've crossed every scale in the U.S. with this load and got a green light at every one of them until I got to Bland- then I was 1200 over on the drives."