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TommyZ

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  1. Being 50 years old and running Montreal most of it's life, I guess you'd have to expect a little of that.
  2. I'd like to sell them as a pair really farmer...plus we're a little far apart from each other to make it worth while I'm thinking. Thanks.
  3. Too many projects, too little time.... Decided to let go of my two Autocars and a trailer. First is the 1963 A64B all aluminum tractor. Has a 250 Cummins, 13 speed on Hendrickson of course. Good 24.5 rubber. It's registered and driveable, hooked to a 1966 Fruehauf fixed neck trailer. Been to a few shows around the northeast in it recently. Has a Jake brake as well. Pretty rare aluminum tractor. Second is a 1972 S64B steel cab, 8V71 Detroit/13 speed. Also runs and drives, however I started to do some work to the inside of cab and removed seats and started cleaning things up. Recently moved to a smaller property, increased workloads, and less time has helped in this decision to part with these. I'm interested in selling both tractors and trailer all at once, but will separate if interested... Asking $7,300.00 for 1963 A64B and trailer. Asking $4,000.00 for 1972 S64B alone. Package deal for everything.... Email: ironmountainiron@gmail.com
  4. Think about this as well; the majority of obummer supporters are unemployed, on welfare and receive free everything. They outnumber those of us that carry them. I just saw Charlie Daniels on Huckabee this morning. Mike asked Mr. Daniels if he regretted saying anything he has said in a political context, and he replied, "Not at all...I'm 77 years old and I'll say any dad-gum thing I please... This is the kind of leadership we need. Not ones that apologize for us. These psychos in office that actually believe their own BS (or maybe not,) are laughable to put it mildly. Take global warming for example. I just enjoyed the first two days in a row of temperatures above freezing in the final days of March since I can remember. Doesn't the weather itself defy these whack-jobs' statements they have turned into a religion and earned billions of dollars with all their lying and deceitfulness say enough? ACA...You just wait and see. There'll be more without health insurance paying the fine than there will be enrolling due to the prohibitive cost. But there we go again. You allow droves of illegals into the hospitals to care for them for free, and someone has to foot the bill. Meanwhile, we have a hospital in North Adams, Mass. that is in the process of closing down permanently because they're broke. The state stepped in with an injunction to keep them open for now, but the employees won't be paid according to the news. This will put a hurting on the folks needing emergency treatment, as the two nearest ER's are at the closest 15 miles north in Vermont, and 20+ miles south in Pittsfield, Mass. Makes my blood boil, and yet sharpens my wit day to day...to seek and impliment alternative plans on everything. PS: Mark Levin does a good job of calling out the real characters, I agree. I also like some of the nicknames..."Dingey Harry", "Chuck-You Schumer" (an evil individual to say the least,) and many more that fit their names pefectly.
  5. They wouldn't do that. Anything they run other than green is leased. They lease a bunch of equipment to provide extra service in the heating season, then return it in the spring.
  6. Guess I'm just an old-schooler who doesn't like change unless it makes sense to everybody involved, lol. I've broken my share of crank handles, cross-tubes and such. I've struggled with tweaked gear that the last one dragged or caught on something...but never sat there and wondered why my wheels were off the ground! Always managed to get out of a jam somehow with a pipewrench, etc. But we're living in the ends times...with EOBR's, automatic transmissions with restricted license endorsements on "drivers" licenses even saying so, and all the technology coming up that will eventually squeeze out everything most of us are accustomed to. Anyone with 15-20 years of this career staring you in the face better start renewing your wardrobe with sweatpants, sandals and dumbed-down attitudes. It's becoming a job that requires a pulse, and that's all. (Not in every sector, but you get the drift.)
  7. When the worked they were a LOT more effective than S cams...but when you went to rebuild the actuators, there was a million little parts inside them stinking things.The worm gears would start to seize after a couple winters... Most were disconnected once they started to act up.
  8. All well and good until they freeze in and the "driver" tries to free them up and bends them like a horseshoe. There's plenty of scenarios that could be a problem. In the fleet I'm a part of, there's more often than not trucks with lo-pro 22.5's that dropped a van so low I come along with high 24.5's and end up looking around the property for a 4x4 (or anything actually,) dropping my suspension, jacking, blocking, jacking, repetitively until I gain 6-8" so I can get under it finally. As long as you could get close enough to the gladhands to get air to the trailer/gear, I guess you could get out of trouble with these air-operated ones... We sure are getting lazy in this country.
  9. Good going GG2, that's how I'd do it too.
  10. Looks good! You change the entire front axle, or just spindles and hardware?
  11. Yes, very distinctive green, with red bumpers, frames, etc. Their trailers are always green with a white belly, unless they are leased or just purchased and haven't painted them yet.
  12. They're still around Jim, bigger than ever. I worked for them for 11 months before this current job now. They are mainly all KW, but have a lot of newer International's in the fleet. They're a very well run, well oiled machine in terms of how they spec things, and run their business. (A little too well oiled for me to work for, but that's another story, another time...) Very weight-conscience to maximize payload/revenue. Also very uniform in how they spec things and maintain things too. Class-one operation compared to most of the other LP gas carriers in the northeast, I'll give them that. They take pride in their image as a carrier, and it shows. I wish I could say that about my gig, lol. Back when the old man was still around, it was like working for the Gustapo. He didn't like drivers, never acknowledged they were even alive most guys said. He didn't care about your comfort; all he cared about was revenue. Those old Macks had solid,bolted-to-floor seats, no a/c...you earned every penny and he made sure of it. If he was still around now, he'd probably try to have it the same way, lol. There should be a few LP's working out in your neighborhood; that's where I was working when I was with them for a while...hauling out of Houston to Ky.
  13. Now that's cool! I was going to suggest someone post these pics if they had any of LP's Macks.
  14. Yeah, I saw the yellow B hooked to the camper at the W. Spfld. ATHS show where I talked to him. I later ran into him in Maybrook, NY at an asphalt plant and was trying to market a Flowboy I was selling, but he was with a bunch of guys and was pretty rude compared to being at the show; so I went away thinking something different. Oh, I thought the A Model mack was all apart and he built it...well, it's still pretty unique anyways, as is the driver, lol.
  15. 25 years or older is an antique. I've used Gulfway for several years...been absolutely great to me even when I drive them insane adding/deleting/changing vehicles on them. I have a truck/trailer combo for instance insured, can haul my own equipment on the trailer.
  16. They actually have over 130 trucks last count. Mixed bag of Petes, FL, Macks, all flavors. They're into everything from aggregates to cement to salt. Not far from here...they pass here right now quite a bit with salt wagons. If you New York guys want to stretch your legs a little, then get some pics on here of some of the bigger western-central NY fleets such as Earl T. Wadhams (milk transporters,) Mirabito (petroleum,) and another nice outfit in the southern tier is Loptke along side of rt. 17/86 in Appalachia, NY area west of Binghamton. They run a BIG fleet of dump trucks and trailers...lot of CL and CH Macks, Autocars and still running a few Diamond Reo Giants heavy spec'd trucks to this day. They operate a quarry or two out there as well.
  17. I'm getting ready to chop a Cruiseliner down with a V-8...Has a perfect working heater in it too...man, it'll bake you right out on low.
  18. Yeah, that yellow B is uncalled for. 10" stovepipes, must be 300" long...but the owner's as unique as the truck, so.....
  19. This thing caught my eye at the Ballston Spa show last fall. As I was getting ready to leave, this guy pulled behind me and I had to go snoop around this thing.Think it's a 1940. I agree to an extent...chopping up an old truck that could have been restored is a cardinal sin, but if it was in tough shape and a guy could resurrect it within his means and budget, then what the heck. Either way, he's showing it and people enjoy it. I was tickled talking to this guy...he is about 4' 9" tall. A Hell's Angel??? Huh, must not have any height restrictions. He's an old-school rat-rodder through & through. He leaded the sheet metal like they used to do. He used actual Craftsman wrenches for brackets here and there, like to mount the visor. Just welded them to whatever, and never even wiped the arc flash off the welds, lol. At the end of the day, you can't deny the effort put in, the engineering, craftsmanship, etc. to stay traditional. Not a Tackaberry piece by any means....but still cool.
  20. I'll never forget the morning I was heading west on I-78 in Jersey headed to Pennsylvania, and saw about 10 of those brand new quad axle D' Adario trucks evidently coming from the Allentown or Macungie factory heading up to Bridgeport. I thought I was seeing things when I saw those aluminum bodies with "HI-HO" fabricated into the sides. They were delivering them to their new owners. That had to have been around 1990-' 91 era. Still see a couple around...I think Ct. Mulch Distributors has one they painted white that's running around.
  21. I'm trying to feel the same love as you guys on these U's...but man, I'm just not getting the vibe. I liked the DM 800's as far as an offset cab goes, but I never got the U fever. Probably cuz of the massive long hood on the 800's. Ahhh, to each his own I reckon. Another good reason possibly is every single U model I was associated with was such an old club to drive, that I never fell in love with them maybe. But again...it's just me. There's plenty in this forum that look quite nice to me now... I always thought the U model was the platform that Euclid based their quarry trucks on, LOL.
  22. Grab it...even if it needed frame work...not like you're going to put a plate on it and start hauling to California immediately. You have the rest of your life to bring that thing back from it's grave.
  23. That's a fact, LOL. No lie when you say it's uphill BOTH ways...
  24. I actually found this one tucked in the weeds over in Johnstown, NY last year, on a mission to pick up four 11:24.5 tires. It's origionally a NY State Thruway lowbed. I spotted it and asked the fella if it was for sale, and he said he'd love to sell it. 20 years ago, he went through it and put 8 new tires on it, redid all the brakes (Brakemaster type with the long push rods...) all new chambers, all new lights and new planking. He used it 3-4 times and decided he just shouldn't use it as he planned, and parked it. Luckily he would move it back and forth each year to keep it from seizing up. The deck was completely rotted, so he took most of it off for me before I got there to bring it home. I was impressed that all the lights worked, although they were the old steel fixtures with snap ringed lenses. I hooked onto it and headed home on the 106 mile journey, down rt. 30A and stayed off the Thruway, as I was spraying rotten pieces of decking that was still stuck around all the bolts all over the road for about 30 miles. I got on I-88 in Central Bridge and by that time she was completely cleared off, but the lights were all dragging by the wires now because they vibrated apart. Those things are over rated anyways. The brakes worked beautifully, which was a miracle. I took it right home and bought all new lights, rewired them up, and put a few new planks on to accomodate a truck on it, leaving the center open for easier access to chaining. When I went to test all my new lights and labor I put into it that day...the lights didn't come on and there was a huge puff of smoke coming from underneath the gooseneck. Seems that the original 1966 cloth covered trailer cord decided to fuse itself together into one solid mass of copper as I put the juice to it. No biggie; I lopped it off and put a brand new section of 7 wire cord in place...in about an hour I was all set and lit up like nobody's bidness. The landing gear are all cast aluminum housings (Holland too,) and work fine. That's a beautiful thing in itself to have crank down gear. I've used that trailer several times too for bringing stuff home, and going to shows, hauling trucks on it. Kind of a nice old piece to have around.
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