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That's a sharp looking unit you've got there!

you should unblock the comments so everybody can read them (my controls-blog settings)

that's a beautiful dog.tell Jeff to put a 20 lb. bag of kibbers (that's a Jobyna-ism) and bits on the weekly supply list.Probably cheaper than sausage bistits too.

if it was the first it looks like it should have been the FIRST672 instead of END672...just thinking

WOW! I think it will too...I had no idea chroming was that expensive, but i've never had anything chromed before.

Went back up the road to Orville,Oh. Thursday. Reloaded at Brookfield,Oh. to Roanoke and unloaded there tonight. Now i'm home. Here's a couple of pictures of one of the Freightliners I used to drive-one at home,the other is at Pharo's truckstop in Shippensburg,Pa. with a load of joists. I also ran across an old article about Jeff's beginning in the trucking business. He started out with a B-model I see. He's come a long way since then. Talked to Joe today about scrap metal,and what it's bringing. I have bought and driven cars for what they're getting for scrap prices now. That probably means old parts will be even harder to find because everybody will be digging their old stuff out of the woods and selling it for junk. I saw an old tractor on a trailer behind a ton truck headed to Shredded Products one day this week. I'm pretty sure the tractor was going to be scrapped too because the truck was piled up with junk and there was more junk around the tractor. The tractor was very old,but new enough to have rubber tires,completely rusty,but it appeared to have all the sheet metal and it didn't look beat up or dented at all. I don't know what kind of tractor it was but it was a tricycle type with the steering shaft going all the way down alongside the hood to the steering box right over the front wheels. Some of the old tractor restorers would probably have loved to have it just for the sheet metal if nothing else. ...shoulda' planted that corn last weekend...

I've got a scanner that works with windows 98,don't know what else. It wouldn't work with vista because you can't get a driver for it,so I got a new printer,scanner,copier. You can have it if you want it,it works great,but it would probably cost as much to ship it as a new scanner costs at the Wal-Mart store. Scanners are nice,you can scan all your old pictures and store 'em on your pc,put them on a photo disc,or whatever. I scanned that "Cannonball" picture out of a hardcover book. Also,if you have rare family pictures,say for instance the only knowm photo of great-great grandpa Elliot,or maybe cousin Judy in a 2 piece you can scan them and give everybody a copy.

no you haven't

I didn't like the looks of the mid roofs at first,but after I got that one I liked it.Drove a Freightliner classic before that,and the mid roof was just tall enough to stand up in,with lots of space to put stuff. This one had a 435 cat,but Larry had it turned up to a 475 for me,10 speed rockwell,3.90 rears. Some of those girders weighed 90,000+ lbs.

yes,cars and babes pictures are always good. By the way,Jeff's early paint job didn't look bad,green with pink fenders...just a thought...you could even make you a concrete elephant to haul around. His was real of course,but elephants are getting harder to find all the time nowadays it seems.

you can probably get a dictionary at the dollar store,or maybe Jeff can help you with your spelling

I've made the misery turn,brought 2 coils from Brookfield back to Roanoke,then went to Moneta and loaded treated lumber to Butler,Pa. then to Brookfield and back to Roanoke again.Got that off last night and came home,haven't called headquarters yet to see what's in store for today. Found a couple more pictures of oversize loads I pulled,one's on a pole trailer,the other is on a jeep,or joe dog as we called it,with a steerable dolly under the rear.We had to use the joe dog because the girder was so heavy. You always had to be careful of the front overhang with the joe dog-when you turned the front of the beam would be way over,and you could knock down a sign or pole if you weren't.These loads went from Lynchburg to Ashland,Va,just north of Richmond on I-95 . I didn't take a lot of pictures then,now I take pictures all the time,mainly because my "adventures" are so boring I try to add pictures for entertainment. I used to subscribe to a certain magazine and never read the articles,just looked at the pictures

I always used the 2 hammer method,with 2 people,and never seen it fail. Loosen the nut 'til it's flush with the end of the threads,have someone pull on the wheel hard as they can,hold one hammer on the end of the shaft and hit it hard as possible with another hammer,and the wheel usually pops free....usually

I see a lot of big tuff looking old Macks on I-79 in W.V. and Pa,look like oil field trucks. Some have front wheel drive too,but I haven't been able to get any pictures yet.

me too,long as there's a b-model on there! I like that,maybe the BMT logo in the center,with different models around it from old to new,cabovers on one side,hoods on the other,the B slightly bigger than the rest...

Great,and welcome So,what do you think of Freighttrain's triplex shifting video? pretty good,eh?

hmmmm...where've I heard that one before? yeah,they were mad for a while because we went back and got him,but they got over it.

I'd hate to miss it after all the work you're putting in,i'm gonna try to be there.

Hi

Once again after a very,very short weekend it's time to get back to work. As soon as I shave and take a shower i'll be leaving. I got some corn and pole beans yesterday and started to plant it but there's a chance of rain through Wednesday so i'm gonna wait-if the ground's too wet the seeds might rot before they come up. Still plenty of time to plant them yet. I'll plant the beans between the corn and let the runners climb the corn stalks. I also bought a container of crushed red pepper and sprinkled it on the onions and cabbage that the dogs keep digging up. I'm going to Masury,Oh.-or misery,Oh. as a lot of drivers call it-and have a load of coils in Brookfield to bring back to Roanoke. I don't feel like going,i'm already tired thinking about it,but I checked the maibox yesterday and got an electricity bill,credit card bill,telephone,insurance,and directv bill all at once so that kind've motivates you to get going. I paid all that last month,but they keep sending more bills so I got to keep on trucking...hate having to leave on Sunday

...good one!

Indeed! I love the sound of a V8 Mack too,nothing like it!

Looks like a chilly day there in Saskatchewan. I'll go back to that picture in a couple of months when I want to think about being cool again,when it's about 95 around here.

Is that like Mack green? Mack's used to come in 3 colors,red,green,and blue,all with green interiors. Green was the popular color around here,I thought that was the only color they came in for years.

I liked the hydraulic dollies best-they were so much easier to run and pull,because you didn't have to fool with chaining the front end up then dropping it every time you had to use it,just run back there and pull the rope and you're ready to go. Get it back straight,cut it off,back in the truck and we're off-no pulling up on the blocks and all that .I liked to drive the dolly for Woodstock,I even get along with him. But,as I say,if you can't get along with me... That's still the only time i've been to Hooters, that was in York,Pa. I think the food was good,but I really don't remember much about the food. Everything looked good though I f you want a project to work on,have at it. The head on that truck was done,new valve job. And it has a new voltage regulator on it...however,it's been sitting in the woods for 30+ years now. But i'll be glad to help you with it as much as I can. Hard as I run though,I barely have time to do anything.