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Posts posted by Joseph Cummings
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WTF is this like "Dance Party With Beyonce?
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I'd go with the red. It makes the Evil Eye bounce off and go back to whoever was casting the Evil Eye. That is why old school Italians always had red dump trucks, and wore the chain with the little red pepper.
Jews had a thing like that too, they used to tie a red ribbon on babies for some kind of evil eye thing. That is why the red roof protected that house from the Jewish Space Lasers
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Yeah there is cloud point, and there is pour point. Your fuel supplier will supply you with those temperatures if you ask.
But I get guys who claim their truck shut down while running for hours in 20 degree weather, and that they looked in the tank and saw "jello". And I get there and the primary filter is all bound up with water. I don't know about now, but years ago "anti-gel" additives didn't treat for water (I've never bought the stuff). If I treat for water, and add a little biocide to prevent the algae I never have a problem. Actually without water contamination the algae will never get started as it lives in the interface.
I don't know why none of them can't grasp it, it's pretty simple. I think it's because they are allergic to reading or something and they just go with a story some clown in a truck stop told them because he had a drop visor, low hanging bumper and a gazillion chicken lights (That makes him the wisest one)
But anyway, 64 years on this earth, and grew up in a garage family, and I've yet to see this "jello" that they all think happens. It just doesn't get anywhere near cold enough around here for the fuel to get below the "pour point"
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I've never seen a truck or piece of equipment with "Gelled" fuel. I've heard lots of drivers and mechanics BS cockamainy stories about tanks full of stuff that looked like grease and other shit. But every time I get there i find water or ice. I'm sure gelling happens somewhere, but not in any of the areas I've operated in. I've poured sloppy water out of filters right in front of them and they still keep saying "gel" like it's the only word they know.
After doing this full time for 50 years, and slaving for family in a garage for the first 14 years of my life, I've come to the conclusion that about 87 percent of truck drivers and mechanics are dumber than a box of rocks, and big time liars
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58 minutes ago, 67RModel said:
To me all three wreckers look like Weld Built units originally manufactured for any one of the litany of municipal users in the NYC boroughs. They all have that same look and come up sale quite often.
Whats interesting to me is the "accident scene" isn't "secured" and there are not 1,000 blue and red strobe lights flashing for no reason. Just 3 guys winching out a truck and that's it. And 40 or 50 people were content to just stand there and watch a mere 10 ft away from all those cables under tension and nobody cared or told them they had to leave. If you tried that in this country and didn't comply I'm fairly certain you would be arrested for "interfering with official business" or some other law....
Jamacains think about stuff very different. In about 1990 I met a Jamaican welder when I was working on a water treatment plant and we got to be really close friends. Hard worker. Could operate equipment and drive a truck too. When we were working and things went all kinda wrong it wasn't my problem, it was OUR problem. (I was the site supervisor). He brought some other Jamaicans around, one a carpenter, and the other a laborer and they were very proud of showing you how hard they could work. Over the years we got pretty close, knowing each other's families, holiday visits and all. Before my mother died and was bedridden he used to come visit her and sit by her bedside and tell her stories about growing up in Jamacia, walking to town to go to the store, hearing a car coming and hiding in the ditch in case it was the "Blackhearts" climbing trees to get fruit, and how if you had a can of corned beef you were on top of the world. He used to have her laughing and laughing. Sadly cancer took him in 2013. Started in his prostrate, went into remission, came back about 2 years later, and spread to his bones. I think he was only 57. I don't know if all Jamaicans are like that, but all the ones I met from his village were all about honesty, working hard, and their children. And they were defiantly not Black, they were Jamaican
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Making such a big deal about waterboarding. If you do it right they don't die. They can't talk if you kill them, it defeats the whole purpose
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Meanwhile in North Carolina
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Something to think about while you are doing a bearing roll in, or laying under a trash truck on a dump with a mattress wound around the drive shaft
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1936 REO Speedwagon
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Ransome Eli Olds and a REO car
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Used a little Continental flathead
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52 minutes ago, 67RModel said:If I'm not mistaken they were just rebadged Diamond Ts. At least the first ones. Maybe later on Mack manufactured them on their own.
Just looking at the two photos. The red and green Jrs are completely different. The red one's cab resembles a Mack LT cab and the green one looks nothing like it. The green one has completely different fenders and running boards etc..
Reo built them. green one is a 36, red one is later
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40 minutes ago, hicrop10 said:Is it for sale and how much
That is just an internet picture, there are some around but I think production was under 1000 made ever. That horse transport guy out by West Chester had one, I think he was named Ralph Smith. Lou Kleber in Bensalem had one with a wrecker body, but that was like 50 years ago. Not sure where it ever went. A guy here in Hazleton has one in pieces. Somebody has to have one, maybe Gearhart or Joseph Equipment might know where there is one
Here is an earlier one. A 1936. This guy has it https://www.stahlsauto.com/automobiles/1936-mack-jr-pickup-truck/
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18 hours ago, hicrop10 said:I heard a rumor that Mack was thinking about building a pickup even saw a picture of it on the internet.Looks like a Ford.
You can buy a used one
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Seems LA has a lot of DEI mechanics too. Have you ever visited a municipal garage? Or bought used equipment at a state or municipal auction? Real mechanics at those places are few and far between. I have known a few good ones, but not many.
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Kathy Hochul's State of the State address , WTF Really?
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If I was Governor of Pa I'd open my State of the State with this