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I went down to Long Island Lumber the other day and got a load of mats going to a pipeline company in Idamay, West Virginia. Talk about middle of nowhere, Idamay is out there...or is it Idamae? So is Long Island for that matter. It's only a few miles from where I live.

I took a few pictures, just in case anybody was wondering about mats.

This is where I unloaded-

Front axle's off the ground after unloading.

They had a huge stockpile of mats, light and heavy duty.

Big timber bolted together.

This is where they make them in Long Island.

I went there yesterday when I got back from the eye doctor and got another load.

I noticed they had a bulldog mirror on the control tower for the debarker.

I saw mirrors with a truck attached to them in Pittsburgh.

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II went there yesterday when I got back from the eye doctor and got another load.

I noticed they had a bulldog mirror on the control tower for the debarker

I saw mirrors with a truck attached to them in Pittsburgh

The eye doctor did you some good...............

I watched a track hoe (the real digging kind, not the olympic games type) cross a marsh at a river replacement job and when he got to solid ground, he just drove off the mats, dug a hole and pushed them down in the muck and covered them up. He was doing his part to keep bulldog mirror watching mat industry workers gainfully employed.

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Picture of dogs looking where they've been and where they're going, date on the back said July,2008. I remember taking this on 460 in Appomattox. Every time the pickup stopped all their heads would pop out, when it started moving again they'd disappear back inside.

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Great pictures of the mat factory and I would say some one was going rabbit hunting. The ole dogs were say'in, Are we there yet? How about now?

I've seen a few bumperstickers on pickups with a dogbox on it that says "when the tailgate drops,the bullshit stops"! usually has pictures of beagles on it...........................Mark

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PJ Caruso paving had been around for a good number of years. My dad was friends with some of the guys there. They always had a bunch of Mack's and always took care of them. That's a typical Pittsburgh triaxle right there.

This is right across the street from Galv-Tech, all the trucks i've seen there are Macks. Most are newer, but that R-model just looks tough.

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This is right across the street from Galv-Tech, all the trucks i've seen there are Macks. Most are newer, but that R-model just looks tough.

Yeah they're right on 837. Do you load in/out of the techs often? Yeah that tough looking r was typical around these for a a lot of contractors up until a couple years ago when a lot were replaced by either newer Mack's or peterbilts with aluminum bodies. Those heavy spec triaxles are what I grew up around. 237s 300 350 with loholes 44 or 58 rears and steel bodies. They could haul aggregate,coal, sand, or slag. Pretty much a utility workhorse.

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Yeah they're right on 837. Do you load in/out of the techs often? Yeah that tough looking r was typical around these for a a lot of contractors up until a couple years ago when a lot were replaced by either newer Mack's or peterbilts with aluminum bodies. Those heavy spec triaxles are what I grew up around. 237s 300 350 with loholes 44 or 58 rears and steel bodies. They could haul aggregate,coal, sand, or slag. Pretty much a utility workhorse.

yeah, I loaded at Galv-Tech twice this week, 3 times last week I think. We load there a lot. That's probably where i'll load Monday.

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