Red Horse

Not sure if this is the right forum, but an unfortunate reminder. A young worker at a Sears tire store was killed this week when a "truck tire" he was working on exploded. He was killed and the customer who was close by was badly injured. No word on exactly what was involved in this incident but a newspaper account indicated he was working on an.."industrial tire changer". I don't usually think of Sears when it comes to large truck tires but the fact that the paper referred to an "industrial tire changer" leads me to believe perhaps this was a 3 piece rim that was not caged. Again a guess. Further point, I picked up two junk tire wheel assemblies last week- 8 x 24 rims-tough to find. One tire not holding air, the other charged. I took them over to a heavy truck shop (where I'm known and they love seeing the old to have them broken down, blasted and painted, and the owner said.."forget it-I'm done working with those". So say a prayer for those involved in this incident which is another painful reminder of what can happen. If anyone has anymore details please post. Thx

And in the early 80's they bought a good number of Ford C-8000's (E-0nes)

My bet is Ford is just doing its homework and this thing will be ready to go if the market clearly says.."yes, we are losing too many sales to Ram with their V-6 ". In the meantime, I 'm sure the Ford position continues to be.."who needs a diesel when the two Ecoboost options give equal performance for less money". The fact that diesel fuel is back to an equal basis with 87 octane, is also a factor that makes the diesel economics a bit better IMO.

Nice- whenever I miss the sound of a Detroit I can click on this!

No but I was talking to myself as usual

Guys- this was the "perfect storm". Door sensors are mounted like 8" off floor-Dog and cat protectors?? rear tires have cleared beam. Door starts coming down and misses cab roof-and fortunately front windshield which is a big piece of curved glass$$$$- it is now between windshield and then hits the vertical exhaust as I'm backing up. Probably the only thing that would be sort of bullet proof would be another eye that goes diagonally from high side of stall to low side on other side. And 41- I have had that Iphone and IHeart radio going all the time in the barn while working and never an issue. But just think of all the wireless shit we have going on around us all the time now.

EJ--for sure!! But Apple support is pretty good-that is if spending about 6 hours on the phone and still having a problem is "good". Everything worked fine until I had to upgrade to their "newest and greatest" system.

Well anyone have this happen? Couple of years ago I got tired of shoveling snow away from swing out barn doors so I installed an OH door with auto operator. Today I'm backing the Deere out while listening to tunes on the iPhone- I Heart radio. I'm paying attention to rear wheels clearing door jams and I hear a crash. I look forward and OH door has started closing-just missed cab but snags exhaust pipe. Bends the shit out of the OH door panel, exhaust is cocked. No clue as to what happened but can only think one way or another operator picked up a signal from someplace and activated door. Just online with Deere parts- elbow if I can't straighten is 197 bucks and at least one fiberglass OH door panel. Moral of the story I guess-don't listen to your I-phone while traversing your OH doors. I have had OH doors at house open because of "mystery signal-never had one close though and for sure never had barn door activate without deliberate signal before.

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Bear with me guys-still have issues with Apple operating system upgrade. It has reversed photo images test 1

80,000 GVW????

I would have to believe there weren't many made with those specs!

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Vlad- I'm done! About 6 hrs total time on phone with Apple Support and they still can't figure it out. Like I'm first person in the world who upgraded their OS X system. give them A for effort though. Back online with them in AM! Sorry to clutter the thread but they wanted to see just what was happening.

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Thx Jim-and if I can master this new OS I will post some shots of Dan doing the restoration

And for some reason end up with Pix in vertical ???? Back to REAL Mack B-81 single axles- Dan Melone's beauty of a '64-has owned since new when it pulled a Marion tandem dump trailer

Sorry Maddog- new Mac OS El-capitan operating system-trying to learn how to download pix

Well-not always-

It is the solicitation for another book listing all the members with your vehicle picture-just like the one published in 2011. So this one will be 2016. SOS- schools -colleges do the same thing-every 5 years its a money pit! Harris is the name of the outfit that does this- I have received two post cards and two e-mail requests-haven't called yet.

Saw news footage today-not sure which cities but one in China and one in India-could NOT see buildings because of the inversion-people walking with surgical masks on! This loon we have does whatever he can to side step the real issues that confront us. And the next loon waiting in the wings will do no better-and she will win unless the Republicans get their shit together-and quickly! This is our last chance. If you think the electorate deck is stack now, if we lose this next one its a done deal IMO.

This raises a lot of questions. First and foremost, a 50% increase in manpower? That says to me they are either going to blow GM and Dodge away with existing vehicles or they will add a new vehicle. Or is the overtime at KTP totally out of control? Wishful thinking on blowing the competition away by that much. As for another product, given the move of mediums to Ohio, (OAP) and the fact that OAP is currently underutilized, not likely that any new vehicle would be added to KTP. In fact, all of the news I have read mentions 250 , 350, Expedition and Navigator. No specific mention of 450 and 550. I could see the 450 dually pick up remaining at KTP, but it seems logical to me that 450 -550 chassis mprph into some sort of vehicle based on some 650/750 cab structure-and a move to OAP. Keep in mind, GM is about to get back into class 4 and 5 with Navistar. My bet is that truck will not be derived off a Silverado pick up but rather will be more "medium duty" as were the old 4500/5500 GM's before they pulled the plug. Compare an old 5500 GM with an F-550 chassis. the Ford clearly showed its pick up roots while the 5500 was much more substantial-from its tilting hood assembly to the heavier running gear-in spite of the fact they both had the same GVW ratings. There has to be a lot more to this than we are told