mrsmackpaul

dunno about snow wrong I live in the wrong part of the world but I remember log trucks working in slop used to have them and they worked ok a lot better than you might think I remember seeing the belt driven wheels spinning in the mud transpec in Australia sold them dunno if that was an Aussie company or what the story was Paul

bugger me Im not sure its something I could do anyway hope it all goes well Paul

Well all I know is if John Wayne was riding into town he wouldnt need 1000 people to hold his hand nor Jimmy Stewart or Elvis whats wrong with todays leaders are they really that scared of everyone perhaps if they didnt stuff everything up they wouldnt need there yes man or all there protection perhaps the leaders stuff ups can be measured by the amount of yes men and protection they need !!!! I dont no, I feel its gunna get a lot worse before it gets better Just a dumb Aussie think out allowed Paul

Just having breaky and and on the news the G20 summit is about to go down in Bris-vegus and the news people are saying Obama needs 1000 people in his entourage he must be pretty insecure sought of lad plus the hundreds and hundreds of US troops and US planes . Im sure glad Im not paying the bill no wonder the US is out of cash at the moment Are things really that bad in the good old US of A that they have all these people following him around are they there to protect him advise him hold his hand tell him how good he is what ???? Struth it would be cheaper to leave him at home sorry Im just thinking out allowed Paul

mate if your vent breather what ever is blocked what happens is as the oil heats up it expands and gets forced out the seal as it has no were to go once the vent is cleaned a lot of the time the seals are then fine. In the tropics were I live we quite often have problems with mud wasps blocking everything up it is common for people to put a piece of hose and a inline fuel filter to stop the breathers blocking or at least this is my understanding Paul

mate you have no idea we give free medical free housing they get the dole never have to work and once they have been here a number of years sponging off us they then can sponsor there other family members to come here and to make matters worse once they become naturalised they then hold a passport in two countries they go on some sort of disabled pension we all pay for then they go back home to live why they get full pay from Australia and when they need free medical we fly them back to put in our hospitals all at our costs . Tell you what these bums would make dairy farmers they no how to milk it for all its worth And how about they school students in Perth the muslim students pulled down the Australian flag and put theres up so the Australian students promptly pulled the flag down and put the Australian flag back guess who got expelled yeah you guessed it the Aussie kids So its not all beer a skittles out here let me tell you seeya Paul the biggest change out here is off sure processing centers because once they hit Australian land they are entitled to Australian legal system and they get it all for free thats why we send them to other places and these countrys get paid to house these people and we build the centers to house them the centers these poor desperate people burn to the ground and we give them free phone internet food clothing medical legal help the lot but for these people then to get to Australia is a lot harder as they are under international law not Australian law the system seems to work

dont come by boat you wont be allowed lol the funniest thing is when we had John Howards government between 96 and 07 we had a similar policies we stopped the boats good and proper down to I believe zero in 12 months then we had a change of government got Rudd and Buzzard both as useless as a an ashtray on a motorcycle from 07 to 13 boats arriving rose to at one stage over 40 a month bye 2013 the countries broke Rudd and Buzzard are spending money hand over fist that we dont have they get the arse in a land slide election we then get our present prime minister Abbott and with in twelve months boats are back zero wasting of money has stopped countries books are heading back towards the black so what do you all make of this well to me its pretty simple if you want things to change you gotta get the right man at the top as my dad always says "if something is crook it is crook from the top down never from the bottom up" but then again people who reckon there much smarter than me would say times have changed and your dad is old I only have one thing to say to them "BULL SHIT" have a nice day Paul

mate you gotta watch them young girls a fraction of your age first they steel your food then your heart I dunno about that girl washing the GMC she looks like she has used her shorts as a rag thanks for sharing Paul

yep like I try and explain to people once see it you cant unsee it once you say it you cant unsay it once you hear it you cant unhear it and once you think it you cant unthink it so be careful what see say hear or think its with you for life Paul

Mate I no nothing about Brockways but that sure is one neat looking truck Paul

Vlad it makes my work shop look pretty basic and no doubt about it that is one good looking show room Thanks for sharing Paul

Didnt no him but have seen plenty of pictures of both them Macks Paul

Brocky have been doing some checking and thinking I no I shouldnt do that!! any way this is what Ive learnt spoke to the princess aka the MINISTER FOR WAR AND FINANCE she gave me the thumbs up ( I wonder what she wants ) LOL Spoke to fella with the crawlers to shift to see if next August is ok he reckons so I reckon Ian Oz will be fine he always tells me to drop in and say gudday if Im passing spoke to Mack Australia they said all will be fine just have to get Mack Townsville to right a letter they are who I get my Mack parts from and the tour can be organised I remember in a Brockway post you mentioned about a fella by the name of Edd Eminson so with Swishys help thanks Swishy I tracked him down and gave him a bell he reckons all good if we go past him swing on in and you can run your eyes across all his Brockway collection Merv Brunt from Colac has a Brockway collection in Victoria but Edd seams to think he is not reel well at the moment anyway as I said before I gunna have to get them stars to align lucky for me I have a Mack we all know they will pull the ass outta the ocean so we might have a chance anyway even if you cant make the trip thats fine I gotta go that way and I wouldnt mind having a look at this stuff my self so let us no what you think Paul

do you have a rego number someone maybe able to work backwards and find out chassis number ect and if you can do that well you are proberly half way there to finding it if you can get the chassis number maybe the Mack museum can help by telling you the motor trans ect I can tell you the back end is 44000 lbs they look like 22 or maybe 24 inch rims and you say its a thermodyne all this stuff helps to narrow the search window good luck like the picture a piece of family history there if you have any other pictures chuck them up plenty of blokes much smarter than me on here will be able to tell a lot more than I can Paul

interesting at least I think that at in the late 60's when Maxidynes first got released in Aussie land there was a road test between Melbourne and Sydney and although other brands of trucks would out run them on the flat and it felt to the person testing the Mack that it was a lot slower the driver who drove it all the time told the tester man dont worry we will round them up pretty soon over all trip time was quicker than any other truck the fuel was a lot less and what does all this have to do with a 7 speed maxi torque not much but it goes to show that just because it feels slower dont mean it is driven right these trucks will just about out perform any other truck on the market today in real terms as in the only thing that matters dollars in your pocket at the end of the day Paul

chalky welcome aboard interesting to see pictures when you get around to it Paul

you might wanna bung some photos up to explaine what your talking about you no the old saying about a picture been worth a thousand words Paul

maybe LOL

Vlad the yellow truck is a Federal 1942 ex army think it was a tank transporter Swishy I think its a old army tank transporter 604 M model and it says 1942 on the plate Id have to flush out some pics from some were and load them up one day Paul those old trucks along with Diamond T's were used as the first road trains WW2 Diamond T was geared lower and weighed more but was slow Federals were slow but no quite as slow 22 MPH I put a spicer joey box in mine around the wrong way gear it up 2.5 - 1 not enough power then with the Cummins it had in it HB600 so I put a 671 GM still not bucket loads of go but you get there a bit quicker

thats one clean factory they have got there I sought of expected to see high vise vests one question why does everyone were gloves in the US princess asked and I couldnt for the life me think why I dunno is all I came up with but from cowboys years ago to to truck factories today and almost everything in between people in the US seem to were gloves were as out here its the exact opposite no gloves maybe if your welding Paul thanks for the link

yep as above showed what people wanted tough reliable cost effective trucks that worked hard all day every day in any conditions wonder what might of changed ?? I think Algeria might have had a lot of US money spent there back in the 60's and 70's Paul Raji you have a good couple of units to start a rebuild

first glance thought a another rat bag from down under but then I had a second look from another one of gods great lands grain harvest is just getting under way in this wide brown land thanks for sharing Paul

also get rid of the dog box (sleeper for you lot) shift them them fuel tanks up under the cab doors take few feet out of the wheel base then we a starting to get closer to a handy bit of gear Paul

thats for the air start Paul

glad you blokes liked it good old mrs Mack doing what she likes best Paul