tjc transport
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heat inside the building above 40 degrees will melt the bottom against the metal roofing layer and the rest will slide off.
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Mass Construction Trucks
tjc transport replied to BKrois's topic in Antique and Classic Mack Trucks General Discussion
and not even blowing any black smoke!!! -
third gear? fifth was the way to go! when we were doing the big highway projects building the on/off ramps, we used to get a running start up shifting until we were doing 30 MPH in reverse. just before the soft spot backpedal so you are not under power in the soft spot and fly rite through it. then back on throttle until you get to the dump spot 1/4 mile away up the ramp.
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if i remember correctly Bob, the one i ran was a Hathaway reject. the boss bought it for scrap price after the engine blew, and put a junkyard 350 cummins in it for use pulling the lowboy trailer. it was not a bad truck, but with the light weight rears it was not very good for the heavy weights i was hauling. kept on snapping the through shaft cause my average weight was around 150k lbs..
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all our 88 R models had the "mud stick" trans as we called them.
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i think this perfectly explains what is going to happen Bob:
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Military aluminum diesel fuel storage tank
tjc transport replied to Deere Mack's topic in Odds and Ends
exactly why i suggested looking for where a zinc anode was. -
my reason for getting the 44 mag winchester was a bear hunt to maine. since they required a handgun of at least 357, i decided the S&W 44 mag i had would fit the bill. and then decided why have 2 different sizes of ammo? so i bought the 44 mag rifle.....then took a nasty fall and destroyed my left knee and hip, which ended any idea of hunting that year. and i never healed properly. so i pretty much stopped hunting because anything more than about 45 minutes standing/walking caused loss of feeling from hip down
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Military aluminum diesel fuel storage tank
tjc transport replied to Deere Mack's topic in Odds and Ends
is there what is left of a sacrificial zinc anode on it? looks like electrolysis corrosion to me. -
i picked up an Evil Roy 22 mag a few years ago. a real nail driver. and a pleasant gun to shoot too. the 44 mags are a handgun, and Winchester model 94
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yes it is. but we are in our own little slice of paradise here that the people on the other side of town do not even know exists. for them, the world ends at the parkway entrance while on their way to nu yawk city.
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never happen. because just when we think they can not get any more stupid, they prove us wrong by doing something ever stupiderer. like pushing mikey bloomingidiot for president 2020
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i am 100 yards from the east shore of the Raritan Bay in Old Bridge about 1 mile south of South Amboy.
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we do not have any owls here on the joisey shore. plenty of red tail hawks. osprey, and bald eagles, but no owls that i have ever seen.
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that looks a whole lot better than the one i ran back in the 80's. but by the time i got into the brockway, it was rode hard and put away wet every day for close to 11 years and showed it
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our 22 year old kenworth W900 gets 7-8 mpg regularly puling the paver and rollers around. unless of course it has the 70,000 milling machine on the deck. i have yet to see anyone with a truck made in the past 10 years that can match the fuel mileage of the W900 with the C-15 cat and 18 speed. and that W900 is just as comfortable as any Mack i ever drove. actually it is a better ride, since it has air ride suspension.
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close. old retired diehard union girl with absolutely no first hand experience as an owner operator.
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really? we sold a 14 year old Granite last year for $73,000 and a 15 year old kenworth this spring for $89,000 independents that have to struggle to stay in business by working every day of the week to make ends meet do not want the garbage made these days, they want the old reliable trucks that do not break every other day. the only people that want new trucks are large corporations that write the trucks off, and union drivers that refuse to drive old trucks.
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ya ever think that maybe YOU incorrectly identified HIS truck? seeing as he is also from long island?
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nope, i would buy 5 or 6 old ones, fix them up, and be ahead of the game in both money and productivity. i keep asking my boss to buy my old 99 or even the 05 granite back, this new 2020 truck is a royal piece of garbage. when it runs it runs great...............when it runs.
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why spend money on an old reliable truck when you can buy a new piece of junk that will require more time in the shop than on the road. but really, an eaton/fuller 13 or 18 speed would be the ticket. better trans than the mack units. plus parts will always be available for them. with the way vulva is running things, anything with "Mack" name on it is getting harder and harder to find.
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Dave, are you talking about Mount Hope quarry?
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i still say trump uses twitter as a laser pointer, and the demoncrats are his cats.
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don't forget the health insurance debacle "you need to vote it in effect to see what is in it"
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yea, but the people believing them also believe in the tooth fairy, easter bunny, bernie sanders, and the clintons are innocent. 😆
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