What if it Snows?

There's two van docks back there.

The van guys prefer the dock nearest the wall, I think because the wall provides a point of reference when they back in around the corner.

I was on the driver's side of his rig, so I didn't SEE the door come off, but I HEARD it.

Then he pulled forward enough for me to see his door laying on the ground.

"I sure hope that's for his second stop delivery, and he didn't actually tear his door off", I thought.

Except he totally did.

I think he was a victim of unconsidered tail swing.

If he asked for help I woulda helped him.

If it was another old, bald, fat, wheezy trucker like me, I'd have helped him.

But when he sauntered back there in his jammies like "Oh, well. Must be Wednesday, I tore another door off," I just kept reading WIIS on my phone.

 

Ham Mound tundra........

 

Dairy cows thrive on citrus pulp, (the leavings of crushing for juice) . We used to downhaul cottonseed meal from Buckeye Cotton Oil Mill in Clarksdale, MS to some feed mill operator in Tampa. FL. Story was; 2 gallon of his mix and an old tomato cup of cottonseed meal sprinkled on it,would cause a Holstein to dump 1 gpm thru all 4. Stranger yet??? We hauled it down for $.35 per mile, the going rate for our livestock hauling going anywhere.

 

Looming snow blast is a great incentive to get in gear and finish the up.

 

Ha Ha Ha………

 

How do you guys tighten wheel bearings now?
Our old method was:
Tighten up snug, all seated well.
Spin the wheel and continue to tighten till drag is just before locking the spin.
Back off 1/2 turn to closest hole before cotter pin.
Pin it. (I have never used a torque wrench on lug nuts-Never burned a brg or lost a wheel.)

On changing a spare on to the rig on road.Spoke wheels.
Get spare down close.
Remove flat, mount spare.
Snug up nuts, lugs fitting solid. Crude criss cross sequence.
Set a coke bottle up alongside tire sidewall, just touching.
Slowly rotate tire, and tighten down to align with bottle
Remove jack, put up tools and go. (Other content bottles OK if available.)
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I checked........loaded tankers crossing the tundra are permitted.

 

One man. One shovel. Had aboot 12 -13 inches by the time it quit a few hours ago.