mrsmackpaul

I wonder why Australia can produce special low volume trucks as our mainstream trucks and charge a packet for them I would guess one these would be around $500,000.00 and there is a waiting time of over 6 months Yet Volvo Mack USA keep building things people dont want I have spent a lot of time for a farmer running around delivering hay up and down the hwy of late and still the most popular B double truck I see in this part of Australia is the Mack Trident axle forward they are every where Surely the parent company Mack Volvo USA can see this ????? I would think if you want a bigger slice of the pie you gotta start making what people want Sorry Im like a stuck record on this but I hope someone some where in the US will sit up and pay attention And as far as KW Australia and their new jigger go I hope it goes for them as planned Paul

The Southern Cross was a fundraising truck series auctioned for a charity I cant quite remember now but I did put the link up here a year or two ago Mack Flyer - Goldie for Charity.pdf hope this attachment works ok Paul

I agree a crazy price and what are they really any good for especially out here the bloody steering wheel is on the wrong side A few years ago bought me a little Kia Ceres 4 x 4 for a couple of grand has a cab a tipping tray diesel does 100 km/h drive it town if I want and goes anywhere on the farm cost 2 tenths of stuff all to run and yeah its uncool and looks a bit different but its better than one of them side be side thingy's Paul

It snows all the way up to Queensland on the great divide. I have known it to snow as far north as Mount Perry QLD where the red marker is. Australia has more acres of snow than Switzerland I was taught as a kid, and our snow is very heavy as in half as much again the weight of the northern hemisphere. I'm not sure as to why. Now it's been many years since I went to school and I doubt they teach any kids these things today. But I don't think we use salt on any roads here. I may have that wrong. It snowed for a few days each year on the farm I grew up on in SW Victoria, nothing like in the US or Europe but it was snow and to us kids it was good fun while it lasted.

Those figures arent to far off here either if you took the exchange rate into it you can buy a lot of tractor for not a lot of money these days and still do a full days work with them day in day out air con cabs quiet power shift all the things you need for not a lot of coin Paul

I dunno about in the States, but farm tractors hold their value real good here. Even ones 30 years old are still worth good money. This will change as all the electronics on them will become the thing that fails, and we will end up with tractors parked because you can't get boards for them anymore. Sad but true I feel. Paul

Yeah mate, we don't wait for them to rust away we shake them to bits on on our roads instead but to be fair there's not a lot of real rust free R model cabs left that are pre gal cabs out here the one on my bucket of bolts is stuffed Paul

Were have you tried I get a lot of my Inter parts from Texas to Australia quicker and better than dealing with CaseIH in Australia Abliene Machine is the place I use http://www.abilenemachine.com/ they give me good service to the other side of the world better than CaseIH Australia I go and see the local dealer "Oh that old thing" they say I reply under my breath f--- you anyway good luck Paul

My crystal ball isn't real bright, but I reckon Volvo is in the shit big time financially and doing everything they can to try and survive. Serves them right. Wankers tried to takeover the world. They can suffer in their undies. The real shame is the small people these pricks will hurt along the way, the towns that will be destroyed when businesses close and are owed money. Then they can't pay their bills and it just snow balls on. When big business does this, it makes my blood boil. Anyway, with any sort of luck, something good will come out of it for Mack, the workforce and customers. They need to catch a break sooner or later and get back to doing what they do best, building not only world's toughest and best trucks, but the business that rely on the trucks as well. I've got my fingers crossed it will all work out ok for Mack and its people across the world. Paul

thats good news and bad news hey good news you know were the problem is now ,bad news it's not a simple $5.00 fix but you can work from here Paul one thing to always keep in mind I reckon is in Australia right up until the late 90's early 2000's almost all Macks were air start dunno why but thats the way we like them and with air start you only get one shot of say 10 seconds at the most to fire most likely only 5 seconds I know it aint long but these Mack motors when in fairly good nick fire first piston to the top even if they have been sitting for a long time they are real good starters every time so if you cant start it on a starter motor you got dramas !!!!!! .Air start soughts out the good motors from the bad in a instant seeya

The newer Macks don't have same sex appeal as the the R models or the old Super-Liners, not in my eyes anyway. Maybe I need new specks, the Trident looks better than the Titan. .

BERZACKLY

What about a bull bar that was made and or supplied by Mack Australia then it would be just be a factory option Vlad ???? Paul

looks great to me enjoy the beast Paul

dusted means has dust got in the engine somehow first things first when you very first wind the motor over does any smoke come out the exhaust, this will tell you if you are loosing fuel when you did the compression test did you squirt any oil in each pot to see if the compression changed it will tell you if its the rings or the heads you are loosing compression thru The problem when you are changing heaps of different things at once hoping to fix it you will never know what the problem is was as so much was changed When you had the heads off did you sit them on there side and fill the ports with petrol to make sure they were sealing well ??? I always do the the real basics first as 9 times out of 10 the basics lead me straight to the problem And please dont think Im been a smart ass here by been to simple good luck Paul

Just flogged this from Facebook for your viewing pleasure Big news for Mack fans today - a Mack World First ! The largest, and complete, set of one of every limited edition Mack conventional ever made was assembled in central Queensland. Spanning nearly 30 years, starting with the US-produced Magnum and Freedom Super-Liner models, with the Aussie BiCent, in its rightful place at centre stage, and flanked by a Centennial Trident and topped off by the biggest - a Southern Cross Titan. A very special gathering and awesome lineup ! .

I would have thought closer to or above 400 but if they are all around the same maybe thats what they should be Paul

This cancer thing can be real bastard of thing eat right do right and with any luck it will all end out alright Best of luck with this and will send some positive thoughts your way seeya Paul

yep its a challenge all right but I think its a lot harder to get rid of free loaders off your land out here than it is in the US Never ceases to amaze me that people want for free what I have spent all my life working for and in the grand scheme I dont SFA anyway or they wanna tell me what to do or how I should do it If they really feel that strongly about it by their own farm and do it them selves oh hang on I know they spent there whole life blowing every cent they ever earnt Paul

I reckon thats like the Swiss army knife of trailers I wonder what the tare weight is for these From what I see most container trucks are privately owned out here but I could be wrong Paul

I could say so much here but it won't do any good. Indonesia really are a pack of scum bag bullies that don't pay any attention to what anyone else wants until they a forced to just ask the East Timorese. Have a read of this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_East_Timorese_crisis Once again, Australians sorting out bullies from around the world at our own cost. Paul Oh yeah, you may ask, am I proud to be Australian???? Bloody oath I am. Being an Australian is so much more than drinking bucket loads of grog, chasing sheilas and whatever else you make think we do. It's about doing the right thing for all people and standing up for those who can't stand up for themselves. seeya

That poppy display was fantastic. Worth watching just for that. And you buy a Benz, you get a pissan Nissan. You're kidding me. Well, they're gonna be crap then. Paul

Bull shit look at how big Australias coast line is and we do a better job than the US and we have a lot less people to do it with The very problem today is people say everything is to hard or to expensive, and it gives me the jimmy brits let me tell ya , FFS really your borders for country are to costly and hard to protect, really what price do you put on your countries freedom to me my country, we can not put a price on our freedom how could we after what so many have given to make free Doesnt it make a mockery of the US if what the good hard working people work and scrimp and save for to give them selves a better life is taken from them by people who just dont care or have enough respect to enter the right way After all the conditions that the US and Australia have created that we live in and enjoy can be created anywhere around the world in their own countries it takes hard work from people working together and that have respect for each other and their country, it takes people that put their country first not them selves Do any of these jokers immigrating illegally have respect for them selves or their country or do they put their country first no they bloody well dont !!! I reckon it should never be to hard to protect our country And as far as these jokers on Nauru what a pack of ass holes they use their kids and woman as pawns in their plight to try and break the law and force the good honest peoples hand , well stuff em and send them packing in a plane dont even bother landing just fly low and slow and push them out bloody criminals the lot of them You know we used to welcome all once but like all things you abuse the system and we will only take so much After all we still welcome all just come the right way, work hard when you get here contribute to our country as we do and you will welcome Paul

Tim Mack Australia still used the standard R model chassis on everything right up until 07 or 08 maybe even later As far as Volvo bashing goes its all fun and games , the new Mack cant be to bad there are a lot on the road up here I think all new trucks today have a lot more teething problems than ever before as there is so much more in them and the pollution crap doesnt help the matter Paul

good take them they cost us a fortune to look after still reckon it would be easier for the Australian Navy to do some target practice These jokers arent genuine refugees thats why they arent already here because they are dishonest The Australian government has now passed laws that no boat people will be allowed to set foot on Australian soil ever immediate deportation sounds like a plan to me I guess my thoughts on this makes me a racist asshole well Im not but enough is enough and these people see our country as a soft touch and abuse the system and its people so no more Paul