Vladislav

Almost as said above. Fuse up everything you can to be safe Just try to keep the original (or close to original) look when possible.

Once I googled sources on aluminium round tanks and found out a company which supplied separate parts such as round bottoms, inlet necks and so on. I didn't check out the costs since the company was Aussie. If it was the US I'd order them four bottoms to weld tanks locally. OZ is a way too difficult and costy to import to my location. As for steel ones (and they are original to your nice R) I'd go a rebulid path fabricating new skins of sheet metal with original bottoms and steps. Not extremely much of a labour. It might worth to sandblast the inner sides of the parts you keep original and repair damages before get everything back together. Here's what I recently made to the pair of Mack MH steel tanks. As you can see the "dirt collector" lower can took some weld up after being blasted and showed out the need of. Vlad

Autocar looks like a proud worker! Cool 'classy' job

Thank you for sharing. The RW is pretty!

Seems like the flood catched Macks either. The shots like these make me think of how we people are small and unpowerfull creatures in the relation to our mother-nature.

Congrats on the purchase of that baby!

That's funny about hillbilly bleachers Mike Had to Google it though, hope to keep in my copybook memory.

That's a real pleasure to meet such deep experts on here who can easily identify old units. That mixer looked to me ultimately rare so I just haven't mind of multiple units in the existance.

Neat Macks there. I remember you posted the pics of some of them before. The F-model concrete mixer looks similar to the one at Gary Mahan's collection. Is that a "brother" or just the same truck?

Many thanks for sharing Mike! Looks like it was a great show. And nice rows of hey

Damn impressive! The picture worth to be used as a wall paper. Wonder a kind of a feeling a man would get waking up in his bed and seeing it on the wall in front of him

Wonder what did Macungie-built Value Liner have of the frame? The straight rail design as on the Western trucks or the Eastern R-model frame with wider spread at the front? From the pics above it seems to me more like Western RS/RL rails.

Great looking B! Good luck on what ever you're going to do with it !

That's what I have on the gearbox I bought recently. Unfortunately it was already removed from the truck it was on so no traces of the spots the lines came to. The pointing out of a dash mounted switch makes sence though.

Ho-ho... Let's see how the cards will lay in that game. And from where I'm sitting it looks like no one is winning. So far.

I always thought restoring and collecting tanks is a nice deal. Now your work demonstrates tank trucks aren't an exception

The last picture (of EF) is a hit

I see the motor just got stuck in the frame

Thank you for sharing the pics Tom. Nice to see the weekly life scan. As always

Great scenaries! For the first time I was feeling like I missed something and was wondering were you to NZ or Vermont at that time. But seeing Tom's post all the things got clear - Tom was in NZ for sure!

Seems like we are happy guys so far. Because we don't meet those cybermonsters animals on the roads. No doubt they will appear. Soon. Because you can't fix indeed. And with a sledgehammer either.

Happy 4th of July to you American friends!

What a beast! Congrats on the grow up of the dog family!

That guy has a good sence of humor indeed. Good luck to him on selling it.

It took me no less than half a minute to figure out the true reason of that scene. Hell, what things I was watching! Such a neat bus on the other shots!.. Tom, thank you for sharing this portion of your life activity.