RowdyRebel

....nothing another Kate Upton GIF or two can't fix!

Gimme a Granite, a chop saw, and a couple minutes & I'll make you an open-top...

I think I need a better internet connection.....

I hope you're referring to your moobs being smaller, not her boobs....'cuz if you want her boobs to be smaller, you need to turn in your man card.

http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2012/06/21/kate-upton-says-loves-all-states-in-america-wishes-could-change-one-thing-about/

You get a log violation.....you should have been on line 4 for that DOT physical.

I seem to remember seeing a Bulldog Magazine talking about a Mack factory mod-shop, where they custom built trucks to meet their customer's demands....might look into that option, too. Bypass the "traditional" body builders altogether... http://www.macktrucks.com/assets/mack/Bulldog/MCKTRK_8315_BDgMag11V4_150.pdf it's the "big story" on page 4...."The Mod Squad" On a side note, anyone know where I can get a front bumper like the one on page 10?

As long as the chassis is long enough behind the cab, the body can be bolted on. Mack transmissions can run a PTO...or even multiple PTOs....more PTO options on a Mack transmission than any of the other brands. According to the mechanics at the company shop here, they LOVE it when an O/O brings in a Mack to get a blower or a wet kit mounted up. My truck was set up within a couple hours when they put the blower on it. The company trucks (freightshakers, petes, & internationals) aren't so easy....walk into the shop & they have the "new" truck disassembled in order to get the parts & pieces they need to mount up installed.....those other makes just aren't as "user-friendly" when it comes to bolting up parts to make a work truck out of them as a Mack truck is. As long as you are the one paying for the truck, you get to determine the specs for it. If the body builder won't build you the truck you want, take your money elsewhere. You might end up buying the truck, and then taking the truck to the body builder to have the body mounted rather than buying the truck through them. They might be a "dealer" of those certain makes and get the trucks direct from the factory...where they may not have that ability with a Mack and would have to work with a Mack dealer to get the truck (cutting into THEIR profit, since they wouldn't be making the "sale" on the truck). Basically, they are trying to sell you what they have, not what you want.

...is replaying now. 7:00 central. CBS.

If'n ya wanna see how to wreck a truck the proper way, ya gotta look to Texas! They just had a BAD one in Dallas. Truck jumped up onto the jersey barrier & hit a bridge support dead center....broke the bridge support & split the frame rails clear back to the drives. http://www.wfaa.com/news/local/Truck-hits-overpass-on-I-30-in-Dallas-158372365.html

speaking of redheads...remember this one? I wouldn't kick her out of bed.....even if she is a spy.

I used to have a nice, hole-free yard. The only place Dozer was allowed to dig was under the front porch. Then the moles came....and I got tired of stepping on the soft mole tunnels as I walked around in the yard, so I started encouraging ol' Dozer to chase after 'em and try to get 'em. I no longer have a mole problem....but the yard looks like a mine field with all the holes dug in it.

I need a woman who can cook....because I can't. I can do without psycho, though...I'm enough as it is.

What's that they say again? If you're 20 and not a liberal, you have no heart...and if you're 40 and not conservative, you have no brain. Coal miners are typically union, and unions like to brainwash their members into believing their left wing trash. My grandpa was a teamster & towed the union line 'til the day he died. My other grandpa was a union carpenter and bought into the "democrats are for the working man" crap until my grandma sat him down and went through where the candidates stood issue by issue and grandpa realized that who the union was telling him to support did not line up with his own beliefs. From that day forward, he took the union's political endorsements with a grain of salt and looked at where they stood to make up his own mind.

That's why I'm marrying a girl who doesn't pay much attention at all to politics. She's the kind of girl who doesn't like listening to "talk" coming from the radio....doesn't care if it is the top-of-the-hour news, commercials, or just the DJ chatting it up for a few minutes between songs, she's reaching for the dial to change the station. It absolutely drives her nuts when I watch the news or listen to talk radio... However, BECAUSE she is so ill-informed as to what is going on in the world, she'll tend to lean toward siding with the lefties based upon their knee-jerk reactions to things and kind media treatment the media gives them....but with some explanation of WHY the lefties are wrong, she usually comes around. In some cases, a person isn't a lefty because they agree with the left-wing agenda....they just don't know any better and choose to side with the left because the media makes it sound like the "popular" thing to do. When given the facts, though, they come around rather quickly.

Almost had a redhead in high school...wouldn't go out with me, so I started dating a blonde girl from a different school. Became friends with the redhead in the meantime. She saw the blonde girl at the Homecoming dance and became VERY jealous and suddenly wanted to date me...but by then, she was a friend, so even after it ended with the blonde, I wouldn't date her. That drove her off the deep end and she ended up doing a stint in the nut house after she tried to off herself. I don't need that level of psycho in my life....

If there were a TMI award, you'd get it for that post right there.....

Dammit! Blondes have always been my favorite, too...

I've actually got quite a few apples and even a couple peaches out there on the trees here. Still no plums, though...think I might have to plant another plum tree to get those. Mowed down my raspberry bushes last summer because the japanese beetles were pretty much decimating them every year before moving on to my fruit trees, and the blueberry bushes never took because the damn bunnies kept eating them every winter. The grape vines are invading the shrubbery around the house after being eaten by the birds in years past before I could get to 'em to pick 'em for myself and then the seeds pooped into the bushes to grow vines up where they ain't wanted. The ants usually eat my strawberries before I can get to 'em, and last winter Dozer dug up the planter they were in so I probably won't see any this summer either. All this was planted with hopes of having some cheap, healthy snacks here at the house in the summer....turned out to be nothing but trouble so far, though. I can grow pretty much anything....it's getting a chance to harvest what I've grown that gets me every time.

...what kind of sick fucker places his lips on the dick of a newborn infant to perform "oral-genital suction" after a circumcision? And what kind of PARENT allows it to happen? Sure would be funny to hear about a kid who decided to pee in the sick fucker's mouth while he's down there "siphoning blood away from the cut"....

...besides, who would want a new car? New cars have air bags, and air bags kill people. http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2012/05/29/driver-dies-after-breathing-in-airbag-fumes/?intcmp=obnetwork

I was listening to Dave Ramsey the other day talking about how you shouldn't have more than 50% of your annual income tied up in your cars...meaning if you make $50,000/year and the value of all of your cars add up to more than $25,000, you've got too much of your income tied up in depreciating assets. Makes a little bit of sense, but some of us "accumulate" vehicles and never really get rid of anything. I've got 3 pickup trucks...but then again, I've only spent $6K acquiring them, though. I used to be OK with borrowing money....looking at what I made each month vs. what I would be making in payments each month. It's easy to get in over your head following that line of thought, but it's a pretty common thing with people these days. I came to my senses, though, and was trying to get my financial house in order by refinancing some things at lower interest rates and consolidating some loans where multiple loans had been taken for the same piece of collateral....essentially would have saved myself $400+ per month in payments if the banks would work with me....all to make it easier to get things paid off quicker and ease the pressure each month to come up with the "minimum" payments if money got tight during any economic downturns. My credit score was up in the mid-to-upper 700's at the time, so OBVIOUSLY I was able to make all of the payments I currently had. When the bank told me I couldn't afford to make the lower payments, I about lost it. I made up my mind right then & there that I was no longer going to worry about my credit score because if I ever borrowed another dime again, it'd be too soon. If they want to treat me like I can't afford to make the payments when it's clear I've been able to keep up with them, then I'm not going to lose a wink of sleep if money does get tight and I have to delay a payment here or there to make ends meet. Besides, when your credit score is so bad that you can't get a credit card or open a new line of credit, an identity thief can't open one in your name either. Who needs lifelock (or other similar services) when you've got a double-digit credit score? If I can't pay cash for something, I don't really need it. Might bring some interesting conflicts once the fiance gets up here...but I've had this conversation with her several times & pointed out that at one time, I was making over $26,000 per year payments on loans for stuff I already had. That's $26,000 that has to be earned every year before food can be bought, utilities can be paid for, or money can be saved. If all of those loans were paid off, that's $26,000 per year that could be put into a savings account. That's enough to pay CASH MONEY for a brand new full size pickup truck every 2 years or so. In 4 or 5 years, it's enough to PAY CASH for a house or a decent sized plot of land. Why take out a 30 year note for something you can have free & clear with 4 or 5 years worth of saving? Of course you've got to be disciplined not to spend that money on other things during that time....that's the hard part....but shouldn't be impossible.

I lost the high range on my 2180B not too long ago...low range was fine. $5300 for the tow (too damn far to limp home in low range) & partial rebuild. FWIW, the possibility of a new (318) transmission was discussed, because one of the gears needed wouldn't be available again at their distrubutors until July...but they found a dealer that had one on their shelf willing to part with it. New transmission would have been in the $8K neighborhood. So, if you're buying a $30K truck for $10K and all it needs is a transmission, I think you're getting a heck of a deal. If there's more wrong with it, add up what those repairs would cost. If you can fix it up and have less in it than it would cost to buy the truck in perfect working order, and you have the money to buy the truck & fix it, then I'd say go for it.