other dog

Thanks Dave,

I'll get on the phone tonite to the hotels suggested.

Paul VS

Try the Holiday Inn Expess first, because you'll be smarter if you stay there.

... Better than my dad's chevelle, any deere or binder, R or CL or DM. It was a feeling i cant even describe. All I can say is I gotta find one of my own, as that ones $27000 price tag is to steep for a 30 year old family man. Its not a great story compared to some of your's, but I'm definitely the same in some ways as the rest of you guys.Long live the old dogs!!

ah yes, I remember my first time too, in the back seat of a '70 Chevelle. I was- oh, you said first time in a B-model, best thing you'd ever DRIVEN! I thought you said "best thing you'd ever ridden"...never mind ...my bad!

ok may be im nuts but i bought a 1963 tandum axle b61 almost no rust western truck question is from your veterns on the site can a guy make a 1963 b61 dump a hauling working truck again ? it runs well 15 foot box has had more modern items added air gate etc just want a honest anwer from the pros thanks !!

I'm not a dump trucker, but I don't see any reason why you can't. I've seen several B-model dumps still working, around here in the Charlottesville area, and one in Ohio not long ago. And there was a B-model tri-axle log truck in Amherst a while back, still totin' logs over the mountain. I'd be as proud to drive one as I would any new dump truck.

The AC in my '01 CH hasn't worked since I bought it...I just roll with the windows down. I have no plans to "fix" it, though, because I can't see spending money to fix something that I never even used when I was a company driver and had AC that worked. I DO wish I had an older door with the vent, though...drove one like that a few years ago and it was nice. I'd imagine I could replace the drivers side door with one off an older CH that had the vent....one of those "upgrades" I have planned for when I have money laying around that I don't need for anything else. I had inquired about the sliding rear window that is optional (but almost NEVER seen)...but for the $800 they want for it, I'll just keep the window I've got for now.

Drove for 2 days with no air ride cab last week...dang plastic valve broke. I got the old one still, so I'm gonna try to rig something that'll work for when the new one I just put on there breaks. There's an awful lot of force being placed on that piece of plastic in order to work the valve...doesn't make much sense to me to make it out of plastic like that.

I find myself wishing I had camelbacks much of the time...just about any time I turn off the paved road....but, air ride has it's use too...got a gauge in the dash w/ 2 needles...one shows the psi in the tractor air bags, the other the trailer air bags (got an air line running to a quick connect on the front of the trailer which is connected to the suspension). Comes in handy while loading...judging the weight you have on the drives & trailer when loading. I don't mind (I actually PREFER) trucks that ride like trucks. Heck, my '86 Ranger had 4000# of spring on the rear...load my 600# motorcycle plus tools and everything else I wanted to haul and the suspension would sag MAYBE an inch before the tires would start to show the weight. If I wanted it to ride like a car, I'd have bought a car.

...never driven a truck with 2 sticks ('cept my F250...but one is for the transfer case...but that don't really count), and I've never owned ANY vehicle with an automatic (although a company I worked for several years ago tried sticking me in an autoshift truck...that lasted only a couple months before I just couldn't take it anymore).

I usually try to avoid the interstates...seen one mile of 'em and you've seen 'em all. I prefer the 2-lane roads (although sometimes 4-lanes are nice...can get around that 40 mph sunday driver on a friday afternoon).

Maybe I was born 50 years later than I should have been...would have loved to have lived back when trucks were trucks (and affordable to the people who needed 'em). Now, they build trucks that ride like Cadillacs...with prices to match. A guy who NEEDS a truck now can't afford one, and even if he COULD, he'd have to look long and hard to find one actually built like a truck that could do the job he needs it to do. Semi's ain't much better, although it is amusing whenever I see a highway truck trying to make it in a work environment....as long as they ain't holding me up any. If they're in my way, it's no longer amusing.

I agree-a truck is supposed to "ride like a truck".

Thanks otherdog, Iknew I seen it somewhere before but couldn't find it. Jakebrake

You're welcome,I had it saved on my favorites list. Barry also had a link to it here,but I couldn't get it to work.

Tom,

I would have voted for J.C. Whitney if he were running instead of what we were going to get. My dad rest his soul is probably turning over in his grave now. And we haven't seen nothing yet.

mike

I'm afraid you're right.

I know nothing about later model Mack transmissions, but on a lot of overdrive transmissions 4th. is back towards the seat and 5th. is towards the dash.Could this be the problem?..just a thought (Paul Van Scott).

When you find out what trans. it is I saw these shift pattern decals on e-bay.

http://stores.shop.ebay.ca/Pro-Gear-and-Transmission-Inc_Mack-Shift-Pattern-Decals_W0QQ_fsubZ277834018QQ_sidZ131090448QQ_trksidZp4634Q2ec0Q2em322#item3ca108a75d

Can some one help? I am looking for the gear ratios for a TRQ7220 transmission in a B Model Mack. Thanks, Jakebrake

http://www.oldmacksrus.com/trannys.htm

Hey,my name is kevin.I've been around trucks all my life.

Went on my first trip when 3.

Never drove for a living,but dad had me fixing since 12.

In my spare time I build truck model kits

Thats right Tom, I've learned to join them and they now share the Peanut Butter with me.

mike

OK,but I wouldn't get in their pool if I were you.

Another big Mack truck

Cool eh?

You speak Canadian too,eh?

A whole lot of people seem to be jumping off the Obama bandwagon now...too bad they were too stupid to realize what most of us seemed to already know before the election. And the republicans would have done better with Mitt Romney I think, or Mike Huckabee. But Romney shoulda been the man, just my opinion. I would have voted for Hilary before I would Obama, and race has absolutely nothing to do with it. I said years ago if J.C.Watts would run i'd vote for him-whatever happened to J.C.Watts anyway?

Preparation and foresight is the key to success some of us do not possess.

You are my new idol.

Rob

just learned from experience and trial and error.at first I would stop and run a piece of tarp from the front bumper up over the cab to keep the water from coming in,but that severely restricted my vision.it was only then that I hit upon the chest waders idea...another problem solved!

Did your feet get wet in a rainstorm if you forgot to close it? I've seen vents like that in trucks that shortly after charging into a downpour, the floor was sopping wet.

Rob

No,i'd always pull over and put my chest waders on.

My truck only had one seat in it and it was pretty ragged,so I had it recovered black and moved it to the passenger side and put a seat out of a wrecked T-800 on the driver's side.It was gray,but it came out of my best friend's truck who died of a heart attack,so I left it as-is.They look pretty much the same in the picture though.

the front vent shown on this Overnite F-model is the best vent they ever put on a truck in my opinion.There's another one on top of the cab right behind the three center cab lights.

well when iI started back in 2000 I was in a 81 R model with a 285 and a 6 speed. air ride seat was the only comfort. camel back rears on rubber block cab. No AC but it did have PS. I thought I was a king driving the Ex Palumbo construction truck. then I moved up to a 87 R model that had an air ride cab.. OMG Im doing great. After i changed jobs over to racing I got spoiled. 97 IH with air ride, air ride cab, 550 HP 18 speed.. It was so niceto drive but it still dont feel like trucking to me. I like the AC but i like to feel the road a little. and feel what the truck is doing. when I bought My RS it had no PS and boy was that hell trying to get into places down town with the dump trailer. I was wore out at the end of a day. it now has PS and life is good might get a AC set up one day just so I can keep the windows down but not sweat my but off sitting at stop lights in a gloss black truck!

You know,that's something I don't like about new trucks-they don't have the vents like they used to. When I drove F-models without an air conditioner you could open the vent in front and the one in the roof,put a kool-cushion in your seat, and stay pretty cool.Now I have no vents,and if I try to ride with the window down so much air comes in it just blows everything all over the cab.If the AC quits,you're just screwed!

That B model pickup was just on ebay last week. I don't think it made reserve but is very nice with a lot of hand fabrication.

I've seen the "Here Kitty, Kitty" decal before and still like it.

That's the Mystery Hole that I remember but they've cut a lot of the trees back or down around the building. Good ole' rt. 60; I remember it well. Talked to my uncle over the weekend that drove for Mclean Freight and he has been up that road a time or two with 170 hp and two sticks also. Lots of times in a GMC Crackerbox with a 238 Detroit with a 5&2 also he says. It is a long trip in days gone by.......

Rob

I think that's him right there.

Yea,

I tried the Irish Spring method also. The very next day I checked on the truck, looked inside and lo and behold the mice were laying around with their sunglasses on in their string bikini's. They had built a swimming pool and were using it for some R&R and bathing. So the moral to the story is.....if ya can't beat-em, join-em and so I did. Now I use Irish Spring also. I also have to get permission from the mice to use my truck on Sunday afternoon's only.

Regards!!!

mike

now you know what to do-leave them some peanut butter snack crackers and put antifreeze in their pool.

I've heard about a death machine that I've been itching to try, but have yet to build. You take a 5 gal. bucket, coffee can, and dowel. Put the dowel through the bucket with the coffee can perpendicular to the bucket, and on the dowel so it spins freely. You then coat half of the coffee can with peanut butter, fill the bucket with coolant, place a ramp up to the dowel, and wait. The mice/rats/etc should find their way into the coolant, and drown.

let's see- bucket can dowel perpindicular peanut butter ramp...crap,just send me a picture when you make yours!

some interesting things I saw this week,like this decal on the hood of an E9 powered Mack (the cigar the bulldog is chewing on has "Cummins" on it),a Mack log truck,and the B-model pickup on the cover of the free trucking paper.Didn't have any more details or pictures though.And,"The Mystery Hole".

Best clean one I've heard in a long time.

Thanks,

Rob

Best one I've heard in a long time.

thanks,

Tom

That statement is kinda funny to me. The day before yesterday I had a piece of freight dropped off and the driver noticed all the old Macks around the shop. He drove up in a fairly late model single axle, air ride Sterling. I let him crawl into the cab of the 77 R795 and upon discovering it had two gearshift handles he asked, (and I qoute) "How do you drive this"? Assuming he meant how to shift the truck correctly, my discovery was my interpretation of his question was incorrect. I also looked at how far of a degredation the trucking industry has suffered. He meant, no air conditioner, no air ride, two stick transmission, and a few other ammenities I'm certain. My reply to his question after ascertaining it's meaning? The truck was built for work when truck driver's were just that.

With little following conversation, he departed on short order.

Rob

I'm far from being the greatest truck driver in the world...or the U.S....or Virginia...or even Gladys...or probably in the neighborhood-you get the idea. But when I started I had no AC,power steering,radio that worked-and that was just an AM-no jake brake of course,they were very rare then,and about half the horsepower of today.For years I drove trucks like that and hauled loads heavier than I do now.Every load of kyanite was 50,155 lbs except Illinois,Indiana,and Missouri loads-they were only 42,210 because their weight limit was still 73,280.And I liked it.But ones that came before me,like Old Bill and Double Diamond that did the same with even less than I had-they're the real truck drivers.I came across 60 today from Charleston,W.V. and thought about Double Diamond making that run in an H-model Mack-2 sticks, 170 horsepower.That's a truck driver.Very few of these know-it-all drivers today could make that particular run- in todays equipment! In fact,I saw a load of paper turned over today on Armstrong mountain.

I've never heard of "Rat Shot". Is that a local term, or an actual marketing tool? I've not really had any infestations since. This one came in under the hood of a car that I'd towed in from a barn and had been sitting for a couple of years. I opened the hood and the critters went running. Took almost a month to catch and kill all of them.

On the old, old BMT board I had posted a photo of one of em hanging from the bulldog on my A40 dump truck just after I'd caught him with peanut butter and a trap. He was almost 14 inches long without the tail!!

Rob

I've used rat shot in my .22-haven't even heard the term in years.Looks like a regular .22 cartrige but instead of having a bullet it's got shot in it and the end of it is crimped.