Popular Post PeterMack Posted October 4, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted October 4, 2014 Saw a few Mack's today. Caught an R-model that I got last year with a hopper on, today I saw it with a dump trailer.Saw a United Scrap RD, D-Construction's MR pumper laying down some red cement for for the crosswalks and anMR rolloff. 4 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28785-chicago-r-models/page/64/#findComment-261998 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Mackdaddy2030 Posted October 4, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted October 4, 2014 Stark R model turning off Garden Prairie yesterday.Not a good pic, but it was the best one that came out.I still haven't gotten down the driving and taking pictures.Who ever was driving prob thought I was an idiot cause I was all over the road lol 4 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28785-chicago-r-models/page/64/#findComment-262008 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mackdaddy2030 Posted October 4, 2014 Share Posted October 4, 2014 Couple of 6 wheelers that have been working with us.The maroon RD I believe is David Leach'sAnd today we had CTC and Smith Cartage tankers at Curran Dekalb at the same time. 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28785-chicago-r-models/page/64/#findComment-262010 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Mackdaddy2030 Posted October 4, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted October 4, 2014 I know it's not a Mack, but this is what I saw when I pulled in the yard this morning. Jose parked the truck last night empty where they fill it up with water, then with the rain over night the ground gave away. 3 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28785-chicago-r-models/page/64/#findComment-262011 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mackdaddy2030 Posted October 4, 2014 Share Posted October 4, 2014 Saw a few Mack's today. Caught an R-model that I got last year with a hopper on, today I saw it with a dump trailer.Saw a United Scrap RD, D-Construction's MR pumper laying down some red cement for for the crosswalks and anMR rolloff.Is that 47 through Yorkville? If so, that's not a good sign. I have to run up and down there 3 times a day during fertilizer season and was hoping they would be done with the south section. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28785-chicago-r-models/page/64/#findComment-262016 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bulldogmack58 Posted October 4, 2014 Share Posted October 4, 2014 I know it's not a Mack, but this is what I saw when I pulled in the yard this morning. Jose parked the truck last night empty where they fill it up with water, then with the rain over night the ground gave away.HEY LOOK! FINALLY A GOOD USE FOR FRIEGHTSHAKERS! PLUGGING UP HOLES!!! 2 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28785-chicago-r-models/page/64/#findComment-262056 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranchhopper Posted October 5, 2014 Share Posted October 5, 2014 Bet that box culvert came from us over at welch brothers. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28785-chicago-r-models/page/64/#findComment-262178 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterMack Posted October 6, 2014 Share Posted October 6, 2014 Is that 47 through Yorkville? If so, that's not a good sign. I have to run up and down there 3 times a day during fertilizer season and was hoping they would be done with the south section.Yes it is. Not even close to being done. When school lets out that it takes almost 25 min to get from one end of town to the other.What a nightmare. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28785-chicago-r-models/page/64/#findComment-262262 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post PeterMack Posted October 6, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted October 6, 2014 Here is a couple shots of the Martam R-model. 6 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28785-chicago-r-models/page/64/#findComment-262264 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mackdaddy2030 Posted October 7, 2014 Share Posted October 7, 2014 Yes it is. Not even close to being done. When school lets out that it takes almost 25 min to get from one end of town to the other.What a nightmare.That's not what I wanted to hear, but I figured it would still be messed up. That's why I try to start between 1 and 2am and I can usually cycle it right and miss most of the traffic. If I know it will be too crazy I just go out of my way 80 west to 39 north. Little bit more miles but at least you can set the cruse and just go.I was really pissed last spring. They did a cross cut over night and didn't fill it in good with asphalt and it was a couple inches low.Even though I was only doing 30mph, I ended up cracking a spring. It was prob gonna eventually crack anyways, but it still pissed me off. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28785-chicago-r-models/page/64/#findComment-262404 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Mackdaddy2030 Posted October 7, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted October 7, 2014 I got some pics today, but missed out on some good ones cause I was in the road widener and could get the phone fast enough. One if the ones I missed was an old Celli RB and a pretty decent blue R model. Though got a Peter Baker R and then an oversized load at 23 and 72 4 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28785-chicago-r-models/page/64/#findComment-262407 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mackdaddy2030 Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 I was in the paver and I know they are not the greatest pictures, but this is DeKalb Township's Granite. 2 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28785-chicago-r-models/page/64/#findComment-262497 Share on other sites More sharing options...
57 bcr Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 Nice truck for a township! 1 Quote IF YOU BOUGHT IT, A TRUCK BROUGHT IT..AND WHEN YOU'RE DONE WITH IT, A TRUCK WILL HAUL IT AWAY!!! Big John Trimble,WRVA Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28785-chicago-r-models/page/64/#findComment-262498 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranchhopper Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 Not anymore with seemingly unlimited tax dollars and not much oversite they are not afraid to spend big anymore. 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28785-chicago-r-models/page/64/#findComment-262520 Share on other sites More sharing options...
storkmack Posted October 8, 2014 Share Posted October 8, 2014 Belvidere Township in Boone county is the same way. They have 3 of the newer style Mack Granites. 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28785-chicago-r-models/page/64/#findComment-262526 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mackdaddy2030 Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 Just wanted to say, PeterMack, you were doing a fine job of driving up and down 72 today. It was hard for me to stay awake while it took me 3 hrs to get that last load off. Lol Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28785-chicago-r-models/page/64/#findComment-262618 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterMack Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 Just wanted to say, PeterMack, you were doing a fine job of driving up and down 72 today. It was hard for me to stay awake while it took me 3 hrs to get that last load off. LolHa. Thanks. I was trying hard to stay awake also. Was actually on a Curran job all yesterday and today also. They were using someof their dumbass brokers who can't spread to save their lives. I told Scott B the foreman/grader operator that I didn't speak Englishor have chains but since I went to school with him he knew better. He said me and a couple other guys had to stay by the grader and they sent the dummies to the back of the job with the dozer where they proceeded to leave a 3 foot tall pile and then spread. 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28785-chicago-r-models/page/64/#findComment-262713 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post PeterMack Posted October 9, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted October 9, 2014 Saw a Kamp RD moving something big this morning. Maybe part of a mix plant of some sort? Just got a quick look.Earlier in the week I was out at the pipeline job where I saw the back side of an RD conveyor that was being loadedby a skid steer from a pile of CA-6 that I had dumped. Also took a pic of Michels big CAT pipelayer. Old beast! 4 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28785-chicago-r-models/page/64/#findComment-262714 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobody454 Posted October 9, 2014 Share Posted October 9, 2014 Here's a few from today - the first is what appears to be an old "K Konstruction" truck with a new paint job and a new name Benny's? at yard 19 in McCook - The second is the dredging operation when they are running the six wheelers with the tag axles in Downers Grove (not a very good pic) - and the last is my new late afternoon ride...the lowboy driver had shoulder surgery and is out for the rest of the year so after hauling dirt I get to trade my 550 hp 18 spd pete for a 427 (supposedly) 8LL granite to move equipment 2 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28785-chicago-r-models/page/64/#findComment-262721 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobody454 Posted October 10, 2014 Share Posted October 10, 2014 on that note... does anyone else have one of these? its a 2007 pre emission 427 with a 8LL...blows black smoke like an old r model (which is cool) at lower rpms (like 1200-1400) and won't get out of it's own way no matter how you shift it. I've been about 90000# with the backhoe on - that makes for a long slow ride 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28785-chicago-r-models/page/64/#findComment-262746 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mackdaddy2030 Posted October 10, 2014 Share Posted October 10, 2014 Ha. Thanks. I was trying hard to stay awake also. Was actually on a Curran job all yesterday and today also. They were using someof their dumbass brokers who can't spread to save their lives. I told Scott B the foreman/grader operator that I didn't speak Englishor have chains but since I went to school with him he knew better. He said me and a couple other guys had to stay by the grader and they sent the dummies to the back of the job with the dozer where they proceeded to leave a 3 foot tall pile and then spread.I always tell them, I'm not that great of a driver, but those dumb ass brokers make me look like a rock star That's why I love being one of the first trucks loaded in the morning. I usually don't have to deal with them till I lap them.Scotty B is awesome!!!! I don't get to work with him much, but he is funny. I still remember the first time I met him last year doing some dirt work for on 90. He was pretty much calling us prima donna asphalt haulers cause we were bitching about how bad the job site was. He agreed with me that it was a job for Brown R, lol. They he laughingly said, "don't worry, you will be back on asphalt tomorrow."Ask him how he got that dent in his pickup truck, lolWhere was that picture middle picture taken with the windmills in the background? Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28785-chicago-r-models/page/64/#findComment-262758 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mackdaddy2030 Posted October 10, 2014 Share Posted October 10, 2014 on that note... does anyone else have one of these? its a 2007 pre emission 427 with a 8LL...blows black smoke like an old r model (which is cool) at lower rpms (like 1200-1400) and won't get out of it's own way no matter how you shift it. I've been about 90000# with the backhoe on - that makes for a long slow rideI have a '98 with 427 and Mack 13 with 4.17 rears. Mine is a freakin dog, though I know it needs some work. I've had the rack run and injectors and still a dog. It has a really lumpy idle and someone told me the cam might be worn. I plan on getting a new truck this winter and don't want to spend the money seeing if it is the cam.Mine doesn't blow that much smoke though. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28785-chicago-r-models/page/64/#findComment-262759 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Mackdaddy2030 Posted October 10, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted October 10, 2014 Not sure who's trucks these are. Not enough time to take the picture and try and look at the same time, lolThe Superdog had a bunk on it and looked in great shape from what I could see.Then I missed out on getting a pic of a really sweet red Superdog day cab pulling a flatbed turning off 38 to go south on 23 3 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28785-chicago-r-models/page/64/#findComment-262761 Share on other sites More sharing options...
85snowdog Posted October 10, 2014 Share Posted October 10, 2014 I think the white super dog with the sleeper is IH farms, member on this forum. Nice truck. 1 Quote Keith Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28785-chicago-r-models/page/64/#findComment-262775 Share on other sites More sharing options...
IH Farms 2 Posted October 10, 2014 Share Posted October 10, 2014 It was me. I was wondering who was taking me picture yesterday 2 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28785-chicago-r-models/page/64/#findComment-262800 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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