Mark T Posted March 31, 2023 Share Posted March 31, 2023 2 hours ago, tjc transport said: the stacks were a joke. 😁 plan is to bring the pipe out low, with muffler close to set, than run the pipe along the chimney close to the top and then have a turndown to keep rainwater out. outlet of exhaust will be around 20 foot up. this should eliminate most of the noise. ya big tease 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/71001-sidetrack-area/page/20/#findComment-528265 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjc transport Posted March 31, 2023 Share Posted March 31, 2023 1 hour ago, The Rubber Duck 006 said: Nice I love them old Trucks like that. It was hard to tell the year especially with the square headlights. Towards the end of 78 they started changing to the squares instead of the rounds. Also the 78 year trucks tended to not rust out as fast or as bad as the 79s. Lol this 78 is excellent cab except for the gray primer over the Light Jade Metallic paint and green shag carpet all over the interior. my 79 camper special has the roof rot on the outside. anything over 30-35 mph the outside roof pan lifts like a sail. i had to park it before the roof pan ripped off and flew away. 1 Quote when you are up to your armpits in alligators, it is hard to remember you only came in to drain the swamp.. Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/71001-sidetrack-area/page/20/#findComment-528268 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joey Mack Posted March 31, 2023 Share Posted March 31, 2023 You got me again,, TJC.. and it wont be the last !!!! 🍻 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/71001-sidetrack-area/page/20/#findComment-528271 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Horse Posted April 1, 2023 Share Posted April 1, 2023 9 hours ago, tjc transport said: he he . that was my username on the falcon site for 30 years. it is a 65 2 Door hardtop. 289 with C4 trans, and 52,000 miles on it. came from florida. driver side head gasket was seeping coolant into the oil, so i pulled it apart to freshen the engine. i am not $8,000 into the "freshen of the engine" with a 400 hp 302, fresh trans, limited slip rear, front disc brakes, stripped to bare metal and epoxy primered, new floorboards, new interior, power windows, and just about everything else new or restored. i am hoping to have it finished by fall. Very Nice!. Every now and then one of those will show up at BJ or Mecom auctions..a nice alternative to Mustangs/Camaros. Old guy that I am I remember when in 63 they were really into performance and they came out with the Falcon Sprint, first time they stuck a V-8-a 260, in the Falcon. 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/71001-sidetrack-area/page/20/#findComment-528294 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post 70mackMB Posted April 1, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted April 1, 2023 4 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/71001-sidetrack-area/page/20/#findComment-528303 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Red Horse Posted April 1, 2023 Share Posted April 1, 2023 4 hours ago, 70mackMB said: Very good Hippy...but as Sleepy Joe would say....."No Joke"! Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/71001-sidetrack-area/page/20/#findComment-528321 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrsmackpaul Posted April 1, 2023 Share Posted April 1, 2023 Well big changes are a foot for my life Princess reckons, and has for some years now that she is over septic tanks, pressure pumps, relying on rain water, cranky animals, peace and quite and has politely suggested with more reoccurring vigour that she wants a house in town So like many well trained men of the world I finally did as I was told and bought a old house in town Settlement was last Friday I'm in for a different life now, a life of no more nudy runs thats for sure 🤪 The real estate agent photo is a bit flasher than mine Hello town life, lucky it is a small town of a few thousand and not few million Paul 1 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/71001-sidetrack-area/page/20/#findComment-528337 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrsmackpaul Posted April 1, 2023 Share Posted April 1, 2023 Hmm, gunna have to start wearing my town hat now I guess Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/71001-sidetrack-area/page/20/#findComment-528338 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark T Posted April 1, 2023 Share Posted April 1, 2023 Congratulations Paul , hope you have an easy time settling in. Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/71001-sidetrack-area/page/20/#findComment-528341 Share on other sites More sharing options...
70mackMB Posted April 2, 2023 Share Posted April 2, 2023 Paul, Your buying and lm trying to sell! ls there room for you to park Mrs. Mack in the yard? Looks like a real nice place, wish my lawn looked like that! .....Hippy Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/71001-sidetrack-area/page/20/#findComment-528345 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrsmackpaul Posted April 2, 2023 Share Posted April 2, 2023 Well not yet Hippy, the trucks and trailers and tractors and dozers and farm machinery will stay put for a while and I'll slowly work out what I'm doing Has a big back yard with front and side entrance so a shed is definitely on the cards once some jobs get done to the house Gunna have to make it a tidy stylish affair for in the middle of town, the shed that is Paul Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/71001-sidetrack-area/page/20/#findComment-528346 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brocky Posted April 2, 2023 Share Posted April 2, 2023 Paul, I know you have to keep the Princess happy, BUT BUT better you than me!! I do not think I could take the town life.. I need my elbow space!! 1 Quote Brocky Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/71001-sidetrack-area/page/20/#findComment-528348 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mechohaulic Posted April 2, 2023 Share Posted April 2, 2023 my wife is talking of getting out of renting and buying AGAIN. well after spending the day at my daughters working on house they just bought yesterday ::: renting works for me. can't bend or move well now. ""Dad , sink has a problem " == well who's going to bend that far down under sink !!! LOL with the help of an excavator 2 yrs ago where we are now has a very private swimming hole . oh ya Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/71001-sidetrack-area/page/20/#findComment-528350 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mowerman Posted April 2, 2023 Author Share Posted April 2, 2023 38 minutes ago, 70mackMB said: Paul, Your buying and lm trying to sell! ls there room for you to park Mrs. Mack in the yard? Looks like a real nice place, wish my lawn looked like that! .....Hippy Mine usually does… I’m lucky there And good luck paul Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/71001-sidetrack-area/page/20/#findComment-528353 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mean Green Posted April 2, 2023 Share Posted April 2, 2023 Congratulations Paul looks like a nice place you got . just remember happy wife happy life 1 Quote If your going to be a bear be a grizzly Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/71001-sidetrack-area/page/20/#findComment-528424 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mowerman Posted April 2, 2023 Author Share Posted April 2, 2023 20 hours ago, mechohaulic said: my wife is talking of getting out of renting and buying AGAIN. well after spending the day at my daughters working on house they just bought yesterday ::: renting works for me. can't bend or move well now. ""Dad , sink has a problem " == well who's going to bend that far down under sink !!! LOL with the help of an excavator 2 yrs ago where we are now has a very private swimming hole . oh ya Sometimes I think the same way get rid of everything and move in to an apartment sometimes that sounds a lot easier … Bob 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/71001-sidetrack-area/page/20/#findComment-528428 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrsmackpaul Posted April 2, 2023 Share Posted April 2, 2023 Dunno about keeping the cook happy, it's a bloody challenge these days I can tell yah 🤔😁 Anyway the Princess would of liked a new brick verneer Mac-Mansion but there was no way that was gunna happen, not a bloody chance The old parts of country towns in my part of Australia are all big old houses with big verandahs and big tall ceilings Big trees for lots of shade in summer and nice big blocks You cant build character in a Mac-Mansion as much as they try to bling them up with theater rooms and stuff At a guess it's about 90 years old which for this part of Australia is pretty old Should do up into a nice pad, there weren't many two story houses in Australia until maybe 20 or 30 years ago when when they started building the Mac-Mansions Oh what I call a Mac-Mansion is like going to a MacDonald's restaurant, everything is super sized and over the top Paul 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/71001-sidetrack-area/page/20/#findComment-528429 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mowerman Posted April 2, 2023 Author Share Posted April 2, 2023 Thanks for that I was wondering what that meant myself … just on vacation in San Diego was considering moving there till this trip … anything decent in a average area is 700,000 and up whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat????? Well never mind I guess Reno it is!!!!! Bob Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/71001-sidetrack-area/page/20/#findComment-528430 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tjc transport Posted April 2, 2023 Share Posted April 2, 2023 we have them here too Paul. 20,000 square foot house on a 1/4 acre lot. mercedes and lexus in the driveway, and no furnature inside. all about looking like you have more money than brains. 1 Quote when you are up to your armpits in alligators, it is hard to remember you only came in to drain the swamp.. Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/71001-sidetrack-area/page/20/#findComment-528431 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mowerman Posted April 2, 2023 Author Share Posted April 2, 2023 Same thing here just about every developer is building a huge homes on no land.. bob 1 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/71001-sidetrack-area/page/20/#findComment-528435 Share on other sites More sharing options...
66dc75 Posted April 2, 2023 Share Posted April 2, 2023 58 minutes ago, tjc transport said: we have them here too Paul. 20,000 square foot house on a 1/4 acre lot. mercedes and lexus in the driveway, and no furnature inside. all about looking like you have more money than brains. Yup phoney millionaires one financial hiccup and it's foreclosure time. 2 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/71001-sidetrack-area/page/20/#findComment-528438 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hayseed Posted April 2, 2023 Share Posted April 2, 2023 On 4/2/2023 at 10:20 AM, mrsmackpaul said: the trucks and trailers and tractors and dozers and farm machinery will stay put for a while and I'll slowly work out what I'm doing Paul, When we Moved into Town. I bought a Block in the Industrial Estate For My Shed & Boy Toy Storage. If something Happens to me the Kids can sell My crap, Wife can Rent (or sell )The Shed without having to Move.. Or She We can Move House Or Downsize as we get Older without having to Move/Sell all My Crap.. 1 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/71001-sidetrack-area/page/20/#findComment-528439 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Joey Mack Posted April 2, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted April 2, 2023 I dont have a Taj Mahal,,, but I own ALL of what I have.. I have a stack of titles in my safe.. It still costs money to maintain my Many possessions.. I aint no Richie Rich.. Just Jojo... 🤣🍻 6 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/71001-sidetrack-area/page/20/#findComment-528440 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post other dog Posted April 3, 2023 Popular Post Share Posted April 3, 2023 1 hour ago, Joey Mack said: I dont have a Taj Mahal,,, but I own ALL of what I have.. I have a stack of titles in my safe.. It still costs money to maintain my Many possessions.. I aint no Richie Rich.. Just Jojo... 🤣🍻 That's me- I ain't got much, but it's all paid for. We're moving from this place in Gladys- that's my Christmas decorations in the driveway by the way. I spray painted that root and it stays painted year round 🤣...anyhow, To this place that we bought in Spout Spring,Va. After we pretty much gave up on finding a home for sale, we decided to look into getting a piece of land and just putting a single wide mobile or modular home on it. We found an acre in Pamplin, of course we would have to have it cleared and a well and septic system put in. We went to the mobile or modular home getting place to look at what was available, and they're really nice now- super nice. The one we decided on was $95,000 just for the home. And this one we bought, already there, set up, was the exact same model that we had picked, on an acre of land, and only 3 years old, was $130,000. It's a 76x16, 2 feets wider and 10 feets longer than here. And we've already had two people asking about buying this place. 3 Quote Producer of poorly photo-chopped pictures since 1999. Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/71001-sidetrack-area/page/20/#findComment-528442 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrsmackpaul Posted April 3, 2023 Share Posted April 3, 2023 2 hours ago, Hayseed said: Paul, When we Moved into Town. I bought a Block in the Industrial Estate For My Shed & Boy Toy Storage. If something Happens to me the Kids can sell My crap, Wife can Rent (or sell )The Shed without having to Move.. Or She We can Move House Or Downsize as we get Older without having to Move/Sell all My Crap.. Pretty much what Im doing Seed, has been a slow process but I'm getting there Paul 2 Quote Link to comment https://www.bigmacktrucks.com/topic/71001-sidetrack-area/page/20/#findComment-528443 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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