Amber Waves of Grain I went to a wedding over the weekend in Kenton, OH and did some cycling around Ada and Algers the morning before the ceremony.  That was my first time riding in a farm area like that…

Lonnie at Daft Family Farms in McArthur Ohio was nice enough to send us a picture of himself with the used Cat P6000 that we sold him and delivered a couple weeks ago. Lonnie needed a forklift fast and at the…

The Lego Car Blog One of our favourite builders, the Technic genius Nick Barrett, is back with two beautifully engineered forklift trucks. Each is loaded with Technic functionality, which Nick has used to hoist a rival, and most excellent, Lego…

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Check out this spiffy graphic from Automotive News on the evolution of auto assembly in Mexico (Japanese automakers march into Mexico, set up export base, Mar 10). That expansion has to a large extent…

The Lego Car Blog Not just an excuse for a slightly rude title, but a comparison of Technic fork lift trucks…. We’ll start with set 850, just as Technic itself did, way back when the summers were warm and everybody…

The Lego Car Blog Everyone likes a good forking. Brickshelf’s legosamigos certainly does, and although his Crawler Forklift is a type of vehicle we’ve not seen before here at TLCB Towers, when you need to fork in a muddy field…

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I keep an empty wine bottle from Chateau de La Rivière in my office. It says right on the front label “Mis en bouteille au chateau,” that is, that the wine was bottled at the winery. It…