other dog

Your way would be much faster if you were to staple their testicles to the floor rather than the affixing their peckers by other mechanical means.

Thinking strictly along the lines of productivity of course.

Rob

staples like you use on barbed wire fence would have been much quicker-I had to drive the nails half way, then bend them over with my hammer. still got that hammer.

Here are some more pictures I think I finally have this figured out. But I have to admit other dog and Barry at BMT had to help too!

great, glad I could help a little.

You do things the hard way. I always just tied two chicken feet together with a 12 inch length of rope, then throw them over a tightly stretched rope between the sidewalls of the trailer and they hang store nicely. You can really get a lot of chickens in there within a short period or time.

Chickens really get noisy for a short while but that subsides. The rest of the ride is perfectly quiet.

Hate to have my Mario Lanza serenades interrupted while I enjoy my double mocha supreme from Starbucks.

Rob

ddn't have a side kit, just a regular flatbed. had to tarp 'em too.

No you didn't. You may carry on.

Rob

yeah, I had only been driving a Peterbilt for a short time and I forgot which pedal you stepped on to slow down. One caused you to to speed up, and I didn't want to step on the wrong one. So I pulled over and stopped and got the manual out and read it, and was just about to pull back onto the road when a load of live chickens went by at a high rate of speed. Thought I heard somebody yelling "Earl, you wanna screw that thing back on there?" as they went by, but i'm not sure. Anyhow, when I got down to Pagosa Springs there was the chicken truck sticking out of the side of the feed store. Minus the top row of chickens of course-the 12' tunnel wiped them off. Only had my bananas stacked to 11'6''.

Bananas are tricky to haul too. You've got to chain them down tight enough to keep them on the wagon, but not too tight or you'll bruise them.

Reminds me of the time they sent me to Morganton, Ga. to pick up a load. I followed the directions and ended up at a farm. A fellow wearing bib overalls met me and I said "what am I loading here?". He said "chickens". So I said "there must be some mistake, you can't haul chickens on a flatbed". He said "sure you can, just nail their peckers to the floor-now you pull in this chicken house and load up, i'll be back with the paperwork in a few minutes". So I pulled in and was working furiously trying to catch chickens and get them loaded. After a while the man came back and he was looking at me like I was crazy. Only had a few chickens loaded, and I was getting mad too. So I said "what?!!-you said to nail their peckers to the floor!". And he said "yeah, but I was talking about the one on their face"..

sunvizor from a pete 359 (roadworks) with a little mod....brackets to mount it took a lot of mod......

That looks really good -just don't tell Rob you used anything off a Pete, or you'll never hear the end of it

You said it. IT must be true.

Rob

did I ever tell you about the time I lost my brakes right after I started down Wolf Creek pass in a blizzard, with 52,000 lbs. of bananas on?.. It was a dark and stormy August night, around 1953 or 54. I was driving a 1958 Peterbilt, headed to Bangor, Maine. Loaded the night before in Houston, Tx. but took a wrong turn somewhere around Chattanooga...

That's in KPH Rob..............so actually it's just starting to catch up with the rest of the world.............

no, that says MPH, see? Again, actual photo.

At least one of us believes the story.

Rob

yes, thank you Rob, for believing me.

I have spent many hours in automatic trucks when I was in the waste buisness and find nothing wrong with them especially doing start and stop driving, properly maintained the Allisons are bullet proof, however running the highway doing heavy haul now I prefer having the ability to pick my gear as opposed to having it chosen for me. I would like to try one of the clutch pedalless transmissions though.

I can see that, short haul, or lots of stop and go-might be nice.

Amen!!!!!!!!!!!!

A-...dammit,you stole my thunder!

I guess i'm just old school, don't know anything about automatics, never drove a truck with one, don't want to. Been doing OK with 5, 9, 10, 13, and 18 speed transmissions for over 30 years in pretty much any situation and all conditions, so why change now? Besides, what if I drove one and liked it? I'd have to...well, ain't figured that part out yet, but it ain't likely anyway.

Chip that is a sweet lookin F model you got. I can't imagine putting a price on a rare find like that. I would really hate to part with that if it was mine. I need to figure out how to get my pics posted on the site. You wouldn't happen to know where I might find a drivers side 3/8" framerail for my Rw 700 project? I didn't think to ask you when I talked to you last night. Dewy Duke had a set he knew of last fall in Ohio but he hasn't got back to me yet.

I've already blown $10 on lottery tickets today, but no luck! I'd buy that F-model if I won, and try to talk Rob out of one of those V-8 Mack engines he has piled up in his warehouse!

you're certainly welcome...what was this about, I wasn't paying attention?

Here's a question for everyone out there -

I am looking for what I believe is an International Speed Truck,

or perhaps the next heavier truck from the early to mid 20's.

A "Six Speed" model might work, if it is early enough.

I have been all over the Internet and found nothing of any real

value. At least I haven't found any good information.

This has been a pet project of mine for some time. I have a small

collection of Buddy-L tin toy trucks from the 20's that were given to me

when I was very young. They are modeled from the IH truck, and they are

all in original, unrestored condition.

I would like to locate a full size truck to restore and display with the toy

trucks.

Any ideas or leads would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Paul Van Scott

Jeff still talks about the time he left his prized "Buddy-L" dump truck in the driveway and his Daddy backed over it.

That's in KPH Rob..............so actually it's just starting to catch up with the rest of the world.............

I was climbing Lookout pass with 49,000 lbs. on, just fixin' to shift into high gear, about a mile from the top when I took this picture.

...did I mention the load was also 14' wide?...and 13'-6'' high?

...and that I was running into a 60 mph headwind?

This is a secret spy picture I took in Rob's shop when I stopped by there anonymously recently. He hired this clown to be a painter, but he was having some difficulty with the yellow paint. Or either he was trying to make a hamburger when he was supposed to be working. The only reason he was hired in the first place is because his sister here takes him to work and back every day because he never learned to drive.

I don't feel weird; Just special.

Rob

you should feel special, surrounded by a family of in-laws like that. I guess Momma must have been the pick of the litter

I think you're trying to get me to post more neutralizer pictures, like the Valentines day ones. I'll look for groundhog and presidents day pictures later, I must be off to Lynchburg to unload and to the shop to load another Roxana Il. first.

Rob, I have to say you have a weird family there, that's just wrong!

Funny, but wrong.

you must be feeling weird.

Take care

Bert

indeed

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcaYwkBPpNQ

Actually broke my glasses on a radar feedhorn last week and haven't got them replaced yet.

Rob

by the way-how come you weren't wearing glasses in the photo of "yourself" that you posted on your birthday? That was long before Foghorn Leghorn allegedly broke your glasses...Ah-HA!!!-busted!

see, we're smart-can't pull the wool over our eyes!

reminds me of the old saying- "don't do that, it'll make you go blind!". So I quit when I needed glasses.

thanks everybody for the information,steve thanks to you i didnt take any notice before that your truck r685rst too,cheers all adrian

g'day mate (that's Australian),eh? (that's Canadian)

...sorry, just showing off because I know 3 languages. Rob hasn't said anything funny lately...must be busy on a serious project.

The firewall is going to look good. It looks like you are making holes in something else though. Be careful or you might have some holes left over. Now if they were donut holes, Rob and I could take a couple of dozen off your hands. When you set on the wrong side of the truck to drive, do you drive on the wrong side of the road? I am getting more confused than usual, it has been cold as a pickle and raining, snowing here, and dry as a powder house, and hotter than a pepper sprout where you live. Something is a little off, but not a matter for great concern. There is a rumor however that some of you fellows down under like fast Fords and cold soda pop. If that is true, and with your enthusisam for old Macks, then down under might not be such a bad place. Aside from your govt's hinky view of gun ownership that is. Write soon, James

reminds me of the time my Grampa had a new well dug.They asked him if he wanted to fill in the old one with the dirt,and he said no,he was going to pull the hole up and split it into post holes and sell 'em.

I prefer photographs of persons in their natural surroundings. Very much unlike the phony, doctored images of the most recent post.

Looks like the bones have done been picked clean on the latest images.

Of course you could pop it in soft, pull a stiffee and listen to the bones crack I suppose?

Rob

I like "natural" too, but I had to go to the opposite extreme this time...still trying to get "toothpick" outa my head.

You guys are crazy and we are all going to get in trouble!!!!!!!!!!

don't tell Barry I posted babe pictures

Yeah. I don't know what we are going to do with that other dog character to straighten him up.....

Rob

ME?!!

I HAD to post these, just to neutralize Rob's pictures! It is valentines day after all...