Post up those Point of View hood shots!

[HDN]

I was really enjoying the functional heater on this trip rolling through my home town.

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I bet you weren't enjoying the windshield though - mine leaks all over me when I'm driving in the rain! Rubber seals - HAH

 

[US6x4]

I bet you weren't enjoying the windshield though - mine leaks all over me when I'm driving in the rain! Rubber seals - HAH

Yeah...I had random drops of rain hitting me in the face. No clue where they came from.

 

[Darylfraser]

Headed home after the Weare Ralley this summer with my 2 daughters. This is Concord, NH.

 

[M813rc]

Coming back from a touch-a-truck event for kids in Burnet, TX on Saturday.

Looking over the hood of the M931A2 at Reloader64's M813 and Pawnshop's M1009.
In the mirror, my better half driving the M1009 with an M416, and her sister driving the M1028A2.

I chastise myself for taking pictures while driving, but do it anyway.
I don't really look at the phone when I'm taking the picture, just point in the general direction and shoot several. I usually get one that can be cropped and straightened into a decent shot.

Cheers

 

[US6x4]

Looking out at a part of Wenatchee, WA

 

[98G]

Flat towing an M923 from Socorro NM to beautiful Mountain Air NM. Note the empty water bottle propping the windshield open and the soft top folded back.

 

[Another Ahab]

Looking out at a part of Wenatchee, WA

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Good looking country out there, US6x4!

Funny, because I got family out there in the PNW (Seattle), but just never got on a plane yet to go take a look:

- What's the elevation there, is that high desert country (hard to tell), or are you all maybe just now going through a dry spell?

 

[US6x4]

Good looking country out there, US6x4!

Funny, because I got family out there in the PNW (Seattle), but just never got on a plane yet to go take a look:

- What's the elevation there, is that high desert country (hard to tell), or are you all maybe just now going through a dry spell?

Wenatchee & East Wenatchee are divided by the Columbia River in the middle of the state. To the west is woodlands and to the east is high desert. This picture is looking to the east and at ~600' asl.

Seattle is very nice in the summer and very wet the rest of the time. The east side of the state is in a rain shadow and is mostly dry sage brush or rocky if it's not farm fields.

 

[Another Ahab]

Seattle is very nice in the summer and very wet the rest of the time. The east side of the state is in a rain shadow and is mostly dry sage brush or rocky if it's not farm fields.

My brother lived in Seattle for a year or two (got a Masters degree in Marine and Coastal Management from the University of Washington; but ended up retiring as a Captain of a Fire Department in Chatham County NC):

- He talked about the native spiders out there in Seattle who kind of thrived in the wet weather

- He said they were so big out there that at night he could hear them walking around on his walls and ceilings; their feet clicked as they walked around (don't know what kind they were)

- My brother always liked snakes, turtles, lizards and such. But he never liked spiders. Those big boys freaked him out big time!

 

[Valley Rock]

Pulling a steep hill with an overload of water on

 

[Another Ahab]

Pulling a steep hill with an overload of water on

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Love the sound of that lumbering labor! Thanks for the vid, Valley Rock.

Saw a sheet plastic quonset hut-like growing shed toward the end of the vid:

- What are you all growing up there?

 

[canadacountry]

@Another Ahab umm maybe military-grade coffee as the bickering bleeping "brass" always need too much of this stuff?
(I know I'm being very silly about this hehehehe)

 

[Another Ahab]

@Another Ahab umm maybe military-grade coffee as the bickering bleeping "brass" always need too much of this stuff?
(I know I'm being very silly about this hehehehe)

A beanstalk, I get it. Sure! Like Coffee bean that is.

 

[US6x4]

Picked up my kid from school. At the Jr. High, the kids have phones and everyone was taking pictures. My kid was the talk of the school the next day or two...

 

[HDN]

Picked up my kid from school. At the Jr. High, the kids have phones and everyone was taking pictures. My kid was the talk of the school the next day or two...

Once in awhile my dad would pick me up from school with his WW2 jeep. It was a cool way to get home

Betcha made those soccer moms all jealous with that truck. You could put the whole team in the back

 

[US6x4]

Once in awhile my dad would pick me up from school with his WW2 jeep. It was a cool way to get home

Betcha made those soccer moms all jealous with that truck. You could put the whole team in the back

The petite soccer moms in their huge suburbans with ski rack & cargo box only go up to my hood. Over time, the 5-ton doesn't look or feel that big, but I get the size perspective refreshed when it's mingling with normal cars in traffic or parking lots.

 

[HDN]

The petite soccer moms in their huge suburbans with ski rack & cargo box only go up to my hood. Over time, the 5-ton doesn't look or feel that big, but I get the size perspective refreshed when it's mingling with normal cars in traffic or parking lots.

I guess that means it's time to find a bridge truck to take to school!

 

[msgjd]

Picked up my kid from school. At the Jr. High, the kids have phones and everyone was taking pictures. My kid was the talk of the school the next day or two...

Around 2001 i timed the delivery of a load of gravel with my M51 gasser so that i could pick up my son after his Track practice, no sense to spend an hour-and-a-half doing a 2nd round trip down there to get him

The ol' girl howls loudly into the bus lineup area out of sight for a bit, the noise echoing off the old brick building.. When i finally see the courtyard, the entire Track team, football team, coaches, and some of the girlfriends are all wide-eyed wondering WTH is coming

This is pre-cell phone photo days.. His coach is grinning ear-to-ear because he knew me.. Everyone else is dumbfounded. My boy immediately looks down when he sees what it is, grabs his stuff and jumps in.. He doesn't speak to me the entire way, stares straight ahead. When we get home he says , "Dad, don't ever do that to me again."

 

[msgjd]

 

[HDN]

When we get home he says , "Dad, don't ever do that to me again."

You could've picked me up from school. Why, you can even pick me up from the office! I'm not too old for that sorta thing Though my wife might be wondering why I got a ride home in an army truck if I didn't go to work with mine...