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Tim - I don't know what kind of left handed cigarette you been smoking - babusha? Da Pabachennia? But he funny thing is, I have to admit to having a Babushka (sp?). There is a wonderful older lady that is fast friends with our family. We take her on a weekend vacation every year and every time we have a new baby, she once a week gives me 10 frozen home cooked meals - so the kids don't have to eat pork rinds, cheese puffs, Chef Boy-ar-deeeee and related stuff when I am the only one cooking. Her dad was in the OSS during WWII and the CIA afterwards. Lots of cool stories there! He could speak dozens of languages and she learned to as well. She taught French at a local college where we met her. Now she teaches english as a second language to lots of LEGAL immigrants in Columbia, Mo. She never married and the last two or three years, she has taken a Russian family under her wing and let them live with her until they saved up enough fundage to buy their own home. So we eat dinner there a lot and soak up some of whatever culture is currently learing english from her. I am going to take the Russians a photo of the tractor and see what they think! The dad was a professional wrestler back in the USSR and has some great stories of his own - I think things were a little more real in a match over there. I have noticed one thing with all the immigrants she teaches - the parents don't pick up on things very quickly, but kids start wearing American clothes, driving a fast car and get a cell phone right off the boat. We have gotten to know families from Russia, The Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Spain, France, South Africa, and others. Great education for my home schooled kids. So if a Babushka is a nice grandmotherly type, what is a babusha? Sorry for the long-assed post!

David in N.C. has it even worse - his wife TEACHES english if'n I remembers corecktly How come so many dumb sob's on here are related to proper english folk, but can't talk or spell any way but their own homebrewed version?

Wait a second Bollweevil! Don't get on the plane to Russia yet! - we forgot the most important enn-tice-ament GRITS!

If'in I get in a pre-dick-a-ment where I need parts in Russia, I am going to try and fly out of Atlanta so I can meet up with Bollweevil and take him along - two country boys in their overalls totin a lunch bucket full of fried yardbird, collard greens, homemade biscuits with redeye gravy, watermelon, and a jug of sweet tea will smooth everything over - hell, they will pay us! That valve on my bee-hind is an exit only! I need to tatoo a big NO ENTRY sign back there.

That is a rare bird for sure!

I have had trucks with the triple nickle 555, but I have never seen the older V-8. I wonder what model that was?

The info I got at the auto auction (which is 50% of the time wrong in some way) reads that it is 30 horsepower. That thing will not even pull my big round hay baler across a parking lot empty! But I think it will run my hay rake fine. I let #2 son rake hay with a 3010 John Deere last year and it was really too big for him to reach the pedals safely - I bet this will be about his size. That is classic - I now have a name for the little thing - Thanks! OH NO! If you have them there Pawel, I just hope the gauges are not in Celsius or something!

Vinny - I ended up not going to that auction - I had a guy look at it beforehand that was driving through there and he said it was a rust bucket. They had spread a lot of fertilizer with it and had not kept it washed and oiled. We used to custom spread fertilizer for a local co-op and we washed the truck down every night and sprayed used oil all over it - we really did not have much of a rust problem as long as we kept that up. I also had another uninvited midnight visitor the night before so I stayed home with the family to kind of keep an eye on things. Sorry!

I was in the local YRC terminal today digging used pallets out of the dumpster and dropping off some freight when I saw this poster: I took a photo to show my wife and right away the depot head Nazi asked me what the hell was I doing ? I started to try and explain to him that the word BUST should not be used - it is slang and my english major wife throws a fit when she hears it. He did not think that was funny, so I told him not to get his panties in a bunch and that he would be in a better mood if he drove a Mack instead of those ugly orange Volvo's he had parked outside. I think I better find another depot to get pallets from.

I went to the auto auction. I came home with this Belarus tractor. Are they any good? It is a two cylinder air cooled diesel. I may keep it to run a hay rake. I also bought a chevy van that someone had removed the seats from and was using as a lawn mower trailer - classy! I also bought another chevy van with "googly moogly" eyes. I got a real steal on a stand up reach forklift - battery was dead and no one knew how to charge it up - brought it home, gave it a drink of 24 volts, and put it right to use! and last but not least, two Isuzu chemlawn trucks, one of them with 500 gallons of some kind of liquid that I do not think I should drink! They call me at the auction "The Scavanger" - I have no scruples - I will buy anything.

What a dumb ass! He needs to go back to school and read some history texts

I have personally felt the tickle of a transmission line through a tree that fell on the cab of a hydro-axe machine I was running - I felt like life was in slow motion and I had no where to go - like death staring you in the face. - he is lucky, lucky, lucky!

I still don't know what SMICK stands for.

Don't panic - stay the course - wouldn't be prudent to jump ship - give it a little time - everyone bids at the last minute!

I love how Hat slowly comes around to admitting that it was him in the truck - it only took three posts to spill the beans. Have we all told him how glad we are he is okay so we can get on with the ribbing that is coming? Oh okay, we can wait a couple of days................kind of have him relax and let his guard down. Hatcity- not only are we glad you are okay, we also are really glad you got some photos of the boom in the air - evidence!

Welcome! Thanks for the photos! have bought pump trucks to resell before and played with them, but I have always wondered how often you have to rebuild the pump on those things. Also how many hours can you get you get out of the boom - I would think the concrete would wear it internally pretty fast?

Do you have any pictures of any steam stuff you are or were working on? Welcome to the site!

I bet that was also before you had to write on your slippers to know which was right and left?

Even with two of them, those air cleaners look awfully small - great truck!

Damn! You are lucky to still be able to read and type! I bet you end up having to replace all the tires. I swung a boom into a set of 69KV lines years ago and burned holes in all the tires - some of which did not go flat for a week. We also found pin holes all the way through the six inch cribbing at the outriggers. It is okay to wait to read the latest on BMT until after you get home, don't be trying to read on here, keep a straight face, breathe, and remember to stow your boom all at the same time. You are a lucky man!

Her official website is now down for maintenance. Uh Huh - right.

Everyone needs a dirty ol' Uncle Rob. Usually they are named something like Chester................ I had a neighbor that rented a house from us , Frank Volrath. He gave me my first beer at the age of 8 and taught me all kinds of cool words I had to promise to not repeat at home.

Now that I think about it, when you drive by in one of those fine automobiles, the girl's may just kind of cover their mouth and let out a big snort.

He has been thinking a lot worse.

We used to load rubber tired skidders over the side on our old Rogers 35 ton when we had to back into places to get off a highway and not enough room to unhook and get the tractor out of the way. But nothing tracked. I always make sure and crawl under one at a aucton that has the "custom rolled" sides on it!