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Tuffguy707

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Hey everyone, my name is Tony and I have grown up with Mack trucks my entire life. In fact I learned to drive in an 82 R686 tandem dump truck with a duplex transmission when I was 14 years old. I worked at my family construction company and we had all Macks but one truck.

I am a heavy equipment operator by trade and I am thinking of starting my own excavating company. My plans are to buy a Titan because I think they are the nicest looking trucks on the road and I plan on getting a Talbert or Etnyer lowboy trailer to move my equipment with. I want to start out with the Titan/lowboy combo with a 314 or 308 Cat excavator and a D4 or 5 dozer and gradually move up as i grown although I do not plan on getting really big but I'd like to have two or three trucks, two Mack Granite Dumps and the Titan lowboy.

Anyhow I thought I would introduce myself on here and I'm excited to be on here. I am a member on a Cummins forum as well as my other love is Ram/Cummins pickup trucks as my personal truck is a 2013 Ram 3500 CTD.

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Welcome here. Sounds like a good plan. Paul

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Oh and my username/handle was given to me by my uncle..sort of. We had a roll- off company and my uncle thought it would be a good idea to write "The tough guys of trash removal" on the back of the cab and every time I drove one of the trucks everyone would call me tough guy there for the name stuck.

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Oh wow what a small world. I actually live off applegrove close to middle branch so I'm pretty much in North Canton

You are close to Freightrain. He lives off Cleveland Ave. just north of Mt. Pleasant.

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Ken

PRR Country and Charter member of the "Mack Pack"

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Welcome tuffguy. Ya, I'm just 3 blocks north of Kames. You might see my B model running around town pulling my race trailer.

I used to live over off Aspen and Middlebranch years back. That swiss style housing allotment on the east side.

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Larry

1959 B61 Liv'n Large......................

Charter member of the "MACK PACK"

 

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Welcome aboard. Now the straight talk. Unless you have a boat load of money I can't see how you will make it if you buy

all of this equipment new such as a Titan. You can get used equipment in good shape for 1/4 to 1/2 the price. Ease on in to it and

get the business profitable. There is a lot of competition out there with older equipment(less overhead). Good luck!

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