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Why did somebody put a 671 Detroit in your B61?

Or did you mean "ENDT673"?

I didn't bother doing the calculations, but on 10:00x20 or 11R22.5 rubber I'd suspect about 48 - 50 MPH @ 2100.

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I'd suspect about the same. I have taller tires, but i'm going to 11R22.5's as soon as I accumulate the wheels. I can do 53mph now, 55 if I stand on it going down hill.

Macks were built to move mountains with minimum horsepower and a lot of gear advantage.

If you haven't done so already -

Go online and find a gear ratio or final drive ratio calculator - there are lots of them and they are easy to use.

Feed it the required data - tire diameter, max or desired rpm and final drive ratio (including any overdrive multiplier) to get the speed at that particular rpm.

7.88/1.00 is probably too much gear for a road truck. Great for pulling a load though! If your truck will be used in a lot of parades or other fairly slow activities, it might be real good, but you won't be passing too many people.

Even with a .65 overdrive, the final drive is over 5.12/1.00, which is still a pretty low final drive ratio by today's standards.

Paul Van Scott

I think that's the same ratio as the mixer-it is great in parades, and I do not pass many people on the road. Usually there's a long line of traffic behind me waving a finger at me.

Hey Rob if you do make him one of those i'll run up there and get it with the 'ol suburban.....lol. u might have to help me out on gas money though, it really likes gas......i mean seriously

just make sure you take 64 east in Lexington instead of 75 south. We wouldn't want my grill to end up in LaFollette.

Of course the previous will ba available after this gets taken care of

No that aint me. One of the "locals"

"well looky there"

Hey now.....just get some stew going. Or maybe a beef roast and taters with carrots and some greens from tha garden. It all goes with anything ya won't to put it with. Hum....making myself hungry. I'll have to drive cross town on my lunch break for some soul food if I keep talkin bout it.

mike

by the way, we were talking about greens New Years day. I had a can of creeces, and nobody else had even heard of them. I figured you or Bollweevil had, but neither of you was anywhere to be found. Ever had creeces, or creecy greens as some people call them?

I bought one Christmas 08 for my g/f and hooked it up to her big screen tv. Weve played it about maybe 15 times and has been giving trouble showing a picture. It might play sometimes. Was told the LG brand was good, it had a good prise attached. I now have it at home in the original box ready for a repair man, when I get around to it.

mike

I can't get this one to do anything-can't figure out the ins and outs

Jo has an LG phone, but it won't play a DVD either.

Hey now.....just get some stew going. Or maybe a beef roast and taters with carrots and some greens from tha garden. It all goes with anything ya won't to put it with. Hum....making myself hungry. I'll have to drive cross town on my lunch break for some soul food if I keep talkin bout it.

mike

I got a recipe that Old Bill told me to try in the crock pot now-a rack of spare ribs, cut up so they'd fit, and 2 cans of sauer kraut. Nothing else, no seasonings. I'm not that big on sauer kraut, but he said it was delicious and to give it a try.

Speaking of Old Bill, he called me yesterday. Said he was going to try to get his website back up when he can afford to.

Ya mean only 3......that would just get me blinking alittle out of one eye.

mike

Well I bought 2 cases this morning, but I don't know if i'll be snowbound for a long time or not, so I gotta ration it.

Tom here's some more snow to add to your subject. It hit us last friday. On the rooftop of our business looking south,west and east. Were getting rain today. Most snow is gone. I've been hibernating like an ole bear.

mike

It's really puttin' 'er down up here now!..cain't get this DVD player to work...guess i'll drink a beer or 3.

...sure wish I could figure out how to hook up this DVD player/VCR so it works. I can't figure it out, and the instructions don't say how to run it through the Directv box...guess i'll have to wait until my son can come by and do it for me.

If I keep on i'm afraid i'll get more frustrated and throw it out in the snow!

eh....yer only in trouble if'n ya git caught

took a load of pulpwood to Covington once and weighed in at 97,460. Didn't get caught, or I might still be in jail

Having to go back and dump off or shovel a little bit out the back door was a big hassle the short time I pulled a dump trailer.

When we load at Gerdau-Ameristeel in Petersburg they get your axle weights when you pull on the scales. I had to leave a load going to Saginaw, Alabama Monday because I was too heavy to load it, and the loads were coming out heavy anyway because the beams were full of snow.

Had to take a lighter load to Baltimore instead, not on my list of favorite places to go.

I agree!

yeah!..I like the "fair tax" idea like Neal Boortz and Rush Limbaugh talk about. Everyone pays the same percentage of their income for taxes, and be done with it!.

I used Turbo-Tax again and e-filed my own return. It's pretty easy, but it still took most of the morning to get it done. I claim no dependents during the year then claim myself when I do my return so i'll get a refund.

Aint you expecting some big snow this weekend?

Hate to miss the "big game" cause your out making money.

Snowing here now...i've heard we're gonna get anywhere from 14 to 28 inches supposed to snow all day and all night

I got home about 10:30 last night and went by Wal-Mart on the way home because the weather channel said it was going to start early this morning and get real crappy real fast...apparently after midnight is when most of the "people of Wal-Mart" pictures are taken. Store was full of strange looking characters-including me. But at least I wasn't wearing pajamas like some of them were.

I had to abandon my beer at the register because it was after midnight, but i've already made a beer run this morning

I think we should get a bus and start off up north, pick everybody up along the way, and drop in to see hatcity for a few days.

That's why that driver and company have the right to take the matter to court. I do when we get bull shit tickets. I would rather loose a days pay in court than give it to the morons who run this city. I would love to start a campaign that told everyone in new york city to plead not guilty on every ticket given out. The system would collapse.

yep, you pretty much have to because more often than not they just apply the "big truck rule", which is "any time there's an accident involving a big truck the truck is automaticly at fault, regardless of the circumstances".

Since the mutt has such a lack of patience, I'd hitch his ass up to a sled and mush him down to the farm store to get a larger shovel.

Next time he'll learn to keep his trap shut.

Rob

probly not a snow shovel to be found around these parts. Or a sled- and I hope he doesn't read this, he'd be terribly offended.

Blasphemous Posting!

5,000 post penalty!

I was just trying to help Rob out...maybe this will make it all better.

I must say, it sure improves the looks of a Peterbilt. It would look even better if Rob painted it all the same color.

It'll all melt in a couple days, why bother?

Weather guy says we've had not even HALF the snow we got last year.

It's just been COLD....

Can't wait till summer.

just making sure I can get out to go to work tomorrow!

here's the driveway, before, during, and after shoveling. Not even with a snow shovel, just a long handled square point steel shovel. 'Bout wore myself out, now i'm sweating like a pig. And my "helper wasn't much help at all.

Daughter wants my power steering unit and a four spoke wood wheel that is 16" diameter. Don't know if I can let the wood wheel pass, but the p/s, I'm alright with. Something about a modern wheel in a B model just doesn't seem right to me. May see if I can "cut down" a 22" wheel and have a new ring rolled to the 16" diameter.

With this truck I can't underhand turn the steering wheel. Using the "push, pull" method doesn't work too well for me with the drag and friction burn on my gut from the wheel rim, (momma don't much like the grease marks from the wheel neither) so have to do something else. A B-61 cab is tight, but not uncomfortable and managable, this one really isn't for me.

Rob

just a thought...(Paul Van Scott)

more info

A nephew of mine got one of those mini excavators a few years ago and had all the weekend work he could handle. He worked a regular job too and somebody wanted him to dig something all the time.

The Wyoming Game and Fish just opened a new sub-office in Cheyenne.

The next time a tree hugger wants to see a wolf, the Game and Fish will send them one all expenses paid.

They find that that is much cheaper that following the Federal guide lines for 'Managing'

the wolf population in Wyoming, and also lowers the number of tree huggers that get these ideas and jam them down 'Our'

necks.

Wyoming coyote problem

The Sierra Club and the U.S.. Forest Service were presenting an alternative to the Wyoming ranchers for controlling the coyote population.

It seems that after years of the ranchers using the tried and true method of shooting or trapping the predators, the Sierra Club had a "more humane" solution to this issue.

What they were proposing was for the animals to be captured alive. The males would then be castrated and let loose again.

Therefore the population would be controlled by this method. This was ACTUALLY proposed by the Sierra Club and by the U. S. Forest Service. All of the ranchers thought about this amazing idea for a couple of minutes.

Finally, an old fellow in the back of the conference room stood up, tipped his hat back and said; "Son, I don't think you understand our problem here", "These coyotes ain't f-----' our sheep - they're eatin' 'em!"

You should have been there to hear the roar of laughter in that room. The meeting never really got back on track.

Packer

now there's so many coyotes some counties around here (in Virginia!) were paying a bounty for dead coyotes. Don't know if they still are because all you hear now is budget cuts, but they used to. Until a few years ago the only coyote I saw was on roadrunner cartoons.

that is a good-ern!

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