Bullheaded

Here's a party trick for y'all to try. As you know I got my two vaccines (Moderna) against my will, forced by employer that pays me stupid amounts of money.

Someone told me about this today, so I tried it.

Take an ordinary dime and hold it to your arm where you got the needles. That dime sticks to me like a magnet only in that spot.

Ya, that outta be healthy stuff to have in you.

I have a Mack full line brochure from around 1980 and it shows the V8 Detroits available in the DM800.

My friend had a DM800 winch tractor with a V8 Detroit. Detroit's were very popular here where I am back in the day. Was a few 2-stroke Superliners pulling logs too.

Know what's as scary as PETA? Canada just made the ex head of Green Peace (a guy with a criminal record) our new Minister of Environment.

By by fuel, internal combustion engines, factories, agriculture, mining, etc.

I never had a 300 six Ford, because being young at the time it wasn't as impressive as saying you had a V8......but I had friends and relatives with them and the damn things were bullertproof.

You're first post in this one sounds just like me Other Dog. When I owned my big trucks, I couldn't afford a new pickup. All my money went into the business.

So I see this 2007 F550 4x4 for sale. A truck I knew, and my dream truck.....aluminum wheels, diesel, 12 foot flatbed, V-Mac underhood air compressor, 10 foot Boss vee plow. So I buy it and fix a few things and have 20 grand into it.

Then I get out of trucking and get an awesome job in a gold mine. Think to myself "this F550 is the perfect truck for running 50 miles of gravel washboard bush road every week into the mine."

Well, it beat the crap out of me on that rough road and broke down to the tune of a $1100 injection pressure regulator on the way home first trip.

Ended up having to GIVE it away for 14 grand and went and bought a brand new F150 with warranty when employee pricing sale was on, LOL

On 10/19/2021 at 11:36 AM, other dog said:

I was driving along a back road minding my own business a few weeks ago when I spotted a Ford F150 sitting in a yard with a "for sale" sign in the windshield. I've been wanting a pickup for a while, but I thought back to the last time I saw a pickup for sale by the road... 

It was a nice looking short bed 4wd Dodge, so I went back to take a closer look. Everybody has a short bed square body Chevrolet pickup, but nobody has a Dodge. So I ended up buying that Dodge, paid way too much for it, but I had big plans for it- I was going to get it painted, put some mud tires on it, it would be sharp, or so I thought. Actually all it ended up being was a money pit, never could get it running like it was supposed to. It ran great when it ran, but it would just die periodically, and you never knew when it was going to quit. Might run 2 weeks without a hitch, or it might start acting up before I got out of the driveway. So after spending a small fortune on it and replacing everything I could think of, and taking it to every garage and shop from Appomattox to Concord to Gladys and having them do everything they could think of, with the same results, I got tired of throwing money away on it and sold it- for a lot less than I paid for it.

So when I saw this Ford I kept right on riding, never even slowed down.

But as I was riding along in Rustburg one day I thought i'd go take a look at it, it was only a mile or so down to it after you turned by the store on the corner. I must have looked too long, because Zina from Gladys got out of the car and came over to look too. What had caught my attention was the price- $1,800. It was the first time i'd seen what appeared to be a reasonably priced pickup for a long time.

The owner was there and he came over to start it for me, but it wouldn't start. The right front tire was low too- reminded me of the old Dodge! Anyway, he said he would put a new battery in it if I wanted to come back and drive it. He called the next day and said he put a brand new battery in it so I went back to Rustburg and took it for a test drive. 

It ran ok except it idled a bit fast, but it had about a quarter turn of play in the steering wheel. I got Zina from Gladys to turn the wheel while I looked under the front end and the center drag link was obviously loose, it had a lot of play in it. And the tires were all low, that right front only had 20 lbs. in it. And a U-joint was "ticking" when you would go from 1st. to reverse, and I found the rear joint was bad when I would hit it with my hands.

So here's an actual photo of me and Pammeler Anderson that was taken the last time I was in sunny Florida, to relieve the boredom of a long post.

But the truck had nice looking tires on it, so I bought it.

The guy I bought it from said he only used it for hunting, he probably didn't even notice the play in the steering. I took it straight to a garage in Concord and told them to go over it with a fine tooth comb, and evidently they did. It needs all these items-

I was just going to patch the rust holes in the floorboard, but I went ahead and ordered patch panels yesterday. It has the 300 6 cylinder in it and a 4 speed, and even after the parts and work I still have less in it than I paid for that POS Dodge.

 

 

I often look but never reply.....but you're AWSOME Otherdog!!!!!

Hard to have a bad day when you read your posts, LOL

Sorry, I misread. You were talking about your hydraulic pump.

But back in the day I remember all the old ready mix trucks used to be able to drive from the controls at the rear. What kind of system did they have for that?

Nice truck. Up until just recently, those OWNED the ready mix market here where I am. Tandem tandem, just like that with 72 inch spread. But they tell me it is getting hard to find front drive and transfer case parts for them now??

I always wondered how that drive system worked. Back in the 70's and 80's when all the ready mix trucks were just DM tandems here, I remember they all used to be able to move with nobody in them, but I have not seen that in any of the current ready mix trucks here any more.

Remember when Hertz Rental had special edition Shelby GT350's.

Now they are getting Tesla's. Enough said.

Been reading all the comments and I have relatives that work in the hospital and the same thing is going on here in Ontario, Canada. Every death whether it is cancer and stroke is reported as covid.

And all I can say is ever since I got my two Moderna vaccines (against my will but forced to by employer) I am still not right after a few months. And I haven't even had a cold since 2008.

I had asthma and ever since the shots I've been having trouble breathing and my inhalers no longer seem to be effective. And I'm tired all the time and I keep getting bouts of racing heart. Now they are talking about booster shots. No F'N way. I'll lose my job this time, and be a prisoner in my own yard. No way any more of that crap is going in me.

Anyway, a friend sent me this. An MPP in my province is starting a law suit.

Very nice! Those were strong tractors. Nice to see it still working. I have it's little brother....the CA.

Got two places up here like that. One was a full yard of B Models, the other has probably a bunch of R's, Superliners, MH's and even a bunch of spare E9's.

They wouldn't part with anything. Now it's all scrap rotted away to nothing because they had big dreams and no money.

On 9/1/2021 at 10:39 AM, Dirtymilkman said:

I tend to agree with this. Keep handing money out to the people that refuse to work while our taxes sky rocket. Look at Biden's plan for inheritance taxes. It's a shame what people turned in to. Jobs everywhere and people just want their government check. And 99 percent of these people are perfectly able to work. 

I agree. Same problem up here in Soviet Canukistan.

Went to town and see street beggars on every corner with their little signs "No job, no money, need food."

I'd like to end every one of their lives.

On 8/24/2021 at 5:22 AM, navypoppop said:

If you think The Truckers Report Forum is something else look at Trucking Truth. Owned and monitered by a so called 15 year driver with a "my way opinion or the highway". 

Wow! A whole 15 years! What a veteran. LOL

I like the grill of the Anthem. I just wish they would have kept the tasteful looking air intakes of the Pinnacle instead of those hideous screen doors they stole off someone's house that are on the Anthem hoods.

And ruined them all. LOL

Odd to see an FWD that doesn't have front drive axle.

You're almost Australian now Mowerman!! LOL

Now we just gotta get you 6 or 700 hundred horsepower for that Pete, LOL

They look pretty similar to the Freightliner Tuff Trac.  And as I just commented in another thread, I ran a Sterling and a Coronado 122SD with Tuff Trac. It rode almost as good as our air ride trucks and had better traction than air ride.

Can't comment on the Volvo/Mack version, but the only Tuff Trac's I ever saw fail (and almost every dump truck around here was a Sterling with Tuff Trac) were a couple that were being grossly over loaded and pounded off road.

To me, they look almost the same. There were LOTS of Sterling's around here with Tuff Trac and I ran a Sterling and a Coronado 122SD that had it. They rode really nice. Not far off from air ride, but had better traction than our air ride trucks.

Lots of axle articulation and they seemed reliable. The only ones I saw fail were guys that were severely over loading their trucks.

Yes, the CH was only available with the E7 Mack.

The CL originally was available with E7, E9, Series 60 Detroit and 3406 Cat. Detroit disappeared (can't remember which year) and when the E9 and Cat were discontinued from them it was E7 and Signature/ISX Cummins only.

I could be wrong but I think the last years of production the ONLY engine in the CL was the ISX.

I'm lucky enough to have driven all versions.

Start here Other Dog. Hours of entertainment, LOL

https://www.thetruckersreport.com/truckingindustryforum/forums/report-a-bad-trucking-company-here.126/

I used to go on it when I still had trucks. I liked to use it for entertainment. If you want a really good laugh.....read the thread Worst Companies to Work For.

You will see all kinds of funny names, broken english and people that can't complete a sentence, LOL

Ever since I left the trucking industry I don't even admit to anyone that I was a truck driver or owner operator. I'm too embarrassed now.