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I have had my share from the shadow of the Bevo mill to 12th & Vine on the other side of the state. We used to play shuffleboard at a little bar down by Lemon's supper club - do you remember that place?

Is that like a "single malt" beer?

On April 12th in the Live Free or Die state there is an industrial auction for the Kingsbury Corp in Keene NH and they are selling eight magnetic frame drills. Once I bought one, I don't know how I survived without it. Here is a link: http://www.cia-auction.com/auctiondata/index.cgi?Detail=803&Field=key_field&Key=.%2A&Sort=time&Sort_num=on Click on the auction catalog brochure on the right side of the page. They also are selling a 120 inch vertical boring mill, (yes that is 120 inch) - would be handy to just drive your B model into it and drill out new holes for cab clearance lights! The Dresser wheel loader looks clean and straight for its age. No Macks to be had, but they have a ho hum old 70's Ford F700 water truck

Cap and trade, smart grid, all that stuff is smoke and mirrors! The purpose of an electric company is to provide me electric light, they need to concentrate on providing reliable power - spend more on right of way clearing, building new plants, upgrading transmission lines, and the government should give that horse some bit. At the end of the day, we don't need all this other stuff, the increase in cost in no way improves the quality of the electricity I pay for. Obama is like a bully in charge of a kid's neighborhood gang - if they can't break something, they will just shit on it.

Double welcome since you are from the show-me state!

[quote name='other dog' timestamp='1333 Oh, I see, the long hair helped keep the flies off, and allowed you to take some of the smell along with you when you left to enjoy the rest of the day? We always took you for a udder man.

aahhooggaa ALERT, ALERT! aahhooggaa ALERT, ALERT! The guy on the right is wearing a "hoodie"

Timothy - what do you do? No, I don't mean create smart alec posts, or feed chickens, or drive farm tractors, or wear long hair, I mean what do you do for a living? Sumpin tells me it involves paving.

I would get back on the horn and get the second board winging its way home for future use?

That is some funny stuff! The best is when the dern dog keeps two feets on the skate board and builds speed up running with the other two! They look well fed and cared for!

HG - I just sold a crane truck to a guy moving to MT to open a scale business. I bet the crane is to load and unload the weights when he tests the scales. That oil field work leads to a lot of other good support jobs as well - drill baby drill!

When I read something like that, paranoia makes the hair on the back of neck stand up. I bet that truck was involved in a secret government program or sumpin. I think Jason Bourne drove it.

Ahhhh - pitchin' bundles....makes my heart go pitty patter when I see a three prong pitchfork!

That might be okay, but at first glance it seems like it would look like a cut off school bus on the back of a truck - might be hard to hide that?

That is rich! HA! I had no idea anyone could have so many friends! You just send them on, I will have the wife go butcher a fat calf (or three).

The only way I got permission from the blushing bride to spend the fundage on a new cab tractor was by driving up and down the driveway whenever she was out taking a walk, with a passel of kiddos hangin/sitting/standing on the fenders of a WD Allis Chalmers. A few times viewing that and she agreed that for safety reasons, a cab would be better! Not that I really wanted a new one or anything. So now there is a hierarchy around here - First they get to drive the skid loader - you are buckled in, and it has a safety bar for further protection, and if you get up off the seat, everything locks in place. First job is always moving haybales around in the field behind the baler - bunching them up into two rows of six to pull the bale wagon between them. Second is my version of a crusty,rusty,trusty dodge farm truck. This is how you learn to drive a stick - out in the middle of the hay field where you can't hit anything that matters. Then you start hauling wood to the furnace in the winter - truck in gear, turn off engine, put on parking brake, no one gets out until key is removed from ignition and put into pocket. Then you move to the cab tractor - it has a forward & reverse shuttle on the column so you don't even have to use the clutch at first. Bucket/bale spear on ground, PTO off, tractor in neutral, parking brake on, engine off, key out of ignition and in pocket, listen to double check that nothing is still spinning at the PTO before you get out of cab. Then you go up to the other tractors, no cab, no nothing but always be carefull.

Check out what Walter Williams has to say about all this going on right now: http://townhall.com/columnists/walterewilliams/2012/03/28/profiling/page/full/ As always, he his right on the money

HA! Shit, I best quit while I'm ahead. - This is a sign of maturity creeping into your decision making process - keep up the fight to beat it back

I think it was time warp! Where there any flyin' saucer-ma-jigs following you? They wanted to steal your Mack truck to copy the premier engineering that built it, but they they let you go when they found out that you were driving a .....................

Historically around here the DO-RIGHT DOT boys were very lenient towards farmers, no matter what they are driving, grain truck, one ton, old tractor or whatever. But anymore the problems from RV'ers, contractors, wood haulers on the weekend, and guys that just are not as used to driving a truck are causing them to crack down on everyone. Also adding to the problem is the rise in the size/horsepower of pickups and the 24,000 pound rated tandem dual gooseneck trailers everyone thinks they need. That is just a lot of weight flying down the road and bypassing the scale house. And look how much larger the average camper trailer or RV is now.

He better get a tanker endorsement - I see those evil TOTES in the background What is he hauling? Those look like corner post cross members, I thought only in Missouri did you do that kind of thing

Did you drive it home right away or are you going back to get it tomorrow?

Oh, like off a military tractor......Got it, I will keep my eyes open.

David - Do you need a hydraulic fifth wheel? I bought a brand new take off one along with a unused normal Holland fifth wheel from a local electric company that bought a couple of new tractors and made them into straight trucks. I sold the hydraulic one two weeks ago to the guy that buys my cat converters - wish I had known. I see them pretty often, I will file that away if you are looking for one.

That yellow U model must have done good in school - it got an A.