other dog Posted 8 hours ago Author Share Posted 8 hours ago 1 1 Quote Producer of poorly photo-chopped pictures since 1999. Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/76356-so-how-about-this-weather/page/3/#findComment-590346 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mowerman Posted 8 hours ago Share Posted 8 hours ago Right on man thanks for that Tom after looking at the inside of the cab I’m sure the guys’s gonna be OK. As far as repairing that truck looks like it’s too old to bother with. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/76356-so-how-about-this-weather/page/3/#findComment-590348 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mowerman Posted 8 hours ago Share Posted 8 hours ago And yes, I don’t know why it does not have a headache, rack that’s crazy Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/76356-so-how-about-this-weather/page/3/#findComment-590349 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Geoff Weeks Posted 8 hours ago Popular Post Share Posted 8 hours ago (edited) The requirement for a headboard/headche rack went away with the newer securement regulations. I don't agree with it, but the law is if you have two securement devices on the front of the load close together, each being capable of holding 1/2 the weight of the piece, then a headboard is no longer required. IIRC there is an exception to that for pipe, I think you still need it with pipe and may be beams. I never looked at it closely because I always ran a headache rack. I always had a headache rack on my tractors regardless. When a company is paying to outfit the truck, and extra strap is cheaper so that is all that is provided in most cases. We see the result of that in those pictures. Edited 8 hours ago by Geoff Weeks 2 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/76356-so-how-about-this-weather/page/3/#findComment-590351 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoff Weeks Posted 8 hours ago Share Posted 8 hours ago Reminds me of the old Bell helmet ads, "If you have $15 head buy a $15 helmet". 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/76356-so-how-about-this-weather/page/3/#findComment-590352 Share on other sites More sharing options...
other dog Posted 5 hours ago Author Share Posted 5 hours ago 1 hour ago, Geoff Weeks said: Reminds me of the old Bell helmet ads, "If you have $15 head buy a $15 helmet". I used Bell helmets. The last bike I had was an LTD1000 Kawasaki. I sold it and bought a pickup truck, mainly because my wife wanted me to get rid of it, but I did need a pickup. I let the full face Bell helmet go with it and the guy that bought the bike only had it a week or 2 and wrecked it. Not his fault, a 4 wheeler made that left turn in front of him when he was coming from the opposite direction. The guy on the bike hit him right in the side. Put him in the hospital for weeks. My wife saw him somewhere after he got out of the hospital and he told her that the doctors told him that the fact that he had a good helmet was the only thing that saved his life. 1 Quote Producer of poorly photo-chopped pictures since 1999. Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/76356-so-how-about-this-weather/page/3/#findComment-590375 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mowerman Posted 5 hours ago Share Posted 5 hours ago already ran out of likes....i rode for years ladda lotta fun on them sold my last one 7 years ago to a buddy of mine too many stupid people here now,,,the bike is now in montana Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/76356-so-how-about-this-weather/page/3/#findComment-590377 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjc transport Posted 4 hours ago Share Posted 4 hours ago i still have my bell full face helmet around here somewhere. over 50 years old now. Quote when you are up to your armpits in alligators, it is hard to remember you only came in to drain the swamp.. Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/76356-so-how-about-this-weather/page/3/#findComment-590382 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mowerman Posted 4 hours ago Share Posted 4 hours ago You know it was 54 years ago. I had a bad accident was nobody’s fault but my own I was speeding just got my learners permit car pulled out in front of me was not his fault. I tried to avoid the car. I ran into a three and got knocked out. Helmet was all scraped up when I came to completely ruined my 66 Honda 90 and I can still remember that car that turned in front of me don’t know how it was around a 71 Ford wagon light blue I don’t know how I remember that but I believe it was a bell since back then that’s what everybody was buying hell it was so long ago. I’m surprised I even thought of that since I’m getting older and senile. 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/76356-so-how-about-this-weather/page/3/#findComment-590383 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark T Posted 1 hour ago Share Posted 1 hour ago 2 hours ago, tjc transport said: i still have my bell full face helmet around here somewhere. over 50 years old now. 😉 they last a long time like that when you don't put them through the paces (and that's a good thing) Back with the dirt bikes..... if you didn't have a Bel Moto 3, you weren't cool. 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/76356-so-how-about-this-weather/page/3/#findComment-590394 Share on other sites More sharing options...
other dog Posted 1 hour ago Author Share Posted 1 hour ago There is an update on the lumber truck, they say a car did indeed pull in front of the truck and cause the accident. The driver put it in the ditch rather than hit the car. But- I always secured every load like I was expecting that to happen, not like "well, it could possibly happen but it probably won't". 2 Quote Producer of poorly photo-chopped pictures since 1999. Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/76356-so-how-about-this-weather/page/3/#findComment-590396 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjc transport Posted 1 hour ago Share Posted 1 hour ago 21 minutes ago, Mark T said: 😉 they last a long time like that when you don't put them through the paces (and that's a good thing) Back with the dirt bikes..... if you didn't have a Bel Moto 3, you weren't cool. mine was well used and abused. hit 3 trees with my honda 175 before i realized the points cover seal was bad leaking oil into the points housing. i would lean to make a right turn from the fields to the woods and loose one cylinder, just as i would get it straightened out, the second cylinder would come back.. and since i was still full throttle trying t keep it in the almost sugar sand, it would pull the front wheel up rite into a giant oak tree. fixed the point seal to keep from oiling the points, and about a month later i came through the woods the opposite direction and a friend was coming out of the field rite in front of me. so i turned the bars, rite into the same damn tree about 25 mph. that was the end of the 175. about three years later i was on a harley sportster, and a pickup ran a stop sigh rite in front of me. swerved to avoid him, laid it down, and slid rite into a telephone pole. then the tumbling bike landed on top of me. i decided 5 trees was enough and have not rode a bike since 86 or so 1 Quote when you are up to your armpits in alligators, it is hard to remember you only came in to drain the swamp.. Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/76356-so-how-about-this-weather/page/3/#findComment-590397 Share on other sites More sharing options...
other dog Posted 56 minutes ago Author Share Posted 56 minutes ago 1 Quote Producer of poorly photo-chopped pictures since 1999. Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/76356-so-how-about-this-weather/page/3/#findComment-590398 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joey Mack Posted 18 minutes ago Share Posted 18 minutes ago Is it just a 2 bedroom 1 bath, or does it have a second bath? I need a place to pee when the boss is fixin her face... Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/76356-so-how-about-this-weather/page/3/#findComment-590399 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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