Gambi80

The 'Half Century of Progress' show is going on, preceeding the Farm Progress show which is this week-tuesday, wednesday and thursday. Happens every other year when the Farm Progress show is in IL. I believe the Half Century show is in Rantoul, IL, north of Champaign about 15 miles on I-57.

If you go on youtube there are a ton of videos of it. I'd like to go sometime, but work never permits. But this year I plan on going to the Farm Progress show.

Left home at 5am Friday, got to the show around 9am.. walked around with some friends had lunch and was back on the road around 2pm..was a good time..sorry I missed you..

I saw you headin north on I-39 between rt 64 & 72 the other day...4-5 in the afternoon. I tried yellin on ch19 but to no avail. Sharp lookin truck you have.

What about it...??

My dad and I went to see one a few years ago...2004-05ish. Pretty neat stuff.

The funny/bizarre thing about those though, is the railfan nut jobs that HAVE to follow the thing the WHOLE way and stop at nothing to stay beside it if there's a road that parallels the tracks.

Charge a car 8 hours to drive 40 miles.

How much coal was burned at the power plant in order to produce enough electricity to charge that car for 8 hours?

How many gallons of diesel fuel were burned digging the coal out of the ground, and transporting the coal to the power plant?

How many gallons of diesel fuel were burned mining, processing, and transporting the limestone used in the scrubbers at the power plants?

...all to save the 1 gallon or so of gasoline that would have been burned by a 4-cylinder engine in that same car.

Never has made much sense to me. Neither has turning food into fuel, which in turn links food prices to the price of fuel...because if a farmer can get $5/bushel selling his corn to be eaten...but fuel prices are increasing to the point where ethanol producers are willing to pay $7/bushel in order to meet their customer's demands....that farmer is going to be selling his corn to the ethanol producers for $7/bushel. If the grocery stores want to have corn on their shelves, they'll have to match the $7/bushel....which means you pay more when you buy corn.

High commodity prices are driven mainly by speculation. Corn is pretty well tied in with oil. Look back over the past 10 years and see that the spikes in oil are closely followed by a spike in grain. Keep in mind that only a fraction of the corn crop actually makes it to store shelves, most is either used as livestock feed or fuel and the remainder is exported.

But if you produced a product you'd choose to sell it to the highest bidder...I'd hope anyway.

And...a pretty good portion of the starving people throughout the world will remain starving until there's a regime change in their gov't no matter the price of food...

Thought the O'Hare towing was a Chicago area thing...

Me thinks Bigen is down thataway too...wonder how he's doin...

Well, I'm with you on that one. To me, 130,000+ acres of prime farmland has more worth than Cairo (I've been watching youtube videos of it, wow what a shithole). I hope the people of MO tear the COE to shreds.

Anyone on here near Birds Point whatchamacallit...? I want some first hand eyewitness video/accounts/pictures of when they blow it up.

I have a neighbor who has a 1977 Kenworth W-model conventional,400 big cam cummins,13 speed road-ranger he uses the truck as a septic tank pumper. Came to me with a question maybe someone on here can answer,the truck was originally equipped with a Kysor shut-down system,(low coolant,high temp.low air pressure) problem is that the red light works,but not the buzzer (we have concluded it is the buzzer thats defective) is this something that replacement parts are available for? this buzzer makes an OBNOXIOUS noise when working,and when the truck starts,once air pressues is built up it goes off. He is looking to keep the truck as close to original as possible,as it belonged to his father,i told him i'd see if anyone on here could point him in the right direction............Mark

Ha...my dad used to have a 4-wheel drive tractor with one of those in it. That thing would scare the crap out of me when I was little.

...and as for the exhaust, I like my stacks short and the baffles knocked out of the mufflers.

SOmebody was sayin that's how you like your women too...

I still say the late 90's to early 00's Macks with 6" pipes are the best sounding trucks on the road...

Soooo...half barrel party at Rowdy's house this weekend...?

I drove several N14's,years of trouble free driving. Last truck before the Pete was a W900 with 525 N14, but I believe the best pulling one was a 9400 IH with a 460 N14 and 4.10 rears that was turned up to 500 hp.

The one I've got was originally a 460hp and was turned to 525...with 6" pipes on it... But the jake is pretty obnoxious. I'm pretty happy with it so far.

Gotta get one of those smart phones so you can mix your work time in with your interweb time...multi-task.

I was gonna run a load of crane mats down to Arkansas the other day but instead it was given to someone who actually had 'authori-tah' to run outta state... I would've let you buy dinner at that show-me-hooters place you always talk about.

Nope.

I gave up the interweb for Lent. I'd been wasting too danged much time on it...

Old lady caught you elbow deep in porn, eh? haha

I see So. IL. is fixin to float down the Mississippi...anywhere near that?

It has about 14 winches or so and it is air ride spread axle

If you want, email me some pictures and a price... pgambiani_80@hotmail.com

damit i just sold my trail mobile $3,500 it was just heavy. 13,000 lbs. good trailer al allum wheels two 60" boxes.48x96 all new bags. led's brakes 12 ratchets.

T-N-T trailer sales warshington,mo. some pretty nice combos for 5 to 8 thousand.

tell tom i sent you. i oh him a favor

i think they got some all steel steps for around 10k???

their no. 636-239-5093

Dammit, go figure. I thought you had that sold when you got your stepdeck a while back... Does your trailer guy have a website...?

'Bout the only requirements would be air-ride and decent winches/winch rail and maybe a box or two. I don't need a headboard, side kit and/or tarp(s).

Might have to go flatbed shoppin in the near future. I've been looking on truckpaper and it seems I can find a decent 45-48' by 96 wide for under $10,000. Just curious if there are any particular brands to stay away from. I realize there isn't much to one and most have probably been rode hard and put away wet.

Seems this crane mat movin thing might be going full steam soon...broker was sayin he's workin on gettin a lay-down yard for them at his place. Rather than give up some trailer rental fee and pull whatever turd he's got laying around, I'd like my own so I know what it is.

Any helpful advice will be appreciated. TIA.

thas right,,we also stripped with 3 D-10'S, I have pics of them,

How about some pics of 2-D's stripped

Congrats Rob. How's that saying go..."grandkids are the reward for not killing your kids when they were younger..." Somethin like that anyway...

Wow you guys are harsh on Petes lol. Well so far since the inframe minus taking it back because they didn't put a gasket on the front cover and it leaked oil. Been good. Little odds and ends other then that nothing bad. Did loose a driveshaft in SLidell and limped it home to Fl after shaker wouldn't work on it. I can't complain. just a few more little things to fix but hell they all have little bugs or something

Don't feel bad, I've got a Pete now too. N14 Cummins tho, none of that yellow crap.

i just had my A/C serviced, i think the put in to much freon, my cooling fan is engauged way to much. near constant..

What's it like to be in weather that requires the A/C...?? I don't remember what it's like.

Gambi, a dern excavator is bout the hardest thing there is to put a value price on,,,just tremendous amount of factors involved in those, undercarriage and cylinder condition being big parts of it. It almost boils down to just how much is it worth to you or affordability or how much work have lined up for it, or having a buyer located or something like that. I realize Im not giving you much of an answer, I pologize for that, just many factors, couldnt tell you. Sorry,,,randyp

It was kind of a tongue in cheek remark about the Deere, but it would be nice to have. If we bought it we'd just keep it for however long we'd need it...clearing about 80 acres of timber, knocking down a couple buildings and so on...then re-sell it. It would be nice to get a 'neighborhood' pool thing goin...buy things split a few ways or each neighbor buy a relevant piece of equipment and just trade hours amongst the 'pool'...too many tightassed farmers though... I've got access to and experience with a good lowboy trailer so all would be well.