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you may be right-i'm gonna delete it before I get in trouble!..nice picture though I deleted it,then I told her I was going to post it,and she said "why?,so I took that to mean it was ok since she didn't just say "no!"and I put it back.

you may be right-i'm gonna delete it before I get in trouble!..nice picture though

I heard Timmy,who works in the shop,mention the other day that he had 4 wheels chrome plated for his car or pickup and it only cost $150. I don't know when this was,but he said some place in Lynchburg did it. I know somebody was asking about getting some things rechromed on here a while back,so I checked into it. Called Industrial Plating, the first of two platers in the yellow pages,and the man I talked to there was very nice but he said nobody around Lynchburg did any chrome. He did say there was a place in Dublin,Va. that did though,and from what he knew it might take them a while but they did small orders and they did good work. Tried to call them for more info,but got a recording saying their hours were 8:00 to 5:00,Monday thru Friday. So I figured i'd pass along what I knew in case somebody wanted to call them-the place is called Electro-plate,or something close to that,and their no. is 540-674-6156

just some random photos taken recently. I try to get pictures of the old trucks I see...plus added bonus pictures of me-in days gone by. The little girl on the back of the bike is my stepdaughter-now married and has three children. I was a true trucker back then-note chain drive wallet! and Jobyna (on left) and sister Sharon in days gone by.

yes,the first one I took in I said "dang!(or something like that)- these shoulda' been on dollies!" But we made it ok. Another company that hauls for that prestressed concrete co. had daycab CH Macks and stretch trailers. That was the way to go-i'd open the trailer to 55' and slide the tandems all the way up,would have been easier to make the turns than with a 53' spread axle. Where we made that right turn off the bridge was actually the tightest spot-took every bit of the road to make that turn,the rest wasn't really that bad except for the road being so narrow in the first place,went through one section of the road in particular with some ess turns where the truck was almost in one ditch and the trailer in the other ditch. One good thing about it,there was very little traffic on these roads.

So,as I was sayin' I went to Greensboro yesterday morning and came back and went to Dillwyn and picked up a load of kyanite going to Chester,W.V. I should have delivered it today,but Todd told me to go to the doctor and deliver it Monday. So I did,except for the going to the doctor part.I've had a sore throat on one side all week-hurts all the way from my ear to my neck on the left side. It hurts so bad when I swallow I couldn't even sleep Wednesday night.I went to the store and got some Sudafed,Sucrets,Chloraseptic and aspirin so I hope that'll get rid of it. My son,his wife,and Jeff all had a sore throat recently,so I don't know what's going on. Now,back to the jobsite adventure- 5 of us loaded 60' concrete bridge beams in Bristol,Tn. and took them to Surry Co.N.C, near Mount Airy. We got off of I-77 at exit 93,turned west,then turned on a little skinny road that was not big enough for a truck. Then we came to a dead end and had to turn right off of a narrow bridge onto an even smaller road. Followed that to another dead end and had to turn right,then back up almost a mile to the bridge job. Had to back across another bridge with a 90 degree turn as you come off it,then around a couple more curves before getting to the jobsite.Then we just backed onto a temporary bridge over the creek and got unloaded.The beams had to be set in sequence,so we unloaded in the same order we got loaded. I took some pictures of course... hope I get 'em in the right order,but here goes-1. waiting to get loaded, 2.coming to the first narrow bridge,where we had to turn right at the end, 3. the curve coming off the second narrow bridge that we had to back around, 4. still backing up, 5.still backing up 6.still backing up 7.waiting to unload-i'm first in line,which means I was last to unload 8.first truck empty,pulled around to front-notice how narrow the road is! 9.sitting on the temporary bridge,waiting to unload 10.the dead beaver in the mill pond,before we got back to the bridge where we had to make a hard left onto on the way out 11.turning onto the bridge 12.totally unrelated,but I liked it-this is on rt. 250 in W.V. somewhere south of Moundsville.

great googly-moogly!! WOW!

looks good! appears to be in really good shape

It might have been-I haven't seen that show for years. Carl was talkin 'bout tha french fried potaters.

reminds me of the time I was working on my old Ford pickup. I was doing something under the hood,forgot what,but I just lowered it and didn't latch it.Then I forgot it wasn't latched and got in it later and took off up the road and it flew back over the windshield,greatly decreasing my visibility,cracking the windshield,denting the top of the cab,and ruining the hinges. I should have done a pre-trip inspection!

Had another interesting week,and it's not even over yet. I went to Macon,Ga. with a load of pipes Sunday. Blew a trailer tire on the way down and had to wait 3 hours for a tire. I wasn't pulling my regular trailer,the new aluminum Fontaine.They were supposed to switch the load at the shop,but for some reason they never did so I had to pull the raggedy 53 footer it was loaded on.( I know-whine,whine,whine!) When I got to the jobsite Monday morning I ran by the road I was supposed to turn on.There was A Wal-Mart just a little ways past it,but it was on the left and I was in the right lane. So I just stayed on rt. 129 into Macon,finally got turned around and went back and turned on Graham road,like the directions said. Didn't see a jobsite anywhere,so I stopped in the road to ask a man that was walking across his yard to get his newspaper. Then a cop pulled up behind me so I said "well,gotta go,see ya,bye!" I followed Graham road all the way through to the end,and it made a big circle and came out further north on 129. So I went back to the other end again and turned,then I called the phone number on the bills. Guess I should have called at first,but I had directions-the guy at the jobsite said "you need to turn on Chrissy road,it's right past Graham rd." Well-how do you get there from here? "You can't" he said."you've got to turn off of 129". Great-after my first pass I knew there was nowhere to turn around,so I went all the way through again,and down 129 to Chrissy road.Only problem was,the way the road was angled I couldn't have made that turn if I was bob-tailing.So now that I was pretty familiar with the area since i'd been riding around for what seemed like half a day,I went to the Wal-Mart and turned around and came back to Chrissy road and turned in. They had just started unloading the TMC truck that was there,so I was still there in plenty of time. Then I went to Atlanta and picked up an empty 40' container and delivered it to Glade Spring,Va. Tuesday morning,then went down to Bristol,Tn. and loaded a 60' concrete bridge beam and took it to Surry county,N.C. Went back to Bristol and reloaded and did it again today.That was the great adventure,not the Macon,Ga. jobsite. But i'll finish that story later,and i'll have some pictures. It's about time to turn in,and i've got a van load of kyanite to deliver in Greensboro in the morning...I must be off.

mice?.."arright then...how much you want fer 'em?..reckon I'll have some of tha big-uns" (Carl from "Slingblade")

That's great,the EHU is one of my favorites I just like the way the cab looks,but i've only seen pictures of them,never seen one up close at a show or anything.

If you like concert videos, look for "Delicate Sound of Thunder" by Pink Floyd. It's one of my favorite live albums. "Pulse" is great too,that's the same concert tour they were on when I saw them in Raleigh,and it's got "Dark Side of the Moon" on it in it's entirety. Good stuff.

that's kinda' what I was gettin' at,in a roundabout way! I used to think nocluejoe was funniest , but I don't know-Rob is funnier than a screen door on a submarine!

yeah,I chopped these down with an axe in the back yard,so i'd have enough room for my grill. I gave them to some company out of British Columbia ,if they'd come and get'em outa' the yard . I took this picture after they'd loaded them up and pulled out of the driveway,headed back to British Columbia.

yeah...reminds me of a Pink Floyd song-"remember when you were young you shone like the sun..." or another Floyd song,"...and then one day you find 10 years have got behind you no one told you when to run, you've missed the starting gun..." wow-they don't write music like that anymore! being young is great,because even though you might not realize it now,it's over all too soon. Then you listen to "Time" (above) and say "oh yeah-I know what you're sayin' .wtf happened?"

I don't guess I need that one

Went to Altavista just now,and out here where 699 runs into 29 some people were having a yard sale in the restaurant parking lot straight across 29. So of course Jo wanted to stop and look around-I said "I don't want none of that crap", so we stopped to look around. Saw what could well have been a heckuva deal- a cobra 148gtl cb radio,chrome plated external speaker,and a 300 watt linear-all for $60! The radio or linear either one is worth way more than that-way,way more.I was tempted to buy it myself,but I just bought a new Connex 3300hp and I have a 100 watt modulator I don't even use. The guy said everything worked,and that he had it on his boat,but I had no way to test it of course. I feel like it probably was good,because his wife (I assume she was his wife) said it about killed him to bring it. If anybody else happens to want it let me know ASAP,I'll run back over and see if it's still there,and send it for $60 plus whatever it costs to ship it. Maybe the guy didn't realize what he had. Even went to Food Lion and got a replacement steak for the one I dumped on the ground yesterday.

what about the sloped hood C-model? They should throw that in there somewhere for history's sake

thank you

ran across this rare animal while browsing Hank's Truck Pictures, a cl 350 Mack...geez,looks like I goofed again-never mind the second brochure picture,that's redundant...word of the day,redundant. The caption reads: "This is a Mack CL350 that Mack made in the late 1970's to compete with Pacific (Hayes had since gone). This was the first CL350 brought into the forest. It's stationed at the Menzies Bay camp north of Campbell River. The cab is not original, and I'm not sure if this is a rebuilt truck or another one the division bought. They did get the first one, as the shop guy there told me and showed it to me when I was up there in the summer after they got it. Mack tried this truck, but from what I was able to gather, they didn't sell very many of them and the CL350 series was eventually discontinued."

I'm right there with you on that-pink in the middle is ok with me,but I don't want it raw!

As Bulldog man would say "Amen brother!"