Lmackattack Posted July 18, 2005 Share Posted July 18, 2005 July 28th -29th lake county fair grounds near rt 120 and rt 45semi pull event as well as tractor pull and many other eventssee you thereTrent Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/137-truck-pull-event/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
macknutt Posted July 25, 2005 Share Posted July 25, 2005 Trent,Do you know what day and time the semi truck pulls are at the Lake county fair.See you at the Union show.Mike Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/137-truck-pull-event/#findComment-563 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lmackattack Posted July 25, 2005 Author Share Posted July 25, 2005 Whats up Mike the show is at 7 pm on friday the 29th (this upcoming friday)If you dont make it I hope to see you in union for the showTrent Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/137-truck-pull-event/#findComment-575 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macknutt Posted July 27, 2005 Share Posted July 27, 2005 Hey Trent,I would love to make it to the truck pulls, have to see what time I get off of work?Might not make the union show! The 2nd & 3rd shift spotters are both off on Aug 5th, so I think I might be working a triple? Going into sat and I will get stuck covering sun too! We have 220 drivers and no one wants to come to Nabisco and spot trailers, You only have to move 100 trailers per shift, 53's w/ swing doors, no brakes, hump, hump!!! all day long!!!Mike Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/137-truck-pull-event/#findComment-616 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lmackattack Posted July 27, 2005 Author Share Posted July 27, 2005 LOL do you just slap one glad hand on and lift the trailer?I did that a few nights at UPS when I was 18. they needed spotters for the X-mas rush and all the oldtimers (30 somethings at the time) were complaining that I was makeing thim look bad spotting 4-5 trailers more per hour. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/137-truck-pull-event/#findComment-623 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macknutt Posted July 28, 2005 Share Posted July 28, 2005 I slap on both glad hands so that I have trailer brakes. We have to go down a private drive to the trailer lot and the employee parking lot is next to the drop lot.So at shift change for the bakery, they fly up and down the drive at 50mph +, cutting us poor spotters off ( and flipping us off). Best to be safe than sorry!!!!I spotted at RPS ( now FedEx Ground) in bedford park at 18. Had 60-70 doors and on many occasions I was the only one in the yard doing outs and ins!! It got rough,the twoway radio was going non-stop!! (know wonder I have so much gray hair). Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/137-truck-pull-event/#findComment-634 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lmackattack Posted July 30, 2005 Author Share Posted July 30, 2005 Truck pull was great. it was my first time and I managed a 220 foot pull or so. It almost was an all mack event except 3 petes and 2 kws and a international snuck in the back door. No boken axels so it was a good nightThe red E9500 superdog from WI won the event with a full pull!!!I had the lowest HP and least amount of gears to use and was withing 10 feet of the avg pullers. i had to use 2nd gear as 3rd is to tall when the weight comes up on the tandems I might use 3rd next year just to see if the momentum will get me farther??Trent Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/137-truck-pull-event/#findComment-661 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macknutt Posted August 5, 2005 Share Posted August 5, 2005 Truck pull was great. it was my first time and I managed a 220 foot pull or so. It almost was an all mack event except 3 petes and 2 kws and a international snuck in the back door. No boken axels so it was a good nightThe red E9500 superdog from WI won the event with a full pull!!!I had the lowest HP and least amount of gears to use and was withing 10 feet of the avg pullers. i had to use 2nd gear as 3rd is to tall when the weight comes up on the tandems I might use 3rd next year just to see if the momentum will get me farther??Trent←Looks like the truck pulls where a good time!!! Tommys brother had Lizini's pete their. Do you think the superdog from Wis works every day?Mike Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/137-truck-pull-event/#findComment-787 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lmackattack Posted August 5, 2005 Author Share Posted August 5, 2005 Hi Mike.the owner told me that the superliner that did the full pull works a few days each week moving machines on his lowboy. His wife was also driving a superliner that looked simmilar to his, I belive he said her truck worked every day as a dump truck. there is a truck pull some time at the end of the month in belvedere if you are intrested. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/137-truck-pull-event/#findComment-792 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macknutt Posted August 14, 2005 Share Posted August 14, 2005 Hi Mike.the owner told me that the superliner that did the full pull works a few days each week moving machines on his lowboy. His wife was also driving a superliner that looked simmilar to his, I belive he said her truck worked every day as a dump truck. there is a truck pull some time at the end of the month in belvedere if you are intrested.←When in Belvedere, let me knowMike Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/137-truck-pull-event/#findComment-989 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macknutt Posted August 14, 2005 Share Posted August 14, 2005 Trent,Truck show Aug. 20-21 in Yorkville.IL. Tommy & Al and our gang will be their.9am -3pmMike Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/137-truck-pull-event/#findComment-991 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lmackattack Posted August 14, 2005 Author Share Posted August 14, 2005 Trent,Truck show Aug. 20-21 in Yorkville.IL. Tommy & Al and our gang will be their.9am -3pmMike ←I wont make that show, I will be in WI for a sports car race event at road America.figures you have the weekend i dont LOLTrent Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/137-truck-pull-event/#findComment-993 Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadusercharges Posted October 13, 2005 Share Posted October 13, 2005 Trent, sorry to show my ignorance of these events, but what is involved in this activity. Is the load attached to the turntable or is it towed by a pintle hook or similar, and what s the load consist of?nigel Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/137-truck-pull-event/#findComment-2001 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lmackattack Posted October 13, 2005 Author Share Posted October 13, 2005 I will try to explanethere is a long square tube with a flat plate and king pin (simmilar to a end dump trailers ) that locks into your 5th wheel, at the rear of this square tube (past the end of the truck frame) there is a vertical tube welded to the end that extends down past the frame rails. on the lower part of the square tube is a round dounut thats welded to the tube. this is wher the hooks from the sled attach.. you set the ground hight of this device (forgot the standard hight) with the use of a block that is placed under the tube hooked into the 5th wheel, If the hight needs to be higher you would move this block towards the rear of the truck and lower towards the 5th wheel. the weight of the sled pulling on the chains will keep plenty of weight on this tube and (hopefully LOL) will not allow this tube on the frame rails to slide.the sled is what you would see on TV. it has wheels at the rear and a steel plate at the front. when you start the pull the weight is at the rear of the sled over the sled wheels as you drive down the track the weight begins to move towards the front of the sled making it harder for the truck to move as you are now draging the weight on a steel plate. All that attaches to the truck to the sled is a few chains on that dounut.I dont know what the load is but it looks like steel plates that can be added or removed depending on the class and whats pulling the sled. hopefully Jon Mead (Bulldogbred) will give some info I left out. he is the one who turned me on to truck pullingTrent Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/137-truck-pull-event/#findComment-2005 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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