Old Blue Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 Found a steel nose Greco r model. ..A sid kamp 4 axel...and a standard r model end dump2014 GU813 my new baby! 2 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28785-chicago-r-models/page/79/#findComment-280218 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Blue Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 I think, don't quote me, it was done over at Axle (Nagel) in BataviaThe truck was ordered threw Pozzo Mack, specked out myself, went up to Axle for fenders and wet kit. If you won't custom fenders or anything for that matter Axle is the place to go! The truck is as short is it could be without putting the emissions crap behind the cab! 2 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28785-chicago-r-models/page/79/#findComment-280220 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterMack Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 A Christensen RD with a flatbed. 2 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28785-chicago-r-models/page/79/#findComment-280403 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mackey58 Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 Kr and g is doing a cell at laraway and Patterson rd WM landfill and one in Iowa too thought I saw a rd legend for Christensen also 2 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28785-chicago-r-models/page/79/#findComment-280418 Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterMack Posted February 26, 2015 Share Posted February 26, 2015 Kr and g is doing a cell at laraway and Patterson rd WM landfill and one in Iowa too thought I saw a rd legend for Christensen alsoThe guy from KRG told me they had one starting in Missouri. They must be keeping busy digging big holes in the ground. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28785-chicago-r-models/page/79/#findComment-280689 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post PeterMack Posted February 26, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted February 26, 2015 Here are two Builders Granites. 3 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28785-chicago-r-models/page/79/#findComment-280690 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post storkmack Posted February 26, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted February 26, 2015 Wide concrete slab in Cary, IL 6 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28785-chicago-r-models/page/79/#findComment-280692 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post PeterMack Posted February 27, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted February 27, 2015 I found these pictures online of this former O'hare plow truck. It was for sale at auction and they had a little info on it.It sold in July 2012, was a 1980 with 11,300 miles, vin-RM6114X1039 and went for $6,875. 3 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28785-chicago-r-models/page/79/#findComment-280819 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mackdaddy2030 Posted February 27, 2015 Share Posted February 27, 2015 I knew they were gonna be changing stuff around, but they have been talking about that for years. Though I was hoping Daryl was right and that they were not gonna be putting a wheel wash in. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28785-chicago-r-models/page/79/#findComment-280821 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranchhopper Posted February 27, 2015 Share Posted February 27, 2015 I knew they were gonna be changing stuff around, but they have been talking about that for years. Though I was hoping Daryl was right and that they were not gonna be putting a wheel wash in.Gotta love those wheel washes I used to have to take a load to mallard lake once in a while and had to clean up the bottom half of the truck when I got in. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28785-chicago-r-models/page/79/#findComment-280830 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mackey58 Posted February 28, 2015 Share Posted February 28, 2015 mallard lake and green valley BOTH sucked big time instead of washing you got sand blasted with that recycled water!! Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28785-chicago-r-models/page/79/#findComment-280964 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobody454 Posted February 28, 2015 Share Posted February 28, 2015 try the one at reliable materials in lyons, not only is it crappy mud water, but you have to drive between concrete poles that feel like they are about 7 1/2 feet wide. just stupid Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28785-chicago-r-models/page/79/#findComment-281003 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranchhopper Posted February 28, 2015 Share Posted February 28, 2015 try the one at reliable materials in lyons, not only is it crappy mud water, but you have to drive between concrete poles that feel like they are about 7 1/2 feet wide. just stupidYeah that's like getting on a narrow scale first sign is all the lugnut covers peeled off laying on the scale. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28785-chicago-r-models/page/79/#findComment-281013 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post PeterMack Posted March 1, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted March 1, 2015 Speaking of Mallard Lake, my Dad took this picture of his Plote truck there about 35 years ago. He said at the time they werejust re-filling the pit in with dirt and not taking trash yet. 5 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28785-chicago-r-models/page/79/#findComment-281030 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranchhopper Posted March 1, 2015 Share Posted March 1, 2015 That place sucked especially winter mornings the sun would melt the frost off the haul road and turn it into grease you would get to the crest of the giant hill and get stuck. I still remember spinning my way to the top getting stuck just before the crest of the hill the compacter backed up to me I got out and pulled the cable off the machine and dropping the pin in my bumper through the loop in the cable as my truck started sliding back down the hill with the brakes on. I never could figure out why there wasn't more wrecks there those transfer drivers would slide all the way down the hill empty and just make the turn before landing in the creek the good old days. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28785-chicago-r-models/page/79/#findComment-281035 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mackey58 Posted March 1, 2015 Share Posted March 1, 2015 Yea comming down sucked even in the summer when they d water it to keep the dust down .how about the wheel wash they had at barbers corners in Bolingbrook the elmhurst Chicago pit haven t been there in awhile you got your ticket made a left and it was by the ready mix plant about bottom of fuel tank deep sometimes Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28785-chicago-r-models/page/79/#findComment-281081 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobody454 Posted March 1, 2015 Share Posted March 1, 2015 the one at Elmhurst Chicago is closed now. they built a new scale house further to the east and blasted away where the old scale house was. the waves would almost come back over the hood if that one was full enough Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28785-chicago-r-models/page/79/#findComment-281102 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mackey58 Posted March 1, 2015 Share Posted March 1, 2015 Oh man yea I haven't been there for 4-5years they still have the dirt dump and concrete dump across the road used to haul into green valley when it was still hopping lots of dirt and wood wrecking I took on there Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28785-chicago-r-models/page/79/#findComment-281122 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobody454 Posted March 1, 2015 Share Posted March 1, 2015 concrete goes on the north side of Royce Rd. A Lamp is crushing the concrete there. dirt goes on the south side by the stone, but all the way to the east Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28785-chicago-r-models/page/79/#findComment-281124 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mackey58 Posted March 2, 2015 Share Posted March 2, 2015 Wow Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28785-chicago-r-models/page/79/#findComment-281186 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post PeterMack Posted March 4, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted March 4, 2015 Was in Elk Grove Village today and saw and older Groot RB and a snow covered Wiener-mobile. I don't really care muchfor snow on my Wiener........mobile. 6 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28785-chicago-r-models/page/79/#findComment-281443 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post PeterMack Posted March 5, 2015 Popular Post Share Posted March 5, 2015 Saw a bunch of Mack's today.Republic Services RD Hoving Granite Earth Inc R-model with a really goofy spot mirror setup on the hood. Landview Exc. RD Acme RD with a custom hood. Not a Mack, Bluff City's 850 Deere A Waste Management R with their old school paint scheme Osco fuel Granite *BMT decided to arrange the photos a little different than I uploaded them 3 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28785-chicago-r-models/page/79/#findComment-281512 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mackdaddy2030 Posted March 5, 2015 Share Posted March 5, 2015 I was talking to one of my cousins today and he was telling me about a poster that his brother was in and I was wondering if anyone on here has seen it before. He can't remember much about it and his brother passed away in '93 so we can't get any info from him. I guess it was done for the Chicago Bears in '86 after they won the Super Bowl. He remembers that they wanted a Mack truck so they contacted his brother, but for some reason it was hooked to a tank and they never pulled tank for work. Just Van trailers. all he remembers about the poster was it was taken in a dark ally and it had the Bears logo on it. He has no idea what the promotion was for. if anyone knows what this poster was I would love any info on it. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28785-chicago-r-models/page/79/#findComment-281534 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Green Dash Posted March 5, 2015 Share Posted March 5, 2015 Was in Elk Grove Village today and saw and older Groot RB and a snow covered Wiener-mobile. I don't really care muchfor snow on my Wiener........mobile.That's quite a rare find. A Weinermobile on the snow that wasn't wrecked. 2 Quote Jim Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28785-chicago-r-models/page/79/#findComment-281619 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maddog13407 Posted March 6, 2015 Share Posted March 6, 2015 that weinermobile must get around... it was at the mall in Albany Ny on Saturday..... Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/28785-chicago-r-models/page/79/#findComment-281651 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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