other dog

I like seeing old photos of Mack trucks performing their intended duties.

I noticed the truck B model with the rectangular tanks is a left drive truck, while the others appear to be rt. drive. Is Scotland like the U.K. in that the driver is on the right side of the cab? Just wondering why the trucks would be appointed differently?

Rob

me too, thanks!

...they're left drive, the picture has just been flipped, that's all. The slogan on the bumpers actually reads "daor eht fo gnik", which means "hey y'all!"

Yeah, sure looked like an outstanding job. All the glass was new, and the bulldog on the hood was. All the emblems on the hood looked new, but i'm not sure-wonder if they got any parts from Watt's Mack?

A while back I posted a picture of a faded red B-model sitting inside a fence in Fairplain, W.V. It had been parked in the same spot for several years, then shortly after I posted the picture it disappeared. I thought maybe it had been sold, but yesterday I was coming down I-77 and looked over where it was parked and saw this shiny red and black B-model parked in front of the place. So I whipped off the ramp and walked over to see it. Last time I took pictures from the Go-Mart parking lot, but I wanted to take a closer look, and it was outside of the fence.

I talked to a guy that worked there and he said it was indeed the same truck. He said the owner had spent $20,000 on it restoring it because it was their 50th. anniversary. Everything on it looked new, inside and out. Said the company made the bumpers, cat walk, and installed the rollers and winches and so forth on the oilfield exploration trucks. Always wondered what the place was.

Anyway, the B-61 looked as good as any i've ever seen at any truck show. Enough of that, here's some pictures, including the "before" picture.

Yup, this is the place to be to learn all you need to know about Peterbilt.

Welcome to the site.

Rob

...and then when I was going through Richmond the @#%&ing engine light came on again. Thought we had that problem fixed the last 3 times, but apparently not. Had to go to Ambridge with it on, getting passed like I was tied to a stump by Swifts, Knights, Werners, and everybody else that came along. I finally made it to Ambridge, a little late, then had to go to Sugar Creek, Oh. and picked up a 48,000lb. load of bricks going to Lynchburg. I dropped them at the shop this morning and took the truck (a Peterbilt truck) straight to Carter Cat.

copied from "other dog's blog"

yep I vote roadway also. they had lots of them set up this way. They also had some add ball R models with deleted or wierd options.

I have seen the dogs removed for cost savings

odd ball fuel tankes added with a "poker rod" as your standard fuel gauge

air start

318 detroits in R700s

the list go on and on with roadway tractors LOL

I remember the R models with the 318's well. They ran rt. 35 in Ohio a lot, and when they keyed the mike to talk on the CB all you could hear was the engine.

Amen Brother! (Bulldogman)- couldn't be said any better.

I've only got the one, and it's a tremendous financial scrain.

Like Mackdaddy said, i've always had to take a DOT physical every 2 years. I thought it was nationwide. I know at a DOT inspection you'd better have that physical card.

Here's a scenario; "Hey Sharon if you want to keep your job with Mack you have to send everybody a boob shot."

This is only my impression based on my expierience seeing friends go through this.

OK, I'll take a look at 'em.

Here's the Jifflox manual, comic book style

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

Thad,

Yes she could be a mother etc. etc. but mothers have Obama's support and if she cared about her job or any job she would not treat people or the job with that no care attitude. Yes many people that have jobs have to be reminded of how important it is to care enough to learn and keep it. I have to watch what I say where I work or out the door I go. Its all about the attitude in life anyway so she needs to be taken down the button hole. We have to occasionaly be reminded of better customer relations. This country could use a good dose of smart a#$ pills it may help to save it from it's own destruction someday.

Heaven Help Us!

mike

This is true Mike.

I know the feeling. I have to be nice to customers even when they treat me like an a-hole because I drive a truck, and it can be tough to do.

Regardless of how they treat me, if i'm not nice to them they might call and complain, we might lose a haul, I might be looking for a new job.

I'm a Volvo shareholder, and I'm not happy. I bought VOLVY back around the merger and quadrupuled my investment. When Volvo put their engine in Mack trucks and turned the CH into a Volvo with a different cab I dumped 80% of my VOLVY stock. A lot of other shareholders dumped VOLVY and the stock has lost even more value.

Volvo still doesn't understand Mack and never will. Volvo builds some good trucks for over the road trucking, but for the tough jobs they can't hold a candle to a Mack. Unfortunately Volvo management is too proud of their Volvos to admit that for many applications Mack is a better truck.

Well said!

photos of a couple of Mack posters Old Bill sent me

from 700WLW's website...wonder if this is payback? and then there's this other one-

Maybe if ALOT of people copy/paste that email and reply back to "Sharon" she'll get the idea that maybe she SHOULD care??

That's an excellent idea.

Paul gives a very good description of his restorations in his blog.

I stopped at the Iowa 80 once on the way to South Dakota. Well worth stopping at, if just to see all the antique trucks and models, and toys, and chrome stuff, and- well, you get the idea. You could spend all day there just looking around.

Out here in the Pacific NW these log self-loaders are pretty common. I'll be using mine in a fairly unusual way: I'm mounting it on a WWII barge boat that I am restoring. 60,000 lbs of 1/4" steel 40' long and 13' wide with two Chrystler straight 8 engines spinning two 54" propellers. The Prentice log loader will be on the deck towards the front where I'll be picking up logs and moving/stashing them around for the Forest Service. I'm doing this on the lake I live on, 60 miles long, half-mile long and 1500 ft deep. I'm not so much trying to make a lot of money--just have somebody else paying for my fule while I motor around this incredible lake.

I'm hoping that the Mack will work out for me. It's got a 20 speed and that, coupled with a low boy, aught to work fine to pull my boat in and out of the lake.

I've got more questions for you guys about other issues regarding this project, but, for now I gotta figure out this wet cylinder thing.

~martin

info about this project at www.seamule.blogspot.com

1500' deep?..geez-and I wear a life jacket in the shower!

I went to Puyallup once.

Is there much of a call for 14.5" lowboy tires? Getting ready to build a trailer and want the lowest profile deck I can get. I remember seeing a tag trailer with 14 ply 8R-14.5 "Lowboy Special" trailer tires but it was a few years old. They were Dayton brand tires.

Thanks,

Rob

I do not know.

I'll ax Paul.

If there's anything Rob don't know, he do.

Oh..hey Rob...never mind.

Good friends of mine build sawmill equipment here and a knuckleboom crane could be very handy to have around. My boom crane truck works well but I really could use more capacity.

I used to unload corn wagons, and buck bales a lot when I was younger. The way it was around here was that those willing to work always had money in their pocket.

Rob

shoot!..good answer...foiled again-my theory doesn't hold water...Rob is truly one of the greatest living Americans.

maybe the corn in Illinois is so big you do need a knuckle boom to lift it. We're not getting any younger, eh? (that's Canadian).

When I was in high school and it was corn picking time in the fall Daddy would have 2 wagon loads of corn setting at the barn for me and my older brother to unload when we got home from school. He would unload one, i'd unload the other one. Off the wagon and into a little door in the side of the barn- with a shovel. Not even a grain scoop, a big shovel.

All true. It was great.

wow, what a find! and I thought I had the only one around.

It seems to run pretty darn well with no missing. I'll start with a compression test. How would I know if there's a dripping injector?

ah, the log loader. One ofthe reasons I bought the truck. The loader IS coming off, but only because it's going on my sea mule tug boat that I am restoring. And then this Mack will be used to haul the boat in and out of the water. Though, since the boat is 60,000 lbs, that won't happen all that often!

Check out www.seamule.blogspot.com

don't pay any attention to Rob, he wants everything he sees- they don't even have logs in Illinois anyway, just corn.

Just got a call from Old Bill...thought maybe I was in trouble again, but he just wanted to know about some character named Mike-whew!