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Plus you are helping boys learn a useful trade - I am a big fan of tech schools

The last load I bought, Acetylene was $43 and oxygen was $30 something. I use the Argon mix for my mig, but I don't even use a tank a month - I must tear more apart than I weld back together! I have had guys tell me to go to propane. Do you use different tips? Do you have a manifold on a big tank or do you use forklift bottles? I have been buying used oxy/acety tanks at farm sales whenever I get a chance, Praxair has not said anything yet about me bringing in 15 tanks at a time to swap out, so I don't worry about weekends anymore!

That is just beautiful - those were a work of art compared to today's vocational trucks

That must be a small one - the two Bucyrus cranes I have owned would have sat down on it, but the truck would have been smashed flat! I had the cutest little Bay City years ago, it had a the same engine as an RD4 in it, that would have been cool to mount on here as well. Do you have a photo? how far away?

I don't know what I am going to do with it - I had a guy come by and buy my 2000 Freightliner dump truck that was in the photos a few days ago, so I plan to get it running to use around here on the farm - I am always needing to haul off some stumps or something. First thing I am going to do is send off to the Mack Museum and find out who the original owner was - it was a crane carrier to start with and it was painted baby blue - does anyone remember a crane company with that color? It would be cool to find a photo of what it looked like when new. I also think it may have started out with an open top cab like a fire truck. Time will tell................

A real friend would swing through and pick up a bunch of us poor fellows to help you take care of biz-ness on the beach?

What do you pay there for oxy - aceteline? I go through two large tanks of oxygen and one of acet every week and I am wondering if I should go to liquid oxygen?

Good looking truck - Those drives are long, but if you take a guy with you, you usually are fast friends afterwards (or mortal enemies!) That also sounds like a fair trade for both parties!

As soon as I saw the word DUMPER I knew the poor thread had no chance of staying legit.

83 yesterday, 80 today, over 70 for the next week around here - the trees are loosing their blooms early, saw flies and ants yesterday in the barn lot - spring has sprung! Out of 59 cows in one herd, 13 of them had calves on the same day (last Saturday) - that bull was BUSY! Hey Pawl - These are Farenheit numbers by the way.....................

That truck is too nice to take it to the places I see the local poop pumpers have to drive.

Go rent a magnet drill and start drilling! I have one I would loan you, but Missouri is a few miles from you.

We played a variety of different games with him such as the ring toss game.-----------What? It's the best investment, you won't retreat it! -----What? only used once and it's in perfect condition --------What?

I love steam power - I do not own any engines, but I have one spotted I am working on. My high school grad-u-a-shun gift from my dear old dad was a 28 inch Avery threshing machine. We restored it, fixed up grandpa's old MCormick-Deering grain binder, a Massey Harris horsedrawn grain drill, a horsedrawn single disc, John Deere foot lift two bottom riding plow, (those are in reverse order of use by the way) and we put out a patch of oats. We had our own little threshing show that fall and all the friends and neighbors came - one of the high points of my life. I want to buy a steam engine to run my threshing machine.

I divert my gaze when she or her husband appear, they both look like big butts to me

You get the award for title ritin - I agree - Not a Mack, but still a nice truck!

That sounds like a new country song! "Joe set fire to the fire truck, he burned what he had been fixin"

Third party intervenors are not allowed on the place!

Like they said, you need to get a power bleeder. Our local Napa carries them. They are simple to use and sure beat having two guys farting around with it for hours. On hard ones to bleed in the past, it has helped to drive it around the block a few times and then back in the shop for more bleeding. This sounds like a horror movie, all this bleeding.

Do you think he needs the belt?

I buy 10 or 12 used LP gas delivery trucks every year from a big co-op that is all over MIssouri. I have very good luck with them. The newer ones have a lot more electronics, but they still are pretty simple to work on. I have to adjust the valves on about every one I buy, but I don't know if that is a LP thing or not. It may just be because they all have over 100,000 miles by the time I get them and never had it done before. I also usually just go ahead and replace all of the fuel lines when I get one in, and do it with as few of fittings as I can. They don't have as much power for the same size engine runing on LP as on gas, but I have not found it an issue. You can run a lot cheaper per mile with LP than with anything else. The main thing you have to remember is that you can't carry fuel around in a can if you run out! Most every small town around here has a propane company that will fill you up. You just have to remember they don't stay open all night like a truck stop. I know Petro and most TA's sell propane if you are doing highway driving. Other than the fuel system, they really are no different from a gasoline engine truck from the same year. I like them as they burn so much cleaner, that you just don't get the sludge build up or wear in the engine like you do with gas. When I have sold trucks to brokers sometimes they require a oil sample and they always come out very clean in a propane truck. The other benefit of propane is that a lot of guys are shy of them as they have never been around them, so you can buy them cheaper - that may change if gasoline gets higher.

Ha! Thanks for the historical backgound on the hotel. I don't want to dig any further to find out about any balls

The belt is still legal when no one knows about it, at least at my house - not that I would condone that or anything - right?

I just printed it off to keep - Thanks for posting!

Hybrid vigor!