Brocky

G-Day Mates!!!! I have to agree with this man 100%!!! Thank You Hippy!!! All you have to do is You Tube the music of the late Slim Dusty to realize this commentator is correct. They did not nick name Slim "Mr. Australia" for spreading this kind of BS to the Aussie public.

TJC, Good luck with your operation. Our prayers will be with you. A urinary infection is bad enough without finding more problems, But at least you appear to have a good Doc that was willing to look you over good.

Yes, the men who work on power lines in terrible weather conditions do not get either the pay or the respect they deserve. My house heat system is the same as yours. I have a large Eden Air electric heater, which I can run off my generator, is enough to keep the house warm for short periods of time. Our local Electric Coop is very good at responding to calls quickly. For hurricane and ice storms they preposition trucks all over their system so they can respond better/quicker.

It would not be so much fun to be on BMT if everyone stayed on topic!!!

The Mack engineers designed the complete power train to accept the heaviest (and overweight) loads that a customer could put on the truck. As a hobby truck, bobtailing or with a light load of toys, this usage of the entire available power train is not necessary. I would first determine what YOU are going to use the truck for?? If NO heavy work is planned, you can play with the present duplex and enjoy yourself, with out going to the work and expense of swapping transmissions.

Be sure to check input shaft lengths and how it fits your bushing in the flywheel.. You may have to change the length of your drive shaft?? Then check U-joint angles..

We have survived this cold snap.. Down to 10 degrees yesterday and this morning and I still have water with no problems. Yesterday's sun did a great job of melting Saturday's snow. Our road is dry, but by the TV, north of us in Greenville they still have some on their roads. Today's predicted 45+ should cure that, and finish our snow cover.

Osterland in Carlisle PA used the Deutz air cooled engines in their Diamond REO Giants up until about 1990 when the Deutz would not pass EPA regulations anymore.

It has snowed all day here, hard at times.. We have only accumulated about 3-4 inches as the ground is still warm and it is melting from the bottom. Very little on the roads as they melted as it hit. BUT,BUT It is supposed to go down to 10 degrees with some wind chill factor tonight, So they will be a skating rink in the morning!! And thru Monday as well as it is not supposed to warm up enough to dry the roads.

Still NO headache rack or headboard on the trailer?? I will be that driver will insist on them in the future!!!

Just on the TV news. Supposed to start 0600 Saturday morning and by all day give us about 2 to 4 inches.. That will be a major blizzard for these people in the south.. Probably will not get any plows out until Monday??? I will sit home and laugh at them!!

Things have pretty well cleared up around her. BUT we are supposed to get more snow on Saturday.. Was 10*F this morning my pipes held OK.. Supposed to be in the 20's every morning into the middle of next week.

Same here!!! Was 12 this morning and are supposed to have a high of maybe 40. Supposed to stay like this all week with back to 10 Sunday AM.

Vlad, I presume a large part of your problems are getting a visa from Russia??? The pictures I posted when we got home was on the old Just Old Trucks website and that crashed an we lost everything. Those pictures were in a better timeline order and the topic was 9 pages long. I have lost Stephanie's email address, but I still have John Vanatta's, so he could forward hers to you. You would also have to add New Zealand as there is the big Richardson museum there. I was thinking about going back in about 2019, flying into Rockhampton or Brisbane, renting a car. There is a museum in Gatton, several private collectors in Dubbo, work my way south to Sydney and participate in the April Haulin of the Hume, stop at the Wall of Honor on the Hume (similiar to our Viet Nam memorial wall) which honors all of the drivers who lost their lives on the Hume HWY, do the Snowy River Hydro project, Then take the Indian Pacific train west across the Nullibor plain, do the gold mine in Kalgoorlie, and on into Perth. Contact Aussie Paul and he can probably help you find more museums and private collections to visit, as well as possibly a ride on the Haulin' of the Hume??? Have Paul send you a map of Australia with some of the stops highlighted.

Irish Paul, Just click on the big picture in the post. It will then open the Flicker album. The same as the pictures of Macungie that Otherdog has posted..