My Facetruck thread.

[GOPAPA]

I like it also.. the tooling is what catches my eye ,,looks new instead of what has been done for many years ..good street look..

[68bowtie]

Looks great! Good move on 5-6” and good control joints. Should be really robust.

[Ol Blue K20]

Nice packing of the vehicles! The front driveway looks great..

[Killer Bee]

thank you! lots of practice on sweeper days, I feel like a valet

actually had to pull a valet out of my 68 3ott years ago, he tried all three gears at once and took a week off the clutch

plumber just finished up, pictures I got earlier look good.. new riser, main shutoff, hose bib and strapped like it oughta be.. separate sprinkler cutout landed in the valve vault too

maybe you and some of our fellow facetruckers could help me out with something?

I'm on the fence.. want something to prevent tracks and ruts but I'd like to keep parkway green..

but not sure we're planning that much traffic to need anything at all..

anyone have experience with these? opinions? am I overthinking it?

https://www.orco.com/products/concre...tion/turfstone





supposed to look something like this

[Chevyland]

Hey Craig,
Those lawn pavers work very well, we use them under lawn in ares the fire trucks need to be able to turn around. There are different brands. Many of them, the grass grows over and you don’t even know they are there.

[LT7A]

Originally Posted by Chevyland

Hey Craig,
Those lawn pavers work very well, we use them under lawn in ares the fire trucks need to be able to turn around. There are different brands. Many of them, the grass grows over and you don’t even know they are there.

I've been curious about those grass pavers too. It seems in some applications that the little indentations eventually fill up with turf and the grass grows over the concrete part. Kind of like you're describing. Doesn't the grass then get all torn up when it is driven on? I think those pavers with grass look really good and allow water to absorb which is environmentally sound. I just don't know if it stays looking like that long-term.

[davischevy]

I'm going to drive down to the C10 Nationals May 13th.

https://c10nationals.com/schedule/

Holler if you are going to be there and we will put faces to this drama.

[special-K]

Great story! Wile E. Davis

[Dieselwrencher]

That is my kind of luck! Are black snakes poisonous? I'm guessing if my wife heard of a snake in our basement she'd burn the place down. Spiders and snakes are no bueno for her.

[Killer Bee]

Originally Posted by Dieselwrencher

That is my kind of luck! Are black snakes poisonous? I'm guessing if my wife heard of a snake in our basement she'd burn the place down. Spiders and snakes are no bueno for her.

not all snakes that are black are not poisonous....

but Black Snakes (Rat Snakes) are not poisonous, and likely what you encounter up there are the same as we have down here

https://fisheries.tamu.edu/files/201...f-Missouri.pdf

btw, black snakes, gopher snakes, bull snakes, king snakes etc. non poisonous snakes are very beneficial, they eat other things we don't like even more than snakes

this guy wanted to join me in the longhorn last summer while I was resting from cutting brush



here's a decent size one out for a morning stroll the year before under the walnut trees, darn near stepped on him

[davischevy]

I don't ever kill a black snake because if you have them around you won't have poisonous snakes.

I haven't heard of one coming in a house in years. Nothing to eat.

[special-K]

Black snakes love old houses and outbuildings because where there are rodents you will find a black snake hunting. This old place had them, mostly in the cellar. You'd see skins down there. During the restoration (log house) I had all the exterior walls built but across the front. While I was redoing the chinking we had one slip into our living room. That was exciting!

[special-K]

When's the last time you ever rode a train? Have you ever ridden on a train? When I was a kid we still used trains a lot for passenger travel. My mom never drove and every summer we would ride the train up home to Grandma and Grandpa's with her. I guess that's some history now, but not as old or as exciting as this

1829 Stephenson's Rocket steam locomotive -...

[3757chevy]

Wife and I rode the Cog Railway to the top of Pikes Peak back in 2012. https://www.cograilway.com/
Grass is looking good Killer Bee.

[davischevy]

My first train ride was in 1966. I was 14 years old and I rode the train from Granby, CO to Hot Sulphur Springs to get my learners permit to drive.

I've done a couple of train rides since.

I have wanted to do an Amtrak tour but don't seem to get the time.

I love to learn about the history of railroads in America.

[special-K]

Until the last few years, my mom would take the train from here in Maryland to visit my sister in Santa Fe. My next older sister went with her the last trip. I'd like to do that trip sometime.

Back in '89 when we took the '71 camper truck on a vacation to NM/AZ we took a surprise train ride. We headed up to Chama, NM after leaving my sister's in Taos on our way to Mesa Verde. We got a campsite in Chama and people would ask if we were there to take the train ride. They had just opened the Cumbres-Toltec railroad for tourism. If you don't know about this train ride, it's a joint effort between NM and CO. What a great experience for my family! I hear it soon became necessary to get a reservation the year before. And we just fell into it. I call that a lucky day.

You've seen the picture before, most likely. But I took this on our drive up to Chama the day before the train ride. No train ride pics on the 'puter

[LT7A]

Originally Posted by special-K

Until the last few years, my mom would take the train from here in Maryland to visit my sister in Santa Fe. My next older sister went with her the last trip. I'd like to do that trip sometime.

Back in '89 when we took the '71 camper truck on a vacation to NM/AZ we took a surprise train ride. We headed up to Chama, NM after leaving my sister's in Taos on our way to Mesa Verde. We got a campsite in Chama and people would ask if we were there to take the train ride. They had just opened the Cumbres-Toltec railroad for tourism. If you don't know about this train ride, it's a joint effort between NM and CO. What a great experience for my family! I hear it soon became necessary to get a reservation the year before. And we just fell into it. I call that a lucky day.

You've seen the picture before, most likely. But I took this on our drive up to Chama the day before the train ride. No train ride pics on the 'puter

Great picture of family with truck. I have ridden the Cumbres & Toltec as well.

[davischevy]

Mildred, the church gossip and self-appointed monitor of the church's morals, kept sticking her
nose into other people's business. Several members did not approve of her extra-curricular
activities, but feared her enough to maintain their silence.

She made a mistake, however, when she accused Frank, a new member, of being an alcoholic
after she saw his old pickup parked in front of the town's only bar one afternoon. She emphatically
told Frank (and several others) that everyone seeing it there would know what he was doing!

Frank, a man of few words, stared at her for a moment and just turned and walked away. He didn't explain,
defend, or deny. He said nothing. Later that evening, Frank quietly parked his pickup in front of
Mildred's house and walked home..

[Ol Blue K20]

Originally Posted by davischevy

Mildred, the church gossip and self-appointed monitor of the church's morals, kept sticking her
nose into other people's business. Several members did not approve of her extra-curricular
activities, but feared her enough to maintain their silence.

She made a mistake, however, when she accused Frank, a new member, of being an alcoholic
after she saw his old pickup parked in front of the town's only bar one afternoon. She emphatically
told Frank (and several others) that everyone seeing it there would know what he was doing!

Frank, a man of few words, stared at her for a moment and just turned and walked away. He didn't explain,
defend, or deny. He said nothing. Later that evening, Frank quietly parked his pickup in front of
Mildred's house and walked home..

Nice!

[LT7A]

Originally Posted by davischevy

Mildred, the church gossip and self-appointed monitor of the church's morals, kept sticking her
nose into other people's business. Several members did not approve of her extra-curricular
activities, but feared her enough to maintain their silence.

She made a mistake, however, when she accused Frank, a new member, of being an alcoholic
after she saw his old pickup parked in front of the town's only bar one afternoon. She emphatically
told Frank (and several others) that everyone seeing it there would know what he was doing!

Frank, a man of few words, stared at her for a moment and just turned and walked away. He didn't explain,
defend, or deny. He said nothing. Later that evening, Frank quietly parked his pickup in front of
Mildred's house and walked home..

Haha, I like that.

[davischevy]

At Friday night services, Morris went to his friend Irving and said,
"Irving, I need a favor - I'm sleeping with the rabbi's wife.
Can you hold him in temple for an hour after services for me?"

Irving was not very fond of the idea, but being Morris' lifelong friend, he reluctantly agreed.

After services, he struck up a conversation with the rabbi asking him all sorts of stupid questions in an effort to keep him occupied.

After some time, the wise rabbi became suspicious and asked,
" Irving what are you really up to with all this?"

Irving , filled with feelings of guilt and remorse, confessed to the rabbi
"I'm sorry Rabbi, my friend Morris is sleeping with your wife right now and asked me to keep you occupied."

The rabbi smiled and, putting a brotherly hand on Irving 's shoulder, said
" Irving I think you'd better hurry home, my wife died two years ago."

[special-K]

Way to go Frank!

[special-K]

OHhhh NOooo!!! Too funny!

[LT7A]

Oh no, that's not good. Took me a second.

[GOPAPA]

Originally Posted by davischevy

With all the talk of FB on here lately, it occurred to me we needed a forum where we could air our every movement and emotion of the day.

My title doesn't make any sense, but I thought since this is a truck site, we could air our personal lives to other truck owners.

So just let it all hang out. Tell us stuff we don't need or want to know. Tell us if your dog is constipated or your heart has been broken five times this week. Ask for references for a cheap brain surgeon. You get the picture.

I will start with breakfast @ the Davis house #needs biscuits and hash browns to be good.

I had a couple of prunes also, so I will update you on that outcome about 11:30 AM central.

Some times I like to go back to the very first post and see just how it all started .

Mr. Davis ,,your title makes about as much sense and any others on here ,es·pe·cial·ly mine ..your breakfast looks good ..I like it.. and to top it off with some Prunes ,,well you never did get back to us on that one ,,did ya? Or maybe you did and I missed it..
Now ., after 617,592 views and 3,027 replies I think you got at least some of what you ask for.. ( laugh out loud ,goes here) all in fun my friend