TommyZ

Ahhh, I switched my thinking since that cabover I got from you guys anyways. Too tough to get in and out of as I get older...so we switched to HOODED vehicles. Way easier to tilt that HOOD than it is to jack that cab up, especially when you blow a line or two and have to get creative. (You do know I'm only yanking yer chain BTW...) They'll probably bury me in a cabover.

It was a toss up between "The Fool on the Hill", or Iron Mountain Iron & Equipment, LLC. I thought the latter would be more professional sounding in terms of conducting business, but the first name is much more appropriate most of the time. No connection at all to anything, other than my own hallucinations. I fought to register that name in my state as an LLC too. They denied it due to "too many words being too close to an existing registered LLC in this state". Funny, there's more Green Mountain this-and-that's in this state, but I wanted something unique and they wouldn't do it. The remedy to it was my accountant is located in Indianapolis,In. so he registered my biz name in his state...took him one hour to get it done in his state, took me 9 months to get a "NO" from mine. No big deal having an Ind. LLC either, doesn't matter where that's domiciled for what I do. I do see a lot of Iron Mountain document shredding service vehicles around though. They trademarked the Iron Mountain logo too. It just makes sense. I live on an official mountain at 2290 ft. ASL, I have a bunch of IRON parked here that I collect, buy, sell, horsetrade, etc., so hence the name, Iron Mountain Iron & Equipment. The Towing is a DBA of that entity.

Sure seems to be plenty of jungles these days, lol. Thanks.

We'll see about that when one of those cabovers are riding on the Tru Hitch behind a HOOD...

R Model cab, CL 700 Hood, E9...there's your truck Bullhead...

Hehehehehe....he's got good enough credit around town; I'm sure there's plenty of towers that would love to latch onto one of his pieces.

It's all about the end of an era, sad but true. Look at all the other brands. I'm a Peterbilt fan through and through (don't hate me,) and when they went from the 359 model to the 379 I was disappointed. Yes, I know...they have more room inside...... Then the 379 became the 389. Just a higher grade of textured plastic inside that doesn't clean up very easy IMHO. The oriental looking headlights don't tickle me either, but yes, they're brighter. On top of all the cheapness, they put all the switches on the opposite side of the wheel. Since the late ' 70's...I have been turning headlights, clearance lights and other stuff on with my right hand. The 389's have all that on the left side of the wheel...an un-natural act to force yourself to do. I can't count the times I went to flash my lights for a truck to come back over (not like these newbies even know what that means anymore,) and by the time my hand heard my brain say "left side Clyde...", they were already trying to take my hood off anyways. Wondering why they ever made such radical changes to perfectly good layouts on truck dashboards, I once had the opportunity to sit with a retired Paccar engineer somewhere, can't even remember where it was now. I asked him why, and he simply stated, "because all the old timer engineers are pretty much retired." The new breed of engineers are moving into the heavy duty market. Most "kids" that design trucks nowadays drive Honda Civics, Beemers, Prius', etc. Where's the headlight switches in those rides? You got it...on their LEFT side... hence, the location of our new truck dashboard layouts, proudly re-engineered by none other than a college grad that never sat in a class 8 vehicle in his 21-25 years of life yet. But sadly again, everything's changing. I'd spec a brand new truck with a 7 speed main and a 4 speed aux. box if they offered it and the salesman knew what it was. It'd have a pre-emissions 6NZ Cat that is bulletproof, and get's 6+ mpg like the one I run daily. Instead, they choke off these new engines with bogus emissions systems that cause more problems than they do pollution. DEF fluid, good for the environment??? You ever see the amount of 2.5 gallon empty DEF jugs piled up at the fuel islands lately? Those are GREAT for the environment...after all, the plastic they are made of will break down in the landfill after 250 years, so what's the big deal? You just have to be patient... Moral to the story here; keep your memories and cherish what you have from yesterday as long as you can...pretty soon we can all turn out tool boxes into bird feeders, because you won't even be able to open a hood without a code and a remote to tell you how to.

There is in the planning stages. I have a Tru Hitch DTU that will be going onto the ' 81 cabover freightshaker, for local/longer distance tows, to help out distressed owner/op's and such as well as retail towing for fleets, etc. With all these new Paccar motors and faulty sensors, etc. that thing shoud stay fairly busy, lol.

I guess I shoulda started an album in the gallery maybe for this? Anyways, here's a couple more of my mouse condominiums here. 1963 Autocar A64B (A stands for aluminum) with an NHC 250 Cummins, 9513 speed, 4:33's on Hendrickson, pulls a 1966 Fruehauf 15 ton lowbed to as many shows as we can make during the season. This truck drives beautifully for a 50 year old gal. Rust free; all aluminum cab, hood, doors... I went down to Mass. last July 2013 and brought the 63 home. I had to disassemble the treadle valve and free the plunger up, ended up rebuilding it in the weeds with a new kit. Singled out one inside tire as it was blown, so I r&r'd it and ran it home that way. A little exhaust work, some severe mouse removal and debris from them, some shining up and she made her debut in Bellows Falls, Vt. The two together July 4th, 2013. The other's a 1972 S64B. This is Detroit powered with a 318, also a 9513 speed, 4:11's on Hendrickson. I brought her home a few months prior to the 63, just because I couldn't drive both by myself. I terrorized the roadways that day, as the muffler was missing so we cobbed together enough 5" pipe, flex and bailing wire to make some smoke and mouse debris go up instead of out the elbow. This old gal is kind of special, as I just remembered watching a few Autocars with 318's and short dump trailers going up the road and always wanted one ever since. I'm working on this one, she needs a little TLC in the floor, have a set of doors to put on...and I have a Freightliner Airliner suspension that most likely will be mated up to this one and stretched a bit. Should be a looker when she's all done. I ran it up and down the road that day in this pic, but not without incident. I mowed the exhaust off on both sides and it's just straight pipes off the manifolds facing backwards, but still under the cab corners. About 1.5 miles from the house, unbeknownced to me, the exhaust heat melted the plastic air lines going to the maxi's at 50 mph and she came to a very abrupt stop. Luckily I had a piece of aluminum that I used to deflect the exhaust away from the lines, and I backed the maxi's off and got back to the safe haven without any confrontations with Johnny Law. Yes, I can still be stupid when I try.

Hey now....that ain't very nice of ya.....

You laugh about the auxiliary heating systems... About 100 years ago as a kid on a job site in Middletown, Ct. there was a contractor with a few old B-61 bombers running on -site only placing material. One older black gentleman in particular drove one and it had no heat...sooooooo he took an old Kero-Sun kerosene heater and removed the passenger seat, and bungee corded the heater down to stay warm. The best part of this entire story ends with the visual of him sitting in that old B Model, cooking a can of B & M Baked Beans on the heater...that ain't no lie either!

Just curious...is that two-tone green KW A Model Rick Sousa's from Rhode Island? Cuz it sure does look exactly like it to me...

Thanks...

I can always mount a Bulldog on any of the hoods though, and hallucinate eh?

Hey, you look familiar! LOL....

No, the fella below is correct on the Seminole scheme. Mine is an old-school KW factory paint scheme, but not sure of the name of it. I can do the research and find out though...

Hey Bullhead! I don't have any pics of the A'cars on my PC right now...I gotta send some off my cellphone to this thing, and re-post those I guess. Missing the Transtar? Well, kind of I guess I have to admit, but it morphed into a W900A, so that was a nice transition really. No worries, I have 2 more Transtars in my crosshairs for the springtime, so hang onto yer hat.

Thanks Tim, but I don't think it was all too warm this A.M...., had -14*F !!! That just ain't right.

I lost a brand new Carhartt jacket in an emergency shutdown scenario one time...from that point on, I did everything that was mentioned here B-4 I fired my next Yamaha up that had been sitting.

Suggestion Russell: Go to Home Depot, buy a propane salamander and a 100 lb.'er, lay it (the tank,) in the bunk and the salamander pointed at you on the doghouse, and you'll have all the heat you'd ever need!

Hey Russell, saw your post here...truck looked familiar, LOL!

I was sent a link by a buddy to check something out here, and even though I lack a bulldog in my collection at the moment...I felt compelled to come join the party. I really need to find a Mack that I can have around soon, and I will! Right now though, it's component trucks until then. Thanks for the good site here! Tommy Z. Iron Mountain Iron & Equipment, LLC Iron Mountain Towing ironmountainiron.com