[Farmall] Farmall Travelall (Colorado)

[Bob Currie]

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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