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Offline walrus

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Re: what did you do today?
« Reply #2535 on: June 06, 2022, 05:01:09 AM »
West Virginia looks like a great place to visit. Beautiful pictures
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Re: what did you do today?
« Reply #2536 on: June 06, 2022, 11:52:01 AM »
Love the trains, good stuff.
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Re: what did you do today?
« Reply #2537 on: June 06, 2022, 10:24:55 PM »


Quote from: goodfellow on June 05, 2022, 08:33:43 PM

Over in Thurmond WV Tim? Love WV -- and the roads.

Yep first time at Thurmond. Absolutely great roads and scenery I'm WV. Truly gets a bad rap.... although some sections you can see where the stereotypes come from. The amount of vehicles on cinder blocks is astounding lol


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« Reply #2538 on: June 06, 2022, 10:25:17 PM »
Quote from: walrus on June 06, 2022, 05:01:09 AM
West Virginia looks like a great place to visit. Beautiful pictures
Definitely worth a trip!

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Re: what did you do today?
« Reply #2539 on: June 06, 2022, 10:26:41 PM »
Quote from: pep on June 06, 2022, 11:52:01 AM
Love the trains, good stuff.
Here a little bit of the past and present.....

A CSX engine through the 1922 C&O coaling tower.



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Offline goodfellow

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Re: what did you do today?
« Reply #2540 on: June 07, 2022, 08:32:49 AM »
BTW -- That coaling tower was engineered for the C&O by Fairbanks-Morse. It's was quite a complicated conveyer design for the time.
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« Reply #2541 on: June 07, 2022, 07:03:17 PM »
Quote from: goodfellow on June 07, 2022, 08:32:49 AM
BTW -- That coaling tower was engineered for the C&O by Fairbanks-Morse. It's was quite a complicated conveyer design for the time.
it was ahead of it's time. Most in that time period used a cable or drag shovel kind of setup. From a pit.

Future towers went on to use the design like the C&O ones.


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Re: what did you do today?
« Reply #2542 on: June 08, 2022, 10:30:11 PM »
Did a brake job a work. Came he and did the brakes on the back of the Oldsmobile. When I took the caliper off, I thought I got lucky with just the pins being rusty and needing grease. The caliper was sticking, so it took a caliper anyway










Also show you one of the reasons I'm ok with having Craftsman and HF tools for at home box.


It took me about  10 minutes to put the sockets on the tray the way I wanted them.....she had them scatter in 10 seconds :))

She was having fun she was getting as dirty as I was!

The other reason came out later grabbed his lawn chair and sat it right next to me asking all kinds of questions.







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Offline goodfellow

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Re: what did you do today?
« Reply #2543 on: June 09, 2022, 06:27:15 AM »
She's a cutie!! I'm sure she enjoyed helping dad with the car.
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Offline slip knot

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Re: what did you do today?
« Reply #2544 on: June 09, 2022, 08:21:33 AM »
 Good times Muddy 👍
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Offline john k

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Re: what did you do today?
« Reply #2545 on: June 09, 2022, 10:56:15 PM »
Made a deal to swap a neighbors old tractor mower for my labor to get his 87 F-250 going.  Went to his place this morning with my pickup and trailer, he helped load it.   Going to need a fuel pump at least.  Plus I drained out 5 gallons of 4 year old gas.  His place is only 5 miles from mine, but goes over 3 of the steeper hills in the township.  This is a big deal to me as my current tow vehicle is a 96 chevy 1/2t with 240,000 miles, made it ok.  Might get it back to him tomorrow. 
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« Reply #2546 on: June 10, 2022, 07:08:22 AM »
Congrats John -- '87 F250 was the golden era for that line of trucks. What engine does it have? ...and does it still have a carburetor?
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« Reply #2547 on: June 10, 2022, 05:56:45 PM »
This has the 460,  carbureted, 4 spd. All original truck with 180k hard farm miles.  Should have it going by dark.  Counted 8 Fords on his place, a 70 being the oldest.
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Offline jabberwoki

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Re: what did you do today?
« Reply #2548 on: June 10, 2022, 08:19:21 PM »
Beautiful country.
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Re: what did you do today?
« Reply #2549 on: June 14, 2022, 08:59:13 PM »
A few may remember I broke a body mount bolt off in my pickup trying to put on new running boards...

Well I've been dreading it but I decided to go after it tonight. Used three of a farmers favorite tools.... Pb Blaster, heat, and vise grips. Jacked the body up enough to squeeze a vise grip in between the body and bushing.... And to my amazement she came out fairly easy.



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