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You have to remember that these tractors were the replacement for the horse on many small farms. No power steering, etc. beat the hell out of feeding and cleaning up after a horse!

HOW TO SAVE THE AIRLINES: Dump the male flight attendants. No one wanted them in the first place. Replace all the female flight attendants with good-looking strippers! What the hell!! They don't even serve food anymore, so what's the loss? The strippers would at least triple the alcohol sales and get a "party atmosphere" going in the cabin. And, of course, every businessman in this country would start flying again, hoping to see naked women. Because of the tips, female flight attendants wouldn't need a salary, thus saving even more money. Muslims would be afraid to get on the planes for fear of seeing naked women. Hijackings would come to a screeching halt, and the airline industry would see record revenues. This is definitely a win- win situation if we handle it right -- a golden opportunity to turn a liability into an asset. Why didn't Bush or Obama think of this? Why do I still have to do everything myself? Sincerely, Bill Clinton

An elderly Jewish guy walks into a Catholic church and sits down in the confessional booth. When the window slides open he tells the priest "Forgive me Father; I have been married for fifty years and last night I made love to a beautiful 22 year old woman all night." The priest paused and than asked "That is a sin, but you are Jewish, so why are you telling me?" The old man looked up, smiled, and replied "Hell, at my age I'm telling everyone."

The very personification of what we called an "Old Yankee". Make do or do without; fix it, don't buy new; keep working and saving because you might need it when you get old! God bless him and all those like him.

Don't really want to know how long I (might) have; I just want to be able to live the years I have. As Woody Allen said " I'm not afraid of dying, I just don't want to be there when it happens." Take it from someone who spent 32 years dealing with folks who kissed their spouse goodbye in the morning and never came home again; life's short, enjoy it.

Welcome. It might be money well spent to advertise here and Watts is always looking for the support to keep this going.

Subject: Government Job Interview A guy goes to the government to apply for a job. The interviewer asks him, "Are you allergic to anything?" He replies, "Yes, caffeine. I can't drink coffee." "Ok, Have you ever been in the military service?" "Yes," he says, "I was in Iraq for one tour." The interviewer says, "That will give you 5 extra points toward employment." Then he asks, "Are you disabled in any way?" The guy says, "Yes. A bomb exploded near me and I lost both my testicles." The interviewer grimaces and then says, "Okay. You've got enough points for me to hire you right now. Our normal hours are from 8:00 am to 4:00 pm. You can start tomorrow at 10:00 am, and plan on starting at 10:00 am every day." The guy is puzzled and asks, "If the work hours are from 8:00 am to 4:00 PM, why don't you want me here until 10:00 am?" "This is a government job", the interviewer says. "For the first two hours, we just stand around drinking coffee and scratching our balls. No point in you coming in for that."

It's amazing how the aluminum makes the sound echo.

Glad you found the electric glitch. It's great to see a CF in service that hasn't been 4 doored. Real old school. Really long wheel base for a country rig. I hope you can get it where you need to go. The is a Millburn FD in KY, so that would be the logical choice. Internet search also turned up a NJ Millburn.

Ah, the value of a good attorney!

Glad to help out. If you don't make bail can we send you a cake with a file in it?

Sporadic battery issues are an indicator that it may be a ground issue. Check the grounds to make sure they are clean. If it has a Cole-Hersee switch make sure the terminals are tight on the back. Use "both" when turning on the switch. A mechanic can use an ammeter to check the draw of the starter to see if it is excessive. Given the price of a new starter I'd make damn sure it was bad before I replaced it. There is a Millington in Delaware. Don't know if they used Macks, but it is definetly Mack country.

Mike, I think yours has the ENF510 in it. With twin ignition I doubt it is an ignition problem. My ENF510 is really sensitive to fuel when it is warm. If I press the accelerator when I crank it it will not start until the fuel clears. And unlike all of the other oldies I have had this one hates to have the gas pedal pumped when it is cold. It floods in a NY second. Carl

Yes, FDNY auctions off the old stuff. You are correct about the super pumper. According to Eckart it is in Michigan and is being pulled by a super liner. The tender is in SoCal. Sorry for the bad scoop.

"Hello Mack owners My 1953 model A Ser. 4751001 looks very much same" It should not be 1001 if it is a 53. If anything it should be one of the last numbers produced. If I recall correctly you told me in an earlier e-mail that the rig came from Maine. It looks very much like the 45A featured on page 72 of Eckart's book that came from Bridgewater, ME. Is there an ID tag located near the officer's seat? What engine and pump is it equipped with? What are you asking?

Advertised on Baltimore CL http://baltimore.craigslist.org/cto/2804649660.html Advertised as a "DS"; never heard of that, but it is an F model. Only $800.00

Last I heard the tender was still in existense, in Texas I think. The pumper was scrapped.

If I were local I'd check that out with the thought of sellling the body and keeping what looks like a pretty nice B. I bet the body is worth the 8K.

Don't know about the Jake brake causing it, but I can definetly attest that you can get a diesel to run backwards. Just stall it out on a hill and let it roll back with the clutch out. Makes enough smoke to kill every mosquito in a five square mile area. And yes I did it several times while trying to master an ALF tiller truck with an 6-71 Detroit.

If they had just kept building fire trucks they would have been ready!

Seen that a few times before. If you can't smile and get in a good mood when a baby laughs you ain't right.

There was a post on here recently about the old fashioned way to heat up a cold truck. While I don't recommend setting a fire under the rig, there are methods out there to warm up the oil.

If you do any restoration work on any vehicle you will quickly find out that you are far better off to pay more for a rig in better condition than you are to pick up a cheap "beater" and attempt to breathe life back into it. Simply put, the better the rig is to start with the less expensive it will be to get done, and you will always spend more working on a rig than you will to buy a rig in comparable condition. The only way I would get into something like this was if it was so unique I couldn't find it in better shape. Standard Mack B-61 tractors don't fall into that category.

Back in the early to mid-seventies I helped a friend change the frame rails on several GMC tractors that Texaco ran. Apparently GMC got some bad steel and all of the trucks developed cracked frames. His thing was that we never backed the trucks up. He would drive them into the shop where we disassembled them, layed the new rails out in the opposite direction, and re-assembled them facing out so he could drive them out.

For quite a while we used a Paystar corn binder with the hook style lift to carry our various command modules, tech rescue shoring, and haz mat stuff. Basically they were an RV/Office made on a dumpster style chassis that the truck could lift up and transport. You're right; it's a great way to have one truck fill a lot of different roles. We auctioned it off a few years ago and I'm sure someone got a helluva buy. It only had around 10k miles even though it was around 20 years old.