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  1. Would be nice to see florida this year, but the traffic would be awful.
    you're exactly right,as a matter of fact I called Jeff (Moore-he owns the truck I drive) from Orchard Park when I was getting unloaded Thursday morning .Him and his wife left Wednesday morning going to Florida and he said I-95 was a parking lot a lot of the way.They only made it to South Carolina somewhere before they stopped Wednesday night. Teresa said she figured I would just take the week off-I told her I would have,but I didn't want to hear Jeff woofing about it for a year. :lol:
  2. Nice video's Tom! You should post links on the main forums, too...
    Thanks Barry,I might if I can figure out the proper category and how to do it...and i'm still afraid everybody will point and laugh at me -freighttrain's a hard act to follow!

    just kidding-I can edit youtube videos,but i'm too lazy,so it is what it is. Maybe i'll try to do a better one later.We were mainly just trying out the camera's video setting.

  3. Tom,

    What's the switch on your aux shifter?

    Paul VS

    I put LED tail lights and marker lights on the rear,and they have to be hooked up backwards with positive ground systems.I couldn't figure out what to ground to get everything working- I ended up with tail lights and turn signals,but no brake lights,so I took the easy way out. I put a spring loaded toggle switch in an old CB antannae -that doesn't look right...anyhow, bracket.I wired the brake lights to the switch and mounted the bracket to the shift lever so I could reach it easily,so whenever I want brake lights I can just flip the switch either way with my finger without taking my hand off the lever,and when I let go it comes back to center by itself and they go off. I know it's not how it should be,but it works great!
  4. I went ahead and posted another one. I didn't particularly like it,but it's out there now.It's so bad i'm already sorry I posted it,but I guess i'll leave it until I get one that's better. The video's bad,shifting is bad,driving bad-but it sounds good.

  5. You're becoming a genuine high tech wizard!!

    Paul VS

    I don't really think so-I tried to post it like the other one,but it just wouldn't work. Might've been too long. So I thought i'd try it on youtube,and it worked.All you gotta do is click "upload video",or something like that,and that's it. It took me longer to figure out how to post the link to it actually.
  6. Merry Christmas to you and yours also Paul,and thanks. Bill called me back and said the same thing you did. I shut everything down,cut the power off too,restarted,started defragmenting again,and when the disc anylization process finished it said it didn't need to defragment at this time. So it must have worked at first,but it just kept going,and going,and going...anyway,now I know who else to ask for computer advice.

  7. Not sure if it works, this stupid work computer is still acting crazy.
    Hi Joe! it worked on mine. It's only 20 seconds.I have a one minute video of me driving,but FreightTrain ruined that for me-he makes me look like a rookie,shifting slow,one stick at a time,scratching and scraping! No,It's not that bad,but still no comparison to his famous video.

    p.s.-yeah,stupid computers!

    ("stupid computer..."-freighttrain)

  8. Yeah I called every truck parts place from Richmond to Roanoke,and nobody had 4" stuff anymore. They said they could order it,but it might take a couple of weeks to get it. My muffler had a hole rusted through where the band went around it and I took it off thinking maybe I could weld a patch around it,but found it was so bad you could poke a hole through it with your finger most anywhere,so I had to do something. The muffler was open,no baffles in it at all,so I assumed the straight pipe wouldn't be that much louder,but that theory was way off for some reason-it's much,much louder!

  9. Paul, while you were flying ass over tea kettle, did your entire life pass before your eyes? Did you remember your army training about how to fall down? My back still hurts every day from 25 years ago. I wasn't even going to get out of the house. We had such an ice storm the night before, and I had already called work to tell them not to expect me. I still had teenagers at home then, and between them and my wife, they had it so rev'ed up by about 9:30 I couldn't stand it. I am going to work I said. That was when my wife informed me that before I went anywhere, I had to go to the store for a gallon of milk a loaf of bread and several other items. Back at home, with a grocery sack in each arm I started across the drive. Whoooop, I didn't have time to think of anything, except why am I hurting so bad. I had two young hounds that had the run of the place, and to top it all off, thinking I was playing both of them piled on top of me. I couldn't beat them off, I couldn't move for 5 min. Needless to say I didn't make it to work that day or a full week either. I have no idea how people are brought up where you live. But here in the south it seems that women are conditioned from birth, to wait until the snow is on the ground to realize they are about out of Milk and bread. If they don't need anything at all, the guy they married can drive anything with wheels, and to prove it he has to go for something. Shucks, get well quick, James
    yeah,long as your bones don't start sounding like a hog eating hickory nuts when you walk-then you'd better go to the doctor.
  10. Hey Paul, there's a Fleet Pride in Lynchburg too. F.L.Moore and Sons gets a lot of parts from them. I ended up getting a 5" stack for the mixer from then and all the necessary adapters connect it to the 4" pipe.Then I made a bracket to put the old muffler guard over it so it would look sort of original anyway. Then I noticed 5" stacks piled up in every corner at the shop that drivers had taken off to put 6 or 8" ones on their truck that I could have gotten free.

  11. I noticed you hadn't posted on your blog yet and figured you was working a little longer than usual. It's the same way when you go into canada, they go through everything on your truck and in your truck. I don't get that either they make you tarp the load before they will accept it but set it off in a mud hole or drag it through the mud to move it. I guess you get a short weekend this week? Never enough home time I always thought, but the bills will always be there. See Ya JOE
    Hi Joe,how's everything? I'm in until Monday anyway. I've never been to Canada,but i've always wanted to see the country,and Alaska-in the summertime though!

    I picked up a load of steel in Connecticut one time that was so rusty it looked like they dug it up off the bottom of the ocean,and they made me tarp it.When I signed the bills I wrote on them "rusty when loaded" and the man was irate because I did. I just told him "well,it's rusty". When I delivered it they put it outside on the ground anyway,so it didn't even need to be tarped in the first place. That's just the way a lot of the #$%@ers are. Just part of the job,but I guess it would drive some people to get'em an AK 47 and go berserk!

  12. Tom,

    Do you know anything about Tidewater Mack in Virginia?

    I'm looking for seals and bushings to put my B-67 rear end together.

    Beam Mack (Rochester, NY) told me that Tidewater purchased all of the obsolete inventory

    for B Models from Mack a few years ago.

    Or do you have any other ideas?

    Thanks,

    Paul VS

    No,sorry,I've never had any dealings with them at all,but I did read or saw somewhere on a website that they had lots of old Mack parts available. When the muffler on the mixer rusted out I tried to find a muffler and 4" stack and nobody in Lynchburg or Roanoke had any 4" mufflers or stacks.Everybody said they could order one for me but it would take several days to get it. I asked G.H.Jamerson if they had anything laying around,because they had nothing but Macks at Jamerson Brothers Trucking since they started in the '40s until the late '80s ,and he said they had sent a whole trailer load of obsolete parts to the scrap yard a week or so earlier, including mufflers and 4" exhaust pipes and stacks. He said he would have given me any of it,but it was too late by then of course.

    I might give Beebo Litchford a call at Litchford's garage a call later-they say his father Frank had all kinds of old,rare,and obsolete parts upstairs at their garage and Frank knew where and what everything was. I don't know if they still have the old stuff or not,Beebo mainly just does heavy duty wrecker service now I think and not as much mechanical work as Frank did,but he may still have some old parts. He has a huge "junkyard" with lots of old trucks too,but he's a funny ( not ha-ha funny,funny as in 'odd'") man to deal with. I needed trumpets for the horn on the mixer and got some from him. When I found a pair that fit I had to go back and check with him before I took them off to make sure it was OK to take anything off that particular truck. He didn't charge me anything for them though.

  13. Hey Paul,I was looking for Fishers,N.Y. in my road atlas but didn't see it in the index,so I went to Google Earth and typed it in and went right to it. I really like looking around on Google Earth at different places. Some places it won't zoom in very close on,like here. But Fishers-I don't know if you've ever checked it out,but i'm sure you can see your shop on it.I didn't know exactly where to look of course,but you can see cars and trucks in the parking lots and on the highway. Very detailed. Tom

  14. Well thank you very much Paul,that's a nice compliment. I have a "Wheels of Time" magazine that shows A picture of a B-model Mack pulling a tanker in upstate N.Y.,though not in the Adirondacks,and it's almost buried in snow. I believe it was on rt. 26,north of Binghamton.

  15. Yeah Joe,it really is a nice parade.You have to pay an entry fee of $10 to be in it,so I guess that keeps the riff-raff out :D ! Route 60 goes right through town,and it's 4 lane through town,so they just close the right lane before the parade and put numbers on little flags by the road so you know where your place is.You just find your number and park in that spot,put the decorations on,and it's a straight shot through town,no turns or anything,then I pull over and take the decorations off,and go back to Concord. I live near Gladys,but I keep the mixer parked at F.L.Moore and Sons shop,where I work. p.s....half dressed women? ..and your parade is when? :D

  16. Yep,you're right Joe.That's what they do. I don't like driving in those conditions,i'm not near as brave as I used to be! But, like you said,you still got to do your job to earn your pay. If it gets too bad,i'm looking for somewhere to park it though. I don't really care about trying to be a hero at all. I've been to the Cumberland parade 3 years now,and won 3 trophies.That's not why I go of course, :rolleyes: , I was born and raised in Cumberland.The trophy streak will probably end this year anyway,but that's all right. The first year the theme was "a red,white and blue Christmas" so I was dead-on with my paint job,then it was "oh Christmas tree" so I painted a board red,attached an artificial Christmas tree to it,and strapped it to the front bumper.Last year it was "Christmas bells" so I borrowed 2 big plastic bells and had them on the rear of the mixer.This year the theme is "A Jamestown Christmas"- how do you decorate a cement mixer for that? I have no idea,so i'll just go and put something on it,because the rules say it's got to be decorated.

  17. Yeah,I saw it up close-I went to Orville,Oh. Sunday and it was snowing Monday morning,unloaded in Fremont,Oh. Wednesday morning and it was snowing,this morning I unloaded in Carnegie,Pa. and went to Galv-tech in Pittsburgh to reload,and it was a real mess up there this morning.

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