mrsmackpaul

well done let the good times begin Paul

there's some gems parked under the trees there Always good to take those around us out for a ride or drop in and say gudday and have a cuppa with them life can get lonely for some when they are on there own Paul

fantastic photos the cattle trucks a lot different than out here all very refined and shmick looking units the tunnel looks different to anything I have ever driven thru Paul

great pics I reckon that log truck has a good load of sticks on it Paul

well theres some good news I reckon the Aussie market will be well down the economy in Australia has ground to a halt the percentage of Mack trucks up in north would appear to be fairly high dont know about the rest of Australia though Paul

as everyone else has said great pics thanks for sharing Paul

we dont have many road tunnels in Australia come think of it apart from the few real big ones in the citys I can only think of one in country areas and it was a train tunnel they are pretty long beams you are towing Tim must have to take some planning to get around the corners on some of the roads or does the dolly at the back solve all those problems ?? Paul

the motorized dolly is a bit of NZ thing I think I have some photos of one made out of Federal 604 tank transporter must have being made back 50's or 60's a pretty cool jigger considering what they would have had to work with Paul

thats a pretty cool looking fire truck strange being painted red perhaps its a NZ thing ? what other good things did they have there Tim Paul

Well it looks some one has got a new toy and just cant get enough of it like a kid on chrissy mourning with a new Tonka they have always wanted Paul

yeah similar problems yesterday in this wide brown land

That is a great looking bit of gear I wish I had something like that

nah not my cup of tea Im just old fashioned I dont like tatts on girls each to their own I guess

Foden is owned by Paccar is Foden even made anymore I thought the last one came off the line a few years ago maybe five years now I dont know of any Ford connection ??? Paul

yes we would laugh when someone got hurt bad and then try to compare to the preivious worst injury we never seemed to go to hospital much I went for a broken elbow and a burst spleen and if mum or dad did find out you got hurt there was never any you poor little darling it was more along the line of stupid bugger A fate worse than death was if the school phoned your parents because you were being a ratbag at school my god we always said "Dads gunna bloody kill me!!!!!!!!" we never seemed to die these days the parents would go into school and tear strips off the teachers and there poor little cherubs would need six months with Dr Phil to get over it

HMMMMMMMMMMMM times sure have changed when I was a young fella if we didnt have a gun we used a stick if didnt have a stick we used our finger they all went bang when we made the right noise perhaps you should have given him a stick then the finger and yelled bang would have worked in Australia I wonder what they would have said get that finger out of my store its weapon wankers the lot of them oh and the other big thing while we running out side playing cowboys and indians or war as we called throwing dry cow pats at each other we were skinny little buggers like a drovers dog no obesity problem back then Paul

Im pretty sure you can pull them apart ok need to do it in a press maybe bend some mesh around to help protect you if was to go pear shaped Paul

not ever working on these engines can you get to any part of the valve stem thru the tappet covers on the side of the block ? Paul

top jobs on these power wagons not many RHD drive ones sold out here but there was a few Paul