mrsmackpaul

Well the exact opposite has happened in Australia After a drought for a few years in a row we have had the best seasons I have ever seen in my life fir the last few years The farmers out bid everone to restock and now Australia, at least the eastern half is over stocked and a drier year is predicted this year Cattle prices have more than halved this year in the sale yards Super markets are different, the meat price has dropped a little I'm not really a pork or chicken man but I do prefer lamb chops, used to buy a side of lamb once As far as butchering a beast (cow or steer) you need probably at least one person that really knows what they are doing to break down the quarters and at least two good helpers to then process (make it into steak and mince roast, silver side etc)and pack the meat You then need a huge deep freeze and restack it eack week as it slowly freezes It takes three of us all day to do a beast This doesn't include the day you kill it as the meat needs to hang for a week in cool room to set, if you don't let it set, butchering is a huge job as it just wobbles about And yes I have done a few in my life Anyone that says they can do a beast in a few hours isnt been honest and isnt including killing, quartering, salting the hide, then butchering You can break the quarters down to cuts of meat in a few hours but definitely not butcher it And you need a really good back to carry the quarters from the front end loader or were ever you killed the beast into the cool room Is it worth it, with out a doubt in my mind it is but it's a huge job Ideally we would find people we new quite well and swap meat about so we got plenty of lamb and pork and they got plenty of beef Only swap meat with people you know well because if they haven't chilled it right you can easily end up crook and chucking meat away We also run all the bones thru the band saw for the dogs later on and put the bones in freezer Paul

No harry I've got no idea on the original owner, I would be surprised if it was ever anything but a heavy haulage truck or a truck built for extremely heavy work The Mack dealer closest to me for many years (Townsville) thought maybe Papua New Guinea might of been it's original home I was thinking maybe NewZealand with the indicators in the headlight surrounds It has Mack Australia on the plates and was built to 115 ton from new 58,000 lbs back end, double 12 inch rails ? Mack called them 12 inch but they only measure I think 10 inches deep Looks like it's been upside down once The doors don't match the cab or the bonnet when we sanded it back which was a shock I wonder if L Arthur bought as a wreck and fixed it up ? Paul

My Uncle collected model T Fords years ago and stored them at Mum abd Dads Mum cracked it one day and Dad pushed the lot into a gully with the RD6 Caterpillar All this stuff that got pushed into the gully Dad was buying exarmy Indians and Harleys for next to nothing used them on the farm and they all suffered the same fait Bloody criminal really but Dad couldn't see the value in this stuff Paul

Im guessing your thinking of giggle gas (Aero Start) or this Paul

So Sutton or Kango cobalt bits with Sutton venom cutting fluid Cutting fluid sticks like doo doo's to a blanket, so I can drill upside down and inside out with no dramas Trefolex also works really good as well Or a grinder also works pretty well Paul

Dunno, my 81 Thermodyne is the same colour Paul

I found for tough going cobalt bits are the go You can't sharpen them as the cobalt is a coating and once you grind it off the are back to a normal drill bit I can drill hardox steel okay with cobalt bits were as a normal high speed steel drill just goes blunt in a few seconds Paul

PAI made these and as far as I know still do, as well as all the gears and at least some of the shafts Paul

I dunno about those brands, I generally go for Sutton which is a Australian brand Paul

Nope sorry Most times the link bends slowly overtime As long as the bag is fairly pumped with no wrinkles they work okay Paul

Hell of good surprise last night, jumped the Australian truck forum and Swishman has bunged these up for me https://www.hcvc.com.au/forum/truck_Chat/21299-can-this-b-the-famous-mrs-mack Clickty click on the link to see the sexy beast Once again, Tah muchly Swishman Paul

As the others have said, lools great Better than anything I could do, I thought maybe gunna fill the screw holes as this would make it easier to keep looking schmik And I do like the idea of the emblem branded in Paul

101 is a good run Cities across the world are always in a hurry, I just avoid them if I have to Paul

Vlad I didn't know you couldn't get Facebook at the moment, I think thats what your saying And like Vlad, I have to many projects on at the moment and Australia and the leftards running the show have made it almost impossible to import trucks into Australia as of July 1st this year But yes that G model does look good Paul

Start from the middle and work outwards, slowly come up in torque over maybe 3 goes around And no thats not in the book but just what I was taught Paul

LOL Yeah no proof reading done at all Amyway a thong goes on your foot out here

Bugger me, no good at all I always always always get thongs completely finished to a certain stage before stopping, my memory is not good enough to remember minor things so I have learnt by my own mistakes to finish things to point before stopping Yeah I know that makes no sense at all but I know what I mean lol Paul

I would think the weights should be pretty close Someone smarter than me will know for sure I would hunt around a bit more for the correct piston I don't really think mixing up parts like this on the rotating assembly is a good idea Just keep on looking for the correct piston is my advice Paul

Could also measure the front and rear sides as well I feel all four measurements should be the same Paul

Well that would of added some excitement to the day I wonder if the truck needs a bit of a drive to settle in That been said you could easily run a tape measure at the top of the wheels and at the bottom and the measurements should be equal Paul

Looks the goods to me I can't imagine anyone having a wooden tilt tray in Australia I doubt a wooden tray has been used on a heavy truck in Australia in the last 20 or 30 years Steel is normal now on everything these days Tray looks really neat and tidy, you've gotta be proud of the result Paul

They had some impressive gear Paul

That is a stunning truck, super impressed as is the forman in the photo, thanks for sharing Paul

Mech, I'm getting concerned about these hairy chested Aussie shelias mentioned earlier Now you mention trans and drag, perhaps Crocodile Dundee was onto it years ago when he checked the tackle before chatting up a bird 🤔 Paul