Popular Post mackmb212 Posted January 17, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted January 17, 2014 Here are some trucks we still use at work. Where I work was formerly the Bethlehem steel main plant so you could understand why these trucks are so beat up. The fist one is a dm800 it has a vary short wheel base a 2 stick 5 speed and 13:24 rubber. Not sure on engine size. The interesting thing with this dm 800 is the door tag that says it was built by Allentown brake and wheel. The low boy hooked up to it has solid tires and they load that thing down until it's almost hitting the ground. The orange truck is a dm6xx something I never had the chance to check it out too close those frame rails on it look almost twice as tall as the rails on my b81. 14 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/34281-some-macks-from-work/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post mackmb212 Posted January 17, 2014 Author Popular Post Share Posted January 17, 2014 Here is a autocar dump we use for moving mill scale from the forging process. Again I don't know really anything about it because I work in the machine shop and they keep these trucks hidden in the back of the plant. 7 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/34281-some-macks-from-work/#findComment-227227 Share on other sites More sharing options...
j hancock Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 Beastly looking tractor!The triple frame is Growing every day. Quote JimIt doesn't cost anything to pay attention. Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/34281-some-macks-from-work/#findComment-227230 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Green Dash Posted January 19, 2014 Share Posted January 19, 2014 Some real workhorses there. Thanks for going out back and grabbing some pics. Quote Jim Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/34281-some-macks-from-work/#findComment-227509 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mackmb212 Posted January 19, 2014 Author Share Posted January 19, 2014 Some real workhorses there. Thanks for going out back and grabbing some pics. no problem I wanted to do it awile ago just never got around to it. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/34281-some-macks-from-work/#findComment-227532 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Posted January 19, 2014 Share Posted January 19, 2014 no problem I wanted to do it awile ago just never got around to it.I know what you mean. I have a photo that I took several weeks ago of a Super Liner that I seem to always be without my camera when it has come around. I have been trying to capture this Super Liner for 3 years now. Unfortunately when I found it was at it's workplace unloading and I could not get a close up of it. But will post it never the less Tuesday when I go back to my work computer. Keep up the good work and thanks for sharing with us.mike Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/34281-some-macks-from-work/#findComment-227538 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike69mackman Posted January 19, 2014 Share Posted January 19, 2014 Great pics! Love that dm800. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/34281-some-macks-from-work/#findComment-227541 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mackmb212 Posted January 19, 2014 Author Share Posted January 19, 2014 Great pics! Love that dm800. I would love to have that dm800, besides the frame rails running away from each other the truck is in good shape. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/34281-some-macks-from-work/#findComment-227572 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaysm35a2 Posted January 19, 2014 Share Posted January 19, 2014 Dumb question , without taking the truck apart fully, could the frame rails be fixed on it?I found a R double frame here in CO, but the rails n the back have split real bad. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/34281-some-macks-from-work/#findComment-227575 Share on other sites More sharing options...
j hancock Posted January 19, 2014 Share Posted January 19, 2014 The best way to do it is also the hardest and that is to take them all apart.Sometimes the rust twist and cracks things so badly that putting new rails on IS the economical way to go. For folks on the east coast, a call to PG Adams in Vermont will get some really nice new frame rails to do the job correctly.I would think that there are frame vendors in the mid-west and west who offer the service. Quote JimIt doesn't cost anything to pay attention. Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/34281-some-macks-from-work/#findComment-227585 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DailyDiesel Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 Awesome! I think I speak for many others when I say if there are more trucks hanging around the plant please share them! Quote www.dailydieseldose.com Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/34281-some-macks-from-work/#findComment-227925 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Horse Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 To add to MackMB's story, in 1967 I was working at my company's Buffalo operation and we were a supplier to Beth Steels Lackawanna plant. Huge facility. first time I went in there I could not believe all the relatively new big iron running around the facility-and most of these trucks in spite of their relatively new age, did NOT have piece of sheet metal that was not banged up! My memory says the truck of choice at that plant was GMC--JH's??In any case rough environment. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/34281-some-macks-from-work/#findComment-227929 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mackmb212 Posted January 21, 2014 Author Share Posted January 21, 2014 Awesome! I think I speak for many others when I say if there are more trucks hanging around the plant please share them! sadly there isn't any other macks in the plant ,the only other truck is a fraight shaker from the mid 90's. When the Bethlehem plant was divided up and the city made public streets between the shop's we have they couldn't run that dm 800 no more down to the other machine shop so that's why the other truck was bought. I seen that dm loaded one time leaving the shop taking a load of rolls to heat treat with that lowboy loaded down, let me tell ya that dm didn't look like it was working too hard and the guy driving was going way to fast to be safe , I wish I could of got it on camera. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/34281-some-macks-from-work/#findComment-227930 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mackmb212 Posted January 21, 2014 Author Share Posted January 21, 2014 To add to MackMB's story, in 1967 I was working at my company's Buffalo operation and we were a supplier to Beth Steels Lackawanna plant. Huge facility. first time I went in there I could not believe all the relatively new big iron running around the facility-and most of these trucks in spite of their relatively new age, did NOT have piece of sheet metal that was not banged up! My memory says the truck of choice at that plant was GMC--JH's?? In any case rough environment. a friend of mine his dad ran doubles out of the buffalo plant for years he said, he told me many stories about that place. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/34281-some-macks-from-work/#findComment-227932 Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomastractorsvc Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 thanks posting the pictures, neat trucks Quote Robert"I reject your reality and substitute my own." Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/34281-some-macks-from-work/#findComment-227934 Share on other sites More sharing options...
41chevy Posted January 21, 2014 Share Posted January 21, 2014 The DM800 is interesting with the short wheel base and the DM6xx is a rare bird with the steel nose conversion.. Thanks for the pics. Paul Quote "OPERTUNITY IS MISSED BY MOST PEOPLE BECAUSE IT IS DRESSED IN OVERALLS AND LOOKS LIKE WORK" Thomas Edison “Life’s journey is not to arrive at the grave safely, in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting ‘Holy shit, what a ride!’” P.T.CHESHIRE Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/34281-some-macks-from-work/#findComment-227941 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mackmb212 Posted January 21, 2014 Author Share Posted January 21, 2014 The DM800 is interesting with the short wheel base and the DM6xx is a rare bird with the steel nose conversion.. Thanks for the pics. Paulthat Orange dm is exactly what I would like to get except a short wheel base Tandom tractor. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/34281-some-macks-from-work/#findComment-227974 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hicrop10 Posted January 23, 2014 Share Posted January 23, 2014 I can remember seeing that DM when we did work in that plant.I think they used to park it alot right next to the building that the war department still has.That was where most of the gun barrels for all of the ships came from.As far as i know that building is still open. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/34281-some-macks-from-work/#findComment-228217 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mackmb212 Posted January 24, 2014 Author Share Posted January 24, 2014 I can remember seeing that DM when we did work in that plant.I think they used to park it alot right next to the building that the war department still has.That was where most of the gun barrels for all of the ships came from.As far as i know that building is still open.you are correct that building was #8 machine shop, that is the building I work in and it is still a machine shop with some of the biggest machine tools in the world. 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/34281-some-macks-from-work/#findComment-228309 Share on other sites More sharing options...
57 bcr Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 Nice pics 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/34281-some-macks-from-work/#findComment-228316 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mackey58 Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 So that mill is still runnin I ve been in us steel in Gary I bet back in the day it was goin nuts there its runnin but not like it was I bet Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/34281-some-macks-from-work/#findComment-228326 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mackmb212 Posted January 24, 2014 Author Share Posted January 24, 2014 So that mill is still runnin I ve been in us steel in Gary I bet back in the day it was goin nuts there its runnin but not like it was I betif you mean mill as rolling mill thats long long gone. The only industry left on that bethlehem steel site it's forging and machining. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/34281-some-macks-from-work/#findComment-228327 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mackey58 Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 Yea that's what thought Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/34281-some-macks-from-work/#findComment-228528 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DigDug Posted January 25, 2014 Share Posted January 25, 2014 Nice 800 ! A real truck. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/34281-some-macks-from-work/#findComment-228620 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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