Vladislav

Hi folks, I have been off for a while but it doesn't mean I wasted the time. And as we all know the time you enjoyed wasting was not wasted. Today is a little late day to talk about 6th of June although I've just returned from the trip and able to post now. So... I had a nice time making trip to Holland and countinued it having a journey to Normandy, France. The company I was keeping were Dutch friends who liked WW2 vehicles. They were so nice so I was allowed to drive all the way to France and back this khaki beast. About 1200 km at all. 1943 LMSW, 6x4, 14.00-20 all around, no power steering. Here are also some pics along the way.

I like the white rims although the flaps are asking for dogs. Glad to see it ready to go.

Do you work with the "new" bogie ? I mean 6.5 carriers.

I put 12R24´s in place of 10.5-24´s and the last were much larger. Although it was not a B Mack. For the best you should come to a shop and measure up an actual tire.

That moulding was recently avalible from PAI. I bought it new but can´t remember now from Watts or PAI. Probably the PAI one and it was good. Keep a look on evil bay also, I noted such a stuff couple of times there.

If you gonna sell those bushes you should pay much more care about them when pulling. Or if not why did you pull them off? Ah, the s**t list, a paper and pencil ... Hope the foundation is still tough.

I like the last pic best of all! Just kidding. A lot of interesting stuff, I'm not familiar with many of them but they shure all worth to pay some attention. It's always nice to see vehicles wich owners put labout and love into. Thank you for posting.

I Googled this alot and found out Chinise light units on ebay with clear glasses. Don't know how good they would work. My task is slightly different, I'm looking for Euro lights to install to the MH.

In the area I live I've never seen any vehicles with no springs. Mixers rode springs and tanden cranes have special equipment to lock springs to work without outriggers. Maybe that DMM was originally heavy tanker indeed and had walking beams for the same reason as a mixer. Keep discussing with the owner about a way of transportation.

Interesting find. Looks long for a single axle. Hope you'll be able to get it.

Cool looking rig

Ken, The FWD runs fast and smooth You shouldn't have a worry on this matter.

Thank you for your minds folks. Interesting point of the walking beams for a mixer, it makes sence. I spoke with other guys here and we resolved the truck probably was a chassis with some drilling equipment for oli fields wich are plenty of in that area. On my mind it would be funny (and easy) to put just a fifth wheel on the end of that long frame or vice versa to split it if the frame has damages (looks like it has) and get an extremely short all wheel drive tracktor. On the other note here's a big difficulty with chick magneting. Moscow govnt limited access of vehicles more than 12 tons GVW into the city at a day time. Maybe one more reason for trips to Saint-Petersburg. A lot of to magnet there

Yes, for me. Ken, thank you for the asking. There's the export facility in Secaucus NJ wich helps me for overseas shipping. They're quite close to Newark airport and to NYC. Work during a working time. If anyone is going to the show from that area some help would be good. Just if it's really close to you and wouldn't cost much trouble. Vlad

Vehicle's chassis components keep some mistery about their weight ratings on my mind. That bogie American guys call (called when I was in America at least) a walking beam suspension. It doesn't have any springs excepting tires itself. The only reason I see is an ultimate weight capacity. The axles of the vehicle don't seem extremely heavy but more strange there's the single frame. Much more strange that frame is 10.5 meters long. About 35 feet. If I ever get that baby I will put a Camelback in it. By a chance I have one off 1945 army Mack. But that's a long story. I feel a road trip in the nearest future indeed. But that's another one. To Europe. So I'm gonna crazy. No matter having one more Mack or having not. There are not many Macks in this country so picking one up is not a common thing.

Welcome! Here shure is the place you have great chances to work out your ideas. Vlad

It has under the frame exhaust and probably the shortest wheelbase for a tandem tracktor. The same as at my one.

Good info on tanks welding. I spent about a half of past summer to fix my 2 steel ones up. Also filled with water and welded but had to solder up the repaired areas because found minor water crowls through. Warmed up with a diesel heat gun for about an hour and than blasted and painted the outsides.

They were going to scrap the truck and all those engines also. They will if I don't pre-pay it in days. The truck looks like wasn't killed much before broke down. The left hand tank is stollen. So the truck keeps balance. Don't forget there's front wheel drive so it can run just with no rears at all. But the tank is lost and probably many others. Guys were thinking on chaining up the axle and tow it by 6x6 KrAZ over those unpaved 300 km than put on a common rig. I still hope to not go there myself. No straight flights there, train goes 36 hours. Or about 3 days with a car/truck. It would be nice a trip for shure, an adventure, but I feel hard shortage of time.

That's cool idea if I only can build it myself. Towing equipment is too pricy overhere. Do you mean it looks like E6 2V under the hood? I also couldn't see well the sticker but it looks more as T2060 6 speed transmission. The chassis shot shows its back and it seems as T200 to me. Any ideas on that scrap gear box?

Are CH ones similar with any Freightshaker or IH of the modern days? I want to fit something like that onto MH tanks, there's a lot of non-Mack branded stuff overhere.

The extra stuff

That's formally not Siberia because it's not behind Ural mountains so counts as European part of Russia. Although that city (Pechora) is in about 1500 km to the North from Moscow and about 1000 to the East and Ural is just in 200-300km from. Haven't look well how the location is related to the North polar circle but think it's nearby. The guy visited me for Mercedes parts, saw my trucks and said "There was Mack of the kind in our city". I shure asked him to learn more. Just a week later he sent me the pictures. The story was the truck worked in the oil company with the tank body. Then some one bought it off that company. There was 40 cubic meters tank and he filled it up with 40 metric tons of fuel. The axle broke down immediately, he just didn'd get started. Don't know that's all true though. Couple days later the owner was found. Correctly to say the owner's son. He said the registration was canselled and the papers were gone. He wanted scrap+ price for the thing. That was good but now it has me scratching my head on how to move it. As I told the city is in 2000km from me. There's no paved road for the last 300km. Than there's a big river with no bridge. Only the farry. But it doesn't operate now because of the ice move... Ouh, I have a question. There are three extra engines with it and the tranny. All the 3 are different and I have no ideas on how they came there. The question is what the gearbox is? Doesn't look like T2060 like the one in the truck. If I'm not wrong. Vlad

Jim, The village on the isle in the lake is the monastery. And the sign at the McDonald's... Once some years back city govnt issued the law that every brand name written on a building outside must be written or doubled in Russian. Sometimes it looked funny but it happened more than 10 years back and we used to. Vlad

You noted it right. Actually that part of the highway was two laned just about 5 years back. Last time there were 3 lanes combining 2 one direction with 1 opposit than in 1 km vice versa. They finally started road construction to make it wider. The pavement was and still is like after some bombing for about 20 km long. All the highway is a real shame. It connects two main cities, Moscow and Saint Petersburg. No less than 1/3 of it is 3 laned and there are so many villages and little cities along it (with limitation of 60km/h) so you have no chances to keep their count. By the word if you go that construction part of the road in the night you wouldn't see not only candle sticks but just any lights at any points. And maybe neither lines on the asphalt. And a good point - a kilometer of the road in Russia cost about 10 millions Euro. Twice expensive than in Germany. Who may tell why?