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Erica Heilman / Rumble Strip

Places & Travel, Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Forrest Foster found a new old truck, thanks to you listeners. We drove around and talked about the truck and about Forrest's new job and I complained about feeling old. Happy Holidays and thank you for your generosity. Happy Holidays to all!

Transcript

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0:00.0

Control is right here.

0:05.0

This is Rumblestrip by Marika Heilman, and that is the sound of the dump on Forrest's new truck going up and down.

0:13.0

He put a brand new pump and a motor and everything on that horse. That's brand new.

0:17.0

Last week, thanks to all of you, Forrest became the owner of a new, old Ford F-350-ton truck with a dump bed.

0:25.2

It cost $15,425, which left about $1,000 to cover insurance, title, registration, and all of that, and other things for this winter for him and maybe enough after all of that

0:39.9

for him to take me and Steve and Rob out for pizza in Hardwick. Since Forrest sold the cows,

0:48.1

he and Tyke have been working for Washington Electric, clearing brush under the power lines.

0:53.7

I went up last Saturday to go for a drive with Forrest in the new truck,

0:57.0

and here's a little bit from that ride.

1:00.0

I don't know. I think it's pretty classy.

1:03.0

No, and new tires on it.

1:08.0

Yeah, he went through a good thing. In the bottom of that, the paper he'd done,

1:14.8

he took it into the state of New Hampshire and the emissions and the smog control and everything

1:21.0

on August 23rd passed the inspection and it's, he unhitched the wiring right here he bought a brand new

1:28.7

highness for every tail light and directional and backup and the whole works is all

1:33.2

brand new wiring no jiggling or nothing apart in it so yeah he put quite a lot

1:39.4

of money so you're a legal man now. Everything's above board.

1:46.2

How long has it been since that's been the case?

1:49.2

It's five years.

1:51.0

That truck wouldn't pass inspection five years ago.

1:54.4

I called the motor vehicle department.

1:56.5

I got an agricultural release.

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