2022 General BS Thread
Cargo Master
Joined: Mar 2006
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From: Sand GAp, KY
Why oh why does it have to snow like this? I have to put the chains in Frankie and cross the creek, go around the bend and skid some logs out tomorrow. Brakes or no brakes it is the only option left. Tried the tractor yesterday but the front just slid around, no way to steer lol. A small dozer would make life so much easier but they cost to damn much!
Cargo Master
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From: Sand GAp, KY
Hey Wes, back in 2016 we got hit hard down here. Come Sunday they had not touched our road at all and Dawn had to be at work Monday. I called the state garage and asked when they would be through here and they told me my road was not a priority. Dawn called them back and went off on them. Told them that not everyone out here was on welfare and some had jobs lol. They told her that it was not their problem, they would get to when they could. She told them to call her boss at the Boone Tavern and tell him why she couldn't get there. They asked what she did there and she told them she was the senior accountant and personnel manager. He got real quite and then said ok and hung up. Two hours later the plow was rolling through here. We later found out that it seems Berea College has a lot of pull in this area and they didn't want to **** them off! That was her last winter, goddamn I miss her.
Cargo Master
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From: Sand GAp, KY
Dawn loved working there, it was a dream come true for her. We wanted to move down here from Grant county. When she got that job I quit mine and we moved. I started my own fab shop and we were happy living in our little "shack" on our useless 65 acres of rock cliffs and trees lol. Now it is just me and my gsd Storm, I am still happy just really miss my Dawn, may she rest in peace.
Cargo Master
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From: Sand GAp, KY
Very true Ryan. I always said she was my circuit breaker. She had a way of keeping me calm and cool headed and helped teach me control. Funny thing is, two days before she passed she came home mad as hell. Seems some guy in a Toyota had nearly ran her and another car off the road three days in row on the same curve/hill. She looked at me and said, "I am going to find out who this ******* is and I am sending you to their house". I asked if she realized what would happen if I she did that and all she said was "I am flipping the breaker off". That guy doesn't know how lucky he got when she died. But she did have a way of being able to talk to people and make them see all sides of a topic and help them come to terms with it.
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Cargo Master
Joined: Mar 2006
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From: Sand GAp, KY
Put the chains on Frankies front tires today and went across the creek and back around the bend. hooked on to a fallen ash about 40' long. She pulled it out of there and up the creek bank and up the steep hill in front of the house and never slipped a tire! This is the first work the old girl has done since 2016 and she performed flawlessly. I forgot how much I love my "not so stock" Bronco. will be going bac in for more next week weather permitting.
