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You fail to get pictures one more time soldier, and your gonna be on the carpet!!! (maybe with Rob behind you,heh) Randyp

"Always have my camera to document the evidence too."

Rob

If I was good at banging grizzly bears, she would be asleep when I finished. and NOT from boredom.

Rob

Now that is some grade A Photo doctoring right there, makes me look kinda sophmoric.

You did good! Kept my sophmoronic story line going too,gave me new ideas. Think i've taken it about as far as I can go though...Clem in a tank, Spot in a fighter plane...yep, pretty much nowhere else to go.

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Wish I was that good.

Rob

Forgive me in advance Lord,but this one I can not resist...

"Wish I was that good."- At what, banging a grizzly bear?

Old Bill sent those pictures in an e-mail-without Spot of course.

Spot recently traveled up north to Alberta,Canada.

I've been on there for over a year now.

My daughter Ashley told me I "needed" a Facebook page, and I remember saying "WTF do I need that for".

Then after I got into it, it's fun, found lots of people I knew from the past, & also made a lot of new friends.

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same conversation I had with my daughter-in-law.

speaking of Barney Frank, he appears to enjoy working with the TSA.

I'm with you fellers-about had my fill of it last year.

The Maxidynes... are very close to bulletproof, and could withstand the most ham-handed of operators.

Nice F model in your avatar!

Paul Van Scott

That's exactly why they gave me one to drive!

Three stage progressive "Roots" type blower with static pressure limitation set to 43psi ambient, denatured alcohol direct injection, fired by indirect hot surface ignition.

Amazing how fast things cook at 675 degrees but can't be left alone too long which is the case in point.

Rob

well...it was my fault,but running a V8 Mack powered leaf blower is way more fun than watching a turkey cook.

I'VE ALWAYS BEEN TOLD, IF YOU CAN'T SAY NOTHIN' GOOD! DON'T SAY NOTHIN' YOU GUYS HAVE GOT IT COVERED. ANYHOW I'M OFF TO SEE THE EAGLES IN SYDNEY AUSTRALIA THIS WEEK!

I saw 2 bald eagles in a tree near Toledo, Ohio a few weeks ago. First time I recall ever seeing one. Saw lots of these in sunny south Florida though-

I found one baby picture of myself,but I had to censor it and i'm not around a truck.I'll post it anyway-think I was about 4 months old when this was taken.

Check out this old Ford stub nose grain truck I am selling on ebay - I wish someone would buy it to restore, it is really a straight old truck.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330501168914&viewitem=&sspagename=STRK:MESELX:IT#ht_2119wt_1196

I always did like the looks of those cabs.

Guess i'll leave for Tampa this evening,get a start anyway so it won't be such a long drive tomorrow-gotta find that beach Hatcity posted a picture of.

I burned the turkey up and this morning the wind is putting most of the leaves I raked and blew with the "modified ENDT866 V8 Mack engine with adapted air to air charge air cooling" powered leaf blower back where they were to start with.

I did pick all the hot peppers that were left this morning, before frost finished them off. Got this many now-

Should be lots of hot sauce this year! That's 3 gallon bags stuffed full,plus the smaller bags. Don't know what to do with that much hot sauce,I still have a bottle of last years left.

When I bought the mixer I had no earthly need for it (I really wanted a single axle B-61), couldn't afford it, didn't need it, but I just always wanted an old truck so I bought it.Same price as the 2 MHs actually. I'd never spent that kind of money before for something I didn't need, but it's great-and paid for.

As some guy named Miller Highlife used to say "you only go 'round once in life so ya' oughta' git yerself an MH Mack, preferably powered by a modified ENDT866 V8 Mack engine with adapted air to air charge air cooling-but a 300 would be OK".

That's what he said.

Too bad it's not powered by a modified ENDT866 V8 Mack engine with adapted air to air charge air cooling. I might buy it if it was.

I think it's the 'Dangerous Drives' show on Speed channel. It's a pretty decent show and I've seen the one about the Aussie trucks, pretty neat stuff. They've got quite a few episodes about different variations of trucking...windmill haulers, gas tanker haulers thru the 'million dollar highway', the Aussie road trains, loggers...etc etc.

yeah, I saw the "million dollar highway" one before,that was pretty good.

truck drivers used to carry a 9/16 wrench and a hammer to set the brakes up with, if that was all the tools they did carry.

Whenever i'd go across rt. 60 from Charleston i'd always pull in the church parking lot at Boomer and set the brakes up before I went across Hawk's Nest, whether they needed it or not. This was before jake brakes were invented of course.

Agreed, a good indicator of lining and drum wear. The problem nowadays is that many automatic slack adjusters can be ruined by repeatedly backing them off. Auto slacks are "set them and forget them" and should only be manually adjusted when lining is replaced.

Gregg

A DOT man told us that if you adjust automatic slack adjustors manually they will lose the ability to adjust automatically.

Hello All!

Well, I'm making progress!

* The SM420 transmission will be back together next week, then we reassemble the engine, clutch, and transmission, then start installing it.

* I've finished rebuilding the Instrument Cluster for the dash. I'm converting to Gauges from idiot lights, and made some, well, Mackifications to it.

Below is a pic of the finished product, replete with NOS gauges.

Check out the rest of the pictures here:

http://www.bigmacktrucks.com/index.php?app=gallery&module=user&user=1766&do=view_album&album=412

Looks great Todd. That dash reminded me of my Dad's '66 Chevy pickup,first brand new vehicle he had I think. Had a 292 6 cyl. in it,3 speed on the column. I used to drive it to school.

Remember-don't use cinder blocks for jackstands!

There goes the neighborhood.

If you've got any property you're planning to sell, do it Monday! I'm sure property values will skyrocket during the brief period of time i'm in the area, then drop again by Tuesday.

This reminded me of a great idea I saw once. I bobtailed to Alta,Fl. years ago to pick up a stretch trailer. When I got to the trucking co.'s yard that sold the trailer they were showing me around and one of the things they did was drill a little hole with about a 1/8 bit into the side of all their new brake linings just above the head of the rivets.

When a truck or trailer came through the shop it was easy to tell if they needed replacing.If the linings were worn down to the edge of the hole they'd put new ones on,no looking and saying "well,they'll probably go another trip or two".