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[Leadsledcaprice]

The music is dumb.... but look at the chassis flex on that Pete 379!

[Deaf Bob]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1iEFo7m15E

Hope it'll link up!

[Leadsledcaprice]

That is sweet. need to do that with my buddies in the winter lol

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[Barry Donovan]

444 cummins

this is a 1989 in a peterbilt.
I was remembering the freightliner they came in, middle 80s. they did not make a radiator big enough. after being tortured in 290s and 300s and 350s..the 444 brand new was a dream. Ignoring the smell of coolant on the passenger side.. at 13 years old I thought we were kings of the road. Drop one gear instead of five in the hills...just didn't let the coolant odor get to me.

the significance with this may need a diesel guru to relate. the 444 had the old bark, and a touch of gentle giant we have today. amazing sounding engine..with mufflers.

[Schtauffer]

Epic airplane fire. Brought to you courtesy of the People's Republic of China.

[Barry Donovan]

speaking of trucking. maine is small enough, where small trucking business gets big. New england as a whole used to be like that. maine has its unique arctic blast and mud seasons..sharp contrasting stabbing roads..truckers seem to simply get bigger in respect. Staying local feeds that. I loved the thought of that growing up, as trucking would have been handed to me, whether I liked it or not. My dad and his trucking is way too cross country to even get acknowledged properly. He enjoys maine, as if its a toy. I am not going to wake that giant within ever...

Anyway,

here is a convoy for a long time maine log hauler. 68 year old who kept trucking going, he passed on recently... Dale Crawford.
Did not know him, but found it interesting. my dad is going on 40 years driving. That age realm is never coming back with leaf spring suspension and cracker boxes tugging at 40 tons. The last of something. I feel the same way about myself.

this guys age group, same as my dad..my dad does not go for the pride to feel good. he is happy elsewhere..but as a kid growing up in the woods, I loved hearing and seeing the rigs working all year. A depressing time for most..those guys use frozen roads. Uplifting to know they exist contently, when most were not. Cracking the silence in custom builds, squeezing all they can out of them without breaking things.
As maine and being a growing boy, it has no guide..you may as well flop over dead. My advice.. listen for the rigs in winter. there is no way this cold place is going to take you down. That is my respect for these groups in this tiny state.
never shrinking my view, as if needing a horizon. The trucking helped..its all my dad to me. The turning point for me and knowing I kept full speed ahead was in the military of course. My self motivation was indeed trucking as a kid.
The day I latched on to a 707, north wind howling..200,000 pounds on an icy taxi ramp. the trucking world, my boyish thoughts.. it all went away. It does inspire boys that much. Not many go bigger in maine.
keep on trucking on. ignore what evil does not.

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[Barry Donovan]

fuel injected rotax. I keep an eye on the little boxer wherever it is

115 knots 4gph if I heard correctly. if the old slobs weren't gems enough, here is an even better one.

I also give my car the same warmup (identical)

[Barry Donovan]

scenario:
stuck with a super ricer, and stuck with a 1.6 daily ricer...
hmmm. Two ricers. what to do with two piles of shit.

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