Thread: Road pics

Originally Posted by Wullie

Don't know about the lizards but I bet that sumbitch has more than few wasp nests about it.


Funny thing about the name of that company was that its trucks like that one weren't very fast. In all my years of blasting across Texas, the ONLY times I was ever passed by
Merchant's truck was when I was parked.

Merchant's was a Texas company and didn't run anywhere but Texas, so I doubt very many folks here have ever heard of 'em. They used to have a bunch of those old things clattering all over the Lone Star.

That brier is actually growing through the "grill-denser". That is the A/C condenser. Those old trucks were the BOTTOM of the line KW's. Single headlights and not much creature comforts. If you look close you can see there Is room for two headlights on either side. That one is probably an early 70's model with a 290 Cummins engine and 10 spd Road Ranger tranny.

Probably made a piss poor winch truck too. LOL

Wullie, ya beat me to it!! I was just going to post, forget the lizzards, make sure it's early morning and you have at least four cans of wasp spray!! that's one of the things I would have the young kids do at work, in the heat of the day, tell 'em, go kick that as hard as you can and run back as fast as you can. It helped weed out the stupid and the slow!

Cause , I bet it's hauled more than electronics north of the border.

A mixed batch. Work and Road pics

G'day from up the paddock.


Stuck in this snake infested bloody place because the quad overheated.


The Pie Cart at Sarina, QLD. It's a permanat feature now, but the wheels of this waggon are still attached to it underneath the pavement.


My Mates, brothers from another mother to put it in American , outside the Pie Cart. This thing has been an icon, albeit, a little more mobile at one point, of Sarina for just over 120 years.



Mick

Originally Posted by mapleleafalumnus

Fence indicates it's on private property. Why would someone buy that heap just to park it for 15 years?

Ain't no good answer to that one. Maybe the guy that bought worked for Merchants and wanted a remembrance..... OR, you can't discount the fact that "HEY, we might need that thing again one of these days." There is a LOT of that mentality around. LOL

DonV, I got NO use for those things anymore. I'll pick cotton before I'll drive another damn truck for a living.

I'm with ya on separating the quick from the slow.

Interesting day today. Started out rather soupy.


My world class button heads were broke down. I found that out AFTER i'd been waiting for them to show up for three hours..... SO I went and looked at some stuff that needed to be looked at ( ALL of it work related).
I had driven out of the fog and then headed back into it.


No cattle been shipped out these pens in a while I'd say.


Later on and back out of the fog again. The old GARAGE is really heavy on natural lighting.


THEN the real fun started. Another crew was doing road base repairs. THey had the road totally screwed up and were making folks drive off the shoulder onto the dirt to get around their mess. According to them, they notified the Oversize load permit office. The Practical Joke Dept of the permit office chose to disdain the notice and issued a permit for this big fella.


Much arguing and heated words ensued. I was trying my best NOT to laugh. The truckers didn't know that their permit trumped the state boys. I was a good soldier and kept my mouth shut. After a few minutes I talked the state guys into letting the beast through by telling them that the state was gonna get a demurrage bill from that outfit a LOT of money if they tied him up to where he had to park for the night. THe guy in charge decided just maybe, they could let him slip by as he wasn't loaded. Empty that rig weighs 269K!!!
Crossing over the patch.


Hard to see it but there is a tractor on the back end of that beast. It's also 20' wide. They've been hauling the house or the nacelle for some BIG arsed wind mills up near Lubbock and were headed back to re-load and go back to Lubbock.

Dang Wullie, I think you might have been a photographer in a former life.
I love those old scenes (don't know the technical term).

I want that old garage! Man what a great foundation! And if it's near Lubbock - well, I'll go work in the University there! Should pay enough to renovate that old place!!

Got a friend out there doing her masters... maybe it's time I went and saw her on her new stomping grounds.

Originally Posted by earcutter

I want that old garage! Man what a great foundation! And if it's near Lubbock - well, I'll go work in the University there! Should pay enough to renovate that old place!!

Got a friend out there doing her masters... maybe it's time I went and saw her on her new stomping grounds.

It's a fair distance from Lubbock. It's in what's left of town called Clairette and is on SH6 between Hico and Dublin.

Originally Posted by Wullie

It's a fair distance from Lubbock. It's in what's left of town called Clairette and is on SH6 between Hico and Dublin.

Oh my... that is a ways away... which makes sense and my friend assures me there is absolutely nothing around Lubbock lol.

Well maybe I'll have it shipped on a over-sized load big rig to KS. I'll inform the driver that he's got right of way over the state .

Originally Posted by earcutter

Oh my... that is a ways away... which makes sense and my friend assures me there is absolutely nothing around Lubbock lol.

Well maybe I'll have it shipped on a over-sized load big rig to KS. I'll inform the driver that he's got right of way over the state .

Wullie already posted pics of a rig you can get for cheap!