bulldog man

I think alcohol was involved..."Hey does this look right?...yeah, close enough hand me another beer and a wrench."

think your right .. " HOLD MY BEER hey yall watch this !!"

ya there was a guy that hung out in the bottoms in North Memphis a few yrs back had a 4WD Ford bronco II he put a 4b cummins in it . sure sounded different .

he would also come up to My neck of the woods & mud . my cousin was buddies w/ him but I knew him enough just to speak to him that was it .

must have been put back on there on a Friday or Monday morning?

That was my thinking ...lol

& its a Volvo & they are backwards anyway ...

I love mud goin, we have a little international dt466 and i love spinning the tires on that tiny semi..... What's not to love about getting stuck

A woman after my own heart : 1 who likes to play in the mud .

breaking stuff getting out, oh and then having to clean it back up when your done, I got a problem with driving dirty trucks, I break out in a rash.

Breaking stuff I can understand that 1 that gets into $$ . getting out wasn't too bad when I was mudding cause where I was mudding @ there was a 750B Wide track John Deere Dozer w/ a carco winch near by that belonged to family friend or my pops D6D wide track Cat w/ Hyster winch .

I Miss that ole 84' K3500 GMC W/ 454 & 4SPD W/ granny gear , 205 transfer case 4:56 GEARS , cherry bombs, & buckshot mudders. & 12,000lb warn winch . it was my service truck it was gear bound about 58 to 60 mph but would pull everything you put on it or behind it including the gas station . I Didn't mud in it much on purpose it was my service truck & I would save the 4wd most of time for the farm fields or job sites when we had a piece of equipment down & I didn't have any other choice but to walk that Jimmy out to the equipment .

I miss it for the pulling power but not the MPG . but id get calls on the weekend from my brother & friends to pull others out & I made a lot of money on the weekends just pulling folks out in the local bottoms as I had boomer chains on the truck @ all times along w/ the winch & scotch blocks .

& make that ole 454 w/ cherry bombs scream

Cleaning up never bothered me as I was always on Hot washer pressure duty cleaning our trucks & equipment & had the rain suit for it . & never had Alcoa wheels so what I had to polish back up wasn't much @ all

All this talk about muddin is making me want another 4wd .

Found this on the Memphis CL : Yall check out the 5th wheel on this truck

http://memphis.craigslist.org/hvo/4001414379.html

Nice Find . My family made a Many a dollar w/ a DM Bulldog (Dump)

Squirrel Stew :

2 Squirrels cut in pieces

2 Table spoons butter

1 large onion sliced thin

1 large can stewed tomatoes

salt ,

pepper

flour

melt butter in saucepan over medium heat . add onion & cook till transparent .

Add tomatoes , simmer 5 minutes with onion

add meat & enough boiling water to cover .

season w/ salt & pepper continue to cook til meat is tender thicken the broth w/ flour & water & bring to a boil .

this recipe was given to me by a buddy . its a pretty good recipe but I sometimes tweak it to my taste .

(i.e.: like I make mine almost like a mulligan stew in a pot & add taters , corn red pepper & celery in mine)

sorry It took me a minute or two . I type a little slow due to a mild case of Cebral palsy on my left side & only type w/ my right hand .

I will have to dig the baked squirrel recipe out tomorrow .

Nice looking Truck . are those 315/80/R22.5 Steer tires on the front ?

I usually put mine in a stew now . Though I have a cousin that will fry it up & its good like that too .

got up drank 2 glasses of ICE COLD WATER Then worked on a pot of caffeinated 15W40 ate a couple boiled eggs & turkey sausage . today is my splurge day & rest day & I didn't even cheat today though I was allowed . guess ive got used to eating a certain way now .

Went outside picked me some maters for BLT Sandwiches & while I was @ it I picked my Jalapenos . Carried trash to dumpster & played on the laptop the rest of the day & sucked up my cold A/C .

Yesterday was opening day of Squirrel season & its just too damn hot to hunt right now let alone fish .

been a lazy day today .

looks almost like Ga Pacific lumber truck .

Hope he gets better soon . miss seeing him around on BMT

So do you deny the fact that there was a Priest on all three shifts at the DD factory, performing excorcisms at the end of the assembly line? And that the excorcisms never worked all the time?

I Don't about Detroit doing Exorcisms @ the end of assembly line but that is sure what they needed to do @ the Chrysler plant back in 1958 When Christine was Built .

BTW Christine was my grandmother's name (the 1 that raised me) & thought twice about getting in trouble w/ her after that movie came out .

Mack, that's right. His name is Robert. He's a pretty cool cat. He ran for congress last year but didnt quite make it. Channel 3 news came out and videoed one of his campaign speeches with him standing on the track of a 450 John Deere dozer with a couple of R model dumps in the background. Alot of those trucks came from Dave Moore at Dand M Grading. They use to have a couple of hot pink R models, and at least one was purple, I believe. I know it sounds awful, but they actually looked pretty good. Just gotta be secure in your manhood to drive a pink dump truck. Lol

I Often wondered what happened to those R models Mr. David had . Good to know those trucks are still here in the Mid South . I Remember when he ran for Congress . he talked w/ a lot of sense & thought he would do a lot of good for N.Ms myself . He seems like a laid back fella .

& Ya your right it takes a hell of a man to drive a pink truck . but id drive a pink truck in honor of a friend who like a 2nd mother to me & who passed years ago from Brest Cancer. I remember JTW Had a Couple of Peach Colored R Models back in the day . I almost bought 1 for a lowboy tractor when pop talked me into buying a GMC Brigadier

Another R Model Id love to get my hands on is the 85 OR 86 R686 Tandem dump WS Jordan had for years . Used to know the driver for that truck & that truck was his baby . though it had a 9spd Road Ranger the rest was Mack drive train & that ole 350 Mack w/ 5" straight pipe sounded good coming out of the pits loaded .

The next time I'm hauling in Memphis I'll try to get some pics. There's still a lot of older trucks running around up there. A friend of mine has around ten older R model tandem dumps still running around there and north Mississippi.

Does my RD count, seeing as I bought it from a guy in Memphis? 62790_437987481771_5859916_n.jpg

Yup Id say so .

Jake : Are you talking about Estes out of Ms that hauls out of Metal management in North Memphis ? I Don't know him personally but he sure has some good looking R Models under those dump wagons .

When I 1st started seeing his trucks around Memphis I thought they were Jimmy T Wood R Model Mack's because the paint jobs on his & JTW Are about the same . & JTW was still running R Models @ that time .

Here are 2 pics of a couple of Bulldogs my pop & myself had through the years The Red Sleigh (dump) & Old Dog (my name sake )

Nice pics but hate to see all that old iron leaving.

Amen Brother My thoughts exactly .

Sad...just sad.

Yep it sure is Vin . id rather have the older Dogs than the newer dogs myself . breaks my heart to see the older bulldogs go overseas & we stuck w/ trucks w/ all the emission crap on them .

Can someone send that picture over to the Volvo people and show them what a real truck looks like!!

BULLHUSK

IM out of Likes but I like this Ernie !! & AMEN BROTHER !!!! A BIG UP ON THAT 10-4 !!!

to the Nut House Err I mean BMT . Glad your hear w/ the rest of us Nuts err I mean Enthusiast.

Nice looking E Model . Tri State Mack in Memphis has 1 like it fully restored .

That's what bulldog man needs- he can sell the knuckle boom and put a little dump body on the truck.

Ya wish it was closer to me . looks like a good deal .

Didn't know him but may he R.I.P. & Prayers & thoughts to the family .

Nice pics there Tom .

You guys are a bunch of dirty old men.

Says the Fella w/ the Female Fire Fighters hanging off the FWD . & As far as I go am only a dirty young man toward Blondes & natural Redheads .

...and you're headed down the same path young fellow! But don't despair, there's still time to change your ways.

AMEN BROTHER !! you took the words out of my mouth Tom

Takes one to know one!

lol yup 8)

Nice Pics Tom . 8)

I Know im late ..hell what else is new better late than ever

as I hang out in the odd & ends , Antique forum & other truck forum & equipment forum a lot . lol

My Name is Mack . & yes I was named after a B Model & to the The Nut House err I mean BMT . I see they warned you about OD Already

& All this talk about food is gonna make me talk to my buddies to find a load of Casings to the nearest BMT Members house who is having the BBQ so I can join in on the fun before hauling ass back to The Bluff City (Memphis ) w/ the load of casings .

GG : Im out of likes but I agree w/ your post . That's the way pop was for years till he had to have help he was a 1 man crew all in his self after dad passed in 77 until about 1980 or 1981 when he bought more equipment & started hiring a few guys to help him . @ 1st he would get someone to help him every once in awhile then he got to the point where it a necessity .

He would tell me sometimes he wished it was just the 2 of us on the jobs as he liked working by himself due to trying to keep a low overhead .

Looks good Jake . We had a 215 when I growing up & until I was about 18 yrs old then a E120B Cat & a 312BL Cat . & my pop always liked the smaller excavators cause he not only cleared right aways & land for subdivisions & retail centers but also worked on house lots in subdivisions & the smaller machine could get in tighter spots where his buddies w/ the PC 300 Komatsu , 225B Cat & 690D John Deere couldn't . I Remember him subbing for them on certain jobs due to he always had the smaller excavator & smaller dozer though he always had a 70 to 80 hp dozer he kept a D6D LGP W/ Winch for many years from the time I was 5yrs old for build lakes, ponds & land clearing . He could get in the tighter spots w/ the smaller machines where they couldn't go . & they paid him well for it.

When he sold that D6D to his buddy IN 1999 I asked his buddy to let me operate it when we working together On a job & I did . that's how well I liked the D6D Over the 550G Case TD7G Dresser & D3B LGP He had through the years . I always liked the bigger dozer for some reason . I guess it was the sound of the 3306 Cat in a hard push or in a hard pull in soft ground w/ a log behind it . Plus I was operating that Dozer more than the others

I Know the feeling about working on equipment under the shade trees in the yard . After pop quit farming we went down to 2 acres just around the house & we didn't have a shop after he quit farming for about 2 yrs .

I was glad when we got the 40'x40'x25' shop ya it was smaller than the 50'x100'x25' shop he had when he was farming w/ his business partner in the farming operation but I was glad to get off the cold wet ground in the winter & out of the gravel, mud & dirt & thought I was in heaven especially when it was raining & had to work on the trucks or equipment .

My Pop had a small crew about 5 of us total (including me & I after I graduated in 1994). He too was a small sub contractor for some of large G.C. In Memphis & sub contracted fer a couple of buddies of his who had 15 & 20 employees & when we all worked together it was like 1 big family & those guys (who are still alive are) still like older brothers, 2nd dads & uncles to me . Man I miss those days BETTER TIMES & GOOD TIMES For me .