davehummell

I was forced into retirement at age 59 and it has been 10 years now and I don't miss working the 65- 70 hours or more I used to put in.

I have two 12-volt truck batteries in my B model they were in it when I bought it 6 years ago and they always started it, but I never tried starting it in under 20 degrees' Larry you going down to the Mack Museum show I was down before covid and I thought it was a cool show I would like to go down it's easier for me to go there than driving down to Gerhart's.

I owned a 1969 Pontiac tempest that had a 250 gm six cylinder and a three speed that was on the column. Had a 3/4-ton chevy pickup with a 292 six and I shoehorned a rather warmed up 292 six into a 1965 Toyota Landcruiser pickup with a later 4 speed trans. I owned a 1953 ford 1 ton dump with the six-cylinder 216 overhead valve engine. I had an old jeep with that overhead cam six-cylinder engine that they used in the Pontiacs. My stepdad had a ford pickup with that 300 six it was a very nice engine.

The hose place that I used supplied me with this stuff for anything to do with hydraulic fittings I would smear it on the threads and twist the fittings together I used it on stuff when I couldn't use tape or pipe dope.

I was taught how to operate the locomotive at our one yard years ago I would spot rail cars for the guys to empty it was a real treat to do shifting of cars had a very large GM engine diesel over electric if I can remember right, it weighed over 150 tons what I was told.

I will see about ordering this book I've spent over 40 years dealing with trucks one way or the other.

I think that Mack was scrapped years ago I was at the sale they had and there was an equipment scrap yard and everything disappeared soon after. I loaded Cat equipment many times on the two Acars saw them on a weekly basis as I remember had really big rears small Cummins engines I can't remember the trans they had. Jack Gillan had a nice Acar with a 335 Cummins I loaded a d-9 ublade and four barrel ripper on the goose neck trailer and the driver got out on 81 and blew four trailer tires it was quite the talk for days. Coal was king back in the 60's and trough the 70's around my location. My good friend owned Finch machine in West Pittston it was set up to do work for the mines there was a 10-foot x 30-foot lathe and the biggest milling machine I probably will ever see. I was doing some work on a 992 up in the stripping's and if I remember it had a 12 yard bucket and I was cycling the loader by scooping coal at todays prices for a ton of coal I can't believe what that bucket of coal is worth.

Pagnotti coal company had an old Mack with a 1693 with two or three trans. they used it to haul shovel buckets and other heavy loads was nothing to look at, but it did the job it was a bigger model than a b-61. Kominsky coal company had Auto car single axles and Serge would haul anything that would fit on the goose neck trailer many times he would run out of power and have to get a push up the hill.

The 343 was used in the 988 loader, 983 track loader, 16 grader, 657 pan, first 35 ton end dump I can't remember the number I worked on all of them at one time or another was a cat mechanic for Cleveland Brothers back in the early 70's work on a lot of 1693's and 3406's and the rest of the on road engines. I liked to work on the 1693 it was my favorite engine the v-8 double overhead cam engine wasn't very good but they did better with the 3408

We had an old Grove deck crane at Cleveland Brothers when I started in 73 it had a ford six cylinder gas engine after a few years they brought in a new Grove 17 ton with a 3208 engine it was a bit bigger and a little nicer to operate.

Larry I would use cardboard or I had a thin sheet of masonite that I would set against the radiator core. I remember changing Cummins and Mack water pumps on the side of the interstate more than I care to remember.

A couple of years ago the three of us went up to the Brockway Museum it was very nice I ask about the show and said maybe I would come up with my B model and the lady looked at me like I killed someone she said we don't want your truck up here don't show up with it. I guess they have a strong opinion about Brockway's I drove a triaxle Brock with a 318 dd and a 13 speed hauled a lot of stone with the truck.

I think he would make a good president better for our country than some we already had to put up with

When I was still working on trucks for a living I was spoiled the guys at Cool brothers were there for me 5 and 6 days a week and Jeff had the exhaust gaskets for my set aside even after Cooks quite selling mack parts.

Larry I have bought parts off Kevin went up to his garage in NY. I see him at Gerhart's and sometimes at Harford truck show he has a cool bus he built and I was looking at a John deere tractor he was mounting a Detroit v-8 or a v-12 in it for a pulling tractor.