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The day I hauled the 8.3 cummins home, I had to pack the BIG lunch box

We put together a hay haulin' truck for moving hay around here. I made it out of a mix of goodies from some scrap Ford trucks. The truck was a wrecked 1997 8000 Ford. The front axle, front clip, and other front goodies are off a 70's Ford 900 and a 95 Ford 8000. The engine is a 8.3 cummins that I had stored in case I ever needed it for my crane truck. I thought I might as well use it and keep it limbered up. The bed is 30 feet long and we have been hauling 18 big bales on it that are around 1700 pounds each (I know, I can do the math, yes-sir-ree we are overloaded on the rear axle). Now that we like it so well, I am thinking of making one that is longer as I have been putting up some hay further away from home. I want to stick with a straight truck as the fields we go into in the summer are way off road and my sons drive it so I don't want to use trailers that somehow they figure out how to jacknife in the middle of a flat field sometimes. My question is: What is the longest I can legally make a straight truck? I plan to use a tandem axle R model Mack tractor stretched out for the next one.

FINALLY! I have been watching this post and wondering how long it would take before I-uns gots to see me one of them thar sex wheel drive Macks Thanks for the photos -

That's like those sappy over weight middle aged women that say: "when you point your finger at someone, you have three others pointing back at yourself" - give me a break.

I laugh a lot at used Macks around here (the few Macks you can find). They will say ALL MACK!, ALL MACK!. Then you get to looking and one will have a Reyco rear suspension or some will have a roadranger transmission, or a Cummins engine. Flames are by nature HOT things, but they look COOL.

I know at the car auctions around here, any small pickup brings better than book usually and I have found that when I do buy one, they are fast sellers. Everyone thinks they want one. But I think is correct in that people are just buying the lightest 1/2 ton pickup instead. You have more bed room and just as good of fuel mileage. I have seen a lot of new 1/2 ton fords sell for less than a tricked out Ranger. I have sold three Rangers in the last year or so to guys that then a month later sold them because they got sick of the steering wheel rubbing their love handles and not having any room to haul in the cab. The sad truth is that there are also just a lot fewer rural people that need a pickup to use for what it was designed for.

What happened to the idea of you moving down this way? Missouri has sweeter air, and more honest politicians (if there is such a thing)

Spelling Lesson The last four letters in American..........I Can The last four letters in Republican.......I Can The last four letters in Democrats.........Rats End of lesson. Test to follow in November, 2012

Damn - I thought my welding naked photo was graphic, but that description is a little too easy to visualize. I think I saw her saying: But Rob, I like, wore the shirt because, I like thought you would like, like it or something? My legs like, look this way, like because this nice like man gave me some way cool like pills things, that like make me like do silly like things.

Looking like Jailbait to me

Now that is a photo that is worth a thousand words. Pretty neat trailer.

What is the hand crank thing between the fenders on the back of the trailer for? Is that to add an axle or something to do with removable fenders? Nice looking Mack find!

That 453T in a pickup is what all the guys around here are trying to find. A few years ago no one wanted one! Now I am seeing everything from a old two stroke detroit to John Deere tractor engines being put in pickups. I sold a 9 speed road ranger to a guy last month that is trying to mate it with a 6V71and put it in a 1/2 ton pickup. I bet the weight of the power train will get him in deep trouble. Oh well, I also never used to listen until things started to cost me money!

We have a bunch of people the media around here call the "Christmas Tree Bandits" that decorate several trees on US 54 between I-70 and Jefferson CIty, Mo. Last year one of your same A-holes cut some of them down and threw them in the ditch. If that dude put that much effort into something postive, he would find life a lot smoother. I was glad to see this year, the "bandits" took some decorated trees and planted them in the same spot.

Check out the crutches leaning against it in the fourth photo - it must be a early handicap accessible road tractor.

What do you plan to do with it? Keep it original? or do like they do around here and cut them up and turn them into farmer big bale haulers - That would be a sin with that beautiful truck! Do you have a photo of the interior and engine?

I have had to do the same thing to get a junk truck home with a bad lift pump. It was on a old S-series IHC 1900. We ran a air line from the bleeder on a air tank into the fuel tank through the fill hole and clamped a bunch of rags around it to halfway seal it. We opened a petcock in the line so it kept air pressure in the tank to force diesel up to the pump. It got us home, but we had to keep stopping to let the air build up in the leaky ol' binder.

People have forgotten that Christ loves all of us, even those that hate him, and that the devil doesn't love anyone, he just divides. Railing against that banner is like sending back a happy birthday card because you want to deny what day it is - it doesn't change the truth of the matter that you are a year older. - my two cents

We had a Timberjack skidder with a 4-53 in it and while it was small in size, it more than made up for it in noise level! I remember it too sounded good when first fired up on a winter day. It got to leaking fuel from a line under the valve cover - the oil level would go UP when we checked it at noon. I got a quick education on the detroit fuel system. I like any engine that has access covers on the side of the block - it just looks old school!

Sounds like he has nothing to sell but lies and thievery - Like Melvin Udall once said: " Sell crazy someplace else, we're all stocked up here"

Okay - Here I go with the welding of the tank full of propane -

Okay - I have a leaking tank from a crack on a R model I am working on. I just filled it completely full with propane like you said, and I took off all my clothes so I am real open. Which crack do I weld first?

She started working there in 1946. 1946, as in right after WWII. That woman deserves a medal.

I sold a track hoe mounted shear to a guy in kentucky that all he does is scrap old propane tanks. He said the same thing - everyone is afraid of them, but once you drain them, they are safe. I did notice that the guy cutting them in half was doing it remotely in another room though! He has not had to buy fuel for his warehouse heat for years - it all comes in free in the scrap tanks.

Thanks for the heads up - my tank has a two inch threaded hole on the end that I can use and that will be easier than welding the fitting on the side like the high dollar new ones have.