mrsmackpaul

thats come up really well looks its gunna match the house spot on Paul

some more useless information that photo was taken on Cubbie station and was Australias largest private irrigation concern it got into financial trouble in the drought 2001 - 2010 and is now owned by China https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubbie_Station http://www.cubbie.com.au/ http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/cubbie-goes-to-china-for-a-steal/story-e6frg8zx-1226562159297 Paul

A diesel motor needs compression in the cylinder to burn the diesel , if it doesnt make enough compression the diesel cant burn to make the motor run Do you have any smoke coming out the exhaust ?? Pauk

has it run since the rebuild ??? does it have good compression and has the compression been checked ? Paul

Ah that would be me then I take it Paul

Cliff who ???????????????

Today's useless information That's a stick rake on the front of the dozer. It's only used for stick raking after you have cleared the ground. Most times it's all pulled (a boat anchor chain between two dozers) then left for 12 months. The grass grows up thru and the timber dries and then its fired and whats left is raked into windrows and burnt. And yeah it does make the truck look small. Paul

mate your not getting fuel or at least it sounds like thats the problem What model Mack a picture of the motor will most likely be enough if your not sure Paul

nice and shiny Paul

surprise surprise hey good old soap and water and good old common sense Paul

Give you blokes something to laugh at maybe , maybe not been shifting dirt on the farm and well the IH gave way to gravity and water and mud LOL Caution dont watch this if you have just eaten might throw up all over your computer when you see my ugly moosh , you know what they say as ugly as a hat full of assholes seeya Paul

how cool is this

I wonder if the HP ratings are like the old Benz trucks of the 80's they all sound good but were only Shetland ponies as opposed to the US Cummins Mack and Caterpillar that had Shire draft horse The older Benzs looked good on paper but never had any balls dunno much about these new ones you dont see many new Benzs on the roads any more or at least not in the numbers you once did

a 27 liter pussy I bet it felt like Christmas to him LOL thats a lot of power there Tim Paul

Funny thing about the Vietnam war in Australia, at least it has turned full circle I feel You never hear boo from the peace protesters you never even hear them mentioned and havent for 30 years I reckon , I guess they have all gone onto to tree hugging and farmer bashing instead It is something Australia is, I feel ashamed of the way we treated our veterans that returned from the Vietnam war back in the day and have spent the last 25 years or so as country trying to make amends for the way the veterans got treated on their return I feel and I have nothing to back this up but I feel just from the stuff I see on TV that we treat our veterans a lot better than almost any other country in the world and as a country today we have a lot in place to help our veterans and their families for the rest of their lives There was concern back in the 80's that ANZAC day and remembrance day would be forgotten as the crowds dwindled but the exact opposite has happened crowds are bigger than ever at least in my part of the country And whats even stranger is all veterans from all countries are allowed to take part in our ceremonies I think Australia must come across as a very strange and unusual country to the rest of the world Gallipoli (Turkey) were we invaded back in WW1 and promptly ground to a halt and failed big time , that campaign one of our biggest stuff ups ever would be the most remembered and spoken about and whats even stranger a 100 years later Turkey as they have for many years embraces the day !!!! there is 1000's of Australians go to Gallipoli every year school kids raise money and take whole classes over there for the ceremony each year We sure are a funny breed us Skippy the bush kangaroo Aussies LOL Paul

Today is Vietnam Veterans Day and today we remember. The day was originally known as Long Tan Day, chosen to commemorate the men of D Company, 6RAR who fought in the battle of Long Tan in 1966. On that day, 108 Australian and New Zealand soldiers fought a pitched battle against over 2,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops in a rubber plantation not far from the small village of Long Tan. The Australians prevailed, but only after fighting in torrential rain for four hours. They were nearly overrun, but were saved by a timely ammunition resupply, accurate artillery fire from the nearby Australian base, and the arrival of reinforcements by armoured personnel carrier. Eighteen Australians lost their lives and 24 were wounded, the largest number of casualties in one operation since the Australian task force had arrived a few months earlier. After the battle the bodies of 245 enemy soldiers were found, but there was evidence that many more bodies had been carried away. On the third anniversary of Long Tan, 18 August 1969, a cross was raised on the site of the battle by the men of 6RAR. Veterans from the battle gathered at the cross to commemorate the fallen, and the day was commemorated by them as Long Tan Day from then on. Over time, all Vietnam veterans adopted the day as one to commemorate those who served and died in Vietnam. In 1987, following the very successful Welcome Home parade for Vietnam veterans in Sydney, Prime Minister Bob Hawke announced that Long Tan Day would be known as Vietnam Veterans Day. Since then, it has been commemorated every year as the day on which the service of all those men and women who served in Vietnam is remembered. The Vietnam War was Australia’s longest military engagement of the 20th century. Almost 60,000 Australians fought in the war and more than 500 lost their lives. Vietnam Veterans Day is commemorated on 18 August every year. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Long Tan which would become one of the most extraordinary chapters in Australia’s military history. I have copied and pasted this as quicker than me typing a mess up here and making a hash of it to all the blokes who fought in that war and all the wars that Australia gets involved in thank you Paul

looks good the truck and the shed and all done before winter Paul

As already said looks like new top job Paul

Some time ago there was talk about VJ day in this wide brown land we call it VP day Victory in the Pacific I mentioned back then how I found something interesting on the youtube I would share if I remembered well looks like my brain hasnt failed me yet As a kid growing up my grandfather was in the Australian Airforce in the Pacific and he always told us how the Pacific was different as the the allies shared everything in the Airforce Even though the US didnt have a Airforce back then it was called the army air wing or some such thing but I think you all get the drift of what Im talking about, Australia had the second largest Airforce int the world at the end of the war They shared every thing I remember it been described was you went were you were needed you grabbed parts were you needed them from, didnt matter from where you just got the job done No body cared which country they were from they all worked together and shared, from what I have been told the Army and Navy never worked like this parts for planes were miss matched just to keep things flying as times were pretty crook back then and for some time it could go either way as in the Japs or the allies The one thing that pissed the the allies off to no end was the way the US treated their air crews and ground crews so the rest of the allies took matters into their own hands and set there own rules (The US brass wasnt happy at all) and made sure the US crews had good treatment and were as well looked after as every one else The biggest problem there was between the US and everybody else was people in the US ware a hat when they sit down to eat and some big brawls were the result as it was and still to a lot of people in Australia considered very bad manners to were your hat at the table My grand father never had bad words to say about his US counter parts he was disgusted with the way the US treated their men at the start but things improved for them he found most of them really decent people who were just there doing a job and most wanted to get it done and then get home they didnt want to be at war but like Australians were asked to help and they did Thats sought of the way I remember being told in fairly condensed form the few things Pa( my grand father) told me , he like any other veteran I have come across never really spoke about the war much and we as kids never really asked, I was bought up with "its rude to ask questions , if your supposed to know you will be told" Anyway found this clip goes for a bit but there is one part in it that is the only reference I have seen about the sharing and working together , I believe it truly was a special time in the world that in so many ways bought out the best in humanity and also highlighted the worst, we must never forget what was given up for us to live this free life that we all enjoy I hope you dont find this all to boring to me it wasnt as of the few things I had been told by my grand father about his time in the Pacific it meant so much to see and hear similar stories to some of the ones he told me thank you Paul

Now who's having trouble sleeping read all of this and you will ready for the fart sack LOL Paul

Kevin thanks very much for the link to youtube videos hadnt seen them before some more useless information Paul

when this happens the air pressure isnt set right A soon as you flick the switch on the knob it puts pressure on the fork but the gears will only release when they have no load on them so if your climbing a hill and need to split a gear flick the switch when your near ready then on and off the go pedal and it will go straight in If your using the gears to slow down with dyna tard (dont know why you would bother open the door will work better) just flick the switch and on and of the go pedal they change right away The only time they will slip into neutral is when the engine gets down to near idle The reason you can preselect a Road Ranger is because they wont complete a change till they pass thru the neutral gate then the air is applied to the shift rams the Mack box is noisier but there is a lot more moving in a Mack box than a Road Ranger Think about this the Maxi torque was built for 285 hp it was that well built it was almost unchanged in basic design for way over 600 hp of the E9 thats Mack tough and on road trains they get over a million miles on the maxi torque grossing over 115 ton every day of their life you will never get that kind of life out of a road ranger Paul

Did you notice some of those were LHD they would have struggled to compete on the European market way under powered and no tilt cab It got so bad out some dealers modified them new to tilt cabs as every other brand of truck towards the end had a tilt cab standard I wonder was the GM 6V53 sold anywhere else as standard at one stage dealers were fitting them with V8 185 Cummins motors to new trucks to try and compete and they wonder why the UK truck industry died Paul

every road ranger I have driven wont shift until the gear stick passes thru the neutral gate in the box except for deep reduction can be shifted on the go with just a flick of the throttle and the switch I never have used all 12 speeds in a the Mack most times maybe 5 or 6 speeds only unless the weight is getting up to over 40 tons then I may split 4 th and 5 th once you go above 60 tons I find 3rd 4th and 5th need to be split even taking off on a steep hill with big weights lift off in deep reduction then low 1, 2, 3 and split after that But with a Mack motor even a cool powered Thermodyne they pull like a train so I find a lot of the time I will drive them just like a Maxidyne fine Paul

They were pretty much the only KM's sold out here some came out with Bedford 6 but almost all from new had the 6 53 But having said that, KM's weren't a big seller either. A pretty dated truck when they hit the scene and totally out of date when they finished.