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Thank you Skip-thank you very much indeed,and merry Christmas and a happy new year to you and yours.

Well,I posted my first youtube video.Not much to it really,and kind of shaky-you know how a cement mixer rides! This was taken after I left the stoplight at Concord,Va. headed west on rt. 460,and passing by Litchford's garage. I'm only about a mile from the shop here.

Merry Christmas to you and yours also Paul,and thanks. Bill called me back and said the same thing you did. I shut everything down,cut the power off too,restarted,started defragmenting again,and when the disc anylization process finished it said it didn't need to defragment at this time. So it must have worked at first,but it just kept going,and going,and going...anyway,now I know who else to ask for computer advice.

Well,I was gonna try another video,but the PC is still defragmenting. I think something's wrong-it said it could take from a few minutes to a few hours,but it ran all yesterday afternoon and all night so it should be done by now! I might call old Bill back. I thought my Norton 360 did it automatically,it's set to,but Bill said Norton was nothing but trouble,and there are better free programs available when the Norton expires.It was preloaded on my computer when I bought it. My skype and eyeball chat were both working slow yesterday,with about a 20 second delay,so he called on the phone and helped me with this defragmenting process. Found out it was last done in September. I might just need to shut down and restart,but I don't want to undo anything i've already done,so i'd better ask somebody that knows what's going on.

Oh yeah,it's got sound-that's the best part

Here's a picture of the Mack frame rail trailer at Metalsa in Roanoke,where we deliver coils to regularly.I've been running the disc defragmenter ever since about 11 am,and I might try another longer video if it ever finishes. It might work,since it downloaded this picture twice...stupid computers

Hi Paul,my Kodak digital camera will take videos too,until the memory card fills up,I just downloaded it to my PC like I do pictures then posted it the same way too- I was surprised and happy that it worked too!

No,I'm from Virginia but used to pass through Danbury a lot going to Boston. Haven't been in the area for a long time now.

Thank you everyone,and right back at ya'- merry Christmas to all,and happy new year!

Hi! Is that Danbury as in Connecticut?

Hi Joe! it worked on mine. It's only 20 seconds.I have a one minute video of me driving,but FreightTrain ruined that for me-he makes me look like a rookie,shifting slow,one stick at a time,scratching and scraping! No,It's not that bad,but still no comparison to his famous video. p.s.-yeah,stupid computers! ("stupid computer..."-freighttrain)

A little bit of video we shot coming back from the parade,headed west on rt.460 in Appomattox,Va. Don't know if this will work,never tried this before.

Yeah I called every truck parts place from Richmond to Roanoke,and nobody had 4" stuff anymore. They said they could order it,but it might take a couple of weeks to get it. My muffler had a hole rusted through where the band went around it and I took it off thinking maybe I could weld a patch around it,but found it was so bad you could poke a hole through it with your finger most anywhere,so I had to do something. The muffler was open,no baffles in it at all,so I assumed the straight pipe wouldn't be that much louder,but that theory was way off for some reason-it's much,much louder!

I saw the results from the Cumberland County Christmas Parade .Ma sent me a newspaper clipping and I managed to get another first in the 1951-1975 antique car or truck category. The decorations I put on it looked really bad. It ended up looking like a cement mixer with a bunch of stuff hanging off it,but it always seems to be a popular entry down there. I saw lots of people looking at it,pointing at it,and taking lots of pictures of it. At least nobody seemed to be laughing and pointing at the driver. I went to Fremont,Ohio and back first of the week and was ready to call it a week. I thought Jeff was gone to Florida,but he's not going until next week,so I went back up the road to Avon,Ohio. Besides,he gave me $200 for Christmas before I left so I figured i'd put forth the extra effort-it was just Wednesday anyway. You know what they say, " when the cat's away..." Now i'm glad I did go of course and i'll be off until Wednesday anyway. I got my safety bonus for the year too and went to Wal-Mart yesterday and knocked out all my Christmas shopping-gift cards for everyone! I try to get a little something for the nieces,nephews,and granchildren anyway- Everyone else is on their own,but I did give some BMT calendars too.

yeah,long as your bones don't start sounding like a hog eating hickory nuts when you walk-then you'd better go to the doctor.

Hey Paul, there's a Fleet Pride in Lynchburg too. F.L.Moore and Sons gets a lot of parts from them. I ended up getting a 5" stack for the mixer from then and all the necessary adapters connect it to the 4" pipe.Then I made a bracket to put the old muffler guard over it so it would look sort of original anyway. Then I noticed 5" stacks piled up in every corner at the shop that drivers had taken off to put 6 or 8" ones on their truck that I could have gotten free.

Only problem is,I don't have a snow blower!..or snow. If you want to send yours down,i'll mail it right back when I get done blowing the leaves into my neighbor's yard...I mean into the woods.

I started raking these knee deep leaves yesterday-perhaps I should have started sooner,like a month ago.Reminds me of West Virginia's snow removal policy. I was forced to stop when the torrential downpour started...when 12 or 13 drops of rain hit me I retreated back inside. So today I tried it again and broke the handle on the rake,but I repaired it with a plastic oar handle from an old inflatable raft I used to have and half a roll of electrical tape. Got them piled up anyway,in several different piles. Now all I gotta do is get them transferred from the yard into the woods,maybe next weekend. Can't do too much in one day, it'd ruin my reputation as a world class slacker.

You'll have to teach Paxton how to shift that tri-plex without using the clutch until his hip is better,and he'll be all right.

That reminds me of my '70 Chevelle SS engine-I had a tarantula intake too,same valve covers,same Accel Super coil,same air filter-about all the filter you could have and close the hood without a scoop.I bought it from a friend of mine and he wanted to keep the turbo 400 trans. to put in his blazer,so I went to a junkyard and got all the parts and linkage and put an M-22 Muncie in it too. It had a .030 over 402 in it,not quite as hot as yours,ran 13.80's on street tires with the stock rear,3.70's I think. A long time ago-as what's his name sings,thanks for the memories.

Hey Paul,sorry to hear about your fall,but glad to hear you found all your parts. Ever thought about getting a pair of crampons?..and an ice axe? might come in handy up there.

Hi Joe,how's everything? I'm in until Monday anyway. I've never been to Canada,but i've always wanted to see the country,and Alaska-in the summertime though! I picked up a load of steel in Connecticut one time that was so rusty it looked like they dug it up off the bottom of the ocean,and they made me tarp it.When I signed the bills I wrote on them "rusty when loaded" and the man was irate because I did. I just told him "well,it's rusty". When I delivered it they put it outside on the ground anyway,so it didn't even need to be tarped in the first place. That's just the way a lot of the #$%@ers are. Just part of the job,but I guess it would drive some people to get'em an AK 47 and go berserk!

Just got home about 7:30 this morning.Could've been in about midnight,but I ran out of power and had to take a nap. The power plant load kinda sucked-it's near Fremont,where I deliver Kyanite regularly, and it paid about $100 more dollars than a Fremont,but when you consider that I had to go to Richmond to load,then go through two separate security checks when I got there-they looked under the hood,in the sideboxes,all the tool boxes on the truck and trailer,in the cab,in the sleeper, then after I went through 2 security gates where you pull in and a gate closes behind you before the one in front opens,they did the complete search all over again-it's just not worth the hassle. I know they're just doing their job too,but since i'm not a criminal it's kind of offensive when they get up inside the cab and sleeper and go through everything...twice. Then I went to Masury,Oh. Thursday with a load of beams. Everybody hates to go to Masury because the load has to be tarped,winter or summer,even though the beams are stored outside on the ground at Petersburg where we load them. Apparently it somehow gets wetter if it's on a trailer,and it's hard to tarp beams without tearing the tarps up. I didn't cover the ends and still tore several holes in the tarps. After I'd been there about an hour and a half they decided to unload me,and I went on down to Galv-Tech in Pittsburgh and loaded up 5 coils for Handy in Lynchburg and dropped the trailer there this morning. Now i'm home raking leaves...well,i'm going to in a minute...maybe.

Oh...that sounds pretty easy,I'll give it a try. Thanks David

No,sorry,I've never had any dealings with them at all,but I did read or saw somewhere on a website that they had lots of old Mack parts available. When the muffler on the mixer rusted out I tried to find a muffler and 4" stack and nobody in Lynchburg or Roanoke had any 4" mufflers or stacks.Everybody said they could order one for me but it would take several days to get it. I asked G.H.Jamerson if they had anything laying around,because they had nothing but Macks at Jamerson Brothers Trucking since they started in the '40s until the late '80s ,and he said they had sent a whole trailer load of obsolete parts to the scrap yard a week or so earlier, including mufflers and 4" exhaust pipes and stacks. He said he would have given me any of it,but it was too late by then of course. I might give Beebo Litchford a call at Litchford's garage a call later-they say his father Frank had all kinds of old,rare,and obsolete parts upstairs at their garage and Frank knew where and what everything was. I don't know if they still have the old stuff or not,Beebo mainly just does heavy duty wrecker service now I think and not as much mechanical work as Frank did,but he may still have some old parts. He has a huge "junkyard" with lots of old trucks too,but he's a funny ( not ha-ha funny,funny as in 'odd'") man to deal with. I needed trumpets for the horn on the mixer and got some from him. When I found a pair that fit I had to go back and check with him before I took them off to make sure it was OK to take anything off that particular truck. He didn't charge me anything for them though.