My Facetruck thread.

[special-K]

There you go. Looks like a nice place.

My road is the county line. I'm about mid way between town, where it begins off Main St, and MD26. Two roads shoot off of mine into the county across the road. That county takes care of the stretch between, where I live, and my county gets either end. My section was always rolly polly leftovers spread with a grader patchwork. Then 20 or more years ago they brought it up to regulation, widened with markings and guardrails. That's been getting pretty rough and been patched up here and there.

This week a contractor came along, milled down one lane, they paved right behind him. Then came back back on my side and it is all done and smooth as a racetrack. No grading at all. Everything is tight like they never touched it

[Steeveedee]

^ That's how they did my street. Posted signs for no parking for the day. Grinder with a dump truck getting the spoils, and then a spreader and roller. One side of the street at a time, I guess so that if they have problems they can come back the next day if needed. Smart way to do it!

[davischevy]

This job included R&R of all the existing curb and sidewalks.

We are doing a bypass around the industrial park in a town just west of here. We are dump truck driver challenged so I may go work a few days if nobody replies to our pleas for help .

[LT7A]

Does that material eventually compress better than gravel? I'm wondering after it goes through the summer time, if it maybe starts to stick together by virtue of the bituminous component.

[davischevy]

I'm not sure what the heat will do to it.

[special-K]

That's a lot of work just taking out the gutter & sidewalk, then replacing. You guys get to the paving and that will be gravy work. No rain all week while they did my road. I can't get over how they milled a clean line on the edge of the road and laid the asphalt right back to it with not a speck of grading. Looks like they never did anything except the pavement is fresh and smooth.

I believe the asphalt content can vary with millings. The higher the content the better it compacts. It can be no different than crushed stone, which does compact.

I love it when I get to use up inventory. It's nice to not be buying everything, but also nice to reduce the stock. Right now I have stacks of cinder block, rebar, and reinforcement wire to do a slab and block walls in my cellar. All I need to buy is the concrete and mortar, but in the meantime I have that other stuff taking up space.

[special-K]

Working all my life, getting a job done in the most efficient way was paramount. It meant everything. That's what makes or breaks you. It becomes second nature, just the way to get things done. But let me tell you, I enjoy nothing more than just getting something done now as long as it's at my own pace. I can get a lot done when I charge into it, and I do. But doing my own work I am happy no matter what the pace.

[slomotion]

This old fossil does everything slow ~ everyone knows continuous high RPM is detrimental.

I remain happily mediocre!

[special-K]

Originally Posted by slomotion

This old fossil does everything slow ~ everyone knows continuous high RPM is detrimental.

I remain happily mediocre!

Well, going by the things I've seen you like to do, taking it slow is required to get it right. The shoe fits! . That is how I hope to live out my hands-on days.

Installed my Genuine GM made in China (Mainland)* obviously not the same application washer pump yesterday. Nipple points to the fender, not inward, and it is almost 1/4" taller. But I could twist it enough for the hose connection and push and squeeze it a lot and got it installed. I just hope it holds up as well as the actual GM part it left the factory with that this one was portrayed to be. How did they get Genuine GM Part for a '95 Suburban K2500 (or any other C/K) out of "You can make this one to work in it's place?


* That was printed on the box, as if mainland makes a difference. I think I'd rather have Taiwan

[slomotion]

Originally Posted by special-K

Well, going by the things I've seen you like to do, taking it slow is required to get it right. The shoe fits! . That is how I hope to live out my hands-on days.
......

Thank you Tim!
I'll take that as an invite... Here's the latest

[davischevy]

Slomotion, that's just plain cool.

[special-K]

Originally Posted by slomotion

Thank you Tim!
I'll take that as an invite... Here's the latest

Originally Posted by davischevy

Slomotion, that's just plain cool.

We like it and now that we have seen it we want to know more, Captain.

[Ol Blue K20]

Originally Posted by slomotion

Thank you Tim!
I'll take that as an invite... Here's the latest

Very nice!

[slomotion]

Thank you all!

It wasn't all that long ago (it seems) that I was all around, over, and under a vehicle doing all sorts of things, but time has changed what I'm capable of (or willing) to do. Having to give up the heavy things I liked to do as a hobby, I had to turn to something less physical.
I've always built models, but until the last few years they were all static. Once I started building the radio control ships and boats a whole new world opened to me where I can participate and keep active ~ even if it is at a less intense pace.
There are kits that are beautiful when built, but wanting to remain a half step out of the main stream I've been scratch building my boats as they can be any subject and to my own liking without any premise to represent a particular subject.
This tug is the latest effort. It's 1:18 scale, (5/8" = 1 foot), 55" long, and 61 lbs fully ballasted. The deck house is removable and the hull gets launched, the ballast goes in, then the deckhouse re-installed. It has lights, smoke, sound, and some custom details that I've included just to add some interest.
(I do still have the dually and use it regularly! )

[Steeveedee]

Wow, you do nice work!

[slomotion]

Thanks to all!

I'll throw out a couple of past builds then back out of here and sit back down at my bench quietly and apologetically for hijacking the thread....
The first two are of a common small freight carrier found around the Chesapeake area, the third is a small river boat with a rather primitive work barge, and the last two are of a Coast Guard 40' Utility Boat.

[3757chevy]

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.

other Larry said post whatever and I like your models slomotion so don't hold back.

[special-K]

I must have overlooked it. Where did you say you bought those??

Today's my dad's birthday (been gone since 1/15/04) and I guess he's coming out through me. I remember him throughout my life asking where someone bought a fine piece of craftsmanship they completed.

Holy cow! I'm glad you told us all these boats are scale models. I would have thought they were the real deal. Great work!

[LT7A]

Phenomenal detail slomotion. And you're not hijacking anything. I think that model-building fits right in with why Other Larry started this thread in the first place. Those close-ups of your latest effort are amazing. Feel free to show us more.

[LT7A]

Phenomenal detail slomotion. And you're not hijacking anything. I think that model-building fits right in with why Other Larry started this thread in the first place. Those close-ups of your latest effort are amazing. Feel free to show us more.

[slomotion]

Thank you.
Asking a modeler to show pics of his work is like asking a grandparent to show photo's of their grandchildren.

Here's a few of some details...

The first one is Maude the cook standing outside her galley with the screen door and window.

Two and three are details on Fort Valley the tug. (Fort Valley - the geographic place - is between Front Royal and Woodstock VA)

Four and five are the "River Supply Company's" dock and office.

[davischevy]

This thread can't be hijacked, because there is no subject.

Like I said, that's just plain cool.

Show us more.

[special-K]

Your work is fascinating. That says it all.

And now you went and spoke about Fort Valley, VA. My sister lives on the western slope of Blue Ridge Mt facing across the S. Fork of the Shenandoah R. valley to Massanutten Mt, between Front Royal and Luray (Rileyville). You can see bits of the western ridge of Fort Valley. Edinburg is straight over Massanutten as the crow flies. I'll take a drive over there from time to time. Just like it's Civil War history, it's a place no one would know is there. A hidden valley. I could be happy living there

[slomotion]

Thank you!

Fort Valley (the tug) of course was named for that area. My childhood was off the Fort Valley Rd in Carmel. Rt 769 (St David's Church Rd.) My sister and I would try to trap minnows in Passage Creek as kids. We had to create our own amusement during the summer days, as the nearest kids were a couple of miles away, but a bike ride was all it took. Our parents never worried about us - not because they didn't care, it was just a different time and place. There was a ramshackle general store at Dry Run and we'd ride our bikes down there for a Nehi soda. The two or three old men on the porch in coveralls would say "Hello" and go on with their conversation. These were the days when 769 was a gravel road and we'd see the dust in the air when the mail car was coming. Any time we'd see road dust we'd stop what we were doing and wait to see who was going by. There'd be dust on the Queen Ann's Lace between the road and a section of old rusty barbed wire strung between gray posts. The houses were a half mile apart, and it seemed we were all shirt-tail relation one way or another.
Today it's getting so built up it's hard to recognize.
Sadly, it's true, "You can't ever go home again". The images in your mind don't change, but the reality does, so "Home" is a just memory.

[davischevy]

Originally Posted by slomotion

Thank you!

Fort Valley (the tug) of course was named for that area. My childhood was off the Fort Valley Rd in Carmel. Rt 769 (St David's Church Rd.) My sister and I would try to trap minnows in Passage Creek as kids. We had to create our own amusement during the summer days, as the nearest kids were a couple of miles away, but a bike ride was all it took. Our parents never worried about us - not because they didn't care, it was just a different time and place. There was a ramshackle general store at Dry Run and we'd ride our bikes down there for a Nehi soda. The two or three old men on the porch in coveralls would say "Hello" and go on with their conversation. These were the days when 769 was a gravel road and we'd see the dust in the air when the mail car was coming. Any time we'd see road dust we'd stop what we were doing and wait to see who was going by. There'd be dust on the Queen Ann's Lace between the road and a section of old rusty barbed wire strung between gray posts. The houses were a half mile apart, and it seemed we were all shirt-tail relation one way or another.
Today it's getting so built up it's hard to recognize.
Sadly, it's true, "You can't ever go home again". The images in your mind don't change, but the reality does, so "Home" is a just memory.

You just described my childhood. Only the names and places were different. Three relative boys and I would leave home in the morning and come back at dusk, starving to death.