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Jason, let me know where we stand on this dolly thing. It is now safe here in our back yard.

Backing up the single axle trailers is always a fun activity, especially a 9,000 lb one on a side slope. My son and I took turns and he finally got the trailer about where we wanted it. aua

A few more numbers: Trip length was 1,201 miles, first 800 miles with tires or dolly as cargo produced 8.5 mpg. Last 400 miles with laundry trailer as shown above, produced 7.7 mpg. Burned 110 gallons of biodiesel/veggie mix and 37 gallons of diesel for the trip. With the fuel selector valve...

More pictures.

Here is a beginning of a series of pictures from the trip (It's Wayne Harris who operates the crane offloading Robert Miller's tires). I'll have trip stats later, lots of catching up to do.

Made it back home last night, slightly dehydrated...full story "at eleven"....

Figures. :-)

Arrived at Waynes' this morning. Taking pictures, but they will have to wait until I get back. I'll be heading down to Camp Blanding this afternoon for a pick up tomorrow. Haven't heard from NEIOWA about the Jacksonville pick up, so I'm not sure about Thursday.

Still "go" for lift-off, should be leaving within a few hours. (Still have to check tire air pressure)

Directions to Wayne Harris from Jesup, GA: Take 341 to small town of Odum and then on to small town Surrency turn left in Surrency onto 121 South go about 5 to 10 miles to the next paved crossroad and turn right onto Holmesville Road go to you see some High-power electric wires (cross country...

Getting ready for next week. Loaded RDM's tires and got bio/veggie oil for 1,000 miles or so.

Can you mount them on site? I have thousands of miles on the tires now on the deuce and trust them even with the extensive wear. Any replacement will have to be fresh and without any signs of aging. Would be good to know the date code. Thanks for the offer, may be the ticket.

Well, the tire auction is ending as we speak and a bit too rich for my taste, so I'm going with "plan B", 4 ea new 1100-20 NDCC's and siping. Anybody know a good deal on those tires between Western VA and Florida?

No problem, always glad to help if I'm near.

I'm getting the deuce ready for the trip and will be in GA/FL on Monday or Tuesday. I will meet you at JAX NAS if you need a lift, tires or no tires and can adjust the schedule to suit you.

Rdixiemiller, the wheels and tires look like this. They are welded and may give you some trouble when separating the "disc" from the wheel itself. Let me know if you can use them, I don't want to bring them down there for no reason.

Got insurance coverage for the deuce. Ended up with Allstate (local agent). They would only do it if they got all our vehicles, so we gave them the business. Only restriction is "no commecial use". The crane never came up, only the gross vehicle weight, wheel base and estimated value. Premium...

Gin pole spreader bar...interesting. Life without a crane, hard to imagine. :-) Looks like the boards were well cared for for the year you kept them Kenny.

This is what the wood looks like, one stack was for Kenny and one for my truck.

Joel, Ryan, I'm still getting the insurance processed for my deuce. It will not be road ready by the 5th. Gulfway still has to approve the application and it's all done by mail. (I also need the deuce to pick up the wood at the sawmill) New plan: I bring the locust along with 20" wheels to...