Outbehindthebarn

On 3/28/2006 at 9:26 PM, Rob said:

A power tower is driven from the input shaft of an auxillary transmission. This means that you can put the auxillary transmission in neutral, and drive the power tower output shaft with as many speeds as you have in your main transmission, ie. 4,5,6,7,10,13 etc. With the auxillary in neutral, the truck will not move as the output of the Brownie is not turning, hence the main driveshaft to rear axles. They are great for heavy winching applications.

Rob

Doesn't a Mack 12 speed basically do the same thing?

3 hours ago, 85snowdog said:

I think its test truck because of the "Organic Rankine Cycle"  It was a topic that mrsmackpaul started in July 2014.  Was very interesting.

In my opinion, it makes this a special truck.  I hope it goes to a deserving home .

Heres the link to the thread. 

 

https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/36444-organic-rankine-cycle/#comment-253827

Seems to me its like hanging a heat pump on the exhaust. . .amiright?

Were F models preferable to the Cruiseliners? or is it the other way around...?

Sisu builds a hell of a motor in Massey tractors.. . wonder why they don't install their own in the trucks?

Would that sleeper window been cut-in after-the-fact? 

I believe this is a 300+    Shouldn't it have a horseshoe pressed into the back sleeper panel?

A phrase like "Legendary Awesomeness", and the word "badass" in a promo? Clearly directed towards the millennials. I'm not yet 40 and it sounded a little "low-brow" to me. The black machinist was obviously planted in the video for the diversity nod... and what does the exaggerated collar size (and hair-do's) of the 70's have to do with how well a truck is built? 

Real nice footage though!

https://orangecounty.craigslist.org/cto/5988096830.html

2 hours ago, carlotpilot said:

pretty girl       can`t say much for th truck

I know they are odd for us Americans.... but damn, I like them! Ruud Sneepels Scania 164l 580 V8 + 143H 420 V8

Seem like a dream to drive.

22 hours ago, carlotpilot said:

NEED A SOURCE FOR EITHER OEM OR A M SLEEPER BOOT

 Try giving these people a call...   http://www.starclassinc.net Website show's APU's... but I talked to them a year or so ago about boots. Pretty sure they can fix you up.

8 hours ago, kscarbel2 said:

When you called Able Manufacturing, they weren't able to help you?

http://www.ablemfg.com/about.html

Word on the street says Able is useless for sleeper stuff now....

4 hours ago, BC Mack said:

That certainly takes me back... just as I was getting into my apprenticeship.

ERF A series, probably 220 Cummins, 32 tons gvw, non sleeper doing "a Continental"...

second driver is probably a holdover from when you needed a "brakeman" for the trailer, they shared the driving once the brake lever was removed... that load was probably worth a lot of money in those days as pheasant was a rich-man's delicacy.

TJC... 16 tons was probably close to the mark... with a fibreglass cab and a sheeted flat trailer you could squeeze 20 tons of load on a 32ton gvw 4 axle articulated unit... that trailer was built mostly of steel framing and wood rather than the lightweight materials of today.

TIR still exists but the constant customs stops have gone in the EU

BC Mack

 

 

BC

The trailer had separate brake controls, operated by someone other than the driver?

55 minutes ago, fxfymn said:

I'd ask the person who worked with the US military for years in Iraq who was denied entry and sent back to Iraq. I'm sure the enemies he helped fight with the US were very anxious to provide a welcome home to him and his family. Or maybe the legal immigrant who had lived here for years and was denied re-entry after a family visit so she could see her dying son.

Trump ran as an outsider who will change the way we do everything. That's fine, but more often than not a certain way of doing things has developed because it works. When you arbitrarily change the system you will probably have to pay the price. In this case we will all have to pay because we will end up with a less robust intelligence system due to folks being afraid they will be betrayed by the US after they served us.

I feel no remorse for those Iraqis who 'helped us'. I'm certain they knew the risk of aiding the invaders, and were compensated handsomely for doing so. 

That green and black Super..... (drooling)

Start at 1:06   !!!

What is this connection you have with the middle east Paul-o,,,,,, lived in Israel too? I have ALWAYS wanted to visit Lebanon... Ramallah.... Tehran ..... But too scared too now.

5 minutes ago, TeamsterGrrrl said:

Given that the muslim population is a majority in many places and vastly outnumber the jews and christians, how come they haven't acted on your purported animus and wiped out the jewish and christian minorities? Are they too lazy to carry out that mission, or are you lying to us?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Persecution_by_Muslims

14 minutes ago, Outbehindthebarn said:

Idioms aside (why don't you just call me deplorable?), the threat to Western culture is real.

 

 

These happened THIS MORNING!

http://www.dw.com/en/austrian-police-arrest-man-allegedly-planning-terror-attack/a-37217741

Militants blow themselves up after gunfight with Saudi forces

44 minutes ago, TeamsterGrrrl said:

You're making a mountain out of a molehill.

Idioms aside (why don't you just call me deplorable?), the threat to Western culture is real.