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There were some wild grapes at the shop. The vines were growing up in a pine tree and I picked all I could reach when they got ripe-even climbed up the tree to pick some. Got the ballon over it so the little fruit flies can't get in it, and it lets the presssure off while the wine's working too. My Ma sent me a recipe last year to make wine in a gallon jug, the grape wine I made last year turned out pretty good. Got another jug of plum wine working too. Bought the plums yeserday, mashed them up and got the seeds out, put them in the Miller Lite jug, covered them with water, added some sugar, and that's it. You don't even have to add yeast, yeast just makes it start to work faster. The ballon I put on that jug yeserday was already fully erect before I went to bed last night. I got 2 more gallon jugs, I want to try making some apple and pear wine in them.

Forgot this picture. I got it from an Australian Mack site, pretty cool there,eh? (that's Canadian)

man, I miss those brain cells I abused now...used to know this. The '77 F-model I drove had the bigger sleeper and I used to remember when they changed from the flat rear on the cab...but I can't right now...probably same year on R-models. The instant Rob gets back from the buffet at the Petro he'll answer this, as he is an R-model expert. As in "air's nuttin' 'bout a r-moderl I don't know".

Absolutely, what Paul and Underdog said. Mack used to put a lot of thought into their setups, even the gear shift knobs, and what Herb said...sorry, I got a call from Old Bill, my hero, the greatest truck driver ever, and quite possibly the greatest living human being.

Well, thank you Paul- you're very welcome... I have become an ameteur(?) wine conner sewer, and I take back ALL the nasty things I said about you when I thought you were shunning us. You are still one of the greatest living Americans in my opinion. By the way, it's almost hot sauce season!

I don't know, but it sure is a neat looking truck!

cartoon boobage should be this big-

you made that?..that's funny! Haven't heard "chain drive wallet" or "pocket rockets" for a while. You should have made the teacher's boobs bigger though.

I'll try to contact DoubleL immediately.

yeah, everybody likes watermelon. Speaking of Superliners, there's a pretty solid black one sitting in Appomattox i'll try to get a picture of.

looks like a great show, wish I could have made it. Liked that 400 Farmall with the wide front end too.

OK, how about these new bigger better pictures of the week- went to the shop Thursday morning to go unload in Petersburg and saw this Superliner there, then yesterday saw this Tigerliner in Pa. Saw a Marmon in Illinois last week. My hi-tech homemade wine making equipment, and this watermelon is growing through the fence around the garden. Figured as it got bigger the wire would cut the stem off, so I split a piece of fuel line hose and put it over the wire.

Probably to protect the windshield from flying rocks in the outback.

I used to see a white GMC 860 well drilling truck on rt. 18 between 77 and 71. Had a for sale sign on it and it set there for a long time, but it's long gone now. Always wondered what became of it, as I like those model GMC's. It was a good looking truck.

yeah,but she said her mom didn't let her go but a few miles from home by herself so she could only push to the top of the first mountain.

probably hit a patch of ice.

your buffoonish spies are eediots- it was not a bulldozer, it was a 992 Cat rubber tired loader!

No, I didn't. I was lost, looking for the place I loaded at. I had passed it about 4 or 5 miles back and had to go turn around. Took the picture on the way back. This is the google earth street view.

Actually, I was waiting at the red light when I took the picture. He was on the ramp getting on 64. By the time the light changed he had a 13 mile head start, but I caught him and passed him on that hill like he was tied to a stump, and I had on 50,040 lbs,grossing a little over 81,000. I didn't want to say anything about it, it was pretty neat seeing that bulldog getting it done, but now I must take up for myself.

Someone sent that to me in an e-mail a while back and I reposted it here. Good to repost it, it all makes sense to me!

...or you could take the dump body off in winter, put the 5th. wheel on, and hook to the reefer and go to Florida and get a load of turnips to help meet the turnip demand in central Illinois. The possibilities are endless...

Sure doesn't take much to scotch a van trailer- they get on the tires and you're done. I got stuck in a mud puddle like that once in Butler, Pa. pulling into a dirt lot at a store to get a cold drink. Another truck had to give me a little tug, I couldn't move. I could pull a flatbed in there and tear up the grass and cut some ruts for 'em without getting hung up, if I could get over that big ass curb!

saw some interesting stuff today-a Mack dealership in a round building. It's on rt. 50, west of Aurora Indiana. And a big Mack truck with a huge load of pulpwood in Grayson, Ky.

Had to get a window motor yesterday. Put one in not too long ago. Driver's side window wouldn't go up or down and as soon as I left the shop Wednesday to go unload in Louisa,Va. I ran into a roadcheck in Goochland. Told the officer that got up on the step that it had just quit-"it was working a minute ago!".