Vladislav

Personally I wouldn't choose a model of a power plant for my hobby truck basing on fuel savings. I'd like an engine which seems rare or interesting/unique of its design, or has its special heritage. This is my approach. Or if I'm not much into technical aspects of collecting trucks and more enjoy just their look I'd go with a common, simple and easy to maintan model of the engine. I'm pretty sure fuel you use driving a hooby thing is a relatively small loss of money relating to other matters along it.

That's about what I had with my E6-350 R-model bobtailing for nearly 1500 km. T2090 0.71 OD tranny with 5.02 rears on 11R24.5. Here we use a different style of counting consumption. How many liters you burn passing each 100 km. So I had to do some math.

I think you won't have troubles pouring at 30 but waiting with no end is a way out of line. Now it seems the shop really turns out as "a long awaited shop".

What did that F originally mean? Firetruck?

I suppse nobody could pass this LTL without breath hold. Even some women.

Have a Great Day! Keep fire under control

Too interesting, thanks for the article. Nice to know there are filks, oh no, blokes who love the trucks they work and feel pride doing their job. Unfortunately here in Russia you really seldom can see a truck or another industry equipment which carry signifishiant art work on. Usually it is airbrush pictures (became popular nearly 20 years back) or just strips or some special paint scheme a truck was just imported used already having it on. And if you try to find a man who's specialization is hand-lettering or stripping trucks overhere people would look at you and ask "Do such ones exist?"

Your worries are worthfull. If the temp will drop down lower than the freezing point I'm afraid the crew will not be able to warm the slab up enough only by their butts.

Tom, it still may happen. You don't know he is a Mack fan or not. Much safer to just catch girl in a car views. They're faceless

So.... Where the hell is the concrete??

From the pics on Fotobucket (or where they are) it seemed like you was trying to make a rellay nice shot of that white tiny truck. There was always Iphone in the way though. Wonder how nervous you was having to choose the right spot.

Don't forget there were also LH and LM.

You are not a-l-o-n-e

I doubt on much worth of 7.00 carriers. The most trucks running commercially seldon use lower than 5.73 with 5-6-7-8 speed tranny's (0.6 OD) or 5.02 and much faster with muli speed transmissions on the highway rigs. As for my need my original carriers have too low bull set of geras. And I can not install them faster ones from more modern CRD92/93. Can play with top (bewel) gear sets only. Or I could be happy finding complete diffs off a L-model (old 10 bolt mounting pattern) with a ratio of around 6.00. But they seem rare roaming around a hobby market.

Guy, your path on finding a Mack NR is to Holland! There was a really good truck for sale about a couple years back. Cost Euro 20.000 though. But it was running and generally complete. And rust-free. If you have a real interest and eager to import a truck from Europe or another part of the world PM me. Vlad

Sad as hell. Local news shared the event. At least on the net. My thoughts and condolences to the victims. Just impossible to believe that happened in the US.

They're great! What is the shipping quote to NJ07094 for a 30" set?

Tom, many thanks for sharing Winchester show pics. Beautiful trucks and looks like the day was fine. Oh, and the nest of wasps is a real beauty too

Swishy, which one is your g/f?

Wow! Sounds like great news worth congratulations! Not sure Slpwlkr will attend the site more often than though

Thank you TJC. I'm going to put my hands on the dash of my R in the distant future. Those gauges looked interesting to me being larger in size and good of the appearance. But when you know they're just off a common different vehicle such swap seems like a poor mesh.

I agree, all depends on how frost might be hard and how the ground is soft or moving. I made some concrete pads outside just in my driveway. Put 10 cm (3") of sand and than the same thick concrete slab. The steel was laid about the same way as in the Bob's flooring above. After the first winter it cracked all the ways cross over. Not much trouble in that since there will bricks, or a kind of road stones put into. But those I made later using just two level wiring keep their solidness for 4-5 seasons now. Floor of a building you're going to keep warm inside is an easier story. Just keep in mind what would happen if you once resolve to not heat it for a winter. Extraction of the ground under slab by freeze is too depends on its wettness also. So if you have the most outside waters away from your foundation the risk of cracking a slab is much less.

Wonder does Yellowstone national park have its own museum? Would be a good artifact for a such one.

I like them concrete works. Some nervous while during prep time when you keep your fingers crossed to not get into rains for a week or two and then a mixer truck appears. You start relaxing knowing the cement will set up to the end of the day and the job is done. Have no surprizes until your timbering tells that you needed to pay more attention (damn, more cash!) into its structure. Ok, you put some more supports to it (and sure adds couple more cubic meters of concrete to cover up the leaks) and get it done. Seeing what your contractors did I'd add the second level or steel into the floor. Actually steel works against bending of the floor only being laid closer to the lower or upper level of the plate. When you bend down (by your truck's weight) the wires should be low. They are pulled and the upper lay of concrete gets pressure. When you bend the floor up (usually when the ground below freezes and extracts) the wires should be at the top level. They get tension again and the concrete pressurizes below. Having only one level of steel in the middle those wires fix your floor plate from falling into pieces just being pulled to different directions. And not much resistance to big load on it or hard cold. Hope your contractors know what they do and will guarantee your building long years of life.

Interesting, thank you for taking the time for this. I suppose the size of the herd is out by some "greeny" reason. Sure mother-nature needs protection from human's excessive activity nowadays but it should be done withough extremes. Easier to say, as any normal deal should be done. Otherwise issues occure both humans and the nature, or Bisone in this particular case. In the area I live (Moscow) there's al kind of national park or reservation in about 100 km from my location which specialization is Buffalo's. Here they are called Zubr. I don't know is that just a Russian name of Buffalo or slightly different kind of animals. Being there I remember from being told by the guide that there were some families of Bison imported from America in that park too.