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My new ride. My old 2013 4900 had me hating life. But going to give them another try. So far this truck has far fewer flaws and I see western Star and Detroit have made some changes and improvements. Hopefully it is a good truck this time because I really like it. Went with a smaller engine this time, in hopes it will be better for the DPF. It has a DD13 505 h.p. with 1850 torque at 975 RPM. 18 speed manual, 20,000 front and steering lift axle, 46,000 full locking rears with 4.10 ratio. Even tried a passenger bench seat this time so I can lay down when I'm sitting on site. It came with stainless panels to put on the passenger side of the dash, but not going to put those on. I get sun-blinded enough from the steering wheel. LOL. First pic is beside my buddy's twin steer tri-drive logger. The rest are from today after having the drop visor and tool box installed.

Nice shape. When I was hauling wood chips the company I hauled for had all Case wheel loaders to load the chips and hog fuel. We all used to load ourselves. I found they were slow, but they had a LOT of pushing power. They would push straight up those hog fuel piles. Then I got working for a company many years ago where I ran 988 and 992 Cat's. Then some days I would have to jump into a big Hough that articulated like your Case. That would throw you right off for a while until you got used to it, LOL.

Panels are still available? I would not have thought that considering Mack doesn't stock any motor parts any more. I saw my old R model a couple weeks ago. Pretty sad sight. cab is rotten, motor has been replaced and is shot, they even put mufflers on it!!!

That's a cool story. Nice to see it work out like that.

You got that right. I notice that all the time with Today's trucking and their Jim Park test drive articles and videos. For a while the new Mack's were all the rage. They were praised in those, they were sponsoring the Ice Road Seatcovers and now Highway Through Hell.

Do you do a lot of farming Paul? What do you have for crops? I don't farm, just always been interested in it. I live about an hour away from a lot of farm land. Hay and dairy is big here. When i was a kid I grew up beside a Massey Ferguson dealer. My main crop is snow, LOL. I'll have to go do some reading up on Chamberlain tractors.

Think so? Only bad thing is the guy I bought it from rebuilt thew engine so it got a rattle can paint job. So it looks different than the rest of the tractor. I do have to get new power spinout rear rims though. They are rotten around the valve stems. Probably just get new ones made. Every time I have found used ones for sale they look almost as bad. And I got all new gauges, decal kit and other odds and ends to just to get it fit. I like all the old brands of farm tractors. They all have a lot of interesting history and innovation behind them.

When it comes to tractors I'm not prejudice, I like them all. The old IH's are great tractors. I almost ended up with one. My Detroit mechanic restored a bunch of them and he was going to sell me one, but then he just can't part with them LOL. So I found this local and jumped on it. I have heard of a Chamberlain, but I don't know anything about them.

So has anyone confirmed what engine it has? Was the MP10 thing a typo or not?

Since there is a forum here for tractors, thought I'd post a couple pics of mine. This is what kills the depression of having to run new trucks. The 2013 Kubota is what I do all my mowing, snow blowing and bush trail building and maintenance with on my property. Great little tractor. It's done more work than it was ever designed to do, including hauling 330 tons of pit run gravel up these hills to build roads, one bucket at a time. And then last year I wanted to get into antique tractors and maybe do some pulling at the local fairs, so I bought this 1955 Allis Chalmers CA. I'm as of yet undecided if I should leave it in it's 64 year old working clothes, or give it a pretty restoration. I like old tractors done either way. It is nice to see them shiny and new, but there is something to be said for a tractor that has worked way longer than anything new will ever live. Just like with trucks....I love old technology. I KNOW that old tractor will start, run and work every day I need it.

So that was Volvo White era then. What year did those come out?

I have never, ever seen one of those.

That has potential!

A couple more courtesy of Hank! Another B hauling the Drott 40 excavator.

They say you can run it uninflated if you blow a bag or have an air problem.----I'd guess you will also get less axle tip and less driveline vibration when the suspension of the link goes flat? That and the fact that they say they have a rubber bump-stop inside their air bags. I'm not sure if they made a 72 inch spread, but all the ones I have seen around here are 60 inch. That's what I run. 72 gets you a bit more allowable but I'm always hourly so it don't matter. Plus 72 kills tires. Thanks for the info. I also know logging and off road, so if it holds up for that it can't be that bad.

Oh ya? I don't personally know him but I knew a lot of guys that came up through there.

And another now gone old local fleet. The black R was a fuel hauler tanker company. I know the owner but forget the company name now. The blue ones were Steel City Truck Lines. They were a steel/lumber hauler and also had wood chip trailers.

First off, I apologize for the poor picture quality. I couldn't scan them because the photo albums are so old they are pretty much glued together, LOL Anyway, this was the very first DMM tandem tandem mixer to arrive in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. A bunch of them were purchased by Downey Ready Mix (no longer in business since Lafarge ate up many smaller companies.) Before these trucks it was all DM600 and Paystar 5000 tandem's. And the old steel butterfly hood International R series before that.

I always wanted to go to Australia. I have a couple friends there. But I'm still waiting for them to build a bridge because I don't fly, LOL.

You're welcome. I thought they were pretty awesome myself. Thanks to my friend Hank for those. He has posts in the logging forum on Heavyequipmentforums. He knows a LOT about Hayes and Pacific trucks.

More from Hank. Apex Industrial Movers. A DM800 and an RD800.

Got this from my good friend Hank in British Columbia, Canada. He knew the people that ran this truck back in the day on Vancouver Island. He knows and has a lot of history in BC mountain logging and the big fat trucks. It's too nice to not post here. He said it had a 60 ton trailer. We are thinking it is a B87?

What kind of luck did you have with it MackTech? I've often thought about it when spec'ing but I always get mixed opinions. People seem to either love it or hate it. And despite Mack pushing it around here for a while I had a Mack rep at a trade show tell me to stay away from it. He said it puts too much stress on the frame and they had all kinds of cracking issues? On paper I love the idea of it though. Best of everything. With our mandated SPIF laws here our lift axles have to be self equalizing, so air suspension is the easiest and most reliable for this. But with the Air Link you still would have the full articulation of walking beams. And I like how it is fail safe. They say you can run it uninflated if you blow a bag or have an air problem.

I just started following the forum again KS.....i missed the news.....why did Ford pull out of Brazil? Didn't they always have a huge presence there? I thought that was their biggest heavy truck market.

That looks really good. Is it tri-drive?