other dog

Excellent! This is an appropriate explanation of government economics.

And, like so many other government ventures into business management -

this is another big circle jerk!!

Hopefully they are all proud of themselves for giving us all of that "help" LOL.

Paul VS

Hi Paul...thought you were shunning us since you've been maintaining such a low profile lately

IB blind. I wonders how dat ride be lookin green wif black things coverin the treads up front.

Rob

something like this probably.

looks good!

Geez. B67, lowboy, standby power generation. Don't get much more like home than that.

For sale to a legitimate collector, or permanent yard ornament?

Rob

When nocluejoe and myself visited him last summer he kinda talked like everything was for sale. He has an astonishing collection of old trucks-well over a hundred, and most of them run. Real nice man too, you should give him a call. If you want to go visit, let me know-i'll go with you. I missed getting a picture of the EHU when I was there. I think some are in my gallery, if I didn't delete them.

This is Joe, hanging off the side of a 2 story IH. First one of them i'd seen, except in pictures-and he has one.( the 2 story IH that is, not a nocluejoe )

I seen that and am just settling down.......

Rob

Oh...sorry. P.L.Duncan's.

Herb,.......I believe they call that AIR FORCE TORQUED.....where you tighten them until they break then back off a quarter.

mike

I had that all wrong. I thought it was "stop a quarter of a turn BEFORE you wring it off".

Tom,......I know where you heard that..............................from somewhere in Farmington, IL.

mike

could be, there's some very smart people in Farminton, Il. Well, at least one-i'm not sure about the rest of 'em.

this was the coiled plastic air line going to the gladhand. I could have taped the first one and made it until I got the new one-until I cut it that is. The other one I put on was leaking under the metal spring that goes over it on each end. I guess that's to keep them from breaking. They are very easy to break, especially when it's cold. The old rubber hoses never broke, I guess that's why they did away with them.

here's an old one parked, a restored one, and mine.

Tom.....that truck looks like an overgrown PT CRUISER.

mike

yeah- sharp looking ride there,eh?

Rowdy shoulda ben a Diesel Mechanic instead of driver. He has more uses for Duck Tape than the lady in a "BOUNTY" TV Commercial has uses for paper towels.

ONLY FUNNIN ROWDY

mike

this is true

Getcha some handi-wipes...they make some that clean up greasy hands real good. Use them to wipe down the air line real good, then dry with a paper towel. Now ya wrap the air line with duct tape...use the good stuff (I prefer the industrial strength Duck brand)...and wrap the cracked section of air line with the duct tape. Once ya wrapped the duct tape around the air line, get some plastic zip ties and use them like hose clamps on the duct tape. Use plenty of 'em...they are cheap. Air leak fixed.

I only had small leaks, so I used 1/2 width strips of tape. Larger leaks may require wider strips of tape and more zip ties.

good idea- I have a roll of gorilla tape, but since I had a spare hose that i'd been hauling around for years I figured i'd try that first...

I'm totally in shock you found something at WalMart that wasn't made in China, or was the girl Oriental that cut your hair?

Naw, she wasn't oriental. She had nice boobage, but as I said, not near the overall hotness of the last girl that cut my hair. The last girl was smokin' hot, and for $15.50 she at least made it last for a while so I would think I'd gotten my money's worth.

No, I did not give her a tip today.

I got the job !

Mike

great, I hope all works out well for you!

I started to put this in the "Truck Stories" category because it is a "story"- I would never actually drive from Negley to East Liverpool with no trailer brakes. So, let's say when I unloaded in Negley Thursday morning I heard a slight air leak-very slight- when I applied the brakes. Pulled the hand valve and checked the gladhand hoses, thinking maybe one pulled loose when I was backing into the unload position, but no, the service line was cracked. No problem though, I had a spare hose laying on the catwalk that has been there for a few years, underneath some pieces of tarp and a shovel with a broken handle. Must be good, or I wouldn't have bothered to keep it, right? Wrong. I took the one off that was leaking, changed the fittings and gladhand to the spare and put it on. Leaked worse than the old one. A lot worse. So much worse that I would have put the old one back on, if I hadn't cut it off with my pocket knife so I could get it off easier. So I eased on down to the International dealership at East Liverpool and bought a set of hoses and put the service hose on in the parking lot. Got the other one for a spare.

Saw this Lonestar sitting on the lot. I have to admit, the more I see these trucks the more I like them. A real eye-catcher, no doubt.

That's the story part- the random part is I just got a haircut at Wal-Mart. $15.50!!! And it took her 3 minutes at most. And it wasn't even the hot babe that cut it last time!..should have done it myself- Jeff says my head looks like a set of shaved monkey nuts anyway, so I couldn't have messed it up too much. Not that I have a lot of hair left to mess up in the first place.

and i've heard somewhere along the line that you should use a torque wrench or breaker bar to tighten u-bolts because an impact wrench won't tighten them properly?..I don't know, but i've heard that somewhere.

Got a pair of new air bags put on last week because one was leaking. These must be better than the old ones because they have the genuine Peterbilt logo on them.

I also saw some Mack trucks.

Wow, what a snout on that one!

...and i'm in the wrong part of the world...

International TD24 with an ENDT676 Maxidyne engine in it:

http://www.redpowermagazine.com/forums/ind...;hl=Mack+Engine

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saw this D-9 at Kyanite Mining Corp. this week-what a monster!

hmmmm...sounds like Double L's upstairs neighbors.

I had a great time in Quincy today! For being as "big" as they are Gully is truly a class act! The hospitality was great!

great, and congratulations on your newfound career in the truckin' binness.

Whatchall think about the truck being Mack green with black fenders, red running gear, and silver or white painted rims? (I know Herb will think "An Excellent Choice"). I'm also gonna incorporate a breast plate and extended bumper with my corporate logo painted on the face. (That way Other Dog can have a little fun, a.k.a. "Cheap Thrills").

And I said I'd leave it alone............ That has to be right down there with famous last quotes.

Rob

I can see this one in the front yard, wheels crossed for advertisement.

don't know about the red running gear,just haven't seen one like it, but the green and black looks great, as do the painted rims. I think it's an excellent choice.

It be there.

Haven't heard much outta you so thought you may have received some work. That's good.

Rob

I found it! The date on it said 2004 for some reason, it was on the last page so I changed it to Dec. 31,2009-wouldn't go to 2010.So now it's prolly reposted 3 or 4 times...par for the course for me.

Yeah, ive been running pretty good the last few weeks.

I spent 11 hours typing a new blog entry with 2 fingers, and it's nowhere to be seen. First blog entry since Dec. 22. Just wondering, is it my PC? Can anyone else see it? Where did it go?

Never a good feeling.

Sorry to hear this.

Rob

as am I.

I've heard that he's "old school".

He doesn't buy any new trucks, he buys glider kits and builds them with classic mechanical motors, just like the good old days.

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I know he was highly upset when Freightliner discontinued the model he was running. I remember seeing an ad to that affect somewhere, either in a magazine or maybe on Hank's Truck Pictures.

Here's the story-

http://www.hankstruckpictures.com/df_gully.htm