60+ year old thread.

Good morning fellow Porchatonians!!

Back from the dead and trying to catch up.

It only took 4 months after getting rear-ended but the tailgate finally arrived and is installed. Woo hoo!!

 

Good to see you’re back Mark. Truck looks great.

 

Good morning and Hook 'Em Porch Pals & Sue!

 

Good to have you and the truck back!

 

I like simple solutions. I’ve seen some new design leak proof cap that I thought it was only for the highly smart people, because average joe like me wasn’t able to open it.

 

WHAT, no bullseye on the tailgate!
Glad you finally got it, 4 months is a bit long for a wait time, hope there aren't that many Tacoma's getting rear ended!

Also glad to see you back!

 

Feeling a little better so I'm outside trying to salvage some of my vacation. We have light winds today so it's a good day for a burn.
Plan is to burn this all up. Mostly construction debris and remains of a pallet or 2.

Just getting started.

I have a full scrap box in my wood shop too.

 

The trailers/videos I saw said starting at 40K and 60K loaded.

 

Well I hope they are better than the 2 cat semi tractors we have at work, total p.o.s. they are in the shop more than they are on the road. One has had 2 wire harness at $11,000 each. Absolute garbage!

 

This!

 

Done! No scrap in the shop or outside. Now I start all over again.
Last to be burned, I carried up 4 totes of scrap like this from the shop. All hardwood scraps.

This'll probably burn for a day yet.

 

Took a trip to visit kid and grandsons in Oklahoma - used the wife's Explorer and I have to say it's AC system beats my Taco's to death. She bought a rental house (between Tulsa and Stillwater) to help a grandson out - he is trying hard to get an education on his own. Anyway, she is the only slumlord in the family - so be it.

My life with the big electric mining machines fuels my tendency to check out big mobile machines. My dad was a 35 year employee of the old Frisco railroad - so we hunted down this old locomotive on display at a "Highway 66" museum. Steam engines were an absolute miracle of mechanical engineering and these were some of the last new ones built in the late 1940's. The "Meteor" could get you from St Louis to Okie City at a fair rate of speed compared to the long drive on route 66. One of my oldest childhood memories is of riding in the cab of a steamer in Mississippi where dad was working on the railroad surveying crew.

 

Good morning fellow Porchatonians!!

 

Good Morning everyone

 

Good morning everyone

 

Strange to see a color other than black

 

Hey Man..

 

Hey, Mike!!

 

Morning all:

Not a railroad buff, but those old steam engines are gorgeous, thanks for sharing Steve.