mrsmackpaul

2 hours ago, mechohaulic said:

guess we can try to be positive and go with the idea this climate change is nature doing its thing. many scientist believe a meteor hit this planet causing a dust cloud which wipe out the dinos. which started the ice age. can't confirm that theory due to believe it or not  I wasn't there; I showed up few years later. no matter what did it or continues to do it;; as kid I remember when winters were long and cold  with lots of snow. not much snow few years in CT.

We used to get chill blains as kids, I still have the scars on my toes, dad had scars on his ears from when he was kid

All the puddles would ice over 

Mt brother now farms within a few miles of were this all happened and he never see's ice in puddles in winter anymore

I don't feel the changes are as sharp, as in between winter and spring, spring and summer and back into autumn as they once were

Those changes were very defined and mother nature didn't muck about

I reckon some volcano in south America erupted in the late 90's and spewed as much crap into the atmosphere in a few days that we put there in couple of hundred years

Everything we do must have an effect, is it a big enough effect to cause the changes we are having ? No one knows for sure

Scientists rely on funding to get grants to research

To get money they need, a issue that's so big it out shadows everything else is needed

Who remembers the hole in the ozone layer

The radiation from microwaves was gunna kill us all

Everyone was gunna die of aids 8n the 80s

The W2K bug when the clocks ticked over midnight to the year 2000

The rising sea levels 

There's a long list of stuff that was gunna change our world that got bucket loads of funding 

Did the funding change any of the out comes ? I think it probably did, but to how much, we will never know 

Maybe today's world we like to have something to blame when ever anything bad happens ?

I hope the earthquakes and tremors have settled down

Paul

21 weeks and counting, good to hear people are supporting the new Autocar

Hope they do well

Paul 

Assuming your in the State's, you need to use U.S. wire guage which is different than other countries

That been said the correct answer is above mine

Take a sample and compare, if it's you can't find the exact size, go the next biggest

Paul

I dunno if it is changing or not, I do wonder if we just find out about everything so much quicker

Gotta remember it was only a life time ago news like this never would of reached Australia and today I find out in a matter of hours

I remember going to A.I.M.S (Australian Institute of Marine Science) about 50 km south of Townsville on the north eastern coast of Australia 

I learnt heaps at the open day, I  got talking to a scientist fellow and asked about global warming and climate change 

He proceeded to slide out these large trays, maybe 6 or 7 feet long and the had core samples from the Great Barrier reef

He explained how the reef grows a fresh layer each year, just like a tree grows another ring

And by the colours of each layer they can tell how wet or how dry the Tropical Monsoon wet season was, the sediment washed out to sea leaves a layer on the reef and this changes the colour 

He went onto explain we have had over 50 years in a row drier than we have ever seen and also 50 years  in a row wetter than we have ever seen

So is the east coast of Australia getting hotter ? Still to early to tell

Yet in NewZealand, down the bottom end of the south island the glaciers are retreating at a fast rate of knots

So I have no idea

To me, the sun feels hotter and as soon as I stop Im looking for shade 

Paul

Watched the second video this morning 

All pretty impressive to me, well done to all involved 

I guess thats the easy part done

And yes shifting big extremly over size things is a challenge 

Dunno how wide that trailer is but probably every bit of 15 feet or more

I'm shifting a trailer in the coming weeks that is way over size and the paper work etc gets complicated to say the least, and it's no were near that size, just over 17 feet wide and about 60 feet long 

Just load this stuff is a challenge 

Paul

No good at all

Hope no body got much more than a fright

Paul

Well I managed to balls that up

Thought I would get a set, then my brother as well might like a set

Then Mal that painted Mrs Mack 

And some how endedup with 5 sets in the cart and be blowed if I can get them back to 3 sets

OH PAUL YOU'VE MADE A MESS OF THIS LOL

Paul

Yes Bob, the old posts on here are quite a shock as to some of the posters that were on here every day not so long ago

Paul

Very good, nice and short so it's easy to manouver about when the trailer is off

Paul

I saw the article at the start of this thread on Facelessbook the other day

Back in the 80's I  read a article on her, would of been either English or an Australian magazine 

I gather the trucks and their owners are all long gone now

I wonder if Mary and Andrew ever new their stories made around the world

I did some Googling and I reckon this photo was in the article, but thats probably 35 - 40 years ago now so I may be wrong 

She reminds me of another lady I habe met, Miss Elle drives trucks and coaches most of her life

I reckon Elle is even shorter than Mary and is a absolute live wire, in her late 60's now and still full of beans

And she don't stuff about when driving either, I'm flat out keeping up with her

Anyway, totally off topic now

Paul

This terrible news for all, I don't know anything about ships, boats, tug boats floating in a inner tube etc

I do imagine that once you loose power the current takes control and pushes you about however mother nature wishes the current to flow

Easter is going to be very different and a sad occasion for a lot of families now

The whole situation is terrible 

Paul

To me, it always amazes me just how much preparation goes into things that no one even notices

Keep on plugging away, you will be surprised at just how far you get

I bought a year planner, big poster size thick cardboard doohickie and wrote for each day what I did on the dairy farm, I was stunned at just how much I got done

Like this but no long flowing locks of hair 

Paul

I have welded plenty of fuel tanks, so I  don't think a larger tank is any different 

Put plenty of air flow into it, leaf blowers etc to really vent it out well and while the venting is taking place, air still blowing, hook in with the gas axe

Make some big holes quickly,  4 foot square size holes and then just break it down

And I would make it the shape and size that doesn't resemble a tank at all

Paul

1 hour ago, RoadwayR said:

There was a point in time during the mid-80's that Detroit Diesel was talking to Deere about forming a joint venture.  Deere was involved with the development of the 60 Series and Detroit was looking to market the mid-range Deere diesels as highway engines.  From what I understood at the time things were going well between Detroit and Deere until Roger Penske made GM an offer for Detroit Diesel that GM couldn't refuse.  And that was that.

BTW, Paul, were Chevy medium duties common in Australia in the 70's and 80's?

 

no mate, they sold well to begin with but the Japanese Isuzu was the beginning of the end 

I know of people that bought them new in the 70's and had and used them up until their death in the early 2000's

They were okay for what they were 

Paul

I had never thought about that, yes we probably do have a lot of very tall gear sticks

And mesh over the lower half of windscreens

Most trucks have huge visors but they are like a verandah on a house, they allow you to see out and keep the sun out

Paul

Very impressive truck, recovery, the lot 

Thanks for sharing

Paul 

I believe we are talking about the same wheel on the Kenworth Vlad, smooth dome shape with 5 big holes thats for a tubeless tyre

Those in the link are to my untrained eye, a undrilled normal Alcoa rim that had 5 larger holes drilled, sort of the wrong shape for me but might suit someone

Paul

Only bendy bits are really along the Great Dividing Ranges that go from the tip of Cape York to South Australia 

I guess it is the Australian equivalent of the Rocky Mountains 

The rest of this wide brown land is predominantly very flat and same same

Not uncommon to travel 10 miles without a single bend

Some roads are 60 miles or more with out so much as a bend 

So yes we are flat, infact we are the flattest country on earth and have areas were theres not a single tree as far as you can see and you can see the curvature of the earth, don't tell a flat earther this, their head will explode