davehummell

We got rid of the booms and I welded the mounts on the triaxles and we used moffetts and princeton telladyne units. I liked the irish moffetts the best. I made shure they were powered by kubota engines never had any issues with those power plants.

I took care of a fleet of Hiab 2 ton traveling base cranes way better than the old block booms we had before. We tried tico's and another brand but we felt the Hiab's were the brand for us.

 It was our yard tractor and every sat i had to drain the crankcase out about 20 gallons of fuel i finally talked the owner into letting me get the injectors repaired all six were shot.  They caught the truck cab on fire and i wabbed up the wiring to make it go again. Then they ran the loader into the radiator and tore the hood right off and kept putting water in the engine never told me it froze the first cold night finished the radiator it sat till a warmer day so the water pump unfroze i got a good radiator on it, and then they ripped the clutch up and you couldn't release the clutch it ended up with just low gear and reverse. I had to back the truck up a pretty steep hill from a stop to get a trailer up to my repair garage the truck had one working brake. When people speak about tough trucks that mack earned my respect. I have never seen a truck try to keep going with so many idiot's trying to destroy the truck. O i forgot they ripped the drivers door off the truck right before i left.

I just run across an add for Mack days at Gerharts as it stands they will be holding the show. Now that is some good news amid all the doom and gloom we have lived with these past months. The add was on a site on facebook.

I don't know about that but I had my exhaust manifold on my model a coupe ceramic coated and it hasn't changed looks wise and the guy coated the inside said it would help the exhaust flow better?? it's a 40 hp. engine in it's best days.

Did you drop the round cover on the oil pan it gets loaded up with sludge?

What year is your T? I motor around in a 31 coupe

There is a company that specializes in just pipes and they have trailers like that I see them on rt118 all the time.

I am on the second f 150 first was v-8 6 speed 3-73 rear my 2018 is a v-8 10 speed locking rear 3-73 heated seats and a lot of other stuff I don't use. The newer truck gets about 2-3 miles a gallon more than the older one. I wanted the extra cab so I ended up with short beds but if I have anything longer I use my trailer. 

I was on vacation up to Mt. Katahdin camping and we drove up into paper company lands and there is not anyway you could place another log on the trucks that run the golden road. The triaxles had bunkers higher than I see around my area you gave the trucks the right away it was their road. 

In the last two fleets I was in charge of I used union 76 15-40 I had real good results. 

My teacher at caterpillar engine school had a conniption if you spoke of any oils other than 30 weight in the summer and 10 weight in the winter but that was 40 some years ago.

I don't remember a d-8 scaling that much with a 4 barrel ripper and a ublade now the d-9 was a bit more weight but I loaded a 9 with u blade and 4 barrel ripper on a tandem autocar with a two axle trailer .I don't remember anymore but the outfit was pretty big around wilkes barre and up tword the Scranton area. Kamminsky would haul anything that would fit on the trailer, Pegnotti had a hellof a mack to drag around real heavy dragline buckets and large shovel parts.If I remember from working at cleveland bros. the 8's didn't get to 50 ton even filled up coming in from a stripping pit but that was in the 70's so i may be off a little. . I worked around the anthracite king and the 90 yard marion walking shovel in Hazelton up on the road before the Eckley miners village were they filmed the movie with Sean Connery.

That a 60,000 or 70,000 hoist ?

How many yards is the bucket ? Their running a shovel in Hazelton that will swing a 90 yard bucket of course the shovel is a walker.

I am wondering about Gerharts get together if it is going to happen and I understand there is a brockway show up by Cortland Ny.is that going to happen?

I got one for the old engine right from the injection shop that I had checking the injectors I think I paid around 30.00 dollars.

My boss had a john deere lawn mower tractor and it had a pressure fed oil system Kawasaki engine it ran for years cutting a large lawn never used a drop of oil. Way better then it had to be for the mower was not that expensive. I have husky blower, chainsaw, pole saw they are over ten years old the saw is a pro model and it cut a lot of hard wood. But I have the pro model stihl climber saw that is just a rip roaring little saw that thinks it's twice as big as it is.

30 years ago I would help out a friend of mine he had a small car repair shop and if he took something in that stumped him I would get a call. He used napa parts almost exclusively the stuff was very good back then but the old story today the part quality has dropped to the point I shop anywhere but napa.

1958 F.W.D. I use to go to Bethlehem steel to work on a cat dozer they had. That was the longest building I ever saw it was back in 1974 or 75.

I have a 1200 I budget restored and another for parts I just sold my 104 that I was made an offer for that I couldn't refuse.

I bet that montgomery  wards garden tractor would bring a good price from a collector these days. I don't think I ever saw one at any of the engine and tractor shows I was at.