NOMADICISTA

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3440/3294418579_a1d67c8e88.jpg The Quincy Stack a day or so before Julio's blew it down. The Steam Hoist Association claimed it would cost $300000 to repair. Julio's charged $30000 to drop it. It stood for over a hundred years, I don't think it was going anywhere. The...

I realize this will never happen but I like the looks of this old bird. The engine is gone, the dump box is gone. I figured it would have gone for scrap in the summer of '08 but its still sitting in Hancock by the canal. http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2693/4380770699_62b786ae7f_b.jpg http://farm5.st...

Thanks Mr. Sharkey,
After digging a bit deeper, I found that Flickr actually will give you the url so you CAN put the picture somewhere else...wonders never cease. I have also been hunting the web for images of us at Abu, and it almost seems like we vanished. DF

Oops,
It looks like I don't have a clue as to how to make these pictures work.
I don't have many, as they were all digital and I left them on a terabyte harddrive, only to have it Xrayed to death at the Kuwaiti Airport. Oooof.
DF

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4026/4380631861_dc30698378_b.jpg This was the carpenter's deuce. It looks tatty, but it had been carrying forms for poured walls for 6 months and had an excuse. The view is from peeking around a serpetine labyrinth we made with a wretch and some concrete bunkers. The ...

A friend snapped this of me on my way to pull him and his shiny new Caterpillar loader out of a muck hole.

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I bought some of these four years ago. They were $635 then. Is there an even better deal out there I don't know about?
DF

Dear Mr. Sharkey, I would like to share my experience with using solar for washing. I have two regular OLD Whirlpools. I don't know the exact nomenclature but they both have belt driven transmissions with wig-wags. The inverter is a 5000watt continous modified sine (purchased on ebay) powered with 8...

This story has waited until now to be told. Mostly because it never seemed like a story until now. Deuce and a halves have been in my life for more then 20 years. They are the back bone of the United States Army. Its irrelevant whether you agree with what is going on in our country today, its incons...

Stories need to be told. Sometimes simply for the sake of the teller. In this case, telling my story, clears my head of latent resentments, and generally makes me more sociable. As this forum attracted me by its beautiful pictures of the Truck houses, I probably should start with the story of the tr...

Mr Sharkey, I don't want to hijack your thread here. You are the main event on this topic and I don't want to detract from that. Stories must be told and yours should be told here. I don't mind practicing telling my story. Its kind of fun. Its also amazing when it comes out. The details stun me now....