Popular Post mrsmackpaul Posted December 12, 2017 Author Popular Post Share Posted December 12, 2017 Well new brakes, upgraded to maxi's on the trailer, new shoes new drums , led lights, new rocker boxes, fresh donuts and the old McGrath finally passed a roadworthy inspection Now to super glue a ring feeder on the back and she is good to go And some other photos of this end of this wide but brown land All this work is been done on Mals farm my very good friend who sprayed Mrs Mack So a big thanks to Mal and his Mrs "Mrs Mac" for putting up with me for a week or so Seeya Paul 3 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/50535-extreme-make-over-time-for-mrs-mack/page/7/#findComment-387285 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swishy Posted December 12, 2017 Share Posted December 12, 2017 L@@kn good Mrs Haz U got a tin of jam to thro ovr the ol Steco? not that it needs it If it looks good wen U pass the authorities here in Vic .................. it must B good cya §wishy Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/50535-extreme-make-over-time-for-mrs-mack/page/7/#findComment-387295 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrsmackpaul Posted December 12, 2017 Author Share Posted December 12, 2017 Swish to sand blast both the trailers and dolly and repaint in the brown and beige is on the list of this to be done not enough time at the moment though Paul Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/50535-extreme-make-over-time-for-mrs-mack/page/7/#findComment-387307 Share on other sites More sharing options...
j hancock Posted December 12, 2017 Share Posted December 12, 2017 Lots of miles. Good thing Molly knows how to read a map. Quote JimIt doesn't cost anything to pay attention. Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/50535-extreme-make-over-time-for-mrs-mack/page/7/#findComment-387313 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gxbxc Posted December 12, 2017 Share Posted December 12, 2017 sir :that second bridge you showed looked like a triple truss Baily bridge ,is it temporary or a permanent structure. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/50535-extreme-make-over-time-for-mrs-mack/page/7/#findComment-387314 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrsmackpaul Posted December 13, 2017 Author Share Posted December 13, 2017 6 hours ago, gxbxc said: sir :that second bridge you showed looked like a triple truss Baily bridge ,is it temporary or a permanent structure. Temporary bridge over the Murray river the old lifting span bridge is been repaired The centre section lifts to let paddle steamers thru 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/50535-extreme-make-over-time-for-mrs-mack/page/7/#findComment-387331 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post mrsmackpaul Posted December 20, 2017 Author Popular Post Share Posted December 20, 2017 Rolled back into QLD yesterday arvo , over a 100 in the shade and Miss Molly and I was a bit over it so stopped for a hour or so before heading north and calling it a night at Miles, slept like s baby beside the truck in the gutter after having a tub (shower) Welcome to Queensland lol Struck a blow at 5.00 am before it got hot again to try and get back to the coast before lunch for the sea breeze and a cooler day Back in the tropics now and about to launch it for homePulled up at Rockhampton as the book of lies told me it was time and more modern Mack pulled in behind Any way should be home tonight Paul 5 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/50535-extreme-make-over-time-for-mrs-mack/page/7/#findComment-387775 Share on other sites More sharing options...
david wild Posted December 20, 2017 Share Posted December 20, 2017 Funny how they say we drive on the wrong side, most of EU drives on the same side as us, the only reason that the brits and their hostages drive on the other side is because they won't do anything that the colonies might do, if we go left they go right just because they are always right, had SAS in Iraq tell me every day how brits invented this and that, even the wheel, I reminded him that we figured out how to put air in them for a better ride, didn't talk to me for a whole day, silence can be golden. 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/50535-extreme-make-over-time-for-mrs-mack/page/7/#findComment-387784 Share on other sites More sharing options...
85snowdog Posted December 20, 2017 Share Posted December 20, 2017 Thanks for sharing your pics with us Paul. I'm pretty sure I will never see the land down under. But your pics get me a little closer. Forgive me if this has been asked already…….. but do you have to keep a log book ? I'm thinking if I got stopped by the DOT in a day cab, If I told them I slept in the gutter beside the truck .Even if the weather was appropriate , They would just haul me off to jail. LOL 1 Quote Keith Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/50535-extreme-make-over-time-for-mrs-mack/page/7/#findComment-387846 Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlotpilot Posted December 20, 2017 Share Posted December 20, 2017 i don`t know about canada but a cross country trip in a day cab here requires a motel reciept for every night on the road. what paul mentioned was not that uncommon here in the late 50s -early sixties 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/50535-extreme-make-over-time-for-mrs-mack/page/7/#findComment-387850 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post mrsmackpaul Posted December 20, 2017 Author Popular Post Share Posted December 20, 2017 (edited) Keith we have a log book and I have always called it the book of lies I have never been hassled by any law enforcement person or anyone else for sleeping beside the truck We can do 12 hours on the eastern side of Australia and if you do some training course and get "basic fatigue" you can do 14 hours of driving Over on the West and in the NT it's still up to the driver I think Heading north up the coast to Mackay and back beside the Coral Sea, yep that same big lump of blue our men fought over 60 years ago, thinking about this sought of makes my dramas of today seem pretty bloody piss weak hey Rolling thru Mackay and a thought occurred to me that a lot of our for fathers yours and mine did their training before been deployed to the Pacific during WW2 So thought you blokes may have been interested in seeing it all The troupes trained all up the east coast trying to get them ready for the jungle I cant help but wonder what the young men were thinking from the northern parts of US and Canada and I guess other parts of the world Anyway rolled back into Ayr in the evening back over the bridge I headed south on the other day a few weeks ago Some useless pic's of stuff all but you may or may not And hear you go the dogs ass up side down or right side depending on what part of the world you are looking at it from LOL seeya Paul Edited December 20, 2017 by mrsmackpaul 3 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/50535-extreme-make-over-time-for-mrs-mack/page/7/#findComment-387852 Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlotpilot Posted December 21, 2017 Share Posted December 21, 2017 paul to many pictures is not enough keep sendin em Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/50535-extreme-make-over-time-for-mrs-mack/page/7/#findComment-387853 Share on other sites More sharing options...
41chevy Posted December 21, 2017 Share Posted December 21, 2017 Interesting the hole for the radiator cap in the hood. Factory? 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/50535-extreme-make-over-time-for-mrs-mack/page/7/#findComment-387857 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrsmackpaul Posted December 21, 2017 Author Share Posted December 21, 2017 5 hours ago, 41chevy said: Interesting the hole for the radiator cap in the hood. Factory? Paul No not factory but that and the cut out in the guard (wheel well I think you blokes call it saves dropping the bar to do the daily checks and when the bug deflector is on you can't see the hole from the ground or the cab Parked at Bowen late yesterday arvo Bowen is were the film Australia was filmed and used as the prop for Darwin during filming Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/50535-extreme-make-over-time-for-mrs-mack/page/7/#findComment-387867 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swishy Posted December 21, 2017 Share Posted December 21, 2017 Mrs Gudday m8 Gr8 pix keep m cummin Yes we stak m too cya §wishy 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/50535-extreme-make-over-time-for-mrs-mack/page/7/#findComment-387868 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Timmyb Posted December 21, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted December 21, 2017 I was going to ask about the hole also. For what it’s worth, a semi trailer or rigid doesn’t need a log book in WA. You only need a log book in order to get accreditation and run road trains, b-doubles or oversize. I’ve never had my log book checked in over 10 years. And still only allowed 72 hours a week, but you can do up to 16 hours a day and less later in the week. Its a flexible system and it works great. 3 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/50535-extreme-make-over-time-for-mrs-mack/page/7/#findComment-387869 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrsmackpaul Posted December 21, 2017 Author Share Posted December 21, 2017 1 hour ago, Swishy said: Mrs Gudday m8 Gr8 pix keep m cummin Yes we stak m too cya §wishy Swish man I wasnt even really trying LOL Looks like a folder for every occasion Paul Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/50535-extreme-make-over-time-for-mrs-mack/page/7/#findComment-387870 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brocky Posted December 21, 2017 Share Posted December 21, 2017 15 hours ago, 85snowdog said: Thanks for sharing your pics with us Paul. I'm pretty sure I will never see the land down under. But your pics get me a little closer. Forgive me if this has been asked already…….. but do you have to keep a log book ? I'm thinking if I got stopped by the DOT in a day cab, If I told them I slept in the gutter beside the truck .Even if the weather was appropriate , They would just haul me off to jail. LOL Snowdog and others: Start saving your pennies!!! Stephanie Anton is working on tours for both the "Haulin of the Hume" in 2019 and Truckie's Reunion in Alice Springs in 2020. I will post the info in a separate topic when it becomes available. 1 Quote Brocky Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/50535-extreme-make-over-time-for-mrs-mack/page/7/#findComment-387889 Share on other sites More sharing options...
85snowdog Posted December 21, 2017 Share Posted December 21, 2017 Thanks Paul, for the info and the narrated tour of your countryside. I enjoyed your videos so much , I think you would do a good job of some Australian country side videos. I can see it now…….. "The adventures of Paul and Miss Molly" Thanks again , Safe travels 1 Quote Keith Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/50535-extreme-make-over-time-for-mrs-mack/page/7/#findComment-387917 Share on other sites More sharing options...
85snowdog Posted December 21, 2017 Share Posted December 21, 2017 8 hours ago, Brocky said: Snowdog and others: Start saving your pennies!!! Stephanie Anton is working on tours for both the "Haulin of the Hume" in 2019 and Truckie's Reunion in Alice Springs in 2020. I will post the info in a separate topic when it becomes available. I think that would be a great experience . Unfortunately, Even if I could save the money for it . I don't think I could do the long flights. Quote Keith Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/50535-extreme-make-over-time-for-mrs-mack/page/7/#findComment-387920 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrsmackpaul Posted December 22, 2017 Author Share Posted December 22, 2017 12 hours ago, 85snowdog said: Thanks Paul, for the info and the narrated tour of your countryside. I enjoyed your videos so much , I think you would do a good job of some Australian country side videos. I can see it now…….. "The adventures of Paul and Miss Molly" Thanks again , Safe travels I have thought about making a video of a road trip but Molly cant hold a camera any good lol Paul 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/50535-extreme-make-over-time-for-mrs-mack/page/7/#findComment-387945 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brocky Posted December 22, 2017 Share Posted December 22, 2017 Paul, Thanks for all your pictures of the countryside.. Keep them coming!!! You can do the Aussie version of Other Dog's travel reports.. Here is a link to a lot of pictures, and some BS, from the 2015 ATHS tour to the Truckie's Hall of Fame Reunion. Both trucks and countryside.. I am assuming that Stephanie will put together a good similar mix for the future trips she is planning. http://forums.justoldtrucks.com/84264/Down-Under-Trip?Keywords=Down Under Trip Quote Brocky Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/50535-extreme-make-over-time-for-mrs-mack/page/7/#findComment-387952 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vladislav Posted December 23, 2017 Share Posted December 23, 2017 Paul, as others said. It's pleasure to see your country And from the cab of your Mack too. 1 Quote Никогда не бывает слишком много грузовиков! leversole 11.2012 Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/50535-extreme-make-over-time-for-mrs-mack/page/7/#findComment-388049 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Black Posted December 28, 2017 Share Posted December 28, 2017 Great to see the effort your going to for the R600. The rust around the top is fairly standard in tropical Queensland. Hard to keep it under control on non-galv cabs. Can't wait to see the finished job. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/50535-extreme-make-over-time-for-mrs-mack/page/7/#findComment-388375 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hayseed Posted December 28, 2017 Share Posted December 28, 2017 Swishy, What's the Go with the Turntable mounted backwards on the Stacked trailer??? EMNTK... Quote "Be who you are and say what you feel...Because those that matter...don't mind...And those that mind....don't matter." - Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/50535-extreme-make-over-time-for-mrs-mack/page/7/#findComment-388376 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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