ThaddeusW

That would have been one hell of a prize!

Only one in the neighborhood.

Hopefully for 75 large, someone has a plan for it and not a run it 'til you ruin deal.

Jim

One thing I have learned is that exported trucks sold in 3rd world countries will be taken good care of. Think about it, you live in a poor country and you need a truck to get work done, do you let it rot or keep it running? They have little money as it is, why would they run it into the ground? Some do let the trucks go to hell but I suspect its because they don't have the skills necessary to repair them and not enough money to hire someone.

Mexico isn't exactly 3rd world compared to some but I suspect this truck isn't going to be beaten to death. 75 large for a truck that powerful is a steal, your looking at well over 500G for something remotely similar, id say closer to a million for something that heavy spec.

Thank you everyone!

Take the rack out and let them cook in there own juice. This is what I do, I use a good maple syrup and coat the rib's then I put garlic,and a good rub, Famous Daves or Bone Suckin rub is good and a lot of brown sugar. I let them sit overnight in the frig. then i put them in a oven pan (something with high sides) and add liquid smoke, I then cover the pan tight with alu. foil, pre heat oven @300 and cook for about 2.5 to 3 hrs. (dep. on how many racks your cookin) Now, as soon as you pull them out of the oven you have to take them out of the juice or they will tast greasy! I then let them cool down, then I take the juice and pour it into a countainer and put it either on the side or in the freezer for about a half hour or so, this way the grease will come to the top and you can scrape it off and throw it away or keep it to coat your grill burners when you put the grill away for the winter. Then add the drippings to your favorite BBQ sauce. I use KC original and just put a large bottle in a pot and add a little beer and stir in the drippings at a low heat (if you think the sauce is too thin, just add some tomato paste) Then I put the BBQ sauce on the rib's and finish them off on the grill

BULLHUSK

Before I read your post it dawned on me to either wrap the ribs in foil or just sit them in a pan with foil over it. Ill give that method a go come Saturday, they should come out near perfect. Thanks for the tips.

Well I can't say shit about cooking anything on a grille manufactured for the purpose. I've always got by with a burn barrel and some old cardboard but I'll take the opportunity to wish you a happy birthday in advance.

Rob

thanks Rob!

Glad to see your back Rob. Have a good 4th.

I have never been to Australia, but I liked L. Frank Baum books as a kid..........

Is the country just real flat and open? How in the world do they manuver those trains? Do they have depots outside the cities where they take them apart and divide up the loads?

From what I understand road trains are used for long hauls into and around the interior (AKA the Outback) of Australia and coast to coast runs. They do have to break down outside of cities and then each trailer or B train taken into the city, usually with cab overs. The interior is a desert wasteland with some mountain ranges. There in lies mines, ranches and small towns that need supplies which have no rail access. There is limited rail but the country boasts a population of only 22 million on a land area that is 81% the size of the US. The Australian population is 14 times smaller than the US population so there isn't enough of a demand or funding to lay tracks. So road trains fill that gap by hauling up to 200 tons gross and measuring nearly 176 feet long. There are mining road trains that go even longer with multiple side tipping trailers and a powered trailer to help the tractor pull 400+ tons. They normally carry 500-600 gallons of fuel as gas stations can be hundreds of miles apart.

Another fun fact is 90% of the population lives in cities around the coast, the interior has a population of less than 700,000.

Australia also boasts the longest strait section of road across the Nullarbor Plain running in a strait line for 91 miles. So there is a lot of flat open land there. The plain was once considered impassible by settling Europeans until one man crossed it in 1841.

I figure some of you guys might know a thing or two bout BBQ.

So I have been dabbling with trying to make near perfect ribs in a regular oven. My goal is to make juicy fall of the bone dry rub ribs. I played with a few rub recipes and found one I liked. My first try came out great flavor wise but was a bit on the dry side. I used supermarket baby back ribs. I cooked this rack @ 400 for 30 minutes and @ 250 for 2 hours. Meat wasn't falling off the bone but came off easily, they were well cooked.

Tonight I tried another method but I think i went the wrong route for cooking dry rub. I used a tray full of beer with a rack over it and all covered in foil to seal the moisture in. Meat is amazingly tender and falls right off the bone by just looking at it. I cooked it @ 400 for 30 minutes and @ 225 for 2.5 hours. But the flavor of the rub is nearly gone. Very little rub flavor, almost no sweet or any spices coming through, even the smell is nearly gone. Meat flavor is there though. My theory is the alcohol from the beer killed it. After the first 15 min @ 400 the air in my apartment filled with a sharp irritating odor, made my eyes water and i opened my door to vent it. I think it was the sudden release of alcohol vapors from the beer. I used spare ribs because the supermarket was out of baby back. (You can see that I already ate nearly half, still tasted good, with sauce it should be amazing)

I figure next time is to stick with the tray method but instead of beer use water. I want to try the beer method again but next time use a from scratch bourbon BBQ sauce recipe i found a while back ( I use Jack). I figure that method will keep the meat flavor plus the beer flavor and then slather with sauce AFTER cooking. Any tips? I am having a small BBQ this Saturday for my birthday and I want to show off a bit and cook a few racks of ribs

Cheers!

Ha, chat roulette has been a around for a while. South Park even poked fun at the fact that its mostly fat dudes playing with themselves.

No Rob at the show today. I phoned twice, left a message.

What's that they say again? If you're 20 and not a liberal, you have no heart...and if you're 40 and not conservative, you have no brain. Coal miners are typically union, and unions like to brainwash their members into believing their left wing trash. My grandpa was a teamster & towed the union line 'til the day he died. My other grandpa was a union carpenter and bought into the "democrats are for the working man" crap until my grandma sat him down and went through where the candidates stood issue by issue and grandpa realized that who the union was telling him to support did not line up with his own beliefs. From that day forward, he took the union's political endorsements with a grain of salt and looked at where they stood to make up his own mind.

My grandmother was union and is hardcore left. Personally I don't give two shits about either side as they are all full of hot air and BS, you pick the lesser of two evils.

When you enter high school and college its a fight for your independence as you carve a life for yourself. So its easy to get caught up in all the feel good save the world socialist ideology BS. Then as you grow older you realize everyone is an ass hole and stop caring.

No,you're not wrong Ernie,tried teaching my kid "mandatory spanish" down here not too long ago,course i raised holy hell with the school! let them know our primary/ONLY language in our house is ENGLISH! i said "maybe the kids should have a better grasp on english BEFORE you try to teach them a "second" language".............THANKFULLY the kids down here are still reqiured to say the Pledge of alliegiance everyday...............Mark

I went to catholic school so we didn't have a second language, we had religion. Then I went to a public high school (vocational, i took electrical installation) and was suddenly presented with spanish. The part that pissed me off is the damn spanish kids had no problem passing, it was complete bullshit. Long story short, i had to take it in summer school and thankfully the public summer school teachers didn't give a damn and just passed the class.

If you ask me they should just go back to teaching latin so everyone is equally screwed.

Fat chick counterweight needed

Man your thinking is all wrong, you need a bunch of skinny chicks which = one fat chick. More variety(blond, red head, brunet etc.)

Serious:

When driving without a trailer, the tractor protection valve should be in the-

a) Emergency position
 Left alone
c) Normal position
d) Out position

edit: I like how the b ) is interpreted as a smiley face, had to put code tags around to fix it. Damn forum software, need a method to escape those strings.

This truck is awesome:

http://trucks.trovei.com/0608121.html#

Id put a roll back bed on it.

I've actually got quite a few apples and even a couple peaches out there on the trees here. Still no plums, though...think I might have to plant another plum tree to get those. Mowed down my raspberry bushes last summer because the japanese beetles were pretty much decimating them every year before moving on to my fruit trees, and the blueberry bushes never took because the damn bunnies kept eating them every winter. The grape vines are invading the shrubbery around the house after being eaten by the birds in years past before I could get to 'em to pick 'em for myself and then the seeds pooped into the bushes to grow vines up where they ain't wanted. The ants usually eat my strawberries before I can get to 'em, and last winter Dozer dug up the planter they were in so I probably won't see any this summer either.

All this was planted with hopes of having some cheap, healthy snacks here at the house in the summer....turned out to be nothing but trouble so far, though. I can grow pretty much anything....it's getting a chance to harvest what I've grown that gets me every time.

Apparently berries are a bitch to grow unless you are in the garden around the clock or have a green house. We used to grow strawberries, they are practically a weed and grow all over. But the damn ants get them. I think you have to watch them carefully and then get the fruit off the ground once it buds (maybe use string).

Yea I read that a while back. Apparently its an ancient tradition practiced by very few and only by the ultra orthodox Jews (the ones with the funny hats). I think it dates to a time when the circumcision was performed with the teeth, they didnt have any decent tools. Hell there are Sheppards who still castrate sheep with their teeth, the old fashioned way.

I have seen that before.

One thing is for sure it better have two stations: one to board the ride and the other to "remove" the passengers.. Otherwise the would-be passengers might get cold feet.

When I was younger (still in high screwl), I used to aspire to own a Lamborghini some day. Then my grandma read in the newspaper about a car dealership a little ways away that had some "exotic" cars...one of which was a Diablo....and I musta been a good kid back then, because she took me out there to see it up close & in person. The salesmen were cool...even let me (15 at the time...learners permit in hand) sit behind the wheel of it on their showroom floor.

It was then that I realized I could never drive one....even if I won the lottery and had the money to buy one, I couldn't drive it. You see, my right foot covered up all 3 pedals at the same time. Neither leg could be fully extended, and it was worse with my left leg, which was further limited by the wheel well. It was a good thing the steering wheel was rather small, because it was wedged between my knees. The center console was high & in the way...had to tuck my elbow into my rib cage to get my hand on the shifter. Even with the door wide open, I felt like a sardine squished in that seat.

It was a $275,000 piece of crap this 15 year old child was already too big to fit inside. Damn...that was more than half my life ago...and I've only gotten bigger & less flexible since then. I don't know if I could even get into the seat anymore....such a tight squeeze back then and all.

Give me an old pickup truck any day...plenty of room to stretch out & be comfortable. Ugly as sin, but reliable as an old dog...and if anything major happens to it, it can be replaced for less than a month's savings.

Those cars are made for midgets.

My brother knew a kid in college that came from a rich Norwegian shipping family and who also made a few million bucks with some kind of video game thing he did. He owned a Lamborghini, the Dodge Ram with the viper engine (with a $20k sound system) and a Dodge viper. He was willing to let my brother drive it around the complex where he lived but my brother being 6'4" had trouble just getting into the car. Once in the seat he couldn't press the pedals without his knees getting hung up on the dash board. He didn't go anywhere and jut got out.

Those are NOT propane tanks you see in the photos.

They are alien eggs that are incubating and will hatch when the Mayan calendar ends. (kind of like mud-dobbers).

The black helicopters flew in all that equipment years ago to secretly smash them, harvest the alien goo for research, and bury the remains.

But the aliens pulled a Jedi mind trick on the operators and they all just walked off and left everything. Then the aliens pulled the same trick on a middle aged fat woman working in a government office in Washington.

She spilled her diet coke over all the paper work and it was all forgotten.

The government should have used Mack haul trucks, they are designed from the factory with special alien egg shielding.

You better stay out of that yard Tom. That truck thing you drive is NOT properly shielded.

Sir please stay at your computer and do not leave your home. A black ops team will be at your home shortly. Thank you.

How awesome is this site? Only here can someone pop in talk some Mack trucks and post that they are purchasing a new truck. Then another member who works for Mack posts pictures of your truck being built. What other forum has that kind of comradery and dedication?

Injectors? Not all cylinders working? I can tell its a detroit because you can here it from 10 miles away, and it sounds like it kind of "hunts" in the beggining. (I can also tell because there is always something wrong with them)

That is a proper running Detroit. Great engine that turns oil and fuel into noise, smoke and oil stains....oh and horse power, almost for that. They liked to hunt like that when cold or when they needed adjustment, hunted at idle.

Oh, here is a real neat cracker box I found on TP, day cab, tandem, and a 318! : http://www.truckpaper.com/listingsdetail/detail.aspx?OHID=3556007&

think well all pass on that one. You can join Rob in the bailer though.

That scraper has headlights that kind of make it look like it has eyes. I think I saw some tears.

It just key sobbing "Why?"

I figure a new set of head studs are all they need...

Steak-n-taters,man. That exotic stuff can kill ya.

Speed

Nothin exotic about dumplings

Being of Polish descent myself I am fond of pierogis. They are best when you boil em until they float and then fry them in a bit of butter then serve with sour cream on the side. My favorite fillings are potato&cheese but there are many other fillings like sauerkraut, onion, mushroom, cheese, potato and a bunch more. The best is when they mix the fillings like potato and cheese, potato and onion or sauerkraut and onion or mushroom.

Drowned in butter and then served with onions is another way but my mother and grandmother never cooked them like that.

A nice Polish dinner of pierogis, potato pancakes (with sourcream and apple sauce) and boiled kielbasa (aka polish sausage) is good eatin. And that supermarket crap they try to pass of as kielbasa is just that, crap. Only a real Polish butcher or store carries the real deal. Another nice side dish is kapusta, sauerkraut cooked with onion and you can add mushrooms or even bits of meat, my grandmother adds fatback. That goes good with the smoked kielbasa.

If they have stuffed cabbage called Golumpki (pronounced go-wump-key) then try it. Ground meat mixed with rice or barley wrapped and cooked inside cabbage leaves in a tomato sauce.

Good hearty old-world eatin. Dammit, now Im hungry.