bulldog man

A Little late but better than never .

Happy birthday E.C. !! Hope it was an awesome day . Lord 25 Seems like yesterday & for me it was actually 13 yrs ago I was 25 .

Id work all week then go to the dirt & drag track then to the bars in Memphis on the weekend . AHH The good ole days ...lol

Now I go the gym work & come home . the gym is my alcohol/ drug of choice now ...lol

@ Trent & Jake yall took the words right out my mouth cause I was thinking pretty much the same thing .

& Jake ive herd my pop (granddad ), great Uncle (who worked for pops buddy) & 2 of our drivers say the same thing about pulling out a book ...

It's an auction on Ebay for a oil painting of a U Model going down a 2 lane Black top .

heres the link http://www.ebay.com/itm/DeChiara-Art-Original-Oil-Painting-Impressionism-Semi-Truck-Vehicle-Industrial-/171156611991?pt=Art_Paintings&hash=item27d9baa397

Thought you might like this .

Random sight in Okeechobee, FL

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Yikes Hat! That could have tested the grapple on the Mack.

I Don't think the grapple could handle it . better get a crane To lift it on A Superdog W/ a 50 Ton Lowboy trailer .

Good to have you back....sorry to hear about your horse

Ditto What Joe Said

Some nice looking trucks & equipment also .

The museum looks like a very interesting place . We don't anything like that in my neck of the woods .

Would really like to see it .

Up well into the 80's just about every truckstop you went in had an aisle with every kind of shift knob, adapters, extensions, and switch covers you could imagine. If I only knew- I would have bought a pickup load of them and put them in the deep freeze.

Yup Tom It wasn't all that long ago you could find them in the truck stops .

When We bought the Red Sleigh (87 R Dump ) back in the mid 90's I remember I went to W. Memphis to buy a radio for the truck & I always deal w/ the cb shop behind the Petro . after leaving cb shop I went to the petro & bought the switch extensions there along w/ a couple of Red Glitter Shift knobs for the 2 stick 6 spd .

I also used to find them @ Long town truck stop @ Exit 35 on I-40 & the Pilot @ exit 42 on I-40 But they are even hard to find there anymore @ either truck stop .

I detect a shit load of idle hours

Yup me too . & being a Govt truck it wouldn't surprise me .

I had A 89' F250 XL Custom w/ 302 & Cherry bombs , 98 f150 4.6 (leased 3 yrs ) & a 2001 F150 XL w/4.6 police interceptor . (was built for the city of Millington but they didn't have enough in the budget for 6 trucks @ the time so I bought it new )

& a 94 F350 XLT flatbed W/ 7.3 Turbo (pre PSD ) & straight piped

ALL My Fords were 4 times the trucks the 3 GM Trucks I had /have (im driving a 94 GMC 2500 NOW When my01' F150 got totaled by someone else stupidity )

The 94 GMC Im driving I bought from my buddy I help & I had to rebuild the transmission when I got it but I needed something quick & cheap @ the time after "the beast" got totaled & couldn't beat what I had in the truck even w/ having the tranny rebuilt .

BUT I want a 7.3 F250 OR F350 To work out of now .

Im A Ford Man stuck in a GM .

Said a E6 350 Motor & looks like a 9 or 10 spd by the splitter valve Looks like a wet kit on it too . also mentioned a air leak Here is the link . http://www.govdeals.com/index.cfm?fa=Main.Item&itemid=363&acctid=1900

Nice pics there Tom & looking @ that black cast iron pot full of Mulligan Stew & boat oar bring back some good memories .

Thanks for posting the thread to my Fb wall too got a couple of cousins that may see that & we were talking about the old days & making Brunswick stew the other day ..

I found it !! This ad for the Legend RDs. I know of 2 floating around here. One is a blue and is a tandem dump truck and looks pretty rough . The other is a nice black winch tractor .

Josh

Yup I got this brouchure here @ the house myself . I just don't have a scanner .

Back in 2003 Never seen one on the Lot of Tri State In Memphis though let alone around Memphis .

Congrats

Ya I seen that Video . Those Videos are saved to my favorites too . love the sound of the Waukesha engine .

& You & I both can say we worked our asses off & each of us lost a whole another person . & as I said before Congrats Bud .

Nice vids of Macungie. Glad someone documented the "exit".

I found mine on Part 3 of 7 at 5:18.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NR0Ed16CPU

Ya that's a good series of video @ the "exit" . I Seen your truck in the 3rd part of the series I Thought was your MH There .

Think I seen 57 BCR Truck in the video series also I just cant remember which video & where in the video .

SMDH What a Damn shame . All these old dogs leaving the states thanks to these GD Fing exporters .

I See some Macks in Puerto Rico thay look that good or Chromed out more than the R Models in the pics . if they are gonna export em wth not exprt em to Puerto RIco . what ive seen of the Bulldogs there in pics & on video they seem to be taken care of for the most part .

Id love to have a good older R Model Dog to start over again & Run in & out of the rock , sand & dirt pits all day . Sure be easier for me to work on when something goes wrong . .

& if Tri State in Memphis didn't have certain parts anymore I know of several guys around my neck of the woods that have enough spare parts & could build a R , DM , U, F, & MH Models out the spare parts .

Congrats on the Excellent save there Mike .

That's why I put upgrade in quotes,I was being sarcastic. He got a '96 IH.

In my book that's DOWN GRADING !!

Not sure if this video has been posted here or not . If so I apologize in advance for reposting .

Though I have never seen this truck in person id know it if I seen it as ive seen pics & video of it before .

You see Yardo topping the hill behind a Orange & White KW W900 about 7:48 but & hear him give a blast on the siren about 7:59 I just didn't like the fact who ever shot the video spent a little more time on a couple of Transtar IH than Yardo's FWD (id rather look @ the FWD Than that box on wheels ) even though the camera is on the IH By this point you can still hear the FWD As Yardo is leaving .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaqg7io6zcc

Hey, Mack, I stopped at James Coleman's place in Mineral Wells, MS the other day to pick up a new DM door, and Jordan had three R models and a CH hauling broken up concrete to a crusher set up at the concrete plant in Mineral Wells on Old 78. Now, these trucks aren't based in TN, and these photos weren't taken in TN, but I could have thrown a rock across the state line. Does that count? I think the teal green one is the one that used to be red and white. I could be wrong though. It appears to be in the best shape of all of them.

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Jake yup I recognize all those Bulldog's The Red & Black R Model was the particular Bulldog I was thinking of .

& the teal R Model could be the ole Red & white R Model w/ a new paint scheme (almost looks like a JTW R Model back in the day )

Looks like it might be a Mississippi Materials Redi Mix truck in the back ground on 1 of the pics as they run Red bulldogs w/ yellow barrels .

& Ya as far as im concerned if the trucks are from our neck of the woods they are considered TN Macks because most everybody around here w/ a dump bucket hauls in, out or around Memphis as you already know all to well .

Nice Pics Looks like you seen a caboose too ....maybe more than 1 type of caboose ..

Like the LTL 9000 Ford .

Watch driving a Cornbinders when they are near a corn field & those sudden cornfield stops they like to make

I would have tarped it Officer, but I ran outta tarp, honest, really..

That looks like a Wortham Grading Company truck load .

. C'mon now you can fit at least 4 more bucket in there.

Exactly what my grandfather would tell me "put 6 more buckets on there boy we amit running the main drag . We are running the backroads ." If that DM & R Model didn't have dirt falling off of them while in the backwoods of Millington he wasn't happy .

Now if we was running 14, 51, the Memphis interstates or main roads in Memphis our trucks was loaded w/ dirt UNDER THE SIDE BOARDS & Tarpped BUT it was a different story if we was running across 14 or 51 & staying in the backwoods . he believed in giving his customer their moneys worth .

Glad to Hear you & Ann are Ok Randy . Way to keep your cool driver !

Liked the pics Tom & as I said on FB If you wanted to see A lot more goats you need to come to Goat Days here in Millington 1 year .

They just had this years goat days this weekend & finished up yesterday .

They even have the fainting goats there .

With That Green & White Paint it looks like Cordova Concrete Bulldog's out of the Memphis area . Threw me for a loop @ 1st till I seen the different name before new paint . .

The New paint jobs looks good .

Back Bud . I Been in & out of BMT Fer a few days . I Been making those Early morning runs to the Ms Delta & back @ the shop by 8am @ the latest & then in the gym afterwards .

The Hogs are Bad down there in the Ms Delta Farm land . I Got a few buddies who farm In N. MS & all of say the hogs are tearing up their crops especially over on the NE End of MS. & if they or some of their family don't have the time to kill em they are paying folks to hunt the hogs .