Looking4new
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- Joined
- Apr 8, 2012
- Messages
- 9,950
- Location
- Northern Ontario, Canada
- Tractor
- 2012 Kioti CK27HST w/cab
I am back at home for the weekend (a rare occurrence for me). Someone on the Hwy 404 had a very bad day Wednesday morning at about 3. I guess from the carnage to their car they were really hauling a$$. Hit the barrier between the northbound and southbound lanes and then crossed over to the right shoulder and got another barrier there and that flipped them onto the roof and it slid on the roof back over to the center of the road. There the car sat as I got onto the highway with a cop closing the 4 lanes. The highway was closed from hwy 7 to below the Woodbine/Steels get on ramp.
Hauled 136,000 lbs gross up to North Bay this morning. A little light for me. I am more used to 139,900 lbs. Dropped the train where I unloaded and bobtailed to the house. The next load will be picked up on Monday in North Bay and it goes north to Timmins. After we (2 of us) get done with Timmins, we are going to start the haul up to Detour Lake Gold mine, north east of Cochrane, ON. I think there are 25 miles of single to do there. We tar and chipped the road last year with a double and now we throw a single on top of that and the road will stand up better to the heavy (truck)
traffic. The tar and chip is way cheaper than hot mix and as long as you don't make real sharp 'U' turns on it with your multi axle trailer loaded to the nuts, it will last almost forever.
Junior just told me that the blackflies were brutal yesterday, tomorrow when it is hotter I will mess up the rest of their day (cut the grass). Being it is the weekend the fresh meat (tourists) will be up from the city and the little black boogers will leave me alone.
After supper tonight my game plan is to get baked. The company and the law takes a dim view of me doing it when I have to work the next day, but they can't stop me from doing it at home. I will stop smoking it on Sunday morning and that will leave me good to go on Monday at about noon. It is about a 5 hour drive to Timmins.
It is 3 hours and 55 minutes by car and 224.7 miles, so I gestimate 5 hours will do it with my truck.
See ya all in the morning.
Hauled 136,000 lbs gross up to North Bay this morning. A little light for me. I am more used to 139,900 lbs. Dropped the train where I unloaded and bobtailed to the house. The next load will be picked up on Monday in North Bay and it goes north to Timmins. After we (2 of us) get done with Timmins, we are going to start the haul up to Detour Lake Gold mine, north east of Cochrane, ON. I think there are 25 miles of single to do there. We tar and chipped the road last year with a double and now we throw a single on top of that and the road will stand up better to the heavy (truck)
traffic. The tar and chip is way cheaper than hot mix and as long as you don't make real sharp 'U' turns on it with your multi axle trailer loaded to the nuts, it will last almost forever.
Junior just told me that the blackflies were brutal yesterday, tomorrow when it is hotter I will mess up the rest of their day (cut the grass). Being it is the weekend the fresh meat (tourists) will be up from the city and the little black boogers will leave me alone.
After supper tonight my game plan is to get baked. The company and the law takes a dim view of me doing it when I have to work the next day, but they can't stop me from doing it at home. I will stop smoking it on Sunday morning and that will leave me good to go on Monday at about noon. It is about a 5 hour drive to Timmins.
It is 3 hours and 55 minutes by car and 224.7 miles, so I gestimate 5 hours will do it with my truck.
See ya all in the morning.
