Just some work pics

[crane operator]

I drove our last mack home from tulsa, which is a 5 hour drive, without a hiccup. But its standard size tires (that were good tires). 11r all the way around. And a lot more common drivetrain.

I've sent our truck to western kansas with our lowboy hauling military trucks (which cost 2 trailer tires, on the road), I drove the western star home from oklahoma, and took it to dallas to pickup our double drop. Lost a air line coming from oklahoma, and caught a overtight wheel bearing on the trailer, which I chained up to get home from dallas.

This new truck is 425 steers and 315 drives, which usually aren't as easy to find on the road.

I've driven cranes home and I've had them hauled, and if the numbers $ are any where close, I'll have them hauled. I would rather fix problems close to home.

 

[Old Doug]

My Dad and several of his buddys bought and sold everything. So they needed trucks to haul stuff and they bought and sold used trucks if they found a deal. Even before I had a licence i would go and do mechanic work to get stuff home. Nobody had much money so if they could make it home under their own power that was money saved and most of the time money they didnt have. I enjoyed it even though i know there was a really good chance i wouldnt get paid right away or in money but when they treated me good i always got fed and if they had something i wanted it was mine for the asking. They all know i liked tools and if they ran a cross any one guy sold tools i could have or buy them cheap. I dont blame anyone for hauling an unknown home but those were good times we were very lucky.

 

[4x4ford]

Send a pickup with a couple spares a jack and some tire irons to follow it back

 

[Natman]

I drove our last mack home from tulsa, which is a 5 hour drive, without a hiccup. But its standard size tires (that were good tires). 11r all the way around. And a lot more common drivetrain.

I've sent our truck to western kansas with our lowboy hauling military trucks (which cost 2 trailer tires, on the road), I drove the western star home from oklahoma, and took it to dallas to pickup our double drop. Lost a air line coming from oklahoma, and caught a overtight wheel bearing on the trailer, which I chained up to get home from dallas.

This new truck is 425 steers and 315 drives, which usually aren't as easy to find on the road.

I've driven cranes home and I've had them hauled, and if the numbers $ are any where close, I'll have them hauled. I would rather fix problems close to home.

I bought one of my boom trucks in Tampa FL, late on a Friday, somehow I pulled into my Monday morning job back in Idaho at 8, exactly as scheduled, Monday morning. Years ago, I don't recall if I even had a CDL yet, my earlier rigs didn't need one, and I sure didn't know about the required rest periods. I'm pretty sure the statue of limitations on getting charged for that have expired?

 

[crane operator]

Big mack showed up yesterday. The guys unloaded it, said the inside is pretty nice. One guy texted me "that's the nicest truck I've ever been in". We run mostly older stuff.

More info has surfaced about the truck. It got damaged on the passenger side sometime in the past. Wiped out a fuel tank and hit the rears. Its been kicking around damaged for a few years, and now it got band aided enough to sell it to me....

The aux box is damaged, and one rear may have a crack in the horizontal weld in the housing. Need to get out a stringline, I think the one frame rail has a slight bend at the rear.

The wet kit/ all hydraulics have been removed. I've got a wet kit, but I don't know what Mack uses for gears on the inside- if they are a straight or beveled gear. It does look like there are two SAE ports on the passenger side of the transmission. The other option is a external gear on the back of the engine, for a constant on PTO. Reminds me of the rear aux. drive structure on a detroit. I think for our purposes a trans. mounted one will be fine.

Has a bolted on/ swiveling 5th wheel plate, which makes for a really tall 5th wheel. I've got a short slider we should be able to put on it.

So its going to need some work. So far, doesn't look like anything we can't fix.

Its the tallest cab truck I've been around. Reminds me of getting in and out of a cabover. I think you could almost crawl between the bottom of the cab and the top of the transmission. There's also a huge doghouse opening if you needed to pull a head. I'm not really sure why they put the cab up so high on these trucks.

I'm kicking around shortening up the wheelbase, but I'm guessing that wouldn't be loads of fun redrilling the triple frame....

 

[crane operator]

You can see how tall it is , compared to the pete and kw

 

[crane operator]

Got three steps up to get inside, plenty of room under the cab.

The broken aux box, and it's got some oversized brake cans. They are the size of rotochambers, but I don't know if that's what they are.

 

[crane operator]

The aux box is broken out where this mount bolt is. You can see where they have some weld goobered on the top. the back of the box is broken out also.

 

[crane operator]

Back side of the box, by the broken mount. I don't know what's all smeared or welded in there, but its getting dropped and checked out, before we take off with a load on it.

 

[Oxbow]

Back side of the box, by the broken mount. I don't know what's all smeared or welded in there, but its getting dropped and checked out, before we take off with a load on it.

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Surely with the 18 speed and the planetary rears you could spend a bit on drivelines and do away with the aux.

Thinking out loud here.

 

[crane operator]

Surely with the 18 speed and the planetary rears you could spend a bit on drivelines and do away with the aux.

Thinking out loud here.

I've already had that thought. The rears are 5.02's, so the extra overdrive in the aux would be nice empty.

There's actually a guy in Florida, that owns the sister truck to this truck. The trucks are numbers 1&2 of 2 made alike. We've already talked on the phone, and he would like to fly someone out to look at it. If he really wants it, I would like to sell it to him before I butcher it up to make it what we want.

There's not that many of them out there, and if I was doing what he does, I think I'd want this one sitting in my yard for parts, or using it. He's doing coast to coast heavy haul, and it would be tough to be down in that game. I can find a different truck, if he wants this one.

 

[Oxbow]

I've already had that thought. The rears are 5.02's, so the extra overdrive in the aux would be nice empty.

There's actually a guy in Florida, that owns the sister truck to this truck. The trucks are numbers 1&2 of 2 made alike. We've already talked on the phone, and he would like to fly someone out to look at it. If he really wants it, I would like to sell it to him before I butcher it up to make it what we want.

There's not that many of them out there, and if I was doing what he does, I think I'd want this one sitting in my yard for parts, or using it. He's doing coast to coast heavy haul, and it would be tough to be down in that game. I can find a different truck, if he wants this one.

I didn’t know what your rear ratio was. You would be a bit gear-bound without the overdrive in the aux.

 

[hvy 1ton]

Its the tallest cab truck I've been around. Reminds me of getting in and out of a cabover. I think you could almost crawl between the bottom of the cab and the top of the transmission. There's also a huge doghouse opening if you needed to pull a head. I'm not really sure why they put the cab up so high on these trucks.

Titans were originally designed for the Australian market and the high cab helps with low-speed cooling. Aussie designed Kenworth SARs are also 3 steps to the cab.

 

[pushbroom]

The brake pots were probably haldex ksc36's now replaced with MJM mjs36 pots. Most of the SISU axles had those weird pots.

 

[crane operator]

Got a used Spicer box. Now to build one out of two.

One of my guys called and said the outrigger beam wouldn't retract. Here's the problem.

 

[crane operator]

Getting close. Boom is back in it now, and it's going to a job Monday. Don't have the jib back on, but we don't need jib for Monday. Mount it when we get back.

 

[crane operator]

Busy setting trusses

 

[crane operator]

I had to stare at this for a while, and press some buttons before I got it all set up right.

It isn't as complicated as a liebherr Liccon, but you have to press the buttons in the right order or it won't work.

I admit to seeing if the bypass key was still working, because that would have been simpler.

 

[crane operator]

Shoved the nice, new painted boom in that tree ,all day long setting trusses. Hot tub guy on the next job , asked how we liked our brand new crane. I admitted it was 20 years old with a fresh paint job.

Got a new tester, my old one disappeared to the other shop.

O Riley's new computer system doesn't identify what switches are like, I needed momentary -off -momentary. So anymore we just order 5 different ones and see what shows up.

 

[crane operator]

Setting a generator. 100 ton in a communication site.

One of the guys went and picked up this lift axle for the mack lowboy puller. I need another one for the mack counterweight truck also, I can get by without a drive line drop on that one.

Chasing down pump specs for one of the Grove 40 tons. It's shucked the power steering/ outrigger constant pump. Grove wants 15 days and over $7,000 for it, so we're exploring options. I don't know why the ps isn't just on a engine mounted pump, instead of combining with outriggers with a priority valve, but I'm not a Grove engineer.