This is Rumble Stripped by Merrick Heilman.

We're in the truck.

Yeah.

And what's going on with the radio?

It's a loose wire or something in the fuses in the radio or something.

I don't know what they are.

But it would be going down the road, smooth blacktopped road, and the radio starts playing.

You're sitting out here, everything is dead still, not anything

going and it shuts off all by itself. But you can't turn it off. Can't turn it off, can't turn it up

and down or nothing. That's Forrest Foster in his truck that you all helped him buy last year.

For the first six months or so, the radio in that truck

would not turn on and now the radio won't turn off. But he loves that truck and he's been

delivering firewood in it all winter. Last week, Forrest and I drove over to Steve Gorlick's

place to cut down a big ash tree. Forrest has been helping thin out his woods, and the trees that they're

cutting will go over to Rob McLeod's new sawmill set up down the road, and in the end, they'll all

have lumber for their projects without any money-changing hands. As many of you remember, Forrest

had to sell off his cows last fall because parts of his barn are falling in and he could not keep it

insured. And you've also reached out to ask when and if Forest was going to fix the barn so he

could get back to milking. And it's now. He has spent the winter planning and talking with his

insurance company and his milk rep and making plans to take down

the damaged parts of the barn and rebuild. And we've been meeting every couple of weeks at

the House of Pizza in Hardwick to talk about all of this. And to be honest, I don't really

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