Monday, August 13, 2018

WILD WEST #17


8 comments:

Chic Silber said...


Love the snazzy anklets

Chic Silber said...


Interesting that the door

is above the fifth wheel

Wade G. Burck said...

Above the fifth wheel is normally where the door is for a sleeper/dressing room, unless you are Hawthorn. Then it is a recycled Hawthorn Mellody Dairy freezer on wheel's converted to a meat freezer. Had to wheel that monster in and out for washing. Meat was delivered in wooden peach crates, half thawed, dripping blood. As the old Dairy freezer never worked well often half a shipment of meet had to be discarded after a week or so. Awful smell!!!!! Not much good about the Hawthorn "good old days."


Wade Burck

Chic Silber said...


I recall several above the fifth wheel

but on the side over what we called the

dance floor not the front facing the horse

Wade G. Burck said...

I don't know what the "dance floor" is, but this looks like it is on the passenger side of the the 5th wheel. I don't understand "front facing the horse."

Wade Burck

Chic Silber said...


The dance floor is 1 term for

the upper level of the trailer

sometimes called the gooseneck

The "Horse" is another term for

the tractor with the 5th wheel

Kinda like calling an IH truck

a "Cornbinder" from history

That door didn't look like it

was on the side of the trailer

to me which is why I said that

Some of us crusties use some

strange throwback terms sorry

Wade G. Burck said...

I have only heard it called a crumb box, crummy or sleeper. Note the reflector. That made me think on the side. Doesn't make sense to have one in the front in the middle.

Wade Burck

Chic Silber said...


Yup on those terms & I've

also heard "the penthouse"

The dance floor is only

that level of deck & not

the space above it Wade

As far as position I was

going by the roof line

& the angle of the truck

which is why I thought odd