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Some years ago in a small town somewhere in central Illinois a similar occurence took place. An unidentified man was working on his R-model in his driveway,where he'd run it out of fuel. His young daughter came out of the house with the family dog on a leash and said she was going for a walk.

The man knew his dog was also in heat,but he was busy and really didn't have time to explain to his daughter why she couldn't take the dog for a walk.He quickly comes up with a plan-he gets a gas can out of the garage and pours gasoline all over the dog's back half,thinking male dogs wouldn't bother her because she smelled like gas. Then he said "OK honey,you can take the dog for a walk now".

A little while later the little girl and the dog return home. Pop had gotten the truck started and is in his La-z-boy smoking his pipe and reading the paper. "Hi sweety-everything go all right?"

"Yeah" she said. "The dog ran out of gas about half way around the block,but don't worry-another dog pushed her all the way home".

Great looking trucks! Glad you had a camera! You should always have a camera with you so you can take pictures of things. That's my hobby ya know,taking pictures of things.

You're both very welcome! Jo told me today on the way home that she mailed it and I said "it wasn't ready for shipment,there's a new one that just came out I haven't added yet!"

I support the privately owned "Carquest" branded store 100% with my parts purchases if they have access to what I need. This is a small family owned store with two employees open six days per week with another employee that is only a delivery driver. Their parts may, or may not be higher priced than the chain stores but the service is very much from an earlier time and quality. It pains me to see some chinese manufactured parts in "Carquest" branded boxes, but this is the way of the world.

As an example of service; How many parts stores owners will get out of bed at 2:30am and either give you a key to the door, or travel to the store to either get you the part you need, or provide the support you need to keep moving? Try that with one of the chain stores even if you know them quite well. I exercised that option a few times when we were running cars for truck parts.

I've never been one that shops solely on price. It's the reputation and service that brings me in the first place, and the support that keeps me coming back.

Pardon the pun but I try to be a "loyal old dog" with my vendors. Of course I'm not ashamed to tell em if I think they're too high in price for something also.

Rob

Me too-I used to live in Appomattox, but moved to Gladys a little over 5 years ago. Whenever I need parts I go all the way back to Carquest in Appomattox just because they're a good bunch of folks.

Today, I think oil was trading @ 105 dollars a barrel......WHY???? What a time it is

1940 U.S.A. Goes to Saudi Arabia to drill for water so people could live in the desert, they find OIL INSTEAD!!!!

Sadam (whats his name) invades Kuwait; We send in our Troops (Blood) an Air force, an not to mention all of our money for the whole war!!!... We free all the people after Sadem's troops raped an killed thousands of Kuwaits people!!! never got one red cent back from Kuwait or the Suadi's!! An we the tax payers laid out all of the billions. That was then... sooo today we pay $105 Oh by the way?? If we import 50% of our oil an the other 50% is our own an I do mean ours the American People own it why are we not paying a much less price for that???

BULLHUSK

I don't get it either. I was saying the other day that I heard there was enough oil in the U.S. to last 100 years,I also heard the biggest oil field yet discovered was somewhere in Colorado only 1,000 feet down and it's never been drilled for.

I hear this on the radio show "coast to coast am". Who knows if half what you hear is true,but if it is why do we still depend on the middle east countries that hate the U.S. for most of the oil?

Been to Tractor Supply lately?

Well I needed a ratchet binder last week, an as I see you guys all know there are no more realy good supply stores around !! So I take this made in CHINA (so what else is new right?) binder with 10 ft. of small chain throw it under one of my Plymouths to bring home from my shop in J.C. as I start to tighten it, it snaps in half on the inner part of the threds. Now granted it was a small one but I have ones that were my fathers that are over 40 years old!! but of course I took them out of the trailer when it was at the house an forgot to put them back , But thats another story. DO any of you guys know of any of these big supply stores that sell good US made goods ??

BULLHUSK

We had a big pile of broken "made in China" binders laying in the shop floor-dozens of them. The handles would just snap in two. We use mostly snap binders,and they'll hurt you when they break! They were yellow and every time I need a new binder I tell them "Don't give me no yellow one,I want a red one". The red ones are actually made in China too but they didn't break like the yellow ones for some reason. Tom in the shop would say "ain't nothing wrong with them binders,them guys had too big a pipe on them,that's why they broke"! But only the yellow ones broke.

Where's Daisy, she needs to be in this episode as well?

mike

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Thanks for your timely alertness and having camera cocked Rhasler, Pics of those just make me feel all warm and bubbly inside! I like those trucks! Good Job sojer!! randyp

yes,always take your camera. my hobby is taking pictures of things. taking pictures of things is a great hobby. I like taking pictures of things.

Once again, my new hobby of taking pictures of things came into play today when we stopped at the store in Rustburg. I saw this Farmall C sitting there and proceeded to take pictures of it. Has chrome wheels and everything. This is similar to the very first vehicle I ever recall driving,in the hay field.

Saw 2 dogs on the porch too,other dog and "new" dog,so I took a picture of them.

It's all BS. They can write you a ticket for anything...whether you broke the law or not. It's then up to you to take the time off work and go to court over it, where they know the judge is more likely to side with the cop since the cop is assumed to have no reason to lie. There is no such thing as "innocent until PROVEN guilty" in traffic court.

well,yeah,this is so true.

Did you hear banjo music?

naw,I had the windows up and the doors locked.

I was wrong about when the mine closed. The explosion was in '81 but the mine didn't close until 1997.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._21_Mine_explosion

No pirates? I think you need to look closer!

I bet he was working with the cop, waited till you were distracted and then boarded your "vessel"

good thing I got away before he made me walk the plank,eh?

I took a load of steel from Lynchburg,Va. to Cookeville,Tn. the other day. Then I had to go to Whitwell,Tn. to pick up a load of landscaping stone going to Charlottesville,Va. I called for directions and figured i'd still never find the place,since the directions said "Take 108 north to the top of the mountain... you'll pass the church with a cemetery on both sides of the road,then go past the yellow house and take the next right-there's no road signs,but I put some orange tape there. When you get to the blue building stay to the left.Open the gate and go through,then close it behind you.you'll see some equipment on the side of the road and a road turning off to the right,but don't take the road to the right..." Never seen so many yellow houses,but I actually drove straight to the place. The loader man said most people call him back several times for more directions.

This place was back in the woods 5 miles from where I turned off the highway at the orange tape. I went back into the woods so far, with the road getting smaller all the way, that I started to worry about pirates and truck smuggling operations-nobody would ever find me in there.It was at an old coal mine that had been shut down since 1981,when an explosion killed 13 miners.I never even knew they mined coal in that area.

The loader man was real nice and after I was loaded he took me down to the old mine site in his pickup. There wasn't a lot to see,but I put my new hobby to use and took some pictures. There's some power poles,a concrete foundation,and you could see where tracks used to go into the mine. It's now sealed off. He lives in the area and he told me the miners used to ride the rail cars into the mine there on the cars you had to lay down on. Interesting stuff.

"...go to the top of the mountain..." That would be this mountain-

heading into the unknown...

still going...

and going

finally there-looks legit,don't see any pirates about.

Some pictures at the old mine site-

Headed back down the mountain on rt.108 after I got loaded.

View off the mountain.You can see rt. 28 down there somewhere.

That's where I was-somewhere up in them there hills.

When I got to Charlottesville the man told me to pull into this subdivision and wait for him. When he got there I had to back out of this road and about 50 yards or so up the other road to a driveway where he started unloading me on the side of the road. He parked his pickup back behind me with the flashers on and I had the lights and flashers on too.Before I was half unloaded a county cop came up and said we had to get that truck out of the road. It was a little backroad with no lines on it in the middle of nowhere too,and there hadn't been but 3 or 4 cars that passed by. But everybody has a cell phone in their hands now just wanting to call somebody,so I guess somebody called and complained. I pointed to the man on the loader and told the cop "he's the brains of this outfit,I just did what he said". The cops says "well,you're driving the truck,therefore you're responsible and you'll be the one getting the ticket". So I said "in that case,i'm outa' here!" Cop said "that's what I thought" So I pulled back into this road (private property) and he finished unloading me.

I read somewhere that Maine has no poisonous snakes,not sure how true it is,something about the average temperature never getting warm enough till late in the year.......Mark

I think that's in a Geico commercial too.

...here's another one. I paid $3.99 a gallon in Mt. Morris Pa. for diesel Thursday. Just filled one tank to make sure I had enough to make it back.

We have had 4 or 5 days now of sunshine, high 60's or low 70's. Been really nice, cepting, Them texas bad boys are out enjoying sunshine too. I been clearing timber during all this nice weather, but I aint too anxious to get off tractor, might be doing the two step. I am seeing whole bunches of em, may box up a couple and send em to Rob,,,,randyp

I think i'd carry a shotgun to work,like a 20 gauge. next picture would be of snake's head blown off. I guess smashing it with the bucket would work too.

are any of the BMT members near FRONT ROYAL VIRGINIA. may be looking at a job near there and would need a guy with dump and also a equip. dealer to rent from. new house build and all that good stuff.

thanks gg2

Keith is from Woodstock,Va, not too far from Front Royal.

I'm gonna have to go with Diamond T,looked long and hard for a cabover picture,this one sure looks close to me (with the exception of the crew cab)look at the shape of the panel on the side of the hood, next time i get up that way,i will try and check it out to make sure...............Mark

yep, that looks just like it to me.

It was raining when I took this, but it's still a much better picture.

great pictures Randy! After getting calls, e-mails, and several letters to the editor in the local paper about how I needed a hobby,I decided to take up basket weaving. I emptied the vacuum cleaner bag and got all the dog hair out and made this basket out of it,but it was boring! You've inspired me to do photography as my new hobby, f^*# basket weaving!

Those are some awesome pics. I worked for Winzinger Const. for awhile and he had one about that big but I think it was a Trojan? That Oversize Load is a DOOZY! Some body had a good payday.

might have been those Trojan Magnums if it was that big...

Randy, Here's one a little closer to home...........

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/71-Mack-/220748873199?pt=Commercial_Trucks&hash=item3365a87def

The price is right-and it's got a V8!..we all know there's nuthin' like a V8 Mack.

Did a google search,came up with one picture......company was Miller transfer.....Mark

Thought that looked like a Miller unit. They're in Ohio, right where rt.14 crosses I-86. That looks like where this picture was taken, coming from the road that goes to their yard onto rt. 14. If it is there's a fuel stop just ahead of the truck on the right where i've stopped a few times.

I have heard on talk radio shows that there is enough oil in the U.S. to last for 100 years at the present rate of consumption, also that with today's technology they could get as much oil out of wells that have been closed for years as they got out of them before they were closed.