Is Shameless still allowed to come visit on here??

what has that got to do with anything FreeGas ??   Dont be an ass hole.

i'm back!!! whew...was a busy long a$$ed week. thank you all for the concerns. Joe, i'll call you back tomarrow, o-k...the reason of not being here...had to help a friend go pick up a machine he bought. only problem was it was in Dallas TX, he's 78 years old and i'm....well i'm a bit younger but not by much. he has a newer Chevy 3/4 ton pickup and a 3 axle flatbed trailer, we gits down there, the machine weights about 20,000+ lbs. o-k, no problem! the dude that sold it to him hired a crane to set it on our trailer. brand new one of them truck cranes that keep extending out ALOT shows up. tooks them 3 hours to load that machine. no one knew what they were doing including the crane operator! we had to tell them everything! the store owner where he bought the machine asked me what/how i thought i knew how to do it...told him i was a farm boy and we have done stuff like this all our life! all he said was "oh". lol, they would only do what we told them after they tried what they thought was the way! anyway...after 3 hours it was loaded and we started to strap and chain it on. by that time it was motel time. found one close by but when we went in to register it stunk so bad we left fast! that was just in the lobby! drove around in heavy traffic awhile and found a old motel 6 (called something else now). it was clean and they were doing some remodeling but was open. not being used to their beds, i didn't sleep much that night. plus no food places around for supper or morning chow. the place we picked this machine up was across the fence from the GM plant where they make the Tahoes, for as far as you could see were new Tahoes (all of them black), sitting waiting for chips.  finally got going, had to stop several times to re-tighten the same chain on the front. everything else stayed tight. i know one thing...the friend had a factory engine break on his pickup and that was AWESUM! i want one on my dually now! i took over driving after the fuel up, drove til dark, then thought we should motel it again, sure hate to break down in the dark, plus i didn't want you know who to know what we was doing (cops/dot). we was pretty lucky and could by-pass the scales. another sleepless night in the motel, almost went out and sat in the truck to sleep. now i AM tuckered on the 3rd day out there, the friend was in about the same way. we took it kinda easy and just cruised on homeward. we got home with no break downs and i think both of us slept on thru the rest of the week! whew! only did about 1500 miles, but they was long miles! i think the old lady....ooooops....i mean the loving wife enjoyed being home without me! lol it was around zero degrees here while we were basking in the 20-25 degrees where we were. glad we got thru OK before the results of my machine hit there! i spoke to an officer when we got home, i told him he was to late...we wasn't doing anything illegal now! lol again...thank you all for your well wishes, concerns, prayers...you guys are TOPS! ya'll ROCK!

Glad you is back. Knew it couldn't be anything serious, you is just toooooo darn onery.

Dale, glad to hear you’re OK! I kinda figured momma got tired of you real quick and took you on a little hunting trip 🤣

A 20k pound snow machine? OH

Hope this one puts out real snow and not ice like the old one.🤣

Glad to hear your OK Shameless!

Not to worry, he sold the backhoe a couple years ago.