other dog

Which ache gets soothed the best with ice? The surgery, or the prolonged stiffness in the "near and dear"?

Other Dog wants to know.

Rob

Yes, I always have my agent (Rob) ax the tough questions.

I put a few pictures on flickr today, and looked at some old ones i'd almost forgotten that I had. Probably nothing new to see, but now I kinda' wish i'd put the Lincolnton pictures there, I think I like it better than webshots and there's 2 fewer steps to go through to upload a picture. I like the bigger thumbnails too, I cain't see as good as I used to.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/28526133@N04/

Joe,

Back in 1971 when I was 17 I was buildin a 67 Dodge Coronet R/T in my garage at my parents house, well I was just returning home from the Vet.(SHOTS) for our German Shepard (Jinx). Ok so I pull down our driveway an I see a light or something shining in the darkness inside the garage! All of a sudden a guy comes runnin out the door, so I let Jinx loose, an he grabes this guy (as he is goin over the fence) in the ass an takes a chunk of his blue jeans along with some ass cheek with the guys wallet in my dogs mouth!! So I guess you know the rest of the story!! BULLHUSK

uhh...i'll take a stab at it- his carcass is buried in a shallow grave in the woods?

Thanks, that's some good pictures right there.

Hey Jay,U-model looks good! seen it in Toms pictures,i kinda like the yellow,a good looking truck for sure,not too often you see a U anymore. Shoulda sent the short bus picture to Tom first,so he could worked his magic on it,put Daingerfield on the side,make Randy proud!.............Mark

how about this?

oh oh,time for corn beef hash,n eggs seeya.bob

one of my favorites for breakfast!

neat trailer! I've never seen such before!

There was some fine looking girls there. We need a section just for them.

Yes there was, but I had to be real sneaky just to get the few pictures I did. Jo loaded the cast iron skillet in the truck before we left, but I managed to convince her that it was too heavy for her to carry around.

that are some very fine trucks.

thanks for posting.

leon.

Thank you, got all the pictures on webshots now. I think now I should have went with flickr, they've got bigger thumbnail pictures. I could have done them on flickr individually without signing all the rights away but all my other truck show pictures are on webshots already.

Got a lot of the truck show pictures here-

http://rides.webshots.com/album/580642862YTyWeG

I haven't finished yet, more to come later. I could have put them straight from Kodak to Flickr but you have to give them permission to add, remove, and edit your photos to do it, so screw all that, I just put them on webshots.

Hey Tom, Nice to finally met you. The green U model is Jay's. The two macks on the trailer used to be parked on Rt 64 at a storage place between Raleigh and Pittsboro. They were there for 4 to 5 years then disapeared about 2 years ago.

Thanks David, likewise! I enlarged the picture on the camera on the way home and saw the owner's name was Jay. I'd say those Macks have been sitting right there on 158 for close to 2 years. I first saw them when I was passing through in the truck, and they were still there when I went to Lincolnton last year, and they're still there now. They're sittin between Stokesdale and Walkertown, just past the Sheetz if you're going towards Winston Salem.

Had a great time at the show today. This is the 3rd. year i've been to Lincolnton and despite the heat it was the most trucks and most people yet. I would have stayed a little longer but the heat was really getting to Jo, plus she has sciatica and her leg hurts when she has to walk a lot. When we came back through Winston-Salem the thermometer said 98 degrees. By the time we got to Altavista it was 101.

Met one of our BMT members there, real nice fellow- goes by the name "David". I also met Johnny Click, a Fed-Ex driver who has pictures on Hank's Truck Pictures. http://www.hankstruc...ohnny_click.htm

Here's just a few of over 200 pictures I took. As usual, i'll put most of the rest on webshots or photobucket, then i'll post a link to it but i'll save that project for tommorrow. I gotta make a couple of picture discs too, then i'll crop and resize them before I put them on webshots.

Here's a nice one for Rob-

Because I know you won't like these-

Jo was standing in front of these trucks and she looked so hot and tired the owner gave her a bottle of water, so she told him i'd post his trucks on here.

See, she's hugging that little bit of shade whenever she can-

Saw a good looking U-model.

Lots of B-models-I really liked this green one.

F-model-

There was even a "Japanese Freightliner" there-

And those Macks on rt. 158 that I first saw well over a year ago are still sitting there- stopped and got a couple of pictures on the way home.

And I only bought 1 item for myself- had to have this B-model T-shirt!

And last but not least- the hot babe of the day-front...and rear!

...and the hot babe of the day first runner-up

front-

...and rear-

Y'all use way too many big words for me, i'm gonna start a new topic and only use little words and lots of pictures.

Prolly try and make it if i get home in time,never been to this one either...........Mark

Here's some pictures from last year's show-

http://rides.webshots.com/album/578301593qEKAFT

I really like the yeller one, thas my favorite color,,,randyp

I really like the red one, but i'd hit them fenders with some black Krylon. I like rattle cans.

Ha ha ,

Update for those like me who didnt know..

American Trucker will be filming at the show this weekend. Were going up Friday and staying the night so I dont have to drive 5 hrs each way in 1 day.

I would do that, but I don't have a dog sitter and that regular cab Ford Ranger ain't big enough for me, Jo, and the dog. Probably be too small for the two of us before we get back, might have to put her in the back.

Here's a picture of her at Lincolnton from last year.

Made one trip this week, to Warren, Ohio. After taking 8 hours to get loaded in Lynchburg Monday, in near 100 dgree heat, I didn't get to Warren until lunchtime Tuesday. Then I couldn't get to Monongahela by 2 pm to pick up so I had to layover and load Wednesday morning. I wanted to get another trip in, but when I unloaded in Petersburg yesterday morning I came to the shop and called it a week so I can go to Lincolnton Saturday.

Saw this heavy duty wrecker in Broadway, Va.

Load I picked up in Monongahela

It's larger so you can satisfy more than one female at; nevermind, whole nuther subject I suppose............

Rob

yes,we were talking about hotdogs.

The radar that antenna went to was much larger than the set(s) I work with although it radiated no more power, or had greater range. It actually replaced a predecessor the long range type I work with.

That sail weighs close to 40 tons and with the exception of the bolts holding it together, is all aluminum. I'm thinking it is about 135' wide and about 45 ft. tall.

Rob

It's larger so you can cook enough hot dogs for everybody at the same time.

I fully agree! i ran my Grandfathers R-685 237/5 speed pulling 33/40,000 lbs apples,peaches routinely for years,backhauled empty glass bottles or cardboard boxes,not the fastest combo on the road,but like the Maxidyne237 says,slow and steady wins the race! prolly the most dependable combo,least problematic truck i ever drove,given a different set of circumstances,i'd run one today in a heartbeat,especially given the current price of fuel!.................Mark

yep, that 300/5 speed F-model I drove never let me down, and I hauled over 50,000 lbs. regularly. I could go all the way up Christiansburg mountain in 4th. gear with 25 tons of fertilizer in a van. It was slow starting off, but once I got going it was left lane!

PHOTOGENIC PROOF???? my my!.......A+ for proper use of the english language! LOL!...........Mark

and thanks for the picture, i'm sure it can be put to good use in the future.

I'm warming to the idea that maybe, just maybe, you did get a start on digging a few holes. I only see one in the photo however. That being the case, what did you do with the rest of the afternoon cause it sure don't look like you got much done.

Rob

I watered the wasps. I gotta rest up for tomorrow, i'll finish 'em next week.

Nunt uh, no way, even the pope lies, or don't tell the whole story sometimes.

I still don't believe it. No photos, no holes. Has to be a sham begging for our sympathies.

A man don't dig no holes in this kind of heat by hand.

Rob

Geez, some people just don't believe anything without photographic evidence. I rented a plane a while ago and took this aerial photograph of my house. Got this first hole finished, got 3 more to dig.

I heeded Hatcity's advice and biggerized it from what it was at first.

Nope...LOVE the heat. HATE the cold....unless it's snowing. I LOVE snow & ice...but as soon as it quits snowing and the roads are cleared, I'm ready for it to warm back up.

I love cold- hate heat! hate snow! hate ice!

I don't forward or post a lot of e-mail I get, but as I was looking through and deleting 139 e-mails I had, this one sent to me by my uncle seemed to be worth posting here-

What the "H" is wrong?

Remember, not only did you contribute to Social Security but your employer did too. It totaled 15% of your income before taxes. If you averaged only 30K over your working life, that's close to $220,500. If you calculate the future value of $4,500 per year (yours & your employer's contribution) at a simple 5% (less than what the govt. pays on the money that it borrows), after 49 years of working (me) you'd have $892,919.98. If you took out only 3% per year, you receive $26,787.60 per year and it would last better than 30 years, and that's with no interest paid on that final amount on deposit! If you bought an annuity and it paid 4% per year, you'd have a lifetime income of $2,976.40 per month. The folks in Washington have pulled off a bigger Ponzi scheme than Bernie Madhoff ever had.

I didn't try to clean up the language in this message. It makes a better impact as it is.

Entitlement my ass , I paid cash for my social security insurance!!!! Just because they borrowed the money , doesn't make my benefits some kind of charity or handout !! Congressional benefits , aka. free healthcare , outrageous retirement packages , 67 paid holidays , three weeks paid vacation , unlimited paid sick days , now that's welfare , and they have the nerve to call my retirement entitlements !!!!!!

what the HELL's wrong??? WAKE UP AMERICA !!!!

Tuesday's Daily Bulletin paper, ran two articles on the front page side by side :

1- Calif 's 20 Billion Dollar Budget Deficit

2- The Calif Supreme Court ruling that ILLEGALS can attend college and get benefits.

Why don't they just deport them when they arrive to register?

3- Last year they ran an article on the yearly costs to Calif Taxpayers from Illegals using Hospital Emergency Rooms for their general health care -

At just one hospital the cost to tax payers totaled over 25 million a year

Someone please tell me what the HELL's wrong with all the people that run this country!!!!!!

We're "broke" & can't help our own Seniors, Veterans, Orphans, Homeless etc.,???????????

In the last months we have provided aid to Haiti , Chile , and Turkey . And now Pakistan ......home of bin Laden. Literally, BILLIONS of DOLLARS!!!

Our retired seniors living on a 'fixed income' receive no aid nor do they get any breaks while our government and religious organizations pour Hundreds of Billions of $$$$$$'s and Tons of Food to Foreign Countries!

They call Social Security and Medicare an entitlement even though most of us have been paying for it all our working lives and now when its time for us to collect, the government is running out of money. Why did the government borrow from it in the first place?

We have hundreds of adoptable children who are shoved aside to make room for the adoption of foreign orphans.

AMERICA: a country where we have homeless without shelter, children going to bed hungry, elderly going without 'needed' meds, and mentally ill without treatment -etc. etc.

YET.....................

They have a 'Benefit' for the people of Haiti on 12 TV stations, ships and planes lining up with food, water, tents clothes, bedding, doctors and medical supplies.

Imagine if the *GOVERNMENT* gave 'US' the same support they give to other countries.