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I got to start cleaning and washing and waxing the old furniture truck tomorrow. I was going to do a little bit today but I watched the entire Charlie Kirk service. It was awesome. I couldn't help but think how much better a Christian his wife was than I am. She said she forgave her husband's murderer, and when they showed a handful of protesters outside before it started I was thinking how great it would be if God sent them a message by vaporizing them with a bolt of lightning. 🤣 Anyhow, the Tri State ATHS Show is this weekend in Clear Brook, VA. so I think I'll take it up there. If it's not raining that is, I'm not going to bobtail that far in the rain. All I did today was slap some decals over some spots where the paint was chipped, and this one on the front. Looks kind of stupid, but I like it. Kinda looks like a pig in the picture, but it's a bulldog 🤣

Wow, that's some scary sh- uh, stuff! Glad there was no major damage done, could have easily turned into a disaster!

I used to have a "clanger" back up alarm on the mixer I had but I took it off. Last time I remember seeing it it was in a 5 gallon bucket in the shed, but that was years ago. It might have been in the shed that burned up, I don't know.

As most everybody knows, I have a beautiful 1984 GMC Brigadier that I've decided to sell. Runs like a clock, and drives like a car. Since the sleeper turned out to be no good, I have no use for it. I'm asking $7500 for it. I paid a lot more than that for it, then had the injection pump rebuilt and 2 new air bags and a leveling valve installed. I've already reduced the price A LOT, It has an L10 Cummins engine, 9 speed transmission, and 4.11 rears. It has an RV 5th. wheel, 2 hitch balls, and a receiver hitch. The body that's on it is 10' long, and there's 6' between the body and the back of the cab.

I found a picture of the C model Bobby Moore had, and I grabbed a quick picture of the road service mechanic and her helper when they were over here today. I don't even know what they were doing, but they only charged me $800. I thought it was a good deal.

It's probably exempt because of the 200 mph tape.

That's just awesome! I'm touched, I'm not even gonna make any wisecracks - well done!

Yeah, I don't think so either. Makes me wonder what ever did happen to it though, hope it wasn't cut up and sold for scrap. I don't remember exactly when it was, but the price of scrap metal just exploded for a while. It was bringing top dollar and people were dragging all the junk out of the woods and selling it. Saw some old tractors going to Shredded Products in Montvale back then that a lot of collectors would have loved to have. Bobby Moore had a C model Mack up there too. He bought it from Truck Body Corporation in Lynchburg, they used it as their yard dog. He had it for sale too, but I never heard whatever happened to it either.

Could possibly be the same one, I don't know what ever became of the one Bobby Moore had. I saw a Porsche tractor in the pictures too. I think it was at the ATHS show in Troutman, N.C. but I'm not 100% sure. They also have one in the Keystone Antique Truck and Tractor Museum and I was wondering if that was the same one. Couldn't be too many Porsche tractors out there, or I wouldn't think there would be anyway.

Just some tractor pictures i've had since before I ever got a digital camera. Some from an antique tractor pull, some from car and truck shows, some from parades. The dates on some of the pictures ranged from 2002 until 2007.

I scanned the tractor pictures today, I had some from the Stonewall Antique Power Show, dated anywhere from 2002 until 2007, some were from the Appomattox Railroad Festival parade, and some were from an ATHS show in Troutman, N.C. I'm going to put the rest in the "Tractors and Equipment" category after I put them on Flickr, but these were kind of interesting. These were in the antique tractor pull at the Stonewall show. I didn't know what to expect out of this little Oliver crawler tractor, but I do remember that I expected it to do a little better than it did. I think it pulled the sled about 2 feet and it was done. This is another one that I thought would have done better. A rare piece of equipment, only one i've ever seen. It was owned by the late Bobby Moore. It barely moved the sled either. But this Super M on the other hand... This is not the M that was in the pull off with the 830 John Deere, but it did make a full pull. And you talk about a beautiful tractor! I'd never seen such- the paint and detail was outstanding. This picture is 20 or more years old and doesnt do it justice, but it was really nice. Even all the bolt heads were painted.

What about the old "football helmet" cabover Peterbilts? 🤣 I think they're at the top of my ugly list!

Here's a few pictures from a photo album that I hadn't seen in several years. Possibly because it was on Zina's desk under one of her computer monitors to raise it up a little. Here's a big Mack water truck, up at the old shop at F.L.M. Here's a Cruise liner in Roanoke that I used to pass going to and from the concrete pipe getting place. There used to be 3 of them sitting there with "For Sale" signs in the window, but 2 of them must have finally been sold. I stopped and looked at them and they all had V8s in them and 10 speed Mack transmissions. I saw this Mack a mile from where I used to live, it came from the same place my old mixer did- Concrete Ready Mixed in Roanoke.And this A-40 was sitting in a field in Moneta, VA. just up the road a little ways from where we used to load treated lumber. I don't know what ever happened to it, it was there for a while, then it wasn't.

Happy birthday!

I've got some more pictures from that Stonewall Antique Power Show that I'm going to scan, just of some of the tractor pull. The antique tractor pull was my favorite thing there. The pull between the 830 John Deere and the Super M that I've told of before was awesome. Meanwhile, I've got this meatloaf smoking- Wednesday morning I have to be in Lynchburg at 7:30 for an eye appointment. They're going to evaluate to see if I'm a candidate for laser surgery to get that pressure down in my left eye.

I know a man who used to own his own truck, used to build log trailers from the ground up, worked in H.H. Moore's shop for a while. One of the hardest working men I ever knew. If he was working on something at H.H's. and needed a tool or something that was on the other side of the shop he wouldn't just take a leisurely stroll across the shop to get it, he would run. The engine swapping made me think of him. He said when he was young he used to cut pulpwood. He had a Chevrolet pulpwood truck and a Camaro. He said he would cut pulpwood all week, then take the engine out of the truck and put it in the Camaro so he could cruise on the weekend. Then Sunday he would put the motor back in the pulpwood truck. Next weekend, same thing. I don't remember if he eventually got another pulpwood truck, another car, or another motor, but he did that for a while. Hearing that from most anybody else I would have thought "what a total B S. story, nobody did that". But coming from him I didn't doubt it at all.

I had my Watt's Mack shirt on at the Stonewall show. Zina's dad asked me when when my hair started turning white, and I said "I don't know, probably about 20 years ago."

True that, I used to have a 1000 Kawasaki. Sold it and bought an F100. The guy who bought the bike was nearly killed on it just a few weeks later a couple of miles from where I lived. Totally not his fault, a guy in a pickup coming the opposite way turned left right in front of him and he hit the pickup.

They used to have it at the NAPA warehouse, right off of 40. I think that's the same show they have in Colfax now, it was just a few miles from Colfax.

I know I had posted some of these, but I added some more. They might be from a different year...but they might not, I don't know anymore. Hard to tell about some pictures, when I didn't write any notes on the back. They didn't even have a date for when they were developed.

Not done yet!

But wait, there's more-

These are some pictures that I just posted to Flickr. I don't think I posted them before, but I might have. They were all in photo albums and I took them out and scanned them all, that's what i've been busy doing. And I sure did take some crappy pictures then!

It was strange. I listened to Howard Stern and he was in New York, and he stayed on the air that day for hours after his show usually ends. I left Romulus and went to Detroit and picked up a load of lumber. But even after listening to him and the news all day it didn't really hit home until I stopped at the Walmart in Bedford, VA. the next day to get a newspaper. I pulled in first thing that morning and bought a USA Today and there was a big color picture on the front page, first time I'd seen it with my own eyes.

I was at a job site in Romulus, Michigan. I was delivering a load of joists there from Hancock Joist in Salem, VA. and listening to the Howard Stern Show on the radio.