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This post has great joke potential...but i'll leave it alone. Hope all goes well for Nikki and the baby.

Wonderful job taking pictures of things.

That's the longest girder I ever hauled, 150' long. Took it from Carolina Steel in Abingdon, Va. to somewhere south of Nashville when they were building rt. 840. The beam itself made the trailer, the front sat on a bolster on the 5th. wheel of the truck, the back sat on the dolly. We could chain the front axle of the dolly to the beam to lift the tires off the ground for regular highway travel, when we got to the jobsite we'd drop the front axle and a driver would ride in the cab of the dolly and steer it. The dolly itself was made from an old Mack truck chassis. You could get into some tight spots when you can steer the back end. When you got unloaded you'd back up to the dolly and tow it with a pintle hook. I drove that IH where I used to work, H.H.Moore's in Appomattox, Va. Had an N14 Cummins with a super 10 in it.

I was sitting around the grill today, smoking a pork loin minding my own binness, and got out a couple of old photo albums to look at. These were pictures I took before I ever got a digital camera and I had completely forgotten about some of them. Here's some of them, i'm sure i've posted some of these before but just ignore those, there might be something new here. I made them pretty small for easier downloading, and since my scanner fails to operate properly I took pictures of the pictures. First- old pictures from H.H.Moore Trucking- At Mt. Rushmore Jobsite in W.V. Snow, narrow bridge,long load on steerable dolly, steerable dolly parked at my old house. It was made from a Mack truck chassis. Van trailer, mixer, Watts Mack I went to a forestry show in Richmond once... Me at the forestry show Jo and a Corbitt, Greensboro,N.C. Fleetstar ...and remember when I cut my thumb with the ax?..not quite healed. I'm 2nd. from left, in the red flannel shirt, at the H.H.Moore safety meeting. My old 750 Kawasaki, traded in on this 1000 KawasakiThat's my '70 Skylark too. William Weatherstone, "The Diesel Gypsy"- the greatest truck driver ever.

excellent job taking pictures of things!

That's ridiculous- the only way you'd ever find me on Long Island is because i'd be really, really, bad lost. I have pulled a dump trailer before though, and was scared of tipping over every time I dumped it.

today's pictures- Newest T-shirt. My son gave this one to me, he knows i'm a barbecue conner sewer. Speaking of bbq, got my shelter wired last night, now I can cook all night long. Saw a toad lurking around the grill last night too.

Mike, I've got one you can have if you want it. I just put all new ones on the mixer and only saved this one, just to have a spare- wish i'd known sooner, all the rest went right in the trash can. They were in pretty bad shape, this was by far the best looking one. I put silicone around the lens because they leaked, but the chrome part ain't too bad.

I call those creatures jar flys. I think they're the same thing as a cicada. They come out of these holes that are all over the back yard, bust out of these shells, then get in the trees and make lots of noise. I always wear the aluminum collander on my head when I go out side to protect my brain. This one looks really happy.

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Good news is getting scarce nowadays- very depressing. So i'll post a few pictures that I took this week and last week. Actually, I got lots of pictures- i'll start with the wildlife. This is "Other Dog", the beagle at work. The neighborhood dog helping him An ant (it was a slow day that day) Saw this snail crawling up the inside of an I-beam when I was unloading in Cedar Bluff, Va. yesterday morning. It was about 5 feet off the ground, must have taken him days to climb that high! I see lots of these around I saw some goats playing in Cedar Bluff too You can see the reflection of a Peterbilt in this car's window! ...enough of that nonsense, eh? I got some truck pictures too- A Peterbilt in Cedar Bluff, Va. Looks like the one reflected in the car window. Beautiful place, that Cedar Bluff. It's out there between Bluefield and Bristol. Saw a Loadstar dump truck there too And a full moon over the mountain A Case tractor in Canvas, W.V. And an Oshkosh in Newcomerstown, Ohio. Hope you enjoyed the photos, have a nice day!

He's probably just working- Vision does the work of 7 ordinary men.

I can almost hear that 318 running now!

Wow, I was surprised! I was expecting this one-

I've been trying to take a picture of that big bulldog for a long time- hard to get a drive-by picture of it!

If one train left Philadelphia at 9:30 am headed west, and another train left Chicago at at 9:45 headed east, what time would they meet in Daingerfield if they were both running 50 mph?

you might want to put a pressure regulator on it then or it might blow the sides of the transmission out.

I found it! http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1939-Mack-BM-/270790306424?_trksid=p4506.m7&_trkparms=algo%3DLVI%26itu%3DUCI%26otn%3D2%26po%3DLVI%26ps%3D63%26clkid%3D1869933027831115282

That's right, I forgot about that! I got a new '85 cabover KW and that was the year they moved the shift lever up on the dog house. It worked by cables instead of a shaft and thegearshift was real short and hard to shift. I had one of the old type range selector valves so I put a 4 or 6'' extension on the gear shift, old type shift knob- one of those in the mixer now- attached the range selector valve with hose clamps, then found the air lines were bigger. I ended up getting it to work but I don't remember what I did, knowing me it probably involved bubble gum, silicone, duct tape, paper clips,etc. -probably not the way you'd want to go! Never had any problems with it though. This was a 9 speed, not a 13. I do still have an old range selector or 2, but you'd need an old type 13 speed knob for the splitter.

Oh, I was looking on Firefox. Thanks Barry.

I'm still looking for that compatibility button...

We use Rotella at work ,change it at 20,000 miles.

oh...so those guys cooking hot dogs on fishing poles might be a little too close to that dish and end up cooking themselves.