Red Horse

OD..great job, thx. Nice show!

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How about this quote today that showed up on an AOL post... "The [governor] from Florida wants to follow in the footsteps of the one here," Guzman said. "They're trying to make life miserable for Venezuelans." Can you imagine this coming from one of the gate crashers. Others commented on the "danger" that these "poor souls" faced when they were sent to Martha's Vineyard. These people actually think they have some right to do this. In the meantime, the "tent city" in Boston.."Mass and Cass" is building again after the city kicked their asses out once. We have enough problems of our own without adding thousands more every day.

Matt, While I knew a lot about your CSP and Mil experiences, thx for taking the time to give us all such a rundown. I would have to say your parents did a great job as the apple truly does not fall far from the tree.

For sure! But no "flags"....so a sleeper or a 289? 352 2.bbl?

Great Matt..have to think your experience as a pilot had to influence everything you did..no room for "good enough" or "i'll deal with it when I have to"

T, Agree on that! and my first thought was given the beef of the rest of the tires, that lift looks like it has rubber that might last a week! As a percentage of weight tandems must scale out at, why bother with ....? 11-24.5's??--un less of course the law says..."4 axles gives you X pounds"-regardless of specific weight rating of individual axles/tires But an impressive beast for sure.

Wow-hopefully that vac tank is used for oil as opposed to.....ugh septic?? iIn any case a beauty.

Thx HS. Just curious why they would go with 19.5 wheels?

Not sure I know what these are. My best guess? These are two boxes on a tri axle trailer with tri axle dollies??

Planetary sets I'm told is how Ford gets 4 more speeds out of what looks like the same case. Google "Ravigneaux" That is what concept is.

Thx- reason I'm asking not Mack related but Ford is going to start offering the 10 speed auto used in F-550-and I think F-600, in the 650/750 Power Strokes. You can get a 750 with a 37,000 GVW. In questioning the durability of the 10 speed as it doesn't weigh much more than the 6 speed currently used, I'm thinking 4 more speeds, how does it NOT weigh substantially more -as in Mack Duplex/Triplex/Quad. Answer I'm told is the Ford 10speed makes use of planetary gear sets- the Ravigneaux concept, which I never heard of. The Mack two sticks?? Just a lot more iron i'm sure.

Any clue on weights of Duplex, Tiriplex and Quad? Big ones that would have been used with 675/6.

I bought 4 new Summitomos 11R 24 a year ago. guy that I deal with had no trouble getting them. I'm in Mass.

I think they were 330 horse. the hyd lifter 390 was 300. I remember the local paper did a feature on the new "State Police Interceptors". Can you imagine a newspaper publishing such a story today?

Nice See if you can grab some pix.

Nice Matt and sounds like a worthwhile charity! I remember 1961-I was a senior in high school-ugh. CSP had I do believe plain jane two door Galaxies with solid lifter 390's-black of course.

Looks great- and I like the painted headlight buckets!-as well as the new roof on barn! Will miss you this weekend. About 25 trucks there already as of this afternoon-including Brian T's new RD 800 with huge planetary axles-looks like its about 9'wide!

Hah! I guess your right. In this case "Old Days" refers to 1998 when Jackass Jaq Nassar gave the heavy truck business away..time flies 24 years ago. And my company bought some trucks from Bridgehaven-now Gabrielli. Interstate never did as well as Bridgehaven IMO

I think I posted a shot of this before. Friend of mine at time owned 3 JD locations and this was oone of two tandem tractors he had to make deliveries, move inventory. Had belonged to a farm account that bought it new to haul silage. Minimal mileage. In any case, he sold his business to one of the gorillas with many locations-big fish swallow small fish-sad state of affairs. He kept this thou and he continues to stay busy moving equjipment as well as hauling his "pulling" Deeres. He told me the other day-wherever he goes he gets stopped by guys who say.."if you ever want to sell call me!" In particular in Maine- in old days there were two Heavy Duty Ford dealers who did very well. Lot of old timers still loyal to the brand-Bryan's LTL 9000.pdfBryan's LTL 9000.pdf

My town has a clam for a 42? Cat. IMO looks like limited versatility- yes good for mucking out manholes/ sumps-if opening big enough. But a thumb? you can pinch a 15" branch or a 24" log.

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For sure on triple nickel Fords. Before Ford sold the business I had a friend who sold Deere construction. He said once he lost a customer to Ford he never got them back. Fords were lot of bang for the buck.

Matt any chance you will make Lancaster?

And to add to this mess,. idiot Brandon instead of suspending his war on the US energy industry, he is urging increasing ethanol concentration in gas. So more grain gets diverted to fuel and he will claim he is "working to lower gas prices". He refuses to do anything that will piss off the liberal left.