1958 F.W.D.

Well as many of you know, we had a bit of a snowstorm here at the BMT Truckstop in Hellertown Pa. Officially, 32" (thats .8 of a meter to you metric folks) was recorded at the Lehigh Valley Airport about 12 miles away but I think we may have had more. There were many drifts 6-8 feet high throughout town. Started around 7pm on Friday 1/23 and continued to about 1 or 2am on Sunday 1/24. We woke up 7am on Saturday to a foot on the ground already and around 1pm saturday, all hell broke loose and it snowed its ass off to the rate of 4' an hour with heavy wind gusts of 40mph. The news people said that had it been a rain storm it would have been one of those real heavy rains that we get in the summertime. This was indeed the worse storm we ever got in my lifetime. We were prepared though. The wifemobile was backed into the garage next to the FWD, the pickup in front of the garage, and the blowers and gen set all fueled up and checked out, ready to go. The wife bugged me to put in the transfer switch to the boiler too so that we could run the heat off the generator if we lost power- and since they were saying "heavy wet snow" in the same sentence as "40mph winds" I thought that was a good idea and stopped at Lowes on the way home from work on Friday and got that all rigged up- made a transfer switch with a 20a 3-way light switch and a 50' 12/2 extension cord- cut off the end and hard wired it in- so that if power dumped, all I have to do is turn off the breaker in the panel, flip the switch and then run the extension cord outside and plug her in. But of course we never lost power- not that I am bitching. But enough of my mindless ramblings, here are some sights from "SnowZilla 2016" Small and I during the height of the storm when 4" was coming down. My neighbor Sherry's car is under there somewhere. The next few are of a plow train that Public Works was running up and down the main streets. This is also Saturday during the height of the storm. The pictures just dont do justice to show how hard it was snowing. By the time it was done and over with, there were drifts up to 8' high all over town. I had four and a half feet on my deck, which is 5 feet off the ground and I was worried about it collapsing, so I had SWMBO help me carry the small blower through the kitchen to the deck door and thats how I cleared off the 12x30 deck.

Paul we already saw that, wrong ones. Those are 5-hole. We need 6-hole. Yes the one pictured has 6 but read the item description.

I have been trying to find Mister Shoop his parts on here for a while but they seem to be elusive......

Do you work on old Hahn firetrucks?

Everyone says I'm no good at a lot but there is something that I seem to be rather exceptional at......

Please. Thats not a plow. Give me some time and a little later tonight I will give you an F.W.D., Oshkosh and Walter Education.......lol

Heh. You say that now.....Best to go get the snip-snip now if that's your intent........trust me.....We have Large, Medium, Small and Extra Small. Small was the ONLY one that was planned.....LOL

First one?

O U T S T A N D I N G !!!! Congrats to you and Mom!!!

I'd love to have my father's 1974 Hayward F-Model. 300/5-speed, single screw, air ride, aluminum frame.

The other waitress gave me her panties, too.......she told me to hang them in the F.W.D. because she didn't want them in a KW.

One of the oldest known Mack vehicles in existence. In the Mack Trucks Museum in Allentown, Pa.

That. Right there.

What a prick. He should have led you to a diner and got breffist.

That would be kinda handy if scrap prices weren't in the shitter

Yes it was nice to finally meet the man behind the curtain on the photochoppage machine!!! And I still wanna know how you got our sweatshirts off of us without us knowing it............Hey...........wait a minute!!!!!!!!! DAMMIT!!!!!!!!!

Wait a minute......Why are you wearing my sweatshirt in one picture and then Ron's sweatshirt in another picture? How did you get them off of us without us knowing it?

My wife just found this picture of Dad and I and the Hahn, I am thinking this is around 1995 or so at one of the Glasstown Musters.

Please provide a list, photos and asking prices of equipment.

........that has experience working on Kelsey-Hayes disc brakes that were installed on CF Macks that can either work on a friend's truck in their shop, or travel to my buddy's place to work on it where he has the truck stored. Anyone? Anyone?

I'm a cheap date...........

Yes I believe something could be arranged. He will have to start at the bottom of the ladder though when he comes to the Yardo Corporate Empire- can he take $332,081.34 as a starting salary, with 100% fully paid health benefits, 4 weeks vacation per year (with use of the corporate jet) fully compensated continuing education and generous tool purchase benefits?

First "toy" purchase: a Hayward F-Model, preferably single screw with a 300/5-speed. Then an Allentown F-Model, tandem with a 300 plus/5-speed. Then a B-Model FIretruck and a B-Model tractor. Then a matching CF Pumper, Aerialscope and tiller ladder truck. The FWD and Hahn both get full, off-frame restorations. Then I work on a Hayward and Allentown R Model, then a U model......Then my Edgecomb Stainless Steel A-Car and a Brockway or two..........

Ben posted on Facebook late last night that they were holed up in a hotel and were going to regroup this morning. They were stopped for the wreck, and were rear-ended by a truck, which pushed them into the truck they were stopped behind. Ben says bus is toast.

1. First thing: disappear off the grid faster than a set of chrome rims at a puff daddy concert. Delete all email addresses, all facebook profiles, emails, current telephone number, etc. Only my friends will know how to contact me and that will probably be through a burner phone. 2. Lawyers, Accountants, Financial planers 3. Pay off all current debt, car payments, mortgage, etc. 4. I'm getting a brand spanking new Nissan Titan with the 5.0 Cummins. And maybe a mid-90's diesel Excursion or diesel Suburban, fully restored. Mommy gets her dream van: a brand spanking new all-wheel drive Toyota Sienna. 5. New house in the middle of nowhere, with enough land to build a kickass man cave for all my toys and a separate shop. The wife gets a girly cave too. My parents get an in-law suite. If I am in a good mood at the time I will pay off her mother's mortgage with the understanding that the battle axe stays in Vegas where she lives. 6. Trusts set up for Large, Medium, Small and Extra Small. 7. A few million bucks goes to the ATCA. ATHS aint getting squat because they're a bunch of greedy &%#@#s. 8. I would start an antique truck and fire truck restoration business and parts distributor for hard to find stuff. 9. I would pay off lobbyists, congressmen and senators to make 2-stroke Detroit Diesel engines illegal to have. 10. Rent a wing at Walt Disney World's Wilderness Lodge Resort, and pay the way for everyone on here and their kids and grandkids to fly down to Florida (piss on hatcity he can hitchhike the 20 miles) for a week and have one hell of a BMT Party one night.