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Mackdaddy started all this...thanks-now I gotta follow through, and clean this thing!

Might as well add my little collection- this is a Marlin "goose gun", 36'' barrel full choke. Used to belong to my wife's brother, who was killed when he raised a dump body into some overhead electric wires in 1983. He used it at turkey shoots. Then my pride and joy, a Remington "Fieldmaster" .22 rifle that belonged to my grandfather, still a sweet shooting rifle, and a model 700 Remington 30-06...and an "Alf" coloring book.

I'm gonna swing through OH and get a lot of things!! Hopefully next week. Gotta get some folks together and hopefully one won't be pissed at me for selling a mixer.

That jack would sure make life easier.

Rob

y'all need to get a move on- the premiums for the extra theft insurance I took out are about to break me!

Otherdog, don't you drive a peteoftrash???? That was a good joke but I bet Rob is gonna shoot your pinky toe off. We all know that you have the hots for his daughter. Driving such a fancy truck gave it away..lol Then again maybe not..are you and Rob some kind of kin??

naw, that's Mike that you're thinking of-he wants to ride in there on his bike and take her to the prom. He was even pondering trading his bike to "Momma" for the daughter, but I think Rob's belt fed weapon on the front porch and land mines in the front yard may have changed his mind.

Don't quit your day job.

rats!

Not wasting any time...

Once upon a time a brave knight was about to ride off on a quest to seek some rare parts. Before he left he went to his best and most trusted friend and told him "I am going on a dangerous mission-here is the key to my lovely lady's chastity belt. If I should never return...or if I have not returned in a year or so...well, do what you must my dear friend-I must be off". And with that he rode away. After riding a couple of hours he heard a horse racing up behind him. He stopped and heard the rider shouting "stop-wait-stop-STOP!" It was his best friend, with whom he had entrusted the key to his beloved's treasures.

He rode up to the knight, him and his horse both out of breath. "What is it?" asked the knight. "What kind of emergency do we have?". "It's the wrong key", panted his friend. "You left me the wrong key."

Just wonder if ole Tom Jackson rode through Gladys, if it were a town back 146 years ago?

mike

couldn't say- I was just a boy then!

BTW, if you're around Abingdon and want a crooked road to ride your bike on you should head up 81 a little farther to Marion. Then take rt. 16-it'll either be 16 west or 16 north, most likely west though. Goes to Hungry Mother State Park. From the top of the mountain where all the towers are over to rt. 42 is undoubtedly the crookedest rode i've ever been on. I went across there in a big truck one time, going around the scales at Bland. Since I was going to Atkins to the Utility trailer factory, I looked at the map and decided i'd just take 42 south down to 16 and back to 81 instead of the usual "bypass the scales" route, highway 52. 42 was nice, but when I got on 16- what a mistake that was! Never again! You couldn't keep the trailer on your side of the road because there's a mountain on one side and a cliff on the other with a guardrail, then a 10,000 foot (my estimate) dropoff. It has a length restriction on it now anyway, I think it's no vehicles over 35', but it didn't then. It's certainly no road for a truck to be on. Worst part was when I was motoring down 42 I heard somebody say the scales were closed anyway!

Here's a google earth image of it, one looking north, one looking south. First picture is from directly overhead, second is tilted, looking from 42 towards Marion. Looks about as crooked after you cross rt. 42, but i've never been on that part of it.

Yes there is a French Lick, IN. Been there. Home of Larry Bird. Never a basketball fan myself but son (wearing the "chick magnet" T-shirt) is/was.

Rob

ah-HA!

...solved another case...

Tom,

Several of us on bikes have been to Abingdon, VA and spent the night at a B&B, it was a great ride with many good curves to lay down on. The Dragon is Great for first timers, but can be overwhelming at first. I like to eat trout at their resturant when I go. Most of the time you will meet up with several hundred riders on any saturday. Tom if you are up for some really big excitement, then this is the place to go.

Question, is Glady's close to Roanoke? I've been to Lexington and Roanoke several times.

mike

The website had lots of info, maps showing different elevations, curve names, and the locations of all the fatalities on it since 2000. Didn't say if cement mixers were allowed.

Gladys is about 50 miles from Roanoke. Downtown Gladys is on rt. 501 south of Lynchburg (well, there's a store and a post office there!) and between Rustburg and Brookneal. I actually live off of rt. 699 about halfway between Gladys and Altavista.

I didn't mention my Suzuki Hyabusa yet, thought I would save that for later. I hold the title for best time at The Dragon..... it's a road in North Carolina with 318 curves in 11 miles. Many people know me from that area and the group of 30 riders I ride with on weekends.......Tell her that I have many safety awards and I can come and see her in my Piper Arrow sometime if it's ok with her daddddddddd.......LOL

mike

I'd never heard of the dragon-just googled it and looked at the "tail of the dragon.com" site. Pretty neat stuff.Don't think i'll be attempting the trip in a big truck.

Also looked at it on google earth.

You guys are giving me all kinds of new job ideas LOL!!!

Though it looks like the uniform covers a bit TOO much...............DOH!!

maybe that's the winter uniform. she's YOUR co-driver, tell her to wear something skimpy this summer, and post more pictures!

Wow, the work would stop for sure when that driver pulled in, i would be ordering something for everyday of the week

It would surely increase UPS's binness if the drivers looked like that

Did you "whack his nuts off", or is that pleasure reserved for me?

Rob

Naw, I didn't say anything. He'd gone back in the shop by the time I saw it.

Thx Fred, bottom line, you are shifting the mainfirst and then the compound? None of this two handed stuff?

you can do it either way, but one key thing Fred and 417mack are right on is make your upshifts first, which would be in the main first when upshifting, compound first when downshifting.

as in first high to second low-shift main first, then compound to low.

5th. low to 4th. high-shift compound back to high first, then downshift the main.

The starting up part is good. I won't need my come-a-long as the trailer has no winch. I'll bring a siphon pump cause the new owner is not paying enough to warrant that much "free fuel". I'll use it in another truck.

By the way, how old are the batteries; I could use a new set in my truck.

Rob

They were installed new when I got the truck, so they're 4 or 5 years old. They're heavy duty NAPA's and I shut them off when i'm not using it, so they should have a little more life in 'em.

It doesn't hold a lot of fuel, 40 or 50 gallons- I don't remember, but it'll get you out of the driveway!

That's good; Me and Joe will be after it later in the week. The new owner insisted on a shiney hood so we had to forestall delivery till you could get it reinstalled.

Gonna use Pauls' trailer and we're gonna double team to ensure timely delivery. Christmas is getting close you know.

Rob

OK, it started right up Saturday and it's almost full of fuel. Bad part is the man on the driver side holding the hood let it get against the radiator shell and it scratched it up pretty good. Gotta get some touch up paint now.

My ex girlfriends would be "The Village Bicycle"

does that mean everybody in town rode her?

It says that you are a Know It All on your avatar, keep up the good work

I didn't put that on there-i'd have put "village idiot"

Great googly-moogly! she might be too much of a distraction for him to make his p&d's in a timely manner, even with a high speed package car!

I've seen pics of that before. Pretty cool to see it in person!! At a Ford event in Columbus every year, a really stock appearing one about that year shows up. I think he camps in it for the weekend? A little rough on the edges, but neat none the less.

BTW, Rob had problems yesterday and didn't make it over to see me.

UH-OH!

And,yeah it was-just happened to by passing by.He went up 501 north towards Lynchburg when he left Rustburg,and we took 24 to Concord.

So now he has an associates degree in high school?

I'm not sure about that, but he has a B.S. degree in high school-most people have to go to college to get one of them

***note-Rob is on a field trip, so it's OK to talk about him behind his back today***

Now 'ur thinking that Rob would go to school!

He did! That's why he's so smart-said he spent 14 years getting a high school diploma. Most people call it quits after 12 years, but he went above and beyond- spent 2 years in the third grade and 2 years in the sixth grade just to make sure he didn't miss anything, and now he's a rocket scientist. That's dedication right there!

Yeah thats the one i was thinkin about Tom, I had a Custom Classic Trucks around here with that bus in it. Neat lookin ride, I think it was a '48.

I thought there couldn't be many units like this out and about.

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I probably should get under this and read the numbers. the truck is a 56 and my guess is that somewhere along the line, someone yanked the gas motor and stuck a 673/Duplex in it. I have the build sheet but the original box could not have survived with the 673. I'm told that around 79, they put the Maxi in it. I believe it has a 10 speed- not a low hole six. And I agree that as the Maxi was designed to run from 1200 to 2100, the splits in the 10 speed were designed for a 400 rpm band- not 900.

Again, assuming I want to split as conditions dictate, what is smoothest way? move main first or compound?

And I intend to use this truck- with the respect a 53 year old truck is due.

That sure is a good looking truck!

...it would probably look something like this. We followed this bus up rt. 501 from Gladys to Rustburg. When it pulled into a gas station we pulled in right behind it. I asked the owner if I could take some pictures and he said "help yourself". All the guys, and the familiar looking woman "Jo-bingo", in the picture started pulling out their cell phones and cameras to take pictures of it. The owner is the guy standing by the gas pump. He said it used to be a real bus, and him and "a lot of buddies" built it. Even still has the door control lever by the driver's seat-an awesome looking vehicle, even though by the looks of that engine he probably doesn't pass too many gas stations without stopping .

It's a pretty short bus- yeah, I could see Larry taking Rob to school in this...

''Git in,sit yer ass down,hold on, and shut up-we'll be at the school in about 11 seconds"