mrsmackpaul

Well it's meant to rain here, well at the moment actually 

Any  still is meant to be raining

Pretty crappy amd muggy at the moment 

We have just clay soil here and if there's any more than a 1/4 of a inch of rain we can't move 

So loaded the Mack for another run 

Still a good old bucket of bolts

Just got a message about another load today, Princess will not be happy ha ha ha

don't get to lost in the snow there

Paul 

Old mother nature can be very fickle

39° C (102°f) today, out running hay about, no aircon in Mrs Mack, but I was still smiling

Paul

3 hours ago, mowerman said:

Be a while for me it’s been snowing on and off past few days won’t be able to move that bucket of bolts for a couple of months not cool

Not cool or to cool

I'll be out in my bucket of bolts running hay again tonight 

Rolls of hay go this way, rolls of hay go that way 

Stuff just goes round and round lol

Paul

Aluminum isn't that hard to weld 

I have MIG welded aluminium a few times or more and never really found it difficult 

Providing it is aluminium

Wash it clean and get it looking like aluminium first

Then get some vinegar and wash the aluminium with the vinegar 

If the aluminum changes colour ot isn't aluminum 

If it stays the same ot probably is aluminum

Change the runner and rollers in the MIG and use pure Argon

Amps on full noise 

Hold the gun at least 2 1/2 inches (7 cm) from the area to be welded 

And hook in, heaps of gas flow and no wind 

It really isn't as hard as people think

Some dum ass put a bolt in on a angle in his hay baler this and cracked the gearbox housing

Pulled it apart and washed it in petrol 

Then did as above, heli-coiled the blot hole and put it all back together 

No dramas at all

Paul

Now that's a mile stone, good job

Paul

Hey hey hey, hang on a minute, don't go jiggering Spam by adding politics 

Spam is good tucker, even I can cook it 

Paul

On 2/11/2026 at 4:16 AM, Freightrain said:

I could retire early on the money I have burned up between the race car, the black car and now the Mack in the last 6-8 yrs.  Wow...I don't like to thing about it.

But, it's my passion so I just do it.

A bit late to the party here

But I have done some pretty tough years farming over years, lost more in some years than a lot of people see at one time in their life 

I kinda think that life is pretty short and if we can afford to have a bit of fun doing silly things along the way that bring us joy, then why not, we may not be here tomorrow and then what was the point in working hard 

Oh yeah, for particular reason, a load of hay I delivered last night in the bucket of bolts

Looks quite fancey in sun

Paul

I gather all injectors are now out, it can take a while sometimes to get them out, especially when they are rusted in good

Paul

On 2/7/2026 at 12:44 AM, Brocky said:

The Mack engineers designed the complete power train to accept the heaviest (and overweight) loads that a customer could put on the truck. As a hobby truck, bobtailing or with a light load of toys, this usage of the entire available power train is not necessary. I would first determine what YOU are going to use the truck for?? If NO heavy work is planned, you can play with the present duplex and enjoy yourself, with out going to the work and expense of swapping transmissions.

My brother bought a ex Australian Army Mack, 285 Maxidyne 5 speed

Anyway, bro bought this truck and reckoned a 5 speed was no good and needed extra gears like a 12 speed

I said 2 him, just let it lug, and when you wanna change a gear don't, let it lug a lot more  

Once you've done this for 6 months, see if you really want a 12 speed 

That was a few years ago now and the 5 speed is still there 

My point is just get it going, drive it for a while and then see what you think

Paul 

4 hours ago, 67RModel said:

We just moved to a new place in October and it’s not set up for any type of solid fuel heating appliances yet. Well it is but I don’t trust the chimneys. All I have right now is a propane forced air furnace. And I never got around to installing a 30A receptacle to backfeed the main panel with. 100% reliant on electric utility to stay warm at this point. I had a power outage last night on probably the harshest night yet this winter. Amazing how that happens.  I’m surrounded by Amish so the transformer out on the pole is solely for my house. It “blew” at about 8:30 or 9:00. I called it in and honestly didn’t think they would come out until the morning since the weather was dangerous and my house was the only one affected. I couldn’t believe it but 25 minutes later this guy shows up by himself. Sets up on a 45mph state highway. No traffic control. 4” of snow on the road. 40mph wind. 9 degree temp and goes up and changes a fuse I think he said. Plus he was laying in the snow under his truck to get the frozen outrigger sensors to work to allow his bucket to go up. If this guy wasn’t making $250/hr he wasn’t getting paid enough. I was in awe…

That's a pretty good service, never got the power going in the snow before, but certainly have in torrential rain for customers 

Paul

Bugger me, good luck and a speedy recovery 

Paul

I didn't even know that there was a scale model section 😯

I can honestly say I never read anything and check it's in the correct section, unless some jokers are having a ding dong argument about the section and it's content 

Thankfully this rarely happens 

Paul

Cast your mind back 1/4 of a century were a couple of jokers parked a couple planes in so tall buildings know as the World Trade Centre 

There was a bit of a scuff in the Middle East were Saddam Hussein and his followers were hunted pretty hard and bought to justice 

Back then, troops from all the nations involved in the Coalition of the Wiling had decks of cards issued so they could recognise the bad people's 

A fella was showing me a deck of cards from then today, something really different and bought back a lot of memories of nearly 1/4 of a century ago 

Yeah yeah,  I know, photos or didn't happen 

So something I'm guessing most of you have seen or touched or maybe even have in your crystal cabinet 

I have never seen them before

Paul