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Now you've done it-next time you ask your GF to bring you a sammich and a rootbeer she'll say "s#@% you, why don't you call 'what's her name',who's aged so gracefully, to bring you a rootbeer and make you a sammich".

I commend you for that Rob-even though I don't believe everything you say-that's the way I felt about my wife. After she passed my Ma told me "I'll tell you one thing, in her eyes you could do no wrong". Now I seldom seem to do anything right. My scanner still doesn't work, but someday i'll post a picture of her here-when Jo's gone to the store or something

So true. I think it's also true that time heals all wounds. I lost my wife, whom I loved more than anything, almost 4 years ago to cancer, but "Life won't ever be the same".

no, it was "stupid computers" wasn't it? I hope so, or i've been misquoting him all this time!

I don't remember a lot about this, but we'd-no, I mean i've seen others-take that little cap off the top of the pump and loosen the nut towards the rear and back it off just a little. Half a turn made a big difference, and wasn't enough to hurt anything. Remember-a little dab'll do ya! Backing the rear nut off one full turn was about as far as you'd want to go, then tighten the front nut while holding the rear one. Trying to turn it up too much is what got most people in trouble-the old "if a little is good, more's got to be better" theory. I had some offset wrenches, it's a tight spot in there. This was late 70's maxidyne engines. There was one guy in particular around these parts who was famous for turning up a Mack. He'd blow a 300's doors off with a 237. He drove a company truck and wasn't concerned about hurting the engine of course. When he got a new R-model with an econodyne he wouldn't mess with it because they told him at the Mack place he would end up screwing everything up if he tampered with the fuel because everything had to be set together. Far as I know he never did because he was afraid to mess with it, because it was something new to him.

well, you should be pissed! how st-...uh... I mean, it's just one of them things. Could happen to anybody.

Now that could be it!..the funniest thing I ever heard that is

Ohhh...well, that's mighty nice of you.

It's a fuel conditioner called Howes Lubricator. Like all the rest say, it removes water, lubricates the pump and injectors, increases fuel milage and horsepower, and is an anti-gel. Their motto is "you go, or we pay the tow". Fuel is guaranteed not to gel with Howe's. It costs anywhere from 12 to 16 dollars for the big bottle, but it treats 320 gallons. I put it in the mixer and used it in that other truck that I drive every day all the way to Washington and back. I don't know about all the other stuff but I could definately tell a difference in the way the truck ran when using it, ran really smooth even starting out cold. Now, if any Howes agents sees this and wants to shoot me a free case of it i'll research it further. Stupid scanner still won't work, but here's what it looks like. Good stuff.

It was in this F-model-that's a carton of non-filter Pall Malls on the dash. "Hippy" was driving this truck when I turned it up for him. He got it when I got a new one and said it wouldn't run, but I knew better.

put a bottle of Howes in each tank and ride on-good stuff!

Conestoga at Fairplain, W.V. Go-Mart. Another Conestoga at our yard. Same conestoga being loaded with Mullite- the forklift was too tall so I had to open the sides. They are also wider because of the rails the sides roll on, 106". You can see the edge of the 96 wide trailer at the corner marker light in the mirror, they stick out this much on both sides. I've got a load of steel coils loaded on it now.

your keyboard must be going bad too-left out some numbers there. At least now I know who my real friends- uh,friend I mean-is. Right Paul? Paul?

but he said he secretly desires to drive a Pete...

We have an International tandem dump truck at the shop that used to be a road tractor. It has air ride and it's a frightening experience just to drive it down the highway loaded. Sways all over the place, like a cork bobbing in the ocean.

Larry, I'm sure you've seen Baker Highway Express trucks in your area. They're out of Dover, and shut down in December. Todd just got a couple of their Conestogas, we already had a couple, but I haven't pulled one yet. A lot of the the big time steel haulers use them now-I'd go to IDS in Macedonia to load and there'd be a Conestoga in the next bay and he'd be loaded, chained down, slid the sides back, and out the door while I was scratching my head trying to figure out how to get started. That's the best feature, I think anyway, it might take me 30 minutes to tarp a load and it might take 3 minutes to slide the sides back on a Conestoga and fasten them. They are a bit wider though because of the rails at the bottom.

somebody hollered on the radio "step deck, your sidebox is open". I wasn't even pulling a stepdeck, but you know how you always look anyway. Both sidebox doors were closed, but those doors on the trailer box were swinging wide open.

the good thing about it was I was in the right lane-on the capital beltwat Friday evening-if i'd have been over in the second or third lane there might have been a 40 car pile-up,and i'd probably be in the slammer sure enough! The box is on the right side and everything landed on the shoulder.

must be a big pond in Fishers if it takes 3 weeks to sail across it and back.

I left here Monday and had to go to Petersburg to load a Roxana, Il. load. That makes a long day. It's about 100 miles east to Petersburg. I didn't get to Roxana until about 3 o'clock Tuesday evening, and didn't get unloaded until Wednesday morning. At least I got a return load out of Granite City, only a few miles from Roxana. Bad part was it was going to Baltimore, scheduled for Friday morning delivery. Then I had a load to pick up in Sparrows Point, about 2 miles from where I unloaded. Good load too, 2 coils going to Lynchburg. Then I could deliver that tomorrow, but...they screwed around so long unloading me in Baltimore it was too late to load it and I had to come home empty and pick up a 2 stop load of lumber at the yard going to Ohio. The stops are nowhere near each other either, one's near Marion and the other's near Akron. So i'm leaving today. And, on top of that the tool box door on my trailer decided to come open on the way home Friday and I lost most of my beveled wood, coil racks, a roll of plastic, some corner protectors, and i'm not sure what else was in there. Usually it took a jackhammer and a crowbar to get it open, but this time it just came open on it's own. Couldn't say for sure that somebody didn't check it out to see if there was anything in there worth stealing and then didn't fasten the doors good when they saw there wasn't, but who knows. Got a few pictures this week too- the capital building in Charleston,W.V. driving piling in Roxana locomotive in Roxana some old tractors in Illinois by I-70 the cut in Sideling mountain on I-68 in Maryland closer view of the cut Baltimore,from the Key Bridge

good luck Mike, I hope you get in. Maybe someday i'll see you on TV on "Hell's Kitchen". I'd like to see somebody tap chef Ramsey right in the snout , because of the way he talks to people.

Now that's just funny right there!..almost sorta-kinda maybe just about the funniest thing I ever heard

I spotted this creature in my yard, but it got away before I could capture it. I think it was trying to sneak up on the grasshopper. If it comes back i'm gonna catch it and donate it to Rob's Roadkill Cafe. It'll be in the mail soon as I catch it.

wow!.. who was throwing those cables, Superman?

Got a 2 stop load of lumber going to Carter Lumber in Kent and Green Camp. Never heard of Green Camp.