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He got it in North Lawrence. He is going to restore it but said the dump bed and gas engine had to go. He wants to use it to pull his gooseneck. We have an antique tractor club and haul tractors around to the shows. You can go to our web site and go to Bill Melders photp album on the photo page and see it loaded up on the trailer he is going to pull behind it. While you are there go to the photo of the week page and look at last weeks photo of the old B Mack. This picture will be taken off tomorrow night. I am the web master of this site. www.latc.us

Doug

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The John Deere was in good shape and had a new engine. The old truck has a good body but the old engine runs bad and smokes. It may be a while before he does anything with it. The dump bed works good. That was the second trip we went off like that. A guy in MN gave him a 36 IH ton and a half truck for a case of beer. We found it when we went up there to get a set of scales for our tractor club. Yes we went back the next week with a case of beer. You can see pictures of it on the same photo album on the web site.

Doug

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He got it in North Lawrence. He is going to restore it but said the dump bed and gas engine had to go. He wants to use it to pull his gooseneck. We have an antique tractor club and haul tractors around to the shows. You can go to our web site and go to Bill Melders photp album on the photo page and see it loaded up on the trailer he is going to pull behind it. While you are there go to the photo of the week page and look at last weeks photo of the old B Mack. This picture will be taken off tomorrow night. I am the web master of this site. www.latc.us

Doug

UhOh now we gotta find out where this is so we can go save more poor neglected puppies....thats a whole yard full of Macks the way it looks.

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No all I saw was the B's that I posted and the R. There was a B61 dump that looked like the one we have. It was in the Christmas parade he said. My friend that owns this B42 has talked to him about the one setting up on its back to get the engine to put in this 42. The old man said it would run. I don't know if they will make the deal or not. You know how some old people are about things they have like that.

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No all I saw was the B's that I posted and the R. There was a B61 dump that looked like the one we have. It was in the Christmas parade he said. My friend that owns this B42 has talked to him about the one setting up on its back to get the engine to put in this 42. The old man said it would run. I don't know if they will make the deal or not. You know how some old people are about things they have like that.

Yup...certainly do. I wish him luck. Hope somebody can save the other trucks too.....

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That is a 56 but not a Crown Vic. Someone put a 302 in it and painted the engine YELLOW. Oh well each his own I guess. That old Ih is the old truck we went to Sleepy Eye Mn and got for a case of beer. It has 15 thousand miles on it. He went on and put a valve job and new rings in it. It runs good. The old dog runs like crap but I had fun driving it to the little show anyway.

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I think my friend spent around $1500 in fuel when we went to New York to get the B42. We had a thirty foot dual wheel tandom goose neck hauling both ways. Then the mountains eat up a lot of fuel too. The fuel filter stopped up on us and it was acting like the trans was going out. If it had been a standard we would have known what it was. After we changed the filter it was ok. Then the water pump started leaking on us. By the time we got home we had to stop every thirty minutes to fill up with water.

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Wow! I would love to have those, they look very clean. It just costs so much to pay sombody to haul them. After we get our B60 on the road, we want to get a trailer so we can go pick up some of the many good, cheap trucks out there.

Ben

The purchase is the least expensive part usually. As has been mentioned just the cost to get them back home can be very expensive even if you do it yourself. At current fuel prices in a vehicle that averages 10mpg, your cost in fuel only is right at .40 per running mile. This on top of the wear on everything else. This says nothing about working for free if you negate your own time.

Rob

Dog.jpg.487f03da076af0150d2376dbd16843ed.jpgPlodding along with no job nor practical application for my existence, but still trying to fix what's broke.

 

 

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Then you have to count your eats and a room to wash your old butt and take a nap. We left here Friday afternoon and spent one night in a room and was back here Tuesday morning at five am. I am getting to old for that lol. We had fun going to get the old dog. We love to get old tractors too.

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