[ponyakr]

Mountain folks and Rednecks is all kin.

[Greg Reid]

Originally Posted by ponyakr

Mountain folks and Rednecks is all kin.

That's pretty funny. I didn't even know that Snuffy Smith was still running.

[ponyakr]

Anyone interested in seeing more about DD can just go to youtube an type in DD. It's an all you can watch buffet.

[ponyakr]

I think I told ya'll about my first shifting experience. It was in one of the old bullet nose Studes from either '50 or '51. It was a black Champion 4-door. And, of course, the back doors were the "suicide" type, opening from the front. It probably looked something like the 1st pic. I can't recall if it was a '50 or '51. Couldn't find a single pic of it in our old scrapbooks.

As I've mentioned, a red Stude pickup was my first daily driver, in the summer of '55. Studes were still popular in those days. For anyone interested, I posted a couple of pics of Stude cars, pickups, and big trucks on the Tow Truck Tales thread in the Lobby.

[ponyakr]

Sometimes we get some violent thunderstorms around here that will blow down some big trees. We had one of these not too long ago. TJ discovered a big Pin Oak across one of her horse riding trails. It almost got one of the '69 birds I'm storing for MB. There are four in all. The one from the empty parking spot is over at a neighbors shop, donating parts. I got the upper motor mounts off of it for my '68 bracket bird project.

The tree was about 5' across. It was forked, and about 70-80' tall. Each fork was about 28" in diameter. One fell to the north. The other fell to the south, and landed on a 2-ton Chevy truck, which saved the green '69. By the way, this is the same car I mentioned that I bought for $300 while somebody was stealing TJ's purse out of our truck, which we had left unlocked, just outside the building. It was originally an overhead cam 6 with a manual tranny. It was restorable when I bought it, but as you can see has just been used for parts.

TJ had to clear another trail around the tree. The tree makes my Kioti look small. But I can assure you, it's a full size CK27 with a five foot bushhog and a front end loader. There's some more truck pics on the "tow truck tales" thread in the Lobby. Some of the pics I took won't upload for some reason. I've got a few more tree pics, if they'll upload.

[ponyakr]

These birds are still close enuff to some tall trees to get hit. Here's one on the south side, and a couple on the north side. Most of these guys are somewhere in the neighborhood of 70-80' tall, and weigh ? tons. Some trees will go thru storms for 50+ years with no problems. Then one day, just the right storm comes thru and down they go.

Since I've seen this tree down, I've been noticing that most of the houses in my area have big trees in the yard which could easily do serious damage to the house. I suppose insurance co just overlook it. It looks to me like it would be a good reason not to insure a house.

By the way, you may have noticed the rear end in front of one of the birds, complete with springs and wheels. This is probably only about 200 yards or so from the Speed Barn where these cars used to reside. The frame rails were so rusty that the rear end came out from under the bird while we were draging it to its new home. It ain't like Arizona around here. We have HUMIDITY, ya'll !