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For a company watching pennies vs. The small business that 1000# and $9000 per truck and the lack of a 13 liter engine option is the killer. It wouldn't be hard for Mack to sell more of them but they would need to make an effort to please their customers, something Volvo seems to know little about.

Hmmm, having two Blue RW's might not be that bad!

Hey I have a wood stove in the basement, three bonfire or brush pile spots in 23 acres and an open station Kubota, I hear ya.

Lots of bush hog work there in the snow?

http://m.kubota.com/Product/Index/179/model

And for those with the dreaded dust/ grass in beverage issue, Kubota makes a small compact tractor with a 60-72" belly mower and an air conditioned cab complete with stereo.

Definitely not a quarter turn steering wheel, looks like a chain turns a threaded rod that steers the front, bout 40 turns lock to lock.

In chassis or frame that says r-190, does that mean they used a 175" wheelbase IH r-190 for part of the chassis and drivetrains to build those?

Be hard to get an E9 2V in anything!

Sleepy they may have a cutting edge back rule like down here, turning it around would help with weight but get you a ticket for a cutting edge pointing forward. I've not seen 5 on a trailer like that anywhere but up northeast, must be a number of axles thing cause it won't do shit for bridge.

Ok snow removal guru's, I got a couple for ya! How do you charge for cleaning up commercial parking lots like auto parts stores and fast food restaurants? What are the pros/con's to steel vs composite cutting edges and does anyone have a Gator 825i with a plow and how well does it work?

The M Drive or I Shift may be great on highway even though when there is a problem with them you can't repair them they are replaced or so says two Mack dealers service managers I have talked with. I just dont like the automated manual with an electrically, air or centrifically actuated clutch for vocational work because there is a clutch that you as the driver cannot control engagement with. On highway when you use the clutch to start and stop its not really a big issue, however try to keep a dump truck slow for milling work and its in and out in and out. With a conventional clutch you can slip it just a little to ease forward or a least ease it into and out of engagement. The perfect version of the vocational truck uses a torque converter, you just use the accelerator and if it moves a little to fast, left foot brake to keep it where you want it. Allison has the vocational transmission figured out and in my humble opinion you will never match a torque converter equipped true automatic trans with an automated manual for vocational work. That being said the automated manual is the way to go for the on highway "truck drivers" that seem hell bent on destroying clutches and drivetrains whenever possible. There's my two cents.

Freightrain is right, if the switch is hot your pulling too many amps thru it, put the lights on a relay using no smaller than 14 Ga supply wire and use the switch to activate the relay.

Ha, I was gonna let it go but was thinking something along those lines too. Guess we can't really hold it against him though, he is Canadian!

The location of the Beford Air Force base is no surprise if you just look at the history of the cold war. The radar installation is there to hopefully be able to see anything coming this way during a massive soviet strike. Why is it there? Look just northwest to White Sulphur Springs, the Greenbriar hotel sits above a huge underground bunker complex that was built to house our leaders during such a strike. It has long been rumored to be connected to several other key government facilities in the region by tunnels throughout the area. The Bedford facility was the eyes of the bunker, all the in coming radar information and communications from Bedford "supposedly" went directly to the Greenbriar bunker.

I was gonna say a year to year and a half old Titan selling for $122k used don't sound bad, with FET a Titan daycab tractor was probably only $140,000-$150,000. Now a Titan heavy spec log truck vets up round $200,000 but that pic is of a lower priced Titan. The biggest issues with trying to sell a used Titan are the size and weight and the fact that most are purpose built trucks. You have to have a need for a truck that big and heavy especially in a Specialized configuration like a log truck, milk truck etc. To buy it and there just aren't that many people there to buy them.

Must be a Northeast thing, I look at em all thime and dont see any rusty new trucks in TN, I say if your gonna get a Mack do it now, its not going to be long and itll be a Volvo with a Mack badge on the grille and that my friends signals the end of the greatest name in trucks.

That is interesting blocking out the high split in 1st thru 4th and leaving the OD split in 5th. Those transmissions have some pretty close gear steps in the first three anyway so running light like UPS does I doubt youd need to split em all anyway. I guess those are all dead and gone and recycled into hyundais by now, sure would be a great find though.

They wont need Old Mack guys when they replace all the old Macks with new Volvo's.

How the hell.do you guys drive a truck by the guages, feel the truck in your hands and feet and do what it wants, anybody that uses a tach to shift is wasting fuel in my opinion. If your on flat ground you shift at a lower rpm than on a hill if your loaded a higher rpm, add wet roads and curves and it cha yes again. If you can't make yourself "feel" the truck your never gonna get it right. Oh and I can tell you your running too many rpm just from your fuel mileage, you should get over 6mpg no problem on the highway with an 06 model. Off the soapbox!

71 DW 685? Check that again.

Hell Yeah!

I got my bumper from Long Road Bumpers in Alabama, took a while but it was a custom order. Valley Chrome Plating does bumpers for a lot of the chrome shops I had one of theirs on my 04 Granite, both were pretty damn heavy. The one on my 85 took two people to hold up there to get bolts started, don't know what it weighs but its 3/16" thick.

I was going on the badge on the hood and the RW turn signals, only two trucks I remember having those round turn signals with the marker light were Super liners and Value Liners.

I was gonna say it looked awful oil fieldish, got floats up front and looks like heavy axles, might be a pretty bad as a heavy haul tractor for ya Mike. Go get a tag axle on it and throw a 55ton lowboy behind it and make some money moving stuff for those farmers out there.