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The stew went well,it was delicious and everyone seemed to have a good time. Had a little bit left over,but not a lot.There was enough where some people took some home with them though.I'm tired as a dog,and tomorrow i've got to boil the pot out again,clean it,and reseason it,but i'm gonna call it a day now and go to bed.

Got the stew on and bubbling away.Had to go to Avon,Oh. Thursday,but I got unloaded and reloaded pretty quick,unloaded in Roanoke last night,and came home and cut up meat,potatoes,and onions until after 1am.Got that cooking now-that's the hardest part,the raw ingredients.After they're done it's just a matter of opening cans and dumping them in.Gotta go now,don't wanna let the pot boil dry or burn anything,or i'll have to go buy 300 cans of Dinty Moore before anybody gets here.

I live on Wyatt Miles Rd,between Tabor rd. and Covered Bridge rd. A flood took out the covered bridge sometime before I moved over here though.

by the way,I forgot-for more about me check out www.thedieselgypsy.com-"truckers at work",Tom Blackwell;''How I Got Started in Trucking",Tom Blackwell,and" guest photos",page 5-Tom Blackwell.I also took the truck show pictures on this site from Greensboro,N.C,Troutman,N.C,and Winchester,Va. And it's just a great trucking website.Bill drove for more than 50 years himself,lot of it in a B-model Mack.He has some great stories of his own.I talk to him on Skype about every weekend. catch you later,Tom

I started driving in Jan. of '79. Started out on a '74 Transtar with a 290 Cummins with a 13 speed,then drove a '78 Astro with 290 and 9 speed,then went to work for H.H.Moore Jr. in Appomattox,Va. driving a '74 transtar with a 903 Cummins and 13 speed,then a '77 F-model Mack with a 300 and 5 speed,'79 F-model 350 Cummins 10 spd,'83 KW 350 9 SPD,84 kw 400 Cummins 9 spd,'85 KW 400 9 spd,then a T-800 anteater around '89 with 400 Cummins 9 spd,then one of my favorites-T-800 with a 444 Cummins and 18 spd, a T-800 with 425 Cat 13 spd,A 9400 IH with 460 N14 Cummins and super ten,a classic XL Freightliner with 460 N14 Cummins and 10 spd. Rockwell,a Freightliner mid-roof with 475 Cat and 10 spd. Rockwell,and the last truck I drove for H.H.Moore was a 9900I International with an ISX 500 Cummins and 10 spd.I drove for H.H.Moore for 25 and a half years, Then I went to work for F.L.Moore and sons (H.H's grandsons) and drove a 9900IX International with an ISX 500 Cummins and 10 speed,then my all time favorite truck,a W 900 KW with an N14 525 Cummins and 13 speed.Now I'm driving a 2006 Peterbilt with a 475 Cat and 18 speed.That's pretty much my truck driving history.It's changed a lot since i've been driving,and I can't say it's been for the better,but if it's what you really want to do,I say go for it.

I don't remember the name of the place,but I got off of 40 at Cherry St,went north a little ways, turned left,and the place was on the left.We also deliver to a couple of places in Knoxville for N.B.Handy,but I don't remember the name of the places.I pass through Knoxville occasionally going to White House,north of Nashville, Chatanooga,and when I go to Birmingham or Mississippi or Louisiana I run down 81 to 40 to 75 to Chatanooga and down I-59 ,instead of running 85 to Atlanta and then running 20 to Birmingham like a lot of the guys do.You bypass Charlotte and Atlanta that way,and it's just better running I think.

it would definately be a slow process if I walked to Tennesee. Wouldn't be a lot faster if I drove that cement mixer out there,using it as a troop carrier.I'D have to leave somebody behind,and besides they'd probably put me out of service at the scales just west of Knoxville,so i'm just gonna forget the whole idea. I'd be running about 53 mph wide open in a 70 mph zone anyway,and that's on the downhill side.That's why I drive it in parades,it's the only time I can keep up with the rest of the traffic. I bet it would be competitive in a slow drag race though.

I get through that area once in a while,but it's been a while since i've been down that way.I delivered a load in Pine Knot,Ky. once too.

I wish you were too,you'd be more'n welcome.

Hi Paul,was your H-model's picture on oldmacks.com ? they had one listed for sale a while back,but I see it's not on there anymore.Just wondering.Never drove an H-model,but they had right many of them at the antique truck show I went to in Troutman,N.C. in July.There was a trucking company that still ran a lot of H-models up until the early 80's at least,I used to see them all the time,but I can't remember the name.Seems to me it was either Harrisonburg Motor Express or Spotswood Trail Express.

Once again I have returned from a week of hauling freight up and down our nation's highways...nothing exciting or out of the ordinary happened,which is good.I went to Avon,Oh. Monday,reloaded at Macedonia for Roanoke,then took a load from Dillwyn to Zelienople,Pa. and reloaded at Pittsburgh back to Lynchburg.Got that off this morning and picked up a load of Kyanite at Dillwyn going to Fremont,Oh. to deliver Monday. I'll be leaving Sunday. Next weekend i'm making a stew,and I wish you all could come. I have a 7 1/2 gallon cast iron stew pot,and make it over a wood fire.I'm not bragging but lot's of people say it's the best stew they ever ate.I make it the same way every time, so it comes out seasoned the same with the same ingredients,right at 7 1/2 gallons.The pot is full,and there's always plenty.If any's left over I can freeze it.That's a lot of stew,but 20-30 people can put away a lot of stew,though last year I had a very light turnout. I just use beef,potatoes,onions,tomatoes,corn,green beans,peas,butterbeans (some people call them lima beans,I call them butterbeans ),secret herbs and spices,worcestershire sauce,and butter-no,land 'o lakes margarine actually.No poke salad though.

Yeah the shipping's not so expensive,it's that handling part. I've never tried poke salad. Some more of my turnips came up since it rained though,maybe i'll have some turnip salad later.

They're calling for frost tonight and tomorrow night so I picked all my tomatoes that were ripe,or showing any sign of ripening.Then I went back and picked the biggest and best looking of the green ones.I'm gonna wrap them in newspaper,put them in a box and put them in a closet to see if they'll keep for a while.Shame the biggest and best looking tomatoes are on the vines now that it's about to frost,but they just didn't get any rain until last week.I've got a pepper plant that's still blooming and I pulled that up too and brought it in.If anyone wants a tomato just let me know,there's plenty more green ones out there- they're free,shipping and handling is $39.95 each.

As Larry would say,now that's just funny right there,I don't care who you are.

Yep, it is...greetings to you and yours.I just got back,I think Bill can handle it on his own from here,i've done all can do for him today.

Well,shoot! I went around Gladys and raised a sizable militia,and all three of us were going to march on Millington,Tn.,and attack.But,since personal attacks are against the rules,as acting general I called it off.Must be your lucky day...you know who you are...

I've been out seeing how much money I could spend today,or so it seems anyway.I went to the drug store and got a prescription filled, stopped by the cell phone battery store to get a new battery,then had to go to Altavista to the shoe shop to get my boots I was having resoled.Made the mistake of criticising ( that just doesn't look right-maybe I can't spell criticizing either ) Jobyna's driving along the way,and how she pays attention to everything except what she's supposed to be doing,which is driving. Pretty quiet trip to Altavista.When we got to the shoe shop I saw her looking at a pair of Justin boots when I was about to pay for my repair job,and ended up buying them for her. They were $135 and the pair right beside them was $100,but she didn't like them,even though they looked pretty much the same to me.I get most of my shoes from Sportsman's Guide or Wal-Mart way cheaper,but sometimes ya just gotta do what ya gotta do.Anyway,all is well again.Lesson learned. ...and it finally rained,for the first time since the last time.Good rain too,just what we needed-over 4 inches total, but spread over 3 days.

Hey Spanky.When I got out of high school in 1974 I went to work at a garage in Cumberland,Va. and they had an 860 GMC wrecker, around 58-60 model I believe.It had a sloped hood with a 671 detroit ,5 spd,2 speed rear.They called it "Big Mama".Wish I had some pictures of it,as it's one of my favorite trucks ever,the 860 GMCs.They took the wrecker body off of it sometime in the late 70's or early 80's and put it on a later model 9500 GMC ,which they still use to this day,and sold the 860.

lol, that's good,because when I get on a roll it's hard to stop sometimes.

yarns? what's that?...there's no yarns,it's all true...I must be off now,Bill Gates just called and he wants me to fly over to his place to help him with a computer problem.

yeah,wiggle the handles-that's also the best,easiest,and fastest way to figure it out...why didn't I think of that...too obvious

Hey fuzzy buzzard,where is Vinton if anywhere? Couldn't find it on the map. I've been about everywhere in Ohio at one time or another.

Oh sorry,my train of thought got derailed by brake lights.The truck you're looking at- no idea what it might be for.I did see an old White with a 5 speed main,4 speed auxilliary, AND a 2 speed rear. And this was from the factory,not like the guy with the thirteen speed,3 speed ,and 2 speed rear.There I go again...

I had a couple of those old aluminum range selector valves in my tool box,they don't use that type now,they use that little plastic flipper button,and I polished one of them up and put it on my old Ford pickup gearshift.Strictly for decorative purposes of course.That was some years ago,but it's still around somewhere i'm sure. And i've seen a B-53 mixer with a little chrome flipper switch in a CB antannae ( sorry,I can't spell antenna ) mounting bracket on the compound gear shift that worked the brake lights-that would be me. I put LED tail lights on it,and they had to be wired backwards to work with a positive ground.I got the marker lights and turn signals working and figured 2 outa 3 ain't bad,and just put 2 more lights on for brake lights and hooked them up to the spring loaded toggle switch on the gearshift lever.Might not meet the official "brake light standard of installation and operation procedure comittee" rules,but it works great.