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Thanks for the tip, yeah, that was my first brisket. I'll google that Show-Me BBQ sauce.

thank you very much Ed. My first brisket- did I mention that before, that it was the first brisket i've attempted? I bought a whole brisket last week, $38, cut it into 3 pieces and put them in the freezer. Got 2 pieces left. This was the smallest piece, and it was the first time i'd cooked brisket.

This was Olive's first log truck. He was too young to drive it, that's why he's in the passenger seat. In fact, it's the first tree he ever cut down. But he made enough money with it to buy a brand new International tandem log truck,with a loader. He could even afford more chains by now so he didn't need to have a helper to stand in front of the logs to hold them back if he had to slam on the brakes like he did with the old truck. It took a while to get used to the loader though, as the old knuckle booms had about 50 or 60 levers on them. His family was growing by this time too- he had to add an "s" to his door. . As time passed, he didn't even need a knuckleboom anymore- all his sons loaded the logs by hand. These are all his sons in the picture, L. to R.- Herman, Andrew, Bart,George,Homer,Mitch,Garfield,Randolph,Simon- eh, never mind...He'd moved up to another new IH tractor and a log trailer by now. He later downsized his logging operation, went back to a straight truck, and got into the cattle binness...the boys all liked eating beef way better than trees- but just look at him running that knucleboom now! ...but someday he hopes to have a red truck, like this one.

The back story- I got up yesterday morning around 5am, just had to go to Lynchburg to unload a load of coils, then i'd go load lumber or something and head back up the road to make my third round of the week. I stepped into the closet to find a pair of pants- I never leave home without them- and water was chest high in the closet and rising fast. The hot water tank is behind the closet wall and I assumed it must be leaking- but you should never assume anything. Besides, i'd replaced the hot water tank about 5 or 6 years ago. So first I swam over and found some pants, then I shut the pump off. Took all of the clothes out of the closet and threw them on the bed, then the shelves, then took the wall out- actually, all I had to do was set it aside, as I never put the nails or screws back when I replaced the tank the last time. Found the tank itself wasn't leaking but the copper line that goes out to the faucets had a pinhole in it and was squirting a fine stream of water out and up on the wall. Then I called headquarters and told them I had issues at home so I needed to go unload, then load something to leave Sunday with so I could take care of the issues at home. No problem there- Todd told me maybe I should try to do something to attract her- at first I thought he said "to a tractor"- I said "i'm not interested in that, i'd rather find something that will run her off. Besides, it's not that kind of problem. It's water problems and i'll have to go to Lowes". He said "that's fine, go unload and i'll find you something". So I unloaded in Lynchburg then went to Moneta and loaded lumber to unload in Oakland Monday. Went to Lowes and got what I needed to fix the water line, came home and fixed it in a few minutes...then I thought "I should go on to Oakland, it's only a 5 hour trip". Nope. We went to the Chinese restaurant in Altavista instead. Then I came home and took a piece of brisket out of the freezer so it could thaw. Which brings me to "what I did today". Took a while to get here, eh? Put the brisket in the smoker around 6am, took it out about 12:15. First brisket i've cooked and it came out fairly well I thought. It's really strange to be off though. It seemed like Saturday all day and it's only Friday.

Here's a 1974 Transtar I drove with a VT903 in it. I was at the old Ponderosa Truckstop in Clifton Forge here, either on the way to Covington with a load of chips or on the way back to the woodyard in Dillwyn. Looks like I was loaded, I see chips in the vent holes. Taken in 1979.

Welcome!

Excellent- I like it!..that's my new favorite U-model! The Pete behind it looks like the one I used to drive

Yes, as seen on this other one with a much longer wheelbase, the frame appears to have been pieced and patched together many times.

Ballantine used to be real cheap around here in the 70's. We'd occasionally make a run to Bob's Supermarket in Farmville to stock up on it when it was on sale. I think it was $1.99 a six pack. You couldn't buy beer on Sunday then but if you knew a bootlegger- I knew several- you could buy it for 50 cents a can, and they usually sold whatever was cheapest. You could get a pint of whiskey for $4, usually Canada Dry or Bourbon Supreme.

A-men Ben!

Yeah, then I think Yellow had a terminal there that's closed now and their old yard is more truckstop parking lot. It's not even White's anymore- might be a Petro or something, I don't remember. That old "White's Truckstop" sign was laying over by 81 for a long time, don't know if it still is. I haven't stopped there for years myself, don't know what became of the knife and gun collection that was in there- it might still be there.

this is pretty good too-

Lots of good looking Macks in this one...didn't see any sidewinders though.

here's a small Rumley Oil Pull tractor at the Stonewall Antique Power Show. I used to go to this show every year,took the mixer too. They had lots of antique equipment, but they no longer have this show.

My 2 brothers and I would have been fighting to see who got to drive that tractor! We started on a Farmall Super C, never had a cab on anything, but we did work our way up to a 5000 Ford eventually. My younger brother sold these two tractors about 6 or 7 years ago and got a John Deere with a cab on it. They're an 856 IH and a 2-85 White. We had just loaded them up to take to an auction. Nice W900L there too,eh? I drove that before the Pete, and before the days of the big horsepower were over. N14/525,13 spd, 3.70's...just sayin'.

The one I drove was an '06 and it had the same issues, well, with rockers anyway. Had well over 700,000 miles on it and never had a water pump or injectors put in it. Had several rockers replaced, Cat told us they had a "bad" run of rocker arms and even when they replaced one they didn't know if the new ones were good or bad. My biggest problem was the dreaded "intake valve actuator fault." It was a 475 acert, turned up to 550hp, and when it was right it was a "hawse".

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"Hey David- Mirrors,Mirrors" Take that, mirror police!

You're right about that. You see pickups around here all the time loaded so heavy with firewood or something that the rear bumper's almost dragging the road- ok, i've done it myself when I burned wood- and the vehicle is barely controllable, but nobody ever bothers them. But try pulling up on the Va. scales 100 lbs. overweight and you're gonna get a ticket, and 100 lbs. is nothing, not even noticable.

I unloaded lumber in Shinnston, W.V. yesterday morning then went up to Pittsburgh to load. It was sunny until I got almost to Pittsburgh, then I ran into a little rain. By the time I was loaded it had cleared and it was sunny until I got somewhere south of Morgantown, then I hit rain again. Somewhere south of rt. 33 I heard somebody say on the cb "never seen nothing like this before". When I got up to the top of the mountain before you get to the rest area I saw what they were talking about- ice. Ice everywhere- and it was 55 degrees! I guess it was hail, I don't think it could snow hard enough being that warm to accumulate like it did, but I never saw any bad storm or even many clouds, but there was ice on the road. By the time I got down to the Gassaway exit, it was 81 degrees and so windy the rest of the way home it was blowing me all over the road. And it was still 79 when I got home last night. Weird.

Might be a DM, I was afraid to open the door because it might have been booby trapped. And actually, I never even noticed the red r-model until I put the pictures on the computer. I took the picture of the billboard just in case someone was interested in going to bikefest.

he also said "only two things smell like fish, and one of them's mackeral". Great comedian, that Redd Fox.

Cletus and Olivetroad... Cletus is passing by Olivetroad's hay barn one day when, through a gap in the door, he sees Olive doing a slow and sensual striptease in front of an old John Deere tractor. Buttocks clenched, he performs a slow pirouette, and gently slides off first the right strap of his overalls, followed by the left. He then hunches his shoulders forward and in a classic striptease move, lets his overalls fall down to his hips, revealing a torn and frayed plaid shirt. Then, grabbing both sides of his shirt, he rips it apart to reveal his stained T-shirt underneath. With a final flourish, he tears the T-shirt from his body, and hurls his baseball cap onto a pile of hay. Having seen enough, Cletus rushes in and says, "What the world're ya doing, Olive ?" "Good grief, Cletus, ya scared the bejeebers out of me," says an obviously embarrassed Olivetroad . "But me 'n the wife been havin trouble lately in the bedroom d'partment, and the therapist suggested I do something sexy to a tractor"

Anybody like U-models? Saw a yellow one in Ambridge,Pa. Saw a green one in Montvale, Va. Saw this large unit in W.V. Montvale,Va. Roanoke- red R-model