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Jay - I just got caught up enough to find this thread - I like your little wrecker - does it have a little 304 or a 345? and what size tires are those?

It is a Louisville, I have to check when the title comes, but it looks like a 96/97 ish year, deep frame, 165,000 miles with one driver, Rex mixer with front pump, no booster axle, 8.3 cummins factory replaced 40,000 miles ago, 13 speed, double locking rears, very straight and clean, rear tires just okay - say 30%. Does that read like a used car salesman would type it? I did not think to check what size mixer it is. I buy these from a local company that maintain everything at the dealership. They also have four or five larger mixers on IHC paystars they want to sell me once they wear the tires down - I never get a break. My big idea was to find a used Jerrdann or similar machinery rollback bed to install on one, but I have not found a bed, and I would rather spend the time on a Mack. I have found that these trucks are in good enough shape to sell to other concrete companies with the mixer intact. I sold three of them last year to feed/fertilizer companies that use the mixers stationary.

In the last few weeks, I went and got involved with baby birthin' and now new baby watchin', older kid beatin', food cookin', house cleanin', doctor visitin', and the like. If you don't study history, you are doomed to repeat it.

Vinnster - That is a rare U model with one of the first attempts Mack made to make a kickstand. The benefit was that as you went down the road, it looked like a log picker. But the downside was the driver never had enough time to climb out of the cab and position it before it would do the "U model flop".

Mike - That is good news - I had been wondering if you knew anything else yet. Don't overdo it yet, and keep your chin up - you will DRIVE to, and EAT at, a truck show before you know it!

That is very admirable Jocko - keep it up! Set attainable goals, and once you finish them, step it up another notch. Never stop learning.

Do you have a photo of the box and the cables that you could post - it might help? I got lost at your #1 question about front and back of truck.

At the time, she walked 1/2 a mile in 90 degree temp while 9 months pregnant, so I was a lucky boy to get what I got. That would have been like telling a grizzly bear to "play nice" before it eats you.

Ah! You have been buying the wrong model/style! That is why I have stuck with the same old style 402 - I got a new pair last month and they are still made here where they should be in the USA. I think Red Wing also sells a cheaper line of boots that they make overseas that I bet are the junky ones you "ran" into (did you catch my pun? You know "run" as in what feet and shoes do?). I often have to brag on myself when no one else will. Look on the underside of the shoe's tounge before you buy them - it reads on there where they are made. Will looking on the underside of the tounge of other things in life protect you from bad purchases?

We started wearing pants a couple of years ago when we got running water and the new electic light strung to the cave we live in!

Greetings - sounds like you got a good business going - everyone has to get rid of that stuff, so if you price it fair, you will have a lot of work. The folks on this site generate a larger amount of the stuff you pump than your average Joe. Good luck with your Mack!

A few weeks ago, my blushing bride paid me a welcome visit while I was in the field baling hay - she brought me some cookies and a new stainless water bottle that actually fit in the stupid cupholder: She saw some show on the TV (boobe tube, altar of passive entertainment, idiot box) that said the plastic bottle I have been using has BPA or some kind of crap in it that messes with one's hormones. Is that why I am getting these titties on my sexy chest as I age? I got to laughing about how the water bottle had a phallic (google it Vinny) look about it: I did not look where I was going and I ran a big stick up in the throat of my Vermeer baler and bent up the teeth: Number two son went and got a baler I bought to resell and since he thought of it first, I let him run a baler for the first time. He did real well: I never had used a baler with rollers instead of belts or chains. I was really suprised what a nice bale it made. But then the boy followed me to another field in our version of Rob's Crusty, Rusty, but Trusty Dodge farm truck. He took a short cut across a field where we had just removed an old cattle loading dock: He and my in-house brain surgeon; Joe, pulled it back with no damage - you can't keep a beat up truck down! We got to baling again and I went to test the first few bales for moisture level and I about crapped my panties when I got to this one: Don't worry socialist leftist animal lovers - I gently pulled the snake out and let him rest on the ground until he recovered from such unfair trauma: two seconds after the photo, I stomped him flat until his blood spurted all over and his guts ran out with my style #402 red wing boots. If the blushing bride sees a snake, she might not bring me any more cookies!

Agreed! I bought a real nice (is there such a thing?) 1996 Ford concrete truck last week and I had to buy a set of 425's for the steer axle just to get it home. If the rears had needed tires, it would have cost more than the truck did! Tires are getting to be the deciding factor of when several of the concrete companies around here decide to get rid of their older trucks.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=230804705767&viewitem=&sspagename=ADME%3AB%3ASS%3AUS%3A1123 That will haul some serious groceries!

My first "big" combine was a Massey Harris 72. It had a Chrysler industrial six cylinder flathead. I thought the ass end of that thing looked like a Massey Harris. You have to keep up on your combine butts! My grandfather helped out on that big harvest run that Massey did during World War II to show the benefits/less labor with a self-propelled combine.

My kids laugh at me at the sign of relief when I get the green light or the scale is closed. They claim it is the same face they see when I come out of the bathroom after being occupied for a while. They call it my Poker Face when I am sitting sweating it out on the scale waiting to see what the boneheads are going to do to me - don't blink, don't look to the side, don't even let them see you breathe.

I nose, dat be me da pot callin' da kettle black

Ben - I don't think you understand how this works. You wait until your dad leaves, then you bid on the things you want with his credit card. Let me know how that works out.

Is it a Massey Harris?

Ted - That sounds like a fun day! Did you take any photos?

Just take it again, and again, and again if necessary. Paul is right - just go in and relax. Most places give you enough time that you can read through the whole test first, then go back and answer the questions, then go back and reread the whole thing over again and make sure the answers you used still make sense. They like to throw in questions to trip you up, so just really go slow and make sure you know what they are asking. Don't feel bad, most guys on here can barely write, so you already have most of us beat!

Those are NOT propane tanks you see in the photos. They are alien eggs that are incubating and will hatch when the Mayan calendar ends. (kind of like mud-dobbers). The black helicopters flew in all that equipment years ago to secretly smash them, harvest the alien goo for research, and bury the remains. But the aliens pulled a Jedi mind trick on the operators and they all just walked off and left everything. Then the aliens pulled the same trick on a middle aged fat woman working in a government office in Washington. She spilled her diet coke over all the paper work and it was all forgotten. The government should have used Mack haul trucks, they are designed from the factory with special alien egg shielding. You better stay out of that yard Tom. That truck thing you drive is NOT properly shielded.

My dad was a rural mail man for several years and he had some IH scouts with right hand drive. Us kids learned how to drive on the right side, he would let us drive the scouts into town on the weekends with him sitting on the left side so he could raise his hands up in the air and grasp the imaginary steering wheel when we passed a cop. They were pretty handy things on the farm. I would hate to buy the gas for them today.

The title reads that the truck is a BWD - I think it looks more like the BM that squirted out of my BVD's when I got to laughing while reading BMT

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