PeterMack Posted November 24, 2016 Share Posted November 24, 2016 Time for some more Chicagoland awesomeness. 2 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28785-chicago-r-models/page/125/#findComment-352851 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DailyDiesel Posted November 25, 2016 Share Posted November 25, 2016 The tow truck biz must be booming! Quote www.dailydieseldose.com Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28785-chicago-r-models/page/125/#findComment-352965 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Horse Posted November 25, 2016 Share Posted November 25, 2016 Having never driven a trailer dump, is the explanation for that tractor up in the air he was trying to tailgate spread, was going too slow and loaded the tailgate too much??? Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28785-chicago-r-models/page/125/#findComment-352969 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranchhopper Posted November 25, 2016 Share Posted November 25, 2016 2 hours ago, Red Horse said: Having never driven a trailer dump, is the explanation for that tractor up in the air he was trying to tailgate spread, was going too slow and loaded the tailgate too much??? I drive one every day most times its a guy in to big a hurry and forgets to open the gate or the air hose pops off and without an air supply it wont open. I watch my trailer when I dump if the trailer hits the second stage on the ram and nothings coming out yet I check it before the load ends up against the gate. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28785-chicago-r-models/page/125/#findComment-352984 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mackey58 Posted November 26, 2016 Share Posted November 26, 2016 As ranchhopper said gotta watch the gate and not get in a hurry even more so with a framless Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28785-chicago-r-models/page/125/#findComment-353006 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mackey58 Posted November 28, 2016 Share Posted November 28, 2016 Saw a stark unloading cement at unit step.in joliet today couldn't get a pic tho Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28785-chicago-r-models/page/125/#findComment-353289 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterMack Posted November 30, 2016 Share Posted November 30, 2016 On 11/25/2016 at 8:28 AM, DailyDiesel said: The tow truck biz must be booming! Oh yeah. No shortage of work around here for those guys. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28785-chicago-r-models/page/125/#findComment-353475 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterMack Posted November 30, 2016 Share Posted November 30, 2016 R model lugger truck I saw in Chicago the other day. 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28785-chicago-r-models/page/125/#findComment-353476 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterMack Posted December 4, 2016 Share Posted December 4, 2016 A friend passed these pictures along to me over the summer. Looks like some ex Meyer mixers that are parked in Palatine. 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28785-chicago-r-models/page/125/#findComment-353926 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mackey58 Posted December 4, 2016 Share Posted December 4, 2016 Looks weird on Stearns with no elmhurst chicago pipe yard there just making it a parking lot but more work for ranchhopper it's just welch and concrete specialties now I think Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28785-chicago-r-models/page/125/#findComment-353938 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranchhopper Posted December 4, 2016 Share Posted December 4, 2016 53 minutes ago, mackey58 said: Looks weird on Stearns with no elmhurst chicago pipe yard there just making it a parking lot but more work for ranchhopper it's just welch and concrete specialties now I think We bought all the useable pipe and hauled it off to jobs kept the pipe boys busy hauling all that winter all the junk went through our concrete crusher and the pipe molds and equipment all went to concrete specialties. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28785-chicago-r-models/page/125/#findComment-353949 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mackey58 Posted December 4, 2016 Share Posted December 4, 2016 Wow. that was the first place I went to get pipe came out to the truck after signing the ticket and there was a bag on the seat with 2 hats and a pouch of markers. was a nice road trip there wish we d get pipe at welch Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28785-chicago-r-models/page/125/#findComment-353964 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterMack Posted December 7, 2016 Share Posted December 7, 2016 A friend spotted this the other day. Looks like an old Rizzi truck. 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28785-chicago-r-models/page/125/#findComment-354233 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterMack Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 Saw this on Fox Towing Facebook page. Looks like they were moving a B model for someone. There was no details with the picture. 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28785-chicago-r-models/page/125/#findComment-354459 Share on other sites More sharing options...
james j neiweem Posted December 9, 2016 Share Posted December 9, 2016 (edited) We have a company here in Connecticut called Manafort Bros. that uses the brown and tan colors as the RD above. They had DM's. They still have some RD's and Granites and a CL and KW lowboy tractor. Edited December 9, 2016 by james j neiweem Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28785-chicago-r-models/page/125/#findComment-354513 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post PeterMack Posted December 10, 2016 Popular Post Share Posted December 10, 2016 Saw this Rossi lowboy the other day. 3 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28785-chicago-r-models/page/125/#findComment-354577 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mackey58 Posted December 10, 2016 Share Posted December 10, 2016 Very cool Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28785-chicago-r-models/page/125/#findComment-354579 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mackey58 Posted December 10, 2016 Share Posted December 10, 2016 Don't think they have any new stuff would like to check out there yard Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28785-chicago-r-models/page/125/#findComment-354580 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranchhopper Posted December 10, 2016 Share Posted December 10, 2016 On 12/6/2016 at 8:54 PM, PeterMack said: A friend spotted this the other day. Looks like an old Rizzi truck. I don't remember rizzi trucks having the numbers on the fenders weren't rizzi's trucks green and red I would say it could have been an old V&R truck. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28785-chicago-r-models/page/125/#findComment-354587 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobody454 Posted December 10, 2016 Share Posted December 10, 2016 there are a bunch of Rizzi's. The red & green Rizzi is still around. The brown & tan Rizzi was E.C. Rizzi. He did pulverized dirt, and went out several years ago 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28785-chicago-r-models/page/125/#findComment-354602 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterMack Posted December 10, 2016 Share Posted December 10, 2016 You beat me to it SAS454. I think the red and green ones are MB Rizzi. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28785-chicago-r-models/page/125/#findComment-354603 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post PeterMack Posted December 10, 2016 Popular Post Share Posted December 10, 2016 A friend of mine works at O'Hare and spotted Rossi's B models there. They are still working them. Pretty cool. 7 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28785-chicago-r-models/page/125/#findComment-354604 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mackey58 Posted December 10, 2016 Share Posted December 10, 2016 Nice Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28785-chicago-r-models/page/125/#findComment-354623 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brocky Posted December 10, 2016 Share Posted December 10, 2016 Interesting?? Concrete blocks on both ends.. Must fill them with a road tanker then drive the equipment up to them?? Quote Brocky Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28785-chicago-r-models/page/125/#findComment-354652 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobody454 Posted December 11, 2016 Share Posted December 11, 2016 i think there is M. Rizzi, M. R. Rizzi, D Rizzi & Son, and used to be E. C. Rizzi...and I'm sure I missed 1 or 2 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28785-chicago-r-models/page/125/#findComment-354677 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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