Red Horse

11 hours ago, blackdog2 said:

Done.....

Wow! Pan looks smaller than old system.  Payhaulers will fit?  PLus Generator ?? Not diesel powered? Pan must have a hydraulic lock device vs old cable dragline system??

16 hours ago, blackdog2 said:

Well part of the new Sonneboggen  is up at GT

wow!  Never knew they made such big stuff-that is a replacement or an addition? What is max boom rating?

Who owns GT now?

On 11/4/2023 at 10:16 AM, mechohaulic said:

OskKosh ?? can't side emblem

my guess too

12 hours ago, blackdog2 said:

GT is replacing 1-crane with a Senna bogon ......brought Week's 500-ton floating crane in to install / dismantle old crane  

Do they still do scrap with the old IH Payhaulers and the big "dump pans" on the dock?

1 hour ago, mechohaulic said:

glad I'm not the only one  having that question.  past them other day. thought it was private company  till I saw emblems on doors.  all fancy like show trucks. 

Hah..must have a good tax base😎

On 10/18/2023 at 3:32 AM, blackdog2 said:

DPW Middlebury Connecticut

Missed these...What does a small municipal do with three triaxles?  What is that long hood Granite??

4 hours ago, blackdog2 said:

New bridge replaced ,......

where is that?  Is that a prefabbed section that gets rolled into place???

2 minutes ago, Mark T said:

I drove by those guys on strike last week.  Couldn't help but wonder if any of them ever heard of Brockway trucks.

Very good Mark-if they did, couldn't happen to them

3 hours ago, 67RModel said:

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/mack-trucks-fires-back-at-striking-uaws-new-demands/amp

interesting article on the subject….

This paragraph says it all IMO.

Now it appears the union, encouraged by defeated Mack worker and unsuccessful UAW International presidential candidate Will Lehman and a Socialist rank-and-file committee, has intertwined the Mack strike with brinkmanship in Detroit. There are 34,000 of 146,000 UAW members striking selected GM, Ford and Stellantis plants while other plants are operating.

When union leadership has their own "cause", usually associated with their need for power, the members get screwed.

If you want to read an interesting view of the current strike that effects the "Big Three" and Mack, go on You TUbe.."UAW Strikers Starve While Shawn Fain Gets Rich"

This is an Autoline story.

TJC,

Educate me......I saved that as a PDF.  Why did Bob Have a problem???  I was surprised though when I posted the picture it came out the way it did vs the picture.

10 hours ago, DavCut said:

Any photos of the rig @Red Horse?  You know we all love pictures!

Here you go.....B-81. rt front.pdfB-81. rt front.pdf

6 hours ago, blackdog2 said:

Lumber , Rebar , coil , flat , steel , bag salt.......not on my truck's....

Your choice or theirs?  Broker using anyone who will work for less?

6 hours ago, blackdog2 said:

Classic  unit 138-K mile's on it

Classic for sure..steel still coming into NH?

1 hour ago, 67RModel said:

Does anyone know where Volvo trucks sold in North America are assembled? I have no clue but I  would assume someplace here since the ones in Europe and elsewhere globally are so different than the ones sold here. I wonder if any of Volvo's manufacturing here is unionized. I know they make some construction equipment here in the states.....

Volvo has a huge plant, New River Valley in Va. I think it is also a UAW represented plant but different contract dates.  All engines..Mack or Volvo are basically the same now and come for the former Mack plant in Maryland. 

I would imagine, if Volvo merged Mack into Volvo the biggest savings probably would be administrative and engineering  of new models..  Now clue if they could absorb the Mack production at New River.

Again hope it never happens but.........

On 10/10/2023 at 7:30 AM, mowerman said:

God love them for sticking with it… bob

No Bob, as I see it "God Help them".  the Mack workers IMO are drinking Fain's Kool-Aid.  He could give a shit about Mack, it is all about the the dues payers at the "big three".  The Mack UAW leadership negotiated a contract in good faith and they reached an agreement  subject to ratification.  You can bet that Fain had to sign off on that deal.  Then when the member ship votes it down by a big margin-my bet too many see the crazy numbers that are coming out of the big three negotiations, they want the same thing.....and in a situation like this where the membership votes a contract down, the smart union leadership would say.."we did our best but will go back to the table again.  Fain throws out the tough guy bullshit-like he didn't have any say in the initial settlement deal.  Like I said, he could care less about Mack and what happens to it.

IMO they are forgetting what has typically happened in the truck business.  Look at history...Mack buys Brockway..Brockway goes on strike..Mack solves that problem.  White buys the old Sterling...then says "hey, Sterling competes with our Autocar flag!-bang Sterling is gone.  White owns the combined Diamond T and Reo then shuts that down.  White is going broke and WhiteGMC is formed- and that is gone.   Consolidation is the name of the game.  

I'm sure there are top level guys in Sweden now who are saying, why do we need this bullshit?

Hope it doesn't happen but the old Mack customers who built their business with Mack trucks are old...and guess what... "Built like a Mack" no longer counts.

6 hours ago, doubleclutchinweasel said:

Is there a number stamped on the accessory drive case on the engine?

DC,

Thx-He sent me a pix of his pump..tags are different than yours.  I double checked mine which was a 237 Factory remain that guys I bought truck from had the good luck to pull  from a wreck and it had only 10,000 miles. I tried checking my nos today but I'll have to pull the quarter fender off to see it.  My memory says that is where my engine tag is on pump.  the drive case has some numbers punched onto it but I thin k they are a part number- I'll have to put some brake cleaner on to get a good read.  Unrelated question...anyone know how you determine an engine build date?

Pump by the way is an American Bosch

No other number guys ....Door plate  says B-81SX

Buddy just bought a mint  62 B-81SX.  Non turbo.  What HP would  that be?

On 9/18/2023 at 8:06 PM, 66dc75 said:

I've got an 02 NPRHd too but 5.7 gas and 4l80e trans. Just had the trans rebuilt a couple of weeks ago at 250000 miles. Threw a used 50k mile engine in at 225k.I didn't want the deisel as a 5.7  small block is a whole lot cheaper to replace. I paid 2000 for the truck 6 years ago, 1000 for the ambulance body and 1800 for the bucket. This thing doesn't owe me anything.

Nice Rich..when did nyou get binder with aluminum wheels