trip report so far

Tacoma

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far enough away
so. I know you all miss me, so I had some free time and a Panera bread within range (free wireless! woo hoo. ), thought I'd say hey. Hey!

so far I've spent: about $900 on gas (which is an AWESOME 2.85 in Ohio right now, love that! oh yes. Good for profits.), $1400 on repair (grrrrrr), $330 on a rental car (with a 25% discount at that! daaaam, coverage adds up!), around $125 on food, $114 on supplies, $55 on tolls (most of that in NY, those @#$*!'s!!), $42 on movies and audio books, and $139 on hotels. Total expenditure to date, since the 20th of March: $3195. HOT DOG! that is pretty sweet. So far I've turned in invoices for just over $1300! weee. So by the end of the week I should be turning a profit finally. That is good news!

The weather has been aggravating. It was nice when I got here, but then it snowed and rained for about a week, and got really, really cold... and today it's about 70 and sunny as hell. So I don't know. Hopefully it will stay really nice out so I can work all night and make up the lost time this truck cost me. I'm about a week behind so far. In a week I'll be in Akron OH, where I will be checking in at Summit to ogle the pretty engines they put in the catalogs and which are all on display along 2 walls of the enormous showroom... and goggling through the clearance section. Last time they had Milodon oil pans for BBC for $80.. and me without a big block then! Ha! And a sweet Hi-lift for $30. Also going to try and swing by Pace Performance and price some upgrades for the trucks, if I can get over that way.

Then off to WV and National Tire and Wheel for some more ogling, maybe pick up some new front springs for this truck, to fit the enormous Cummins oil pan when I get it... After that, the hell of Pittsburgh and its hills, then over to pick up my PA CCW near State College, and off to Millerstown and my friend Tom's inherited farm.. where I will help him finish up his M35 Crane Project (he put a HEMMT crane behind the cab of his deuce... !!! freeeeak), and discuss the best way to swap a Cummins into this truck in a weekend.

then I'll finish up work, pick up my wife in NY, visit some stuff, and head home, Cummins and monster truck frame in tow. YEEEE HA

so that's my dispatch from here. Nothing much happening.
 

peckertrax

don't follow me....
Gotta love being self employed...ehh.

I hope things start going right for you. Taking a loss like that before you get to the jobsite where you can make some money is pretty hard.
 

Tacoma

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I pressure wash buildings all over eastern OH, most of WV (not much work there, thank God), and the entire state of PA (minus Philly, because I hate Philly-- to work in. Visiting is fine.).

Thanks Eric! --answer your phone, foo! LOL I am really missing my box van right now... much MUCH easier/better/more convenient to work out of!!!
 

Tacoma

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I am pleased to say that the weather appears to have mostly broken. It's downright hot right now, and it's going to cool down just a little this weekend, but no cold in the published forecasts. YAY!!!!

Plus, Summit on Tuesday. Yee ha!
 

Meat_

Banned
Location
Lehi
They have to come all the way to Utah to get someone to wash their buildings? :eek:

Well at least you'll be behind a Cummins on the way home :D
 

Tacoma

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hahahh nah, this got started in NY, I'm just too dumb to turn down the money yet hahahah the time off is nice!

That Cummins is gonna rock. It is my as-yet uniformed opinion that said motor has too much pump/boost and not enough injector... but is running a claimed 260hp/614ft. lbs. That is indeed going to be nice... and I've been digging the 454, when it's running... impressed me that it bent both valves but didn't kill anything else. :eek: yikes!
 

tiny2085

HomeGrown
Location
Two-will-uh
You'll never pick up the truck! You'll just continue to entertain me with stories of this mysterious rig with "rockwells", whatever they are... Hope your having fun buddy!!
 

Tacoma

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far enough away
hahah Well the Rockwells are coming home, not sure I can swing the Doubler this summer or not yet... so I've been working my ass off to get caught up, hopefully I can take an extra week of work and pay everything off so I can get that truck done!!

This 454 is going to ROCK in the Blazer. OOOOOHHHHHHH
 
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