other dog

No, don't pay any attention to her!-ya gotta eat...right Ms. Rider?..no offense...sorry, nunna my binness.

oh no!..apparently it's worse than we thought-that typhoid fever is nothing to be taken lightly- or-on the other hand, are you perhaps feeling better? You sorta-kinda sound like your old self even!

seems to me in was in the "air ride seat wanted" department

Gee Rob, hope you're feeling better...almost makes me feel bad for picking on you just to see your response. I did a lot of "mig" (metal-inert gas) welding on aluminum, but never "tig". I've seen it done before though, and it's really neat. You can almost weld wreynolds wrap with a tig torch.

...huh?

that's the same thing I said

I use it when I get lost too.

yep

yeah, helluva cleanup job! looks like a different truck

What I meant to say was- if all else fails, you can crack (loosen, I should say) the line where it goes into the wheel cylinder and bleed it there. However,That will only release the bulk of the air from the cylinder. The bleeder screw is placed at the highest point of the fluid cavity as to facilitate entrapped air rising to that elevation to be removed by "bleeding". As you will remember from elementary physics: A fluid medium, (liquid) cannot be compressed. A gaseous medium, (air in this case) readily compresses to many times it's atmospheric pressure/state. Hydraulic power is based upon the principal that a liquid cannot be compressed. This lack of compression allows the movement of fluid under pressure to perform mechanical work. In this case, ultimately spreading of brake shoes to provide friction against a brake drum.

I never even heard of mapp gas. Rob knows his s-...stuff, I mean

"...I do like tater tots..."- Clint Eastwood on whether or not to eat the governors t-bone steaks and tater tots, in the movie where he's after Kevin Costner, who has the little boy in the casper the ghost costume.

I saw some of these videos on the Diesel Gypsy's site, but there was no sound. This is way better with sound-too bad they didn't have a 318 vs. a 903. Probably would have taken too long for 'em to get up the hill anyway

ran across this picture a while ago. the caption said "never piss off the guy who runs the backhoe".

I haven't, but I did see this "bacon pie"...looks delicious.

That's not Dick Van Dyke-it's Rob Petrie- so that's not-you're not...never mind, back to the secret research lab Your brother Jerry is funnier anyway.

After much research I finally found out what Rob really looks like. This is his senior portrait, from the Farmington High School yearbook, class of 1978.

yep, that's what they say.Usually i'd go to Brookfield or Sharon and load right back to Roanoke or Lynchburg instead of going all the way to Butler to load.

here's what the other side of them look like

excellent point Speed

wow, great picture! You can see Mt. Rainier on the horizon!..oh, what were you talking about? I wasn't paying attention.

It was... I... never mind, I have no idea where I was on the 16th.

Tonka

Amen brother! (otherdog quoting nocluejoe quoting otherdog quoting Bulldog Man) I'd rather watch the Hokies myself!

I delivered the load from Texas to Milton, Pa. Tuesday, then rode over to Brookfield, Oh. and got a load of coils and went to Roanoke. I thought I was going to Chester, W.V. with a curtain side, or Conestoga, or whatever you call it Thursday (they won't unload a flat bed in winter, and we didn't know if we could get a return load for a van), but they got a Fremont, Oh. load so I took that instead. Ran in lots of snow (again!) all the way (well, all right, most of the way!) up and back. Had to go from Fremont over to Butler, Pa. to reload at AK Steel-I hate AK Steel by the way, have I mentioned that before? My appointment was at 3pm, got there at 3:15 and waited in the holding pen until after 6 when they finally called the 3 o'clock trucks. Didn't get out of there until 9 last night, when it was blizzarding (I just made that word up). I drove down I-79, saw a cop in the median just before exit 99 in West Virginia, I looked at my speedometer and was doing 74 mph (speed limit was 70). He didn't move but then a 4 wheeler passed me like I was tied to a stump, and he came out and pulled the car over. I stopped where you get on rt. 19 and pulled on the shoulder and took a nap until almost daylight. Then I came on down 19 to Summersville and took rt. 39 over to Nettie, stopped at the GoMart for a coffee and sausage bistit, then rt. 20 to Charmco, and rt. 60 to I-64 at Sam Black Church. 39 and 20 was pretty much snow covered, but no problems. Everything was lovely when I got on 64, and I got to the shop about 11:30. Took some good pictures along the way too... here's my truck Monday, all clean and shiny-except that hubcap ain't too shiny anymore same 'ol dirty trailer though-been to Seattle and back, and didn't get a wash job unloading in Milton,Pa.-I'm gonna back under the crane where that forklift is a frozen river in Pa.-I 80 a river not frozen in Pa, I 80 this looks like it could be in Montana or somewhere, but it's just east of Clifton Forge, Va. headed west on I-64 this looks like it could be in Wyoming or somewhere, but it's on rt. 250 in Ohio this looks like it could be in Ohio four wheeler off roading-rt. 20 in Ohio lots of snow-rt. 20 in Ohio took this this morning-approaching Nettie, W.V. GoMart at Nettie, where I stopped for a bistit and coffee rt. 20, W.V. rt. 20, W.V. here's my truck Saturday- not so clean or shiny anymore.