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uh hu i noticed to she and Margot Kidder do very much favor each other, i didn't know she was a drummer ether.......

i recall listening to Karen carpenter.....my dad was somewhat a fan.... i haven't heard those two songs in years, bring back memories.

maybe some offensive langauge.

yeah you could say he was a hobby farmer.... you recall when i grew the maters ? a few years ago ? i never could get them to get as big as his did, he had some the size of grape fruit, man you skin one of those slice it up, add just a tad of sea salt. talk about hog heaven......lol! i wouldn't mind seeing pics of what you have, but no rush. you might also take a soil sample and send, it in for checking and they can advise you how to treat the soil, >> I'm just guessing when i say this << but lime might very well bring the acid of the soil down....... i think you send the soil sample to the USDA ......heck fish it's been so long, i ant be sure if lime will work, but we used to send soil samples in and yes high acid was an issue sometimes especially when raising tobacco...... i spread alot lime for farmers around here whitely dairy, us, herald Johnson, my farming pals moser, bone, Haney, gilbreath farms etc etc...... and a number of my pops long time farmer friends.......we didnt get / want money payment.. back then we swopped favor for favor. bones stepfather owns Columbia rock, which is where i hauled lime from, you've seen those old hopper spreader trucks ? used to go to columbia, to get loaded up, and i enjoyed driving in those tunnels they had carved out....... I'd get loaded up tarp it, head back to Whitley farms and unload, then head back up to columbia rock, rinse and repeat...... send a soil sample in, they'll get you fixed up. i used soil around where Dennis stacks his round bails good rich soil, of corse i made a soup with cow s--t and few other certain adds..... plus those were hanging bucket plants..... i think i watered them too much, and the soil was too rich..... be a use the taste was on the acid side.

yeah that's the name of it. very tart before hand she used she used apple cider viniger. so growing things for him was a hobby, and he was really good at it, i never got his green thumb..... heck i dont know of too many people around my area that do..... maybe 3 ? Clyde, billy, little Johnny, but Clyde is the only one that has a stand each year....... i used to see him on the I-road coming back from some place in Alabama with a pickup truck load of sweet corn, taters and no tell what else .so it's kind of a hobby with him, at one time he was making home made sausage. ribs, chops, etc....then Dennis took over........... sigh that was partly my doing but at the time i had no idea Clyde was doing the same..... so i KIND OF stepped on Clyde's pork operation but! a year later -+ he ends up with one of the best gardens....... he knows nothing about my involvement and ended up with two stands, one down here in mcains, and one in columbia on river side drive...... a short time later he was riding around in a brand new show room long wheel base 2wd silver chevy......... i didn't feel too bad after his son (mike) told me it was actually purchased in full (no payments)

the war messed him up some, which i can understand so you had to be carefull what you asked him, he saw some really bad things (i reckon) just wish he would have talked more about his life..... anyways i sure do miss him...... this always gets me to laughter......the man chewed more tobacco then anyone i have seen!! i never liked driving his trucks..... bacca jiuce all over everything on the steering wheel, gear shifter, brake, clutch, gas peddle, drivers side window, all down the drivers side of what ever he was driving!! but he never chewed in the house and never smoked at all...... but he could raise some of the best tobacco crops around, not to even mention his garden okra, sweet corn, straw berries, cabbage, onions, maters, taters, lectace, cucumbers, water Mellon, cantaloupe, radishes, squash,...... im sure ive missed a few other he raised, but all i recall is those.....we ate GOOD! always had fresh red ripe maters, squash dish of some sort plus a tater casserole fresh green onions, sweet corn and my grannys cornbread, and that cucumber dish with onions and spices , red wine viniger.....but i can't think of the name of it...... and a gallon of tea....... and a meat dish...... her ham Casserole was off the hook!! that had to be my fave, and sheesh..thanksgiving and Christmas..don't even get me started...... man alive you talk about some good eating, she could put the Cracker Barrel to shame.

hm, thank you there coild be a good connection there, but pawpaw just never told us much, i located the carvings also one of his cleats and an old pigskin (football) pics coming soon.....for some reason i keep recalling the phrase >> Morgan high school,<< i don't recall anymore (whether he was a teacher or student / player) I'm ashamed to say i just can't recall much of what i was told, WHICH wasn't much to start with, but i was told he played high school football under Bear Bryant..... i find that fact hard to believe, because I've looked online and i can't find much at all....... i don't think he ever went up, but rather i was told a mechanic, and radio operator and technician, BUT i have no real proof of that ether......i was ALSO told he was asigned to one plane...and the base they were at was bombed and his plane crew were all killed so i gather he was asigned to a bomber (multiple crew members) yeah i think i recall some fish didnt your pop almost end up playing professional base ball ??

well......lol! yeah your one for the books jeep.....BUT! y'all lost him to Alabama..... wow! you and my ex GF would get along real good.... lol! she'd have you stuffed and mounted over the fire place.... if you said ome bad word about bama.... i couldn't be around when she watched college football....screaming and throwing things at the tv ?? talk about crazy..... even her parents were leery of her when college football was on...... recall ? this is one who dyed me pink,and shaved my head blad and beard off!!!

did i not say (ALONG TIME AGO) some of these members need professional help......... naw scratch that idea........ it won't do any good.

i can't hear much ether....lol! but, that engine doesn't sound bad at al, and @kevin_c the top end was refreshed recently ??

hm.... i thought he was from Alabama...... ain't you got something else to do some place else ?? lol!

thanks, I'm sure going to look into this, my grandfather was in military, I've been told the army branch, but also told he was a radio operator / mechanic in the Air Force..... i had asked him a couple times about his experience during his time in......and, he wouldn't EVER talk about it.

well...... dont tell her, but i like it, my pop has a real cow skull with horns, all cleaned / bleached....what ever the taxidermist had to do to clean it up, it use to be hanging on the new garage up next to the big house, but they've moved it, most likely ..... her granddaughter didnt like it, long story of why my pop and my stepmother ended up adopting Haley (Janet's sons daughter) sad story, but she has me and my sisters now etc etc ....she's a good kid too...she's now riding horses, i might leave her one of my bikes at my end. soon as i dig it up, I'll be sure and post pics, it's not really much to brag on, but the reason...... when he started teaching / coaching i was told one of his students / players made it for him, but I'm not sure on that, i was also told he played high s hool football under the early years of Mr. Bear Bryant...... but i have no pics or proof. i don't even know (never was told) where Bear Bryant coached high school sports (football) .

interesting...... i have a wood carving of my grandfather in his football gear, eh.... it looks KIND of like that...... i havent thought of that carving for a couple years... I'll have to post some pics, say the wife didnt like what you came home with ?? whats the story with the skull in the 2nd pic.

thank you bro, but! i don't have any idea what i did to fix it.......LOL! i just copied the link and pasted it in a search window hit return, next thing i know I'm watching and hearing his bike.......

congrats @kevin_c i went to check out you video, i can't access maybe just on my end, just wanted you to know just in case it's not on my end. i sure would like to view and listen to that video. i got the video to work.

this vid not really for this thread so.... management y'all move it if need be, anyways fish heres our answer, and nope I've never had any dealings with this type 6+4 and your right it's aux trans setup, I'd enjoy crawling under and taking a look..... 24 gears to choose from ?? well... with an old school detriot that might be best, but with the power plants we have now kind of over kill. IMO, but you can do alot with the right gear ratio!

at this point id just go with an enclosed trailer not only do you have it strapped down, but also out of the weather. plus you have permanent dry storage, and she's >hopefully< under lock and key.

nope never use the clutch shifting.....but i think i know this deal let me check.

yeah I've seen them winched down, at the time, i honestly never thought of it..... lol..... too young i reckon, but i gotta say if i was the type to load up the atvs for a long vacation / trip etc, i might think about a enclosed trailer, I'm all for keeping equiptment out of the weather! tarps / covers aren't the same...... anyways just my thinking :-)

i knew it wouldn't be too long before you asked him to joine y'all.... lol, he's in for some good times, and great food!

Someone delete the wrong post...... haha, but it's cool it was my fault. lol ill do this again, no prob, fish i think...... the short shifter is like the range (say one is taking off loaded) my thinking would be the short shifter would be placed in low gear, and then use the tall shifter like 1st 2nd 3rd all the shift sequence then go back to the shifter hit a higher or lower range and start the left shift sequence all over again .... rinse and repeat, now i could be way off on this, but i didn't catch it did he use the clutch at all ?? it very could be an aux, it would be something new to me on a semi, I've seen them on pickups and rock crawlers on the crawlers ...... i think there a guy who makes the especially for those rigs, i knew a guy who had a fleet side 3500 2wd chevy pickup (one ton no duel rear wheels) 6.2 diesel banks turbo equipt had an aux 20% under drive i believe, bolted right to back of the automatic trans, and Mack had (at one time) an aux trans, i never had a chanc e to look at one those setup

the one shifting with two sticks ? I've seen those old setups before but no sire i never drove one, he's old school! now my friend John bone is crazy about Mack trucks, and purchased an older straight dump bed job double live mack top loading rear ends, if i recall right it had camel back springs ? that thing also had two sticks, out all of us moser,Haney,pop,myself,bicycle Willie, tommie ..... he was the only one out all of us who could shift it. i don't even know if he used the cutch haha! i got a point where i hardly ever used the clutch in ours sept on dead stop take offs etc etc ...... i got a ticket one time for not stoping at a light, i didn't pass the light, i just never stopped, i dropped back in traffic, and started down shifting finally got in the low hole, and just creeped along And reckon i was holding traffic up some......so i got nailed on that one.. some truckers will do that to thin traffic out, it usally takes 2 or more semi trucks to pull that trick off, but it does work! you got me on twin stick shifting, wished i had chanced bones Mack truck, but he was very picky, about that truck, first Mack he ever owned, he could shift the !!! out of her!! i did drive for the co-op a Mack spreader truck.... I'm trying to think if that thing had two sticks or one, it might be me thinking of the pto lever..... I'm drawing Purdy much a blank, but i think it was a single stick 5 speed...... but in short naw i never shifted a twin stick.

you could likely find those at a truck stop or camper store (i would think) i can't use those on my 5x8 no stake slots and she's got a metal mesh floor.so i use pull straps, hooked into the mesh floor where it's welded close to the trailer frame work...... but if i was going to be hauling all the time, I'd anchor to the tires or as close as get to them (bikes suspension.)