Pictures of the Week

[other dog]

It's pouring rain...again!

[other dog]

3 hours ago, mowerman said:

aaahh the good old days,when we got to drive real trucks,,,,i never spent much time in those cabovers,,,,but i did drive one as a loaner a few nights,,,,mostly remember how hard that thing was to steer manuel steering i you werent rolling atleast 3-4 mph,,,i couldnt even move the wheel....it was a 1970  350 cummins,,,,was actually the first time i ever used a jake brake,and yes tom,,,,i like the chick,,,,bob

This was the first brand new truck I got. Before this truck all the trucks I ever drove had been driven by somebody else. I had driven a couple of Transtars, then a couple of F models, and none of them had power steering. That's probably why my arms were as big as a stovepipe then. 🤣 

I still remember the very first load I pulled in this truck, a load of structural steel going to Boston. H.H. was telling the guys in the shop to hurry up, because I had to go, had to be in Boston in the morning. They were working on it after 5 o'clock, finishing things up, putting the headache rack on, etc.  When they finished I hooked to my trailer and left, and I had to pull over at a wide spot on rt. 24 to see how to turn the headlights on.

After only driving the Internationals and Macks that Kenworth seemed like it was 10 feet wide. I went down rt. 24 from Appomattox to rt. 60 to rt. 15, and 15 to Culpeper where I got on rt.29. 

Two lane all the way, until I got to 29.

[mowerman]

thats funny about the headlights,,,ive been in situations like that...in fact when i was driving back to the hotel for the last time in macungie last year i came out of a food mart and it starting pouring buckets also two lane cars behind me i couldnt see anything,,,and i couldnt find wiper switch in the rental...i was Freking out...also i never had a brand new truck untill around 8 years ago

[mowerman]

1 hour ago, other dog said:

It's pouring rain...again!

my god,,,,enough is enough,,,,too bad we cant share some of that rain here,,,bob

[tjc transport]

1 hour ago, other dog said:

This was the first brand new truck I got. Before this truck all the trucks I ever drove had been driven by somebody else. I had driven a couple of Transtars, then a couple of F models, and none of them had power steering. That's probably why my arms were as big as a stovepipe then. 🤣 

I still remember the very first load I pulled in this truck, a load of structural steel going to Boston. H.H. was telling the guys in the shop to hurry up, because I had to go, had to be in Boston in the morning. They were working on it after 5 o'clock, finishing things up, putting the headache rack on, etc.  When they finished I hooked to my trailer and left, and I had to pull over at a wide spot on rt. 24 to see how to turn the headlights on.

After only driving the Internationals and Macks that Kenworth seemed like it was 10 feet wide. I went down rt. 24 from Appomattox to rt. 60 to rt. 15, and 15 to Culpeper where I got on rt.29. 

Two lane all the way, until I got to 29.

on a similar note....

after driving DM and u models for close to 18 years, i was given a brandy spanken new R model.

first time i approached a toll booth i slowed down to almost a stop swearing i was going to hit the booth as i was no longer sitting on the side of the truck.

i caught crap for that for a few hours until an old timer took me on the side and said dont worry about it, i did the same thing with my first r model too.

[other dog]

12 hours ago, tjc transport said:

on a similar note....

after driving DM and u models for close to 18 years, i was given a brandy spanken new R model.

first time i approached a toll booth i slowed down to almost a stop swearing i was going to hit the booth as i was no longer sitting on the side of the truck.

i caught crap for that for a few hours until an old timer took me on the side and said dont worry about it, i did the same thing with my first r model too.

My first toll booth experience when I got a T800 after driving only a cab over for 10 years was memorable too. I was getting on the Pa. Pike at Breezewood, and I had been advised by other drivers that were in the same situation to be careful. I didn't want to knock the mirror off, so I got over too far to the right and couldn't reach the ticket , so I had to open the door and step out to get it.

[mowerman]

Yeah, I was the same way. The first time I took a truck and trailer out without a trainer. I had a GMC Astro toll Plaza. I didn’t know how I was gonna get through it. Long, long time ago.

[Brocky]

A lot the same here.. Was driving a Freightliner COE daily pulling a tanker.. One morning the boss put me in one of his Autocar conventionals pulling a dump trailer. On the narrow 2 lane road out of the quarry everybody coming at me was yelling "Get Over" as I was taking my half out of the middle!!! 

[mowerman]

Brocky ,,,, I was doing the same thing with a 1960 RIO trash truck… I had not been driving that long at the time …. Greenhorn baby lol bob

[other dog]

Here's the latest on the Brigadier. Anybody looking for a nice single axle pulpwood truck?

And here's what my exhausting research on foxes and coyotes turned up. They look nothing alike really. This is a fox-

...and this is a coyote.

[Brocky]

Start Listing the Jimmy in various locations.. That would make a neat roll back to haul stuff  to shows..

[mowerman]

[mowerman]

tom,,,,thats a fox...good luck with the jimmy,,bob

[Mark T]

5 hours ago, mowerman said:

Damn'it Bob. When I gave you that picture of my GF you weren't supposed to share it.     ( just let me have my delusion)

[mowerman]

Ok mark that is just hilarious I would totally walk hand and hand in public with that hot dish lol

[other dog]

I got that big green International that runs now out of the carport and drove it down to the stop sign and back, then washed the dust and pollen off of it. Had to come inside and take a break before I finished because the heat was about to get me. Might take it to the "Cars and Coffee" tomorrow, a little car show they have in Appomattox from 8 to 10 at the old Thomasville Furniture Factory.

[Joey Mack]

I love that truck.. 🍻

[other dog]

[Joey Mack]

Yep..  here too..  I have to work in my 'not climate control' shop this weekend.. I have a 24" fan coming tomorrow from Amazon... I still love the Green truck that runs now...

[tjc transport]

you know, air conditioning would make the big green truck that runs now much more pleasurable to drive...

[Brocky]

Tommy

I love that big green truck that runs now!!! I like the two tone job you did on it.. If I were you I would sell the GMC, especially now that you have the sleeper off it has enough wheel base to make a flatbed or roll back for somebody..

[other dog]

2 hours ago, Brocky said:

Tommy

I love that big green truck that runs now!!! I like the two tone job you did on it.. If I were you I would sell the GMC, especially now that you have the sleeper off it has enough wheel base to make a flatbed or roll back for somebody..

You know, nocluejoe66 had a great idea. Maybe I could find somebody with a gooseneck trailer that would rather have a nice Brigadier. Then I could haul the big green International that runs now to truck shows with the Mack.

Or Joey Mack could buy it, that's a great idea too. 😁 

[other dog]

I think I solved the mystery of fox or coyote. My first thought was fox, then I started thinking 🤔 about it. But this morning these hounds that live somewhere around here were running something in the woods across the road. They're somebody's hunting dogs and you might hear them anytime of day or night. Usually they're running a deer and they'll run the deer right across the field out here. So I was standing on the back porch and heard them getting closer so I watched to see if the deer was going to cross the field. And I saw the fox running across the field, going the same way it did when it had the dead ground hog in it's mouth. I got a good long look at it this time, it went all the way across from the tree on the left in the field into the woods on the right. And Rocky just bush hogged the field a couple of days ago.

And here's a big Mack truck and a dog.

[Brocky]

Even an old drop deck???? Or you are in logging country so maybe someone has an old beaver tail equipment trailer with ramps they have replaced with a larger trailer????

[other dog]

I brought the Brigadier home today- I need to think of a name for it too- and I was going to give it a quick wash job. I went out to the shed to put a couple of wrenches away, and I picked that blue bucket up to see if I wanted to use it for a wash bucket. It had some polishing wheels in it so I just put it back and decided to use the bottom part of an old shop-vac, like I'd been doing. Then I heard what I thought was flies buzzing. So I thought "🤔 what's up with these flies?"

Then I noticed a few dozen yellow jackets. So I moved that socket set in that plastic case to the side and saw a few hundred more zooming around. The nest was up under those shelves, under whatever that black thing there is. So I sprayed it with my one can of several years old wasp spray, and pulled the nest down with a rake. I only got stung once, on the ankle.

I've been in and out of there I don't know how many times, drove the lawnmower in and out, and never saw a thing. I'm going to get more wasp spray and spray more later, just because.