[Farmall] Farmall Travelall (Colorado)

[Dave Merchant]

Here is a link which may be somewhat relevant...

http://www.cw-mccall.com/works/wolf/wolf.shtml

Dave


At 12:38 PM 10/19/2006, you wrote:
>Speaking of THT's, the last one I did took me over the same highway Mike. 
>Snowin' like hell at the Eisenhower tunnel. We were hauling an F-12 
>Waukesha and an F-14 from Nick Foster's place in Iowa. Since I was headed 
>west and lookin' at that long down grade, I thought it best to pull over 
>there by the tunnel, and flip a coin so as to make an educated decision 
>whether to start down or wait it out..Came up heads, so I checked all the 
>chain binders real good, put a wad of gum in my mouth as a stress reliever 
>and took off. Made it down that long, long grade with no slipping or 
>sliding..and as I remember Greg, spent the night in Glenwood Springs at a 
>motel along the Aspen Highway, couple miles south of I-70. We had a very 
>nice dinner at a place there on the River, west side of the road. And I'll 
>also mention Greg, there is some beautiful country right there in that 
>area. Although, doing 2700 miles in 4.5 days pulling a trailer is out of 
>my league, I know it doesn't even phase my cheese head buddies cause they 
>live on cheezits and ho ho's, and if they cut a finger, WD-40 drips out 
>instead of blood.
>
>bobcurrie
>
>  08:44 PM 10/18/06, you wrote:
>>Mike,
>>You went right through my town of Glenwood Springs. I would have been
>>glad to have shown you some western Colorado hospitality if I had
>>known. Yes, we did get a taste of winter. 40 miles up the road in
>>Aspen, they got a foot and a half of snow. Glad you made it back
>>safely with your new 'find'. How did you find it way out here?
>>Greg
>>On Oct 18, 2006, at 5:39 PM, Mike Schmudlach wrote:
>>
>>>Yes, That was an A series Travelall that followed me from Western
>>>Colorado.
>>>I left Sunday morning and made in back this afternoon.  2,700 miles
>>>including a snow covered trip through the Rockies.  Snow was
>>>falling at Vail
>>>and the Eisenhower Tunnel area was pretty icy.  When I went through
>>>McClure
>>>pass on 133 the signs read "Fallen Rocks", they were not kidding.
>>>Two rocks
>>>on the road were so big you couldn't see the Giant endloader on the
>>>other
>>>side of them.  They were over 15' tall and they were trying to
>>>drill holes
>>>in them to blow them up since the articulated endloader couldn't
>>>budge them.
>>>The trip wasn't quite as exciting as a Bob Curie  THT but enough
>>>for me.  If
>>>I had gotten into the Rockies a couple hours later I would still be
>>>there
>>>STRANDED.
>>>Mike
>>
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