Muck Boots 'n' Slickers - Life of a Livestock Hauler

Rocking rig, nice looking barn setup from what is visible. Going to KY, we go across on AL24; but eat breakfast at Jack's corner of 157 there.
Next time up, I will whack a left up 157 and see the chutes. Rainy night to be rolling out of there up157 thru the tri cities and up your pig trial.
But; tires run cool, and nobody on the roads but you and the man that catches you......

 

Do you remember that ol truck stop at Muscle Shoals?

If you make it up there through Moulton stop and eat at the cafe in the barn there. It was plenty good last time I was there

 

Right off hwy 247 about 8 miles from 24 is the Rattlesnake Saloon. They have live music, a restaurant, and outdoor picnic tables. You ride down the hill in the bed of this F250 and hang out.

It's cool down there and the food is pretty good. The bands play underneath the rocks, it's worth the trip if you are ever in a car going that way. Not far from the coondog cemetery, maybe 10 miles away.

 

The place Im playing fleet mechanic at the guy before me put double rounds and lollops on the fenders he really thought he was old skool cool but he was just a pretender.

 

In later years, if you were coming in on US72, as you negotiated the split of the 72's there was a big stop on the left you as were coming WB.
But I saw it in the 70"s as we were going to relatives in Knox and Chatt, before mine moved to KY. Never stopped in.

Now, back up to 1956. You cross the old original only (US43) bridge to Florence. Off the bridge straight up and level off a couple of blocks, 72 made a right turn and went on out to where the stop you mention must have been. (All this was 2 lane).
When you got up level, and turned right , the next 200 feet of so had a wide hard pull off on the right. The best BBQ anywhere then was across the street. Everyone stopped and parked there (EB and WB) as it was open way in the night. Good food, good coffee.

This varies but.
The son of the owner worked there as a young man. Time passed, he grew up and the place was closed and he went on to become Sherriff of Lauderdale County AL. He was the Sherriff who had the misfortune to have his female deputy fall in love with a prisoner, load him up and took off together. Click the link and just cruise thru all the happenings. You prolly have heard of it back then, but it was like down home in AL then.

 

Been by there several times, never stopped off to go in. 247 is like riding a roller coaster. Don't cut up thru there with very little in your tank.
Might be aimed skyward and a gallon roll away from the sucking tube. Oh, dog might have been mediocre, but buried there.. The greatest...

 

You want cool (totally), and strange but very simple. Blue Bell clothing out of the Carolinas had some old Sterling's (real Sterling's)
I don't know where the muffler was (if it had one) but the pipe came up like between the hood and firewall, right hand side parallel; with the RH
door post/end of windshield, stuck up about a foot above the cab.


Looked a lot like these old Browns of Associated. Just visualize a pipe coming up that RH door post and up about 2 feet.
Not chromed, heat treated tint...

 

She’s a filthy thing but sure is appealing to me sitting in the hay field like that.

Kinda quiet in here

 

It was foggy here the other morning, and the ole heap was grimy from all the rain, but I still thought it was a cool picture.

 

Too quiet.
Everyone must be running hard or working on their ride.