Red Horse

Hah-not sure if I remember that one- I only was involved with the "other side" fleet from sometime in 90 to end of 93.

10-4 on the well. final bill on that one was big 7 figures! I think there were 7 municipal wells in that wetland. Miracle there was no fire- One bit of collateral damage- about 3 days after, clean up contractor was delivering stone with a beautiful Superliner pulling trailer dump-you guessed it-dump went over and nailed the cab-miracle driver wasn't killed.

The city of Worcester tractor is now Mike Trotto's B 81!

If nothing else, green will save you a few bucks too!

Matt, He did have an older R Model too as BK noted-not sure if it was a 750 on it -but the trucks were always inside-I'm sure these were clean units. Nice shot of the Plunske truck- when we were kids we used to drive up rt 5 to see all the red Fords parked in a row-he had a couple of nice Super Dutys too-as in F-950 Super Duty not F-350 Super Duty. Wonder what became of those- I saw he had a clean 70's 750 for sale a while ago. I can't imagine how these guys pay off these new monsters-then again, I think that CH Coady is selling has over 200,000 on it and its not that old- good utilization-then again they don't work cheap-ask your dad if he remembers when we rolled one of the new CH's over on I-93 in like 1991. Coady's bill for that was over 10 grand.

Had to go to Conn today and was surprised to see Red-Arts Garage with the signs all gone and the place cleaned out. In the back of my mind I thought I saw the old Brockway wrecker recently posted someplace so can't say I was surprised. Seems like it was yesterday and these were the guys who handled the wrecks on 84 from say Manchester to the Mass line-with their old single axle "hooks". Then again, the business has changed. If anyone saw any of the coverage last week of the recovery operation when the bus carrying the U-Maine girls basketball team went off 95. Coady had TWO big boom wreckers on scene-$$$$$$$$$ (Seems like one would have been sufficient) . One of those CH Macks is currently on sale on eBay for 350 thou!

No clue-that was two or three years ago-never saw it again.

Matt- Al DeLeo?

Sounds like you have your mind made up but just for kicks take a look at ..Vintagewiringofmaine.com website. Impressive but I hear the product is first rate.

On another note, they did recently announce they were coming out with a cab over (like the Sterling Condor-actually looks like a Condor) which would be a competitor of the Mack TerraPro (MR), "Autocar" (old White Expeditor) but in any case, aligning yourself with a particular body builder excludes you from the whole pool. Didn't they do the same thing with mixers in the last year or so? An even dumber move IMO. Rear discharge mixers are yesterday's newspaper. While I'm sure there might be some jobs that make sense-like you are pouring a huge job and you just back up to a big concrete pump and blow the load out- for the most part, front discharge mixers rule. Most contractors don't WANT rear discharge mixers on their jobsites. I wheeled my share of concrete off the back of LJ's and B-81's in my youth. Today?-I was pouring 8 sono tubes at our fairgrounds not long ago- front discharge mixer took no more than five minutes! Driver never left the cab until he got out to wash the chutes! Kiss the rear discharge mixer business goodbye!

Interesting. Given Navistar's financial position-it's not the best correct??- and given the hole they are trying to dig out of with respect to their EGR issue, I would have to wonder if this makes sense. While we often read about companies divesting of assets when the going gets rough to ...."focus on their core business", I have to scratch my head on this one. Here is a case where Navistar is spending money on something that MIGHT make sense- if all things considered the rest of their house was in complete order.

Here are a couple of beauties currently at Gargolinski's in Sterling

I think the "Allison" engines were in fact the turbines that GM fooled around with. Both Ford and GM were into turbines. Ford's first was a show truck that they had at the World's fair in NYC in 1964. Much later they built a turbine called the 707 and they actually had them installed in some Ford W cab overs that were in the company fleet hauling between plants. I never heard of an Allison piston engine-other than aircraft engines from WW II. I think Allison built a version of the Rolls Royce that was used in the P-51 Mustang.

Mike Trotto's -just the way he got it!

So guys, seeing all these Highpoint trucks made me think- it seems like a year or so ago there was always a truck from Highpoint on E-bay. Don't see that anymore-or is it my imagination?

Just what IS Mack Australia? Are they too not operating under the same Volvo direction??

Bridgestones?? You don't have much of a choice either.

Outstanding! As are all the wise ass comments.

A buddy of mine is chief mechanic for a nearby town- they did the same thing-bought a used heavy spec Mack that some other town had sold off. Had to do some work on it but they have the skills to do it-that is the key-qualified people make things happen!

Well I was at JC Madigan's today (One of the larger equipment installers in New England) and took a drive through the lot. Probably 12+ new F-liner SD 114's (tandems) for Mass DOT in various stages of body plow installation. Also 5 of so Navistar 7400's and one single axle Granite- all municipal plow trucks. Allnice heavy spec trucks, all Allisons. But in looking st the chassis, I would have to say the Granite appeared to me to have the neatest plumbing/wiring. The F'liners the worst. all of the Mack wirting appeared to be tightly wrapped with a heavy tape of some sort that looked like it would do a lot to keep out dirt/moisture and the corrosion that goes along with it. the F'liners opn the other hand were pretty much all encapsulated with the cheap split plastic wrap that you get at AutoZone. The Internationals appeared to be a bit better Six pix attached: First 3 FG'liner F'Liner] Next Mack

Here you go Matt-a little Deere! We had about 24" . One failure- one of the tangs on my junkyard Fisher finally let go-cut some new stock, drilled it, welded back on good to go. Just saw Hamden had 40"- highest in New England

Barry, Great response. What you have proposed to him is a great compromise that a REASONABLE person would find hard to refuse.

No that is Tom. This guy is Dave-retired O & G driver.

Where? Maine timber co pvt roads??

Matt, I was talking to a cousin of mine today and mentioned this. He said that apparently Tilcon got in some sort of legal hassle with an aquisition and was forced to provide Pine Rock with material. In essence he confirmed just what your dad said. He did not have an explanation of just what the relationship was between Farnum and Blakeslee. I can remember though that I was never loaded by Blakeslee -it was always under the hopper for straight stone or by Farnums loader for process. Wow-talk about small world. Didn't Mike and Frankie start or buy a sand and gravel operation somewhere on the shore-Madison or Guilford? They were into drag racing too. I remember Mike graduated from the Univ. of Idaho with a degree in biology or game management or something like that. Anyway he didn't do anything that summer except work on Frankie's new 63 1/2 Galaxie with a 427, dual quads. the authentic drag package with fiberglass nose, lightweight seats, floor mats etc. They took the car home from Bradford Motors, pulled the motor and shipped it to Holman Moody and then spent every Sunday at the strip. We came back from Dover in NY one Sunday night and Monday when Mike got up to work on the car, discovered someone had come into the yard and stole the two four barrels off it during the night. I went back to school in Sept. and they ended up selling the car-talk about pissing a lot of money away! Much more expensive then fooling around with old Macks