storkmack

7 hours ago, Maxidyne said:

In Minnesota and many states UI is capped at 2/3rds of previous wage, with an additional $600 a week during the current crisis. Even two decades ago I didn't crawl outa bed for less than $20 and hour, and in an area like Chicago you need to offer at least $25 an hour. Sounds like you need to raise your wages...

Our mixer drivers are at $30 an hour.  With health insurance, retirement program, uniforms, paid vacations and holidays.  We are about $5 -10 an hour behind “union” shops, but they don’t have the perks we have.   At least that’s what our guys tell me    

We had a guy not make it through training for a mixer driver because as he put it and I quote, “ I can make $930 on unemployment a week and not leave my house”.  That’s $23.50 an hour for a 40 hour week. Now if you take a guy like this and give him a job and the others on assistance a job where they can support them selves and pay taxes like most of us do, can you imagine the amount of money that would flood the economy In the form of business and the treasury in the form of taxes?   So maybe it is a poor argument to say to get off the aid and get a job, but I believe there would be an almost unimaginable wealth that would come over our great nation.  

28 minutes ago, Mack Technician said:

 Pimp’ing ain’t easy

Lmao!   

I love hearing what those whose opinions differ from mine are thinking.  

I was on the county board here for six years.  One of the sillier things to come across was a $25000 quote to make the doors coming into the public safety building ada compliant.  Now the under sheriff that presented the proposal was adamant that this was the only option.   So it gets approved at committee, moves on to the full board where I present a $1500 option.   Motion for $25000 is voted down, and the $1500 option approved.   The under sheriff asked how I figured it out, real easy I called a commercial door company, duh!  And then we spent $1.1mil on a 3600 sq ft animal control building.  Tried my best to scale that down.   Was told that I hated animals over that one.  Love animals, hate gov’t employees who believe they are entitled to only the best, at the taxpayers expense.  

On 6/17/2020 at 8:50 AM, Maxidyne said:

ATF has tracked down and had arrested suspects in the Minneapolis/St.Paul arsons, they're all white.

Again, this is not about race.  This is class warfare disguised as a race war. Race doesn’t matter, they want to level the playing field.   

Now that we figured out to make the Granites run, they are my favorite modern Mack’s. 

Damn you have the stuff!

I personally believe that current crisis now has nothing to do with race.  It started as that but evolved into more of a class warfare.  

How I would sum up what Maxidyne posted above.......things are messed up, you can’t be far enough left right now, you can’t tell one party from another, and us boomers will be gone soon, so good luck young people that have a job and work you are going to need to get through this mess. 

12 hours ago, mowerman said:

Oh believe me I am no saint ...in my younger years I used to get popped a lot but every time I got pinched I was doing 70 or close to it... bob

70?  Come on, let the clutch all the way out!

180 hp motor, 5 sp trans,  10k steer and 34k rears on Camelback.  The guy I bought it from, his son in-law had contacted the Mack Museum.  They sent him the build sheet and some other   Information.  Started life out as tractor in New York City. 

On 1/10/2013 at 8:11 AM, 57 bcr said:

The Chicago R model of the day goes to.... .........Brites Cartage

Had the pleasure to meet Bob Brite a few weeks ago.  They moved to a new yard down the street from the Heights plant.   Still has an R model that was his first new truck.  
 

For what I paid, couldn’t pass it up, essential paid scrap value.    Hasn’t ran in about 8 years.  Tilted the cab and was surprised to not see a turbo!  Never now when you need to crane something.  40 foot of boom and 8000# lift capacity.   Right now the plan is to get it running and see where that leads. 

Brought this Bulldog home from Indiana yesterday.  So now it is a Chicagoland Bulldog!

12 hours ago, Mack Technician said:

Mack had issues with that vintage of tier 3 engine. If you have all your vital signs then you need to take it step further to get it to perform. It's very fixable.... click on link.

 

 

We did this to an 05’ 427 granite and now it’s a beast!

5 hours ago, 70mackMB said:

WarDog, What's your net and tare weight with that?    .....Hippy

Great question.  

SBM. ..... small boobs matter

Those e techs had a few issues, but they once you got passed them they were great motors.   Good power, reliability, and fuel economy.    

Heading for Omaha to pick up a mixer.  Can’t hurt to have a line on some clean iron.  

Good to hear.    They have decent equipment?

Mride is the Volvo suspension.   I have heard good things about it.  

Camelback was great.  I know when I go into a job site with an RD on Camel”break my”back (driver lingo) that I’m going to get in and out.  That being said the trunion sucks.   They rust and they crack.   Once they get past the point of patching in the mixers we replace them with aftermarket ones made of 3/4 plate.   No where for material or moisture to hold up and rust.  From what I have heard, the Volvo spring ride is nice to work on.