Red Horse
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Yes, hoping for a Happy and peaceful New Year for all. As for Betty White, just heard a news piece about her within last day or so about her upcoming 100th. RIP
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On 12/23/2021 at 4:11 PM, Jerseyjunktrader said:
I just acquired a factory parts book for this truck if someone needs it.
Call Gary Mahan
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Friends,
Thanks so much for your responses to my post-which I hesitated to do. I think High Binder's post says it all and really conveys what I was trying to say.
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Likewise...and keep your families close while you can. I lost my wife of 53 years to covid the day before Thanksgiving and now think of everything I should have done.
But I have good memories too and you should all build on those while you can.
Merry Christmas!
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On 11/22/2021 at 2:08 PM, Joey Mack said:
I have an idea.... Lets use infrastructure money to plow down all of the criminal neighborhoods in Chicago, (The windy city) and build windmill farms.. we can even share the mass amount of extra electricity with Canada,,, Ehh!! With Love, Jojo
Very bad idea. think about it- they would move out of their shitholes and create new ones in what WERE decent neighborhoods.😎
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Well the good news is the "Commander in Chief" has taken action. 50million bbls of oil released from strategic reserve. Let's see now we use about 18 million bbls a day- so this should maybe drop the price about.........guess? tenth of a cent for a few days? And the oil wasn't free-our tax dollars did buy it.
On a practical note- I track my heating oil usage- just so happens I got a delivery this morning.
Prompt pay in 10 days, $2.999 gal. A year ago my "start of season" delivery was on 11/19 and the price was $1.74. In 2019, first delivery was on 11/1 at $1.72 gal.
Took this asshole 11 months in power and he has wrecked the economy. And CNN will say..."it's not his fault, the world economy just was turned back on". I say bullshit to that. We were the oil goliath that was exporting oil until he turned the industry off to satisfy the progressive "squad".
Cushing Oklahoma is a major crude oil storage hub with a capacity of 91 million bbls. Last year we were pumping so much crude the big problem was containment. Cushing was full!
Well Joe solved THAT problem!
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About how many hours Matt? they look like chrome!
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On 11/7/2021 at 10:10 AM, other dog said:
This came from Taiwan.
Good deal-anytime its from Taiwan and not China its a win in my book.
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On 10/25/2021 at 9:18 AM, other dog said:
One of the floor panels came yesterday. I was impressed, it looked good, not flimsy at all like I was expecting.
This one is for the passenger side. I actually ordered them from Summit Racing.
Now, the radiator support piece I need is $200 from the Bronco Graveyard place, but $95 at some other place. Cheapest is not always the best way to go, but neither is paying twice as much for something if it's of similar quality, so I'll look into that a little more.
Country of origin??- I think that is always the big question on these old body panels.
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Buick? Hope that wall has 2 x 6 studs😃
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1 hour ago, 70mackMB said:
Excellent-puts everything in perspective😎
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22 hours ago, 70mackMB said:
Most needy??? IMO toss up between Joe and the "Cackler"!
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1 hour ago, 70mackMB said:
Hippy you are on a roll😎
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3 hours ago, mowerman said:
It also had a 10 speed unishift transmission 5 speed with a hi- lo air splitter wasn’t crazy about it. You had to pause and wait for it to click into hi alotta times it would get stuck in neutral if you didn’t wait long enough to let the clutch out… bob
Wasn't the Unishift in essence a Duplex with an air splitter????
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Very nice...first order of business...Maxi's???
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51 minutes ago, other dog said:I was driving along a back road minding my own business a few weeks ago when I spotted a Ford F150 sitting in a yard with a "for sale" sign in the windshield. I've been wanting a pickup for a while, but I thought back to the last time I saw a pickup for sale by the road...
It was a nice looking short bed 4wd Dodge, so I went back to take a closer look. Everybody has a short bed square body Chevrolet pickup, but nobody has a Dodge. So I ended up buying that Dodge, paid way too much for it, but I had big plans for it- I was going to get it painted, put some mud tires on it, it would be sharp, or so I thought. Actually all it ended up being was a money pit, never could get it running like it was supposed to. It ran great when it ran, but it would just die periodically, and you never knew when it was going to quit. Might run 2 weeks without a hitch, or it might start acting up before I got out of the driveway. So after spending a small fortune on it and replacing everything I could think of, and taking it to every garage and shop from Appomattox to Concord to Gladys and having them do everything they could think of, with the same results, I got tired of throwing money away on it and sold it- for a lot less than I paid for it.
So when I saw this Ford I kept right on riding, never even slowed down.
But as I was riding along in Rustburg one day I thought i'd go take a look at it, it was only a mile or so down to it after you turned by the store on the corner. I must have looked too long, because Zina from Gladys got out of the car and came over to look too. What had caught my attention was the price- $1,800. It was the first time i'd seen what appeared to be a reasonably priced pickup for a long time.
The owner was there and he came over to start it for me, but it wouldn't start. The right front tire was low too- reminded me of the old Dodge! Anyway, he said he would put a new battery in it if I wanted to come back and drive it. He called the next day and said he put a brand new battery in it so I went back to Rustburg and took it for a test drive.
It ran ok except it idled a bit fast, but it had about a quarter turn of play in the steering wheel. I got Zina from Gladys to turn the wheel while I looked under the front end and the center drag link was obviously loose, it had a lot of play in it. And the tires were all low, that right front only had 20 lbs. in it. And a U-joint was "ticking" when you would go from 1st. to reverse, and I found the rear joint was bad when I would hit it with my hands.
So here's an actual photo of me and Pammeler Anderson that was taken the last time I was in sunny Florida, to relieve the boredom of a long post.
But the truck had nice looking tires on it, so I bought it.
The guy I bought it from said he only used it for hunting, he probably didn't even notice the play in the steering. I took it straight to a garage in Concord and told them to go over it with a fine tooth comb, and evidently they did. It needs all these items-
I was just going to patch the rust holes in the floorboard, but I went ahead and ordered patch panels yesterday. It has the 300 6 cylinder in it and a 4 speed, and even after the parts and work I still have less in it than I paid for that POS Dodge.
Ford 300 6 one of best motors they ever made. They were used in a lot of airport "tugs" and I would bet a lot of them are still going. Also a lot of other industrial uses...that is before Ford lost their collective minds and gave a lot of business away.
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1 hour ago, Brocky said:
I am afraid to say that the Wall Street bean counters started all this mess when they decided to close all their American manufacturing and import everything from the Pacific Rim countries so they could show the stockholders a better bottom line and dividend..
10-4 on that Brocky...But when you buy a new pair of Vice Grips it says on the package....."Designed in USA"...and of course...made in China.
Should say..."Designed in USA, in 195?)
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14 hours ago, 70mackMB said:
What is amazing is this asshole talks about the brilliant moves he and his "team" are now making to break up this log jam.
Bottom line the key ports on the west coast-LA/Long Beach had been operating on the same schedule prior to the economic upturn. 24/7? "No No-cant do that, right here in the Longshoreman contract".
One area where Trump for sure would have kicked ass and took names and the ports would have be operating 24/7 when the log jam first appeared.
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12 hours ago, GA_Dave said:
Ahh-very good-brings back memories-amazing what 3 box tops and a quarter would get you--I find it hard to believe however that a Biden decoder ring could be contained in such a small package😎
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11 hours ago, Big R said:
Not sure if I should post this but I came across some cool old trucks. Might be a bit small for this crowd but very cool just the same.
Good shot-Detroit's "Big Three" represented in the old days!
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49 minutes ago, mattb73lt said:
First hub complete, almost got both rears done today. A few hours tomorrow should have the right side done. I like the original spoke wheels for their classic look, but I’m very happy with the look of the Buds and polished rims. With all the polished aluminum and stainless, they really tie everything together.
Do I see a tear in that old bulldogs eye???😎
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3 hours ago, Hayseed said:
I found the Pic on an Australian heavy haul page.. I think It was an Internal site transfer on a Mining Lease.
They mentioned that; the Gross Weight was 670 metric Tonnes..
I've NFI on your manhour Question.. Sorry.
Thx- I was just thinking that getting th boom, dipper and bucket off as a unit would have to take a huge amount of weight off-which would lead to fewer tractors and axles?????
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13 hours ago, Hayseed said:
Wow-any clue on distance of the haul? Any clue as to how many man hours it takes just to remove the boom/bucket?
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5 hours ago, mattb73lt said:
Spent yesterday prepping the frame and today was the day. Great weather, almost no wind and a solid SIX hours of spraying and mixing paint. So many nooks a crannies to get at and a LOT of paint!! It’s done and ready for more assembly.
Looks great Matt. What is CA and what are you mounting??
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Very good NJ. And as Bob said, someone did a nice job cleaning that up-can't believe the clarity for something that old. Also some signs directing you to the White dealer-that too probably factory branch. And the streets and neigborhoods looked a lot cleaner than they probably are today.