mrsmackpaul

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

Ian oz thanks for the indirect link good find mate and thanks for sharing you and Jeff get full credit Im just educating these Yanks Paul https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Khiul3g-bNY&list=PLUMnuN254xy3AjokLvL8E-Dk8UXZnEo05&index=1

now thats what I call a long range tank heres a link to that truck I was talking about earlier looks like a similar type of thing to my untrained Aussie eyes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5D1aeNB2Bc gotta whatch it for a bit its near the end Paul

WOW you all might surprised at how little room it takes to turn that around remember if the front goes the rest must follow !!! reckon it would have too be around 150 ton . Whole stick cane dosnt pack in very well it wont be as much cane as one might think reckon south America some were but could be anywhere but wont be Australia as we only have chopped cane whole stick cane went out in the 60's thanks for sharing Paul

any body notice it looks like half the mud guard or fender or wing or what ever you yanks call it is missing Paul

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mate gotta love that now the fun begins Paul

yep as I say glad you blokes do it and do it well in Australia we seem to run a muck at different times of the year as our winter is when your summer is I reckon the biggest weekend and a long weekend at that is Easter oh boy does Australia run a muck then last good weather before winter our big city's get deserted everyone goes camping any where with water around it turns into tent city oh my head is getting sore just thinking about it all in the name of being an Aussie Paul