bulldog man

Good Luck Mark in what ever your decision is . I haven't had a truck of my own in 8 yrs now (though I have always been local except the time I went to pulling FEMA Trailer Frames from 1 Gulf Stream plant to the other after Katrina For another fella that was leased on to a transport co . out of Elkhart ,In a I Drove a T300 KW for them.) Now im driving a 3/4 TON & 1 TON Truck hauling truck tires for a buddy of mine who used to sell myself & my granddad our truck tires for our Lowboy ,Dump trailer & Dump trucks . Talk bout a lifestyle change for me. I felt like my pride was shot going from a tandem R Model , DM & Tri Axle Brigadier to a F250 PSD Ford w/ 16' tire trailer & a 3500 Dodge Cummins w/ a 25' tire trailer . But Even as crazy as it sounds I still have the dream of getting back out on my own w/ my own truck again . But this Time I want a Single Axle Dump to get the small loads nobody wants to haul around here . (Preferably a Single Axle Mack) I , my dad & granddad (when dad & pop were still living) have had the Tandem & Tri Axles & now it seems like everybody round my neck of the woods wants to cut throat everyone else w/ a Tandem & Tri Axle dump . & that why I want the small truck . I can go where the others cant & have my own niche as most anybody w/ a s/a truck here hauls for themselves or is a local or state govt dump . I only know of 1 s/a dump here that hauls for others & it is in a fleet of tri axle dumps & tandem tractors w/ dump trailers & the s/a rarely see the road . Good Luck in what ever your decision is my friend & keep us posted . Bulldog Man aka

Sounds like this ole would be Buzzin Like a Buzzin Dozen Detroit if I ate those ....wait a minute that would make me a MUTT Instead of a PURE BRED BULLDOG !

Yes Sir & they don't have a pilot's license. That's 1 thing I forgot to mention as well . even as a 15 yr old kid I knew to keep the nuts on & then knock w/ a sledge hammer before taking the lug nuts off .

yup that would be the 1.

Nice find Tim .

True Dat .

The problem is a lot of drivers that cuss & put The truck w/ my name on it down is because they never have drove let alone been in the cab of 1 . You can tear up a brand x truck but its tough to tear up an older Mack . Everyone on this board knows that a Mack transmission shifts a helluva lot different from a road ranger . My buddy that I instructed over the cb his older brother can drive a bulldog all day long . he works in the steel mill in Blytheville, AR & helps his buddies on his days off who farm & drives for them . Anyway he looked @ me about 2 weeks after this happened & said in front of his younger brother you need to start a driving school for drivers who have no experience w/ a Mack & my brother could be your 1 st student . I just lmao & said he already was & I told him I want something extra in my paycheck because of it ..lol Oh man you ought to have seen the younger brothers face ...if looks could kill the older brother & myself would had been dead lol No I don't remember him but if I seen him I might recognize him if he worked for Tri State . im better w/ faces than names .

Welcome to the Jungle . your in the right spot . Plenty of folks on here w/ a lot of knowledge . im sure someone can help ya w/ the electrical issues .

We did the same way on our trucks w/ daytons as Mike is describing . & We also lined the wheels & tires up by putting a sledge hammer in front on the tire & wheel & spun the tire & wheel wherever the wheel & tire wobbled is the lugs we tightened up until straight & true . esp if it was a steer tire .

Hell Ive got a buddy of mine who I grew up with & he has a road service business & his family is like mine : always farmed , logged & excavation . I Worked for him for 3yrs & still help him some to this day . HE HATES MACK PERIOD ! He cusses more than usual every time he works on a mack . I Tell him quit cussing me & I lmao & he gives me a f.u. look . We once carried a customers 92 R Model Tri cycle dump to his shop for repairs . The R MODEL HAD A 7SPD Mack tranny . I was in the IH Service truck right behind him . he was raking gears & cussing . I lost my cool told him to shut the F UP & FING LISTEN TO ME ! OR GET OUT OF THE R MODEL & LET ME DRIVE IT ! I taught his fat ass how to drive a 7spd mack over the cb . Some of our other friends who are owner operators & haul out of the rock & sand pits in Memphis never let him lived it down even to this day . I bring it up round our friends & he hates that he has to admit that I taught him how to drive a 7spd mack tranny over the radio. But if needs to know something about a Mack & he doesn't know about it he come to me before anyone else . if I don't know about it . I call my buddy that is a retired mechanic from Tri State .

Not here in the Memphis area . or not as of yet anyway . It's Mostly Navistar & Single axle T 300 KW tractors here round Memphis right now . But you never know what Coca Cola of Memphis has in mind though.

Though I like Twinkies I prefer an ICE COLD RC COLA & A MOON PIE But then again im from the South. & that was a staple around our place more on the weekends than any other time . As if I was good that was 1 of our treats from maw maw & pop . Never herd of banana flips & just seen tasty kakes in walmart & Kroger here for the 1st time . I guess I been living under a rock ..lol

liked the Page & Commented on the pic of the DM Dump bucket. It reminds me of Red Dog our Tandem DM Dump bucket we had for years . "mack1:

Ive never owned a West coast Bulldog always owned DM East Coast R Models & Est Coast B Models but was & still am a fan of the Western Mack esp the Western B & R Series & Esp the Superdog . I I was told the other day by a retired Sales Rep for Tri State Mack in Memphis (who is a friend of mine), that for years folks East of the Ms river couldn't get a Western Series Bulldog . He said it took a lot of Mack customers complaining to get the Western Series Bulldogs on this end of the country & it finally happened . what bought that conversation on was I told him how id ilike to find a B75 OR B77 & He said ah now there was a truck we couldn't get here in Memphis as a new truck & that started the history lesson that I enjoyed so much that I only got an hour workout in cause I was so into the conversation . He is in the local YMCA W/ me 3 days a week & Ive known him for years my pop knew him better than I did . & now that ive got some time to talk to him & get to know he & his wife better than I did before. & talk to him about of course the bulldog & other things as well I can honestly say it is a joy to sit down & listen to his experiences esp w/ Tri State . Im tryong to get him on BMT W/us fellas .

Ya 84 Superdog & Jake : They had a tandem B61 Oilfield Winchtruck up there . but he wasnted $15k for it & wasn't worth $15k more like $4500 to $5000.00 & I Know the mack your talking about w/ the v8 I tried to buy it awhile back too but he wouldn't take my offer either . they are proud of their JUNK !

When I was pulling FEMA Frames from 1 gulf stream plant to another (ELKHART, IN to Montevideo, MN) After Katrina I jaw jacked on the radio a lot in the T300 KW I was driving & I got asked by a driver where I was from cause o my southern accent somewhere around Eau Clarie, Wi . I told him Millington, TN he said oh home of the Navy Base & only bout 30 miles from HOOK EM & CROOK EM BASKIN . I Laughed I said yup I know Big Don & lil don both . told him my back ground in Farming & excavation & my family only does business w/ them as needed . . found out he was originally from Hernado,Ms & lived in N.Ill & drove regional . It never ceases to amaze me no matter where I go someone knows about either Millington cause it was a training base before it was a personal base & then the owner operators that know about Baskin in Covington,Tn cause of how they have been hooked & crooked by them . Ive seen a bus pull up & 30 drivers get off the bus & Baskin sell 30 trucks to a fella & those 30 drivers he bused in drove out w/ a road tractor a piece . They definitely sell the trucks up there in Tipton County but I don't trust them far as I could throw a loaded tri axle DM Mack w/ 25 tons of CR610 Limestone . We had a brake spider bust on a 77 DM Tandem dump we had . Tri State in Memphis told us a week due to a back up in the warehouse in ATL, Ga . Nobody else in Memphis had one . Pop Called Baskin they said oh yeah we got it . Regardless of me not wanting to go up there pop threatened me within an inch of my life so I went up there waited all day to get the damn part . Came back home to the shop behind the house went to put it on & the bolt holes where the wrong size . TOLD POP: HE WAS PISSED I WAS PISSED, THE DRIVER (Who also help me turn wrenches )was pissed , & he was really pissed when I told him so . he told me don't remind me . Called TRI STATE Told em order the part & id be down there that day or 1st thing the next moring to pay fer it. went back up there to get my $ back the counter man told me no cash returned I went told big Don Baskin what was up . he told me ok son I normally don't do this but I knew your dad I know your granddad & your just like them both you wont take no for an answer . he went to the cashier(his daughter) told her give my $ back that I had to pay fer the part @ Tri State . she started to protest . he told her to do it or else she was fired . Im only 1 of a few that I know of that ever got their money back from them . Went to Tri State in Memphis the next day payed for the part had to wait 5 days & we was down to 1 dump truck for a few days (& lowboy tractor had to pull double duty tween lowboy & dump trailers) but finally got the RIGHT Part & got ole red back up & running again. After that & fight w/ pop on what should had been done in the 1st place he never went back to Baskin to buy even for the smallest thing . we would go up there & window shop @ trucks but never buy even a Coke from them . When it came to buying a used truck pop & myself went else where anywhere but there .

Ive been a fan of the GMC Brigadier since I was a kid . , my family has owned them ... & I've owned my share w/ Cummins & Detroit in them & made a decent living w/ them also . always liked the looks of the Jimmy Brig till I seen these pics . I Seen these pics somewhere before & I thought it was ugly then . then again I thought the same of the CH Mack & T600 KW Anteater . & they slow grew on me im guessing this was a concept truck for Preston ? as these are the only pics of a Brigadier in an Aerodynamic style I've ever seen . & never seen 1 like it in person . it was definitely way ahead of its time .

Happy 4th of July yall . yall have safe holiday

been awhile since I seen that video . . nice shots of the U MODEL Now wasn't they in A 2 Piece bikini a piece w/ the U Model ?

oh the 1st set of pics look good & mr . happy was happy the last 2 pics mr happy got sad & I went blind .

Wish I lived closer Id like to see those in person for myself . kinda reminds me of a place 30 miles north of me http://baskintrucksales.com/default.htm. The only thing is ya gotta watch lil Don Baskin he screw ya w/o any KY Jelly if ya let him . But I still like going up there seeing what he has on the lot to this day.

Ive never seen 1 in person but ive seen pics of them online very interesting looking truck . I'm curious to know how well they held up in the soft ground of the excavating jobs compared to a Bulldog or Autocar (W.M.C. NOT Vulva)

Terry Hate to hear bout your B Model . But glad he found a good home . I went through something similar a few years ago w/ my namesake & dads ole B Model . But in the long run a local farmer & buddy of mine saved "old dog" From the scrap yard & has him to put under his lowboy trailer to move his dozer from from the farm to the different fields he has .

Interesting very nice refrub. never seen a hough crawler loader w/ a rear engine .