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Just wanted to wish everyone a happy turkey day! i myself have spent more than a few on the road,so it is a real treat for me to be home and have off a few days to boot!.....lookin' forward to the cold turkey sammiches (rye bread & plenty of mayo) expect to load up pretty good before i go back out! wife has allready made some homemade pies,real hard for me to stay outta' them (she just left for work) anyway,hope everyone has a real good safe holiday!..........Mark

She knows how many pies were there when she left, and she said that's how many pies had better be there when she gets back-be careful!

I usually make some sweet potato pies myself-they're easy to make,and good too,but I haven't even been to the grocery store. Spent all yesterday evening at the ER at Lynchburg General Hospital. Jo's leg had been bothering her for a week,going numb and tingling,and yesterday she had numbness on up to her buttocks, then it went on up to her shoulder. She went to a chiropractor and he said it wasn't a pinched nerve or anything he could deal with,and to get to the emergency room right away to get it checked-he came out and told me her leg had turned white and he could barely find a pulse in it.Then he gave me my check back to pay for the visit,which I thought was real nice of him. We didn't know if she was having a heart attack or a stroke or just what was going on. Anyway,after 5 or 6 hours at the ER they said it was sciatica,gave her pain pill and muscle relaxer prescriptions and let her go.

Gonna put a turkey in the smoker oven here in a few minutes.We like to make "turkey hash" with leftovers, that's just turkey soup made out of the turkey stock with potatoes,onions,celery,and some thickening in it. Then you got the sliced turkey sammiches,and I usually make some turkey salad to take with me-I just chop it up some,add some sweet and some dill pickles,and lots of mayo.

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Don't know if you noticed but the shredder was powered by a modified Mack ENDT866 V8 engine with adapted air to air charge air cooling. They run that thing without problems 24/7 making small chunks out of Peterbilt mishaps.

Rob

I did not notice that,but thank you for that bit of information.

Wonder how many Peterb*lts are in that pile? randy

Hard to tell exactly since they've already been shredded, but it looked like there was 14 of them in there to me, along with 4 IH's,2 KWs,a White,and 27 Volvos.

I used to drive for UPS while I was going to school (there were still a couple of old Diamond T's as yard dogs)and we had a package car one time that was wrecked on the interstate. I had to go help move the packages to another truck and then I helped tow it back to the yard. A few months later after all the muckty-mucks came and looked it over, we robbed the engine, wheels & tires, and a bunch of misc parts from it. We ground off all the numbers on the body and frame, and we burned off all the decals with a torch. Then we hauled it to a local scrap yard and we had to stand there in the rain and take photos of it as it was sheared into pieces, smashed into a bale, and then loaded on a trailer to take to the smelter.

The funny thing was, for the next few weeks, anytime anyone in the whole midwest region had a customer call and complain about a missing package, they just told them it had been in the wreck and was lost/burned up/destroyed/stolen or whatever. One of the clerks added up later the number of packages that were supposed to have been on that load and that little package car was carrying the same load as a 53 foot trailer!

I remember when UPS was still running some Diamond-T cabovers over the road. They used to always take the nameplates and any identifying brand insignias off their trucks for some reason, you could still look at it and knew what it was. I don't know if they still do that or not, haven't noticed lately.

It might be a liability issue. Seems like I heard about UPS being sued by someone because a truck that they (UPS) had scrapped was sold and put back on the road only to have an accident. Since the truck still had the UPS paint and decals or wassinsome way identifiable as being a UPS truck they were sued. Don't know if that is true or not, kind of a second hand account of a second hand account.

could be-I noticed that the Overnite trailers all had the name painted over.

Seems from the other posts that the Swift drivers get a good start on scrapping trailers. I wonder how many zillion miles are on the buses!

no telling! looked like some of those old trailers would be worth more for storage trailers or something instead of just scrapping them,but I guess not.

Saw some interesting items at the ol' steel mill yesterday waiting to be shredded-some Overnite,Swift,and M.S.Carriers trailers,and even a couple of Greyhound busses.

People used to use old vans for chip trailers,but they're too big now. Now you have to get a "real" chip trailer.

Most of the old chip trailers H.H.Moore had had Roadway,Halls,Jones,or Overnite on them. All you had to do was cut some vent holes in them,and after the doors got torn off pulling off the dump,put a tailgate on it.They were 40' vans,most were 13' or 13-6 high,but a lot were 12-6.That's the ones I looked for when they all paid the same flat rate,when we started getting paid on percentage i'd look for the biggest ones.You could still be over gross with a load of chips on a 40' 12-6 high van. A 53 footer would collapse like a...like a...like a 53' van with a load of chips,I guess.

I remember the time someone made a chip trailer out out of a 48/102 trailer and the dump at Covington wouldn't even lift it.He came in grossing over 100,000 lbs,don't remember exactly how much. They finally got it dumped on the one dump they had at the time that dumped the whole truck,without having to drop the trailer that is,but he had to drop it before that dump would lift it.

Westvaco told him to never bring that trailer in there again.

hmmmmmm...I just checked...over 5,500 members here. Just think what 5 or 10 bucks each could do to help...just a thought.(Paul Van Scott)

i would like to thank every one....

there have been guy's offer to come out of retirement and drive for me, others that have offered to hook me up with top shelf wheel men, to prayers and kind words.

i just don't have the words to tell every one how much it all means.....

Just got caught up on this post-Amen to what everyone has already said.I was in the same situation myself about 6 years ago,i'm praying for you also.

This shifting business don't come easy! After driving 6 loops (2 or 3 miles each on curvy backroads), I am struggling to shift this monster...

Call me a nerd, but I built a spreadsheet with with all of the ratios so I can "guestimate" rpm drops to help me shift...

On this last loop, I suceesfully (for the first time) downshifted the main from 5th to 4th...normally, any attempt to downshift either stick results in a complete stop to start agian!

1700 rpm feels and sounds like it time to shift...I wonder if I am not letting wind up high enough...cruising around at 12-1300 seems about right, maybe I am running the engine too slow...

Also, I have not been able to make a two stick shift, end up stopping and starting again!

Those videos make it look sooooooooo easy!

I guess I shouldnt complain...I only have about 20 miles under my belt...I will get it!

Lots of transmission info on the different models and all the ratios here-

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

I would like to wish everyone a happy Thanksgiving. Hope all the road warriors get to where you would like to be and can spend the holiday in good fellowship.

I am already home, been here since Monday afternoon, spending some quality home time with the family and some quality wrench time with my trusty steed. Well deserved R & R for us both. We had a good year and I hope you all can say the same.

Gregg

Thank you, and same to you and yours, and everyone else too.

I made a trip to Marietta, Ohio from Petersburg,Va,reloaded back to Petersburg where I delivered,then loaded in Petersburg for Tampa-and it doesn't deliver until Monday,so i'm off 'til Sunday.Unless I decide to leave Saturday...hope this turkey thaws in time to cook it-still hard as a rock.

$53,000,not $5,300.I was kinda shocked to see that too.

Wow!!! but then, it's probably a lot nicer than my cement mixer-i'll sell that for only $43,000.

special deal for BMT members-a mere $33,000.

5300?,,,or 53000? if it was 53000, i would have never expected that,,,thanx for the info

I just saw a flyer for that sale today. Lot of good looking units they sold,especially those restored Whites. I'd copy and post the pictures,but I left it in the truck.

Well, in one way Im glad your back Mark, really glad, but in another way, kinda disapointed, this just means i will have to find something else to feed Spot tonight. Oh well, least you wont be talking in a squeaky voice from here on out, welcome back,,,,randyp

So, what have you been doing besides goofing off?

I like that show,mainly 'cause it's so close to home,but still a good one. Weren't as many trucks as there was at last year's I don't think.

I liked the Sightliner IH too,as i'd never seen one before except at Hank's truck pictures.

sounds like a 6 speed to me,but i'm not too much up to snuff on the later model mack transmissions myself.As a matter of fact i'm not really up to snuff on anything. If it is a 6 speed,you just shift the one stick from low to hi with the main in first when you start off,then shift the other one on up to 5th.And from what I understand,you can also back up 40 mph...if you want to.

This is not my doing,i've been hacked!

My own version of the "700" club.

Rob

He is proud of you. Here's a secret spy picture taken at the R-700 banquet.

If pleased with your progress, you did better than I. This job is nowhere near finished.

Rob

"a few"-that's the key phrse. They're knee deep around here,and still falling. I go from "cut the grass season" to "rake the leaves season" to "shovel the snow season". However,I did get Jo a gas powered leaf blower yesterday too, but I didn't even take it out of the box yet.

Takes care of her Christmas present anyway.

Weeellllllllllll...it IS getting colder out and a winter front is a valid option.

This is the extreme winter front, for the most severe conditions you'll likely encounter this winter.

Think i'm borderline freak...hard to tell.

I raked a few leaves to test my new rake- worked good.

The way I understood it, it was Spot that took that critter down, even chewed off the feet so she couldn't get away!

Good job,Spot! But as big as she was you prolly didn't need to chew her feets off,Randy could have caught her by himself.By the way,wonder if he plans to mount her?

that is funny. they should have signs like this posted-