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Saw this this week- a big ass bike in a little truck. Reminded me of somebody...just can't place who.

And a big ass dog in a car.

A big ass single axle tank trailer.

An old Consolidated Freightways trailer.

Some icy roads in Arkansas,and a stuck truck.

Can't think of the name. Company in Canada, eh

Hayes?

Though sometimes I might engage in humor and nonsense,I do have a serious side. In fact,I was doing some serious research on Wabco.

I learned that in the early 1800's a young fellow by the name of George Westinghouseairbrakecompany moved his family into a well-to-do neighborhood near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. George and his family loved it there as there was both a Wal-Mart and a Home Depot nearby, but the feeling was not mutual with his neighbors. They liked everything to be the same in the 'hood, with houses well kept and the lawns all mowed the same day with all the grass the same height. Young George complied with all this but the problem was that his mail box had to be extra long in order to get his extra long name on it. It just didn't fit in and his neighbors were irate about it.

Things got to the point that his neighbors would stage nightly protests and riot in the street in front of his house. George just ignored them at first, but when the angry mob threw a 11/24.5 B.F.Goodrich truck tire that had been soaked in gasoline on his DirectV dish antenna and burned it one night, George knew he had to do something.

The next morning he called in sick, then went to the courthouse and changed his name to Wabco. Then he went by the Home Depot and bought a new mailbox. He raced home and tore the old mailbox off the post and threw it in the dumpster in the alley. Then he put the new mailbox up and waited.

That night when all his neighbors made their way down the street to his house they saw the brand new standard size mailbox on the post...they mumbled a bit, then threw their torches, pitchforks, and sandwiches down in the street and went home...

and they all lived happily ever after.

The End.

Texans take their state VERY seriously! wanna make one mad,just tell them you heard Texas was the biggest county in Oklahoma!.....Then run!

What's that old saying about the only 2 things Texans are afraid of? Something like a Mexican with a gun and an Okie with a football?

I went to Houston this week. Thought i'd get away from the ice and snow, but it snows everywhere I go.

I noticed they've changed the signs when you come into Texas.

heh heh,,,Mark, I do believe we need to beat Hatcity with a barbed wire wrapped axe handle, then maybe he would "get it". Its brutally cold here, wind chill has it down in the minuses. Im staying inside, cept maybe to step out door for firewood. randyp

What if Texas invades Florida and just takes it over?..remember the Alamo!

Drinking it warm will break you of that nasty habit on short order.

Welcome back. Any new exploits?

Rob

If the tank's on the roof there's little chance of it getting warm any time soon in Wisconsin...or Texas....or Illinois...or...

Ive lived here 56 years and we have never gotten this much snow, we are scheduled for more all next week. In addition to being a regular nut, I am also a "bird" nut, and am currently going through bout 20 pounds of bird seed every 2 days, and about the same amount of black oil sunflower seed also. The weather is really taxing the lil fellers here, am bout tired of it, starting to get cabin fever. i have made a few "store" runs for neighbors and checked on a few elderly friends, poked a few fires up for them and toted a lil wood, but, dammit, come on Spring!!! randyp

I passed through Daingerfield Thursday night,but didn't see you or Spot anywhere.

if i remember correctly, 1110 stands for 1100 footpound torque and 10 speed

gg2

that's right, and the rt is direct in high gear, rto would be an overdrive trans.

Welcome aboard. Saw that truck and also knew I'd seen it before. Glad you got a good one and hope you have fun with it.

Been a few years back, Oldmacks.com had a firetruck crew cab for sale. That would be the ticket to throw on your chassis. Usually firetrucks go pretty cheap in the realm of things.

Yup, gotta watch out for some of the "clowns" on here. No picture is safe LOL!!! We do like to have some light hearted fun on here, nothing too serious.

Why, that's- that's just- true that. Here's some extended cab B-models.

And here's the grand daddy of 'em all, Euclid of Alexandria

He's the inventor of Euclids?

This oughta be a Euclid,'cause it's green. It's at least kin to a Euclid because it was made by Terex,owned by General Motors of Canada at the time.

Hmmm...look what I found- a blue Euclid. Randy's right,George Krylon,George Krylon III,Benjamin Moore,Sherman Williams,and myself were all wrong.

I cheated, so I won't give it away, but that's quite a piece of machinery.

Looks like the famous "snow train". I think the same company made the snow train.

From the era when cabovers were made with conventional cabs. Some of them were built in some handyman's backyard before truck manufactures realized the demand and started building cabovers.

AH-HAH! Yes,I can see it now. Couldn't find a Ford cab taken from the right angle so I put this nose on it. Fits like it was made for it.

Heres the one i was talking about,its a "homemade" 1950's Dodge...................Mark

Well my hat's off to that fellow. Took balls to get up in that thing and actually drive it!

I got one for you. I saw this on Hank's Truck Pictures before,had to go back and find it. The caption didn't say what it was but when I saved it the name was "ford ex convoy". Kinda resembles a Sightliner International, but it's nothing i've ever seen before.

What has been seen,CANNOT be un-seen! LOL!.......Mark

And apparently it's true that what's been deleted is not really deleted

I just saw an oldy but goody. A picture of the Chevy truck with a van body,fixed up as a living quarters complete with a chimney,satellite tv antenna,and the back half of the fuel truck on the rear. Said "The Robmobile" on the side.I remember posting that picture here. Don't remember what the occasion was,but it was deleted long ago,and there it was!

One of the first things they will look at is his cell phone records.

Yep. Probably had to take a pee-pee test immediately.

Definitely not a good habit to be in. Don't take much to send you where them wheels are pointing.

I remember that question being on a drivers license test-probably the first one I ever took. Which way should your wheels be turned while waiting to make a left turn,left,right,or straight ahead? I actually picked "to the left" and got it wrong and i've never forgotten it.The right answer is straight ahead of course,just for this reason.

Yup....it could ALWAYS be worse.

Unfortunately in this one, 2 people died, 1 received minor injuries, and the knucklehead who caused the whole thing walked away without a scratch. Road was shut down for 8 hours. Once I realized they had no intention of opening a lane to let us pass anytime soon, I backed up about 3/4 mile and turned around on a gravel road...then went into town and waited it out in the local diner. Had 3 eggs scrambled, hash browns, biscuit & gravy, & bacon...no telling how many refills on the coffee...then when the road opened, I figured I'd been there for 8 hours "off duty". If I left right then, not only would I be fighting through the 100 or so other trucks who were racing to get back on the road but also my 14 hours would be up in only an hour...meaning I'd have to stop for a full 10 hour break. So, I ordered a cheeseburger and fries and decided to wait 2 more hours to get a 10 hour break, then I could roll out to deliver my load and make it home before I'd have to shut down again. Total bill came to $12 + tip. Not too bad, and it was a hell of a lot better sitting inside talking to anybody & everybody (gotta love small town diners). Would have cost me a hell of a lot more than that to detour around the 70 or 100 miles it would have added, not to mention that would have put me over the 14 hours so I'd have to have got a motel for even more money.

Made for a long day, though, because I was getting home just in time to shut my alarm clock off

What happened?

heh heh,,hell i oughta knowed better than to stir u up,,LOL,,I stand corrected,,,randyp

"you give up to easy"...Benjamin Moore,1244 B.C.

I used to use a picture as my desktop background picture-any picture,usually one of mine,except for Eva Longoria for a while.Kept the same picture 'til I got tired of it.I recently went to the control panel and changed the background picture so it keeps changing,going through all my Kodak pictures-over 1900 pictures at last count- that I had saved on my pc.

I gave my parents one of those electric picture frames for Christmas last year, selected a few hundred pictures and put them on a memory stick to use in the frame. Now,Jobyna said I should update a card for them since i've added so many pictures in the last year.So I went to the Wal-Mart store and got a big memory stick card that held like 3,000 pictures and put every picture in my Kodak collection on it. 1,907 pictures in all.

Problem is,some of the pictures in the rotation on my screen are pictures that I deleted years ago.You know me when it comes to pictures...one was the one of Jo where I cut-copy-pasted her looking at a car at Toga and she wasn't wearing any pants. Caption said "I knew I forgot something".

I told Ma there might be offensive content and she said not to worry about it...but still,it's my mother. I hope they didn't copy to the card,like I said,i've deleted them from the computer,but they still show up when they flash across my screen-even Jo cussing at Santa Claus-Santa with the huge...eh,never mind.

She put the memory stick in the mail Wednesday.

guess thats all that matters

gg2

That's the main thing...still a bummer though.

What do you guys think of the welded "D" rings recessed into the floor of a trailer? This thing of mine will get a new deck and I'm considering installing 10 down the length of the deck to tie trucks to when hauling. I'm thinking I may bury them under "trap doors" so the deck remains level for sliding loads on the deck. I always used the keyhole slots to anchor to via chains and used the winch to bring up the tension on the rollbacks. Then of course a chain and binder for security during the tow.

Rob

We've never had a trailer that had them,the trailer I pull has short lengths of chain on each side that you can pull up thru a hole and use for tie-downs.Has basically a big washer at each end,one covers the hole when you don't use them,the other is slightly bigger than the hole so the chain doesn't pull all the way through the hole.These are for tie downs if you use a side kit.

Getting back to the question,i've seen many steel haulers use them to tie down coils,so there shouldn't be any problem with load securement,they're easy and convenient to use,I think it's a great ideer.