bulldog man

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 .

Nice Pics & Rides . used to drive a 02' F450 Ford 7.3 PSD & Auto w/ 12' flat bed & 20' tire trailer for a buddy of mine . now He has a 4500 & 5500 Dodges w/ western hauler beds & 6.7 Cummins & automatics pulling 25' goose neck tire trailers.

Yes Sir I could make the tight places & small loads w/ that Lil U Model .

As I told you in the Voice Mail CONGRATS BUD !! & Ya I called our buddy Tom & told him .

i like Mad Max from John Boy & Billy . (though we don't get em in Memphis) I got a few of their cds .

Ditto

looking & sounding good Vinny !! youll have that U Model rady in no time for the Shows & Parades .

Joe & Mark : Im out of likes . Good to see a B model still working everyday . even though a Old dog does goota have help in the mud everyonce in awhile . I guarantee you wont see a 2013 Vulva working like that in 50 yrs , .

Mr . Wortham ? where is pop & dad @ ? lol . Everything is going . making a few deliveries but been operating a excavator loading trucks more than driving . & staying in the gym . what bout you bud?

You sure are telling the truth there . Nice pics (all except that 5 letter cuss word now im almost blind & can barely see to type lol .) shame you didn't have some blocks & a tire truck to keep that 5 letter cuss word off the road !!

& I Very well doubt you ever will . Nice Picture there Mark ! gotta like an ole DM. A DM Mack is like a Timex Watch : they take a beating & keep on ticking !!

Nice Videos Ben that ole IH Transtar4200 CornBinder of yours is getting popular on Youtube . The 6V92 Sounds good & Nice restoration . & like those FREE Watts Mack Mud flaps . There is a farmer about 25 miles North of me is a friend of a buddy of mine who has a Transtar 4300 IH W/318 Detroit & 6" chrome turnouts I LOVE HEARING HIS IH Cornbinder pull out of the bottoms loaded w/ soybeans, wheat & corn The Memphis Police Dept tried to write him a ticket for & I Quote: "Noise Poullution" A couple of years ago during harvest season while going to the elevator in North Memphis W/ a load of Soybeans . the TN State Trooper (who is also the Diesel bears here now for the about the last 10 yrs) showed up & told the Memphis PD "You cant write him a ticket for "Noise Pollution" or straight pipes " they asked "why not?" the Full grown bear told him that 1 word on the truck that made him exempt from most everyone else : it had my acquaintances last name then the Magic Word FARM under his name & then the town he was from on the side of the door the MEMPHIS PD Let him go & the diesel bear told him have a safe ride LOL . Gotta love that MAGIC Word FARM When it comes to a truck & bears sometimes

to the BMT !! Glad to have you here w/the rest of us Nuts err I mean Enthusiast .

Nice pics there Tom I espically like the single axle R Model Dump .

That's good news Ernie !! I'll continue to pray for yall .

& It would have to be a 2 stick 6 spd if I owned it .

Yup & Those of yall here on BMT Who are on FB Knew i was still alive cause I accessed my FB From my cell phone when I didn't have much of a internet access for awhile & was MIA Here on BMT . Plus Yardo bust my chops like a Army drill SGT on FB if he finds out I anit in the gym 6 days a week W/O A good reason ...

Yup that's the picture I had in my mind of a B67 . I thought a B67 Had the Concave Cab That B Model Wrecker is bound to be a B70 Series .

Exactly My thoughts there too Tozzi. looking @ the radiator it thought it was a B75 Or B77 @ 1st .

seen it on facebook earlier . that driver needs to thank the Big Man upstairs & count his blessings .

Seen on face book earlier & that's 1 lucky driver . he better count his blessings . the video is posted here in odds & ends under the headline Duke boys driving a semi .

We had a 77' DM685S Tandem dump w/ 237 & 2 stick 6spd w/ 5:73 ratio gears double frame 16' bed 18k f/a & 44k r/a . I Wish I had a dollar for every load of sand , mulch, road gravel , oversize wash gravel , crushed limestone, rip rap, brush from clearing jobs & demolition from jobs we done & of course what was our bread & butter West Tn Red Clay Dirt. I'd be rich . Here in W. Tn we are allowed 20 tons on a tandem dump & 25 tons on a tri axle I can guarantee that Red Dog carried 30 tons of dirt out of dirt pits & through out The Millington area more times than 1 . Top speed on that truck was somewhere around 58mph to 60 mph but didn't hesitate to pull the loads out of the pits & always pulled hard through soft ground loaded . Most of my grandfathers friends ran brand X Trucks & when they got stuck on a job they were doing together it was always Red Dog that pulled them out if a dozer or excavator wasn't available. You may have out ran Red Dog on the road but in the field that ole Bulldog was Hard to beat & out pulled & pulled out a lot of brand X Trucks in the 2O Plus years my grandfather owned that truck . Matter fact I made $500 extra on a load when a buddy of my pops bet me when I was 21 yrs old that I couldn't get 20 tons of 57 Rock (code here for oversize limestone like on a railroad ) in a muddy field On a Clearing job my pop & his buddy was doing @ the time . I told my pops buddy the only stipulation was he have his D6D LGP Winch Cat ready to pull me out after I was empty & have the money ready !! I had my had out before he put the cable to the truck . My granddad that raised me & his foreman laughing their ass off cause I got that load in where his KW COULDNT GO !! I love a 237 w/ a 2 stick 6 spd tranny w/ 5 reverse gears .

I'm sure she gets tired of seein me post about trucks all the time & talkin about the gym !!