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i left home thur 0400 , first pickup in alanta area, arrived 1100 am loaded & out at noon, next stop ft payne Ala, in at 200 pm out at 400 pm, next stop mont Ala area, in at 700pm, out at 900 pm, next stop before del is slidell La for a nap at 330 am truck now contains 885 lbs of large common snapper,179 breeder yellow bellys, 71 4in paints 69 mud turtles & 23 yellow 4in
unload 1 st stop in N.O. La at
0700 700 lbs of snappers
unload next stop at 1000am bal of the snappers, pick up 4 alligator snappers ( zoo sales)
wgt 159 lbs
" 125
" 110
wgt 38 ( female)
my cost about 1700.00
last stop unload breeder yellows & load 100 4" red ears
going to the farm to get this stuff out of the truck and in the taks where the can cool down 4hrs later 125 miles from home on I 10 bam truck blows engine, we are running down hill , tell my partner to get a truck headed to us, he calls and we have a truck coming before we get to the bottom of the hill, as we get to the bottom, we cross a small creek, i tell Jim to hold on, head out across the ditch up in to some trees for shade , we make in to the pines, just across the creek, get 4 2 liter coke bottles & start carring water to keep the turtles cool, 2 1/2 hrs jerry pulls up, we roll the truck back hook to it with a chain, pull it to the nexxt exit, get the ok to leave it , hook up to the trailer, at 0100
this am we got all the trtles in the tanks , ended with a loss of 0.
Gene
this will be 1 of the articals
in our book coming out next year THE TURTLES GUYS
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