Muck Boots 'n' Slickers - Life of a Livestock Hauler

JolliRoger · Jul 13, 2025

Oldman83 said: ↑

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To this.
Support for the fuel line that goes to the front of the head.
This mechanical N-14 only had a single fuel line feeding into the rear head.
I got a Pittsburgh Power dual fuel line kit, and 6 months in the pump end of the front line cracked at the flare. Modified it, and 2 months later the head end cracked at the flare.
Pittsburgh says, “Oh, it is supposed to be supported.”
Nice to know, but nothing was included in the original kit to support it.
Buy a new line (no warranty on the original one), but it’s the wrong line.
Finally get the correct line, and this is my solution to support it.
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Very nice...
Nothing in the final proper one for support either, huh?
Goes back to: "If you want something done right, do it yourself...."

JolliRoger · Jul 13, 2025

Sons Hero said: ↑

Me three
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Us also...

JolliRoger · Jul 13, 2025

Deere hunter said: ↑

The cab over. So I have a friend that's somewhat interested in Trucking and he owns a body shop. He buys this 86 Pete cab over because he wants to fix it up and trick it out. well it's got a pretty bad knock in the motor so he calls me one day and wants me to come and look at it.
I've always kind of wanted a cab over just to have a little fun with and trick out myself. so other than a knock in the motor it seems like a pretty decent truck and still in pretty good shape. So I give him $4500 and bring it home, knowing that I already have a motor that I can put in it. so six months or so go by and in between work I get the motor and the transmission put in it.
About this time I'm in the transition of getting rid of Trucks and going to o/o's. I'm down to one driver, so I put him in the cab over while we're moving equipment for a big farm from Texas to South Carolina.
on one of the return trips He has an accident in Fort Worth and insurance cancels him. Bends the bumper on the cab over but that was about it so we get it home and it sits in the yard for another six months.
One of the owner operators who worked for me out of New Mexico blows the motor in his Kenworth. Doesn't have the money to fix it so we put him in the cab over. I don't know this guy real well and he's somewhat of a fly-by-night. But it's one of those guys that has a lot of hard luck and a sob story so I make him a deal to sell him the cab over. he sells his Kenworth and gives me about 3/4 of what I wanted for the cab over. Maybe a dumb move on my part but I give him the title to the truck cause I want him to switch it over and I don't want my name on it in case he has a wreck or something. He tells me he's gotta go haul hay for a week for this guy he owes to and he'll give me a call when he's done and that's the last I ever heard of him.
After trying to track him down for a while, found out that he was in a pretty big drug scene around Roswell, New Mexico. so needless to say it was getting pretty sketchy. Washed my hands of it and moved on. 12 years later, I get a phone call from a guy in Arizona who says he track down the ownership of this cab over sitting in this lot and wants to know if I would sell it to him. I said send me some pictures. He tells me the owner of this property paid this guy $5000 for the truck 10 years ago and never got the title. And the owner of property now wants the truck gone.So we called the DMV and found out the truck was still in my name. Now he wants to buy it But I'm not too sure. I may go pick it up. It looks like they've robbed a few parts off of it like a fuel tank, but the guy says it was running fine when they parked it there. There's a camper hooked to the back of it and I guess the guy I sold the truck to lived in that camper for a couple of years on that property. So pretty much it sounds like he left Roswell and went to Arizona and that's where he stayed for a couple of years before he sold the truck to the owner of the property. So I guess the truck really doesn't have any more miles on it than when I sold it to him, or very few. so the guy the neighbor of the property owner that wants to buy. It says he'll give me 2500 cash for the title.
so what do you think? Should I go pick it up or just wash my hands of it again and sell it.
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Tell him $3500.00 wired in and it is his. Bill of sale to read: Vehicle sold As is, Where is, with all faults.
You sign as seller, he as Buyer. Completed when $ is in hand.

JolliRoger · Jul 13, 2025

exhausted379 said: ↑

And here I thought I was the only one who got into sh it like that.
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Nah, Do you remember an old program (Radio -TV) the Naked city.
It went something like : The Naked City has a thousand stories... then launched in to that days segment...
Well, with trucks and drivers/owners, a thousand stories a lot alike is just a start...

Deere hunter · Jul 13, 2025

JolliRoger said: ↑

Tell him $3500.00 wired in and it is his. Bill of sale to read: Vehicle sold As is, Where is, with all faults.
You sign as seller, he as Buyer. Completed when $ is in hand.
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Sounds good. I just don't have time to mess with it anymore. By the time I loaded up went and got it got it home all those expenses. I just think it's better to get rid of it. I would've never even known about it if this guy hadn't called me. Sounds like a young guy who's tired of tearing up his one ton daully hauling hay. He would like to have something a little bigger so I don't mind helping him out if that's what he wants to do. Lord knows enough people have helped me out over the years.

Deere hunter · Jul 13, 2025

JolliRoger said: ↑

Nah, Do you remember an old program (Radio -TV) the Naked city.
It went something like : The Naked City has a thousand stories... then launched in to that days segment...
Well, with trucks and drivers/owners, a thousand stories a lot alike is just a start...
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Believe me if you've drove Trucks , had drivers for 45 years. You have plenty of stories some you don't even believe yourself....

JolliRoger · Jul 13, 2025

Deere hunter said: ↑

Sounds good. I just don't have time to mess with it anymore. By the time I loaded up went and got it got it home all those expenses. I just think it's better to get rid of it. I would've never even known about it if this guy hadn't called me. Sounds like a young guy who's tired of tearing up his one ton daully hauling hay. He would like to have something a little bigger so I don't mind helping him out if that's what he wants to do. Lord knows enough people have helped me out over the years.
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What you are looking for is a "quick detach" from it. Any claims for work done on it, any storage (parked there) fees, or some concocted lein on it. Statue of limitations will pretty well clear any thing, even some recorded (7)years, but every #### hand is out now and scratching "fo yo muny...."
The 3500 is just a chunk to throw in the road and not lay down to get run over by their 1st offer. I like to show resistance....

Hey, Post the results you get on this, we all are interested.

JolliRoger · Jul 13, 2025

wore out said: ↑

Bus glass has a brow on top as well as bottom that’s tinted darker than normal. I used to put tint on bottom of mine till Arkansas tore my lil ### up about it. It definitely takes the glare off the top of your hood. One thing I never understood is why the bus needed that tint on bottom with no hood
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Try running West afterr 1 PM in a B61 Mack with a chrome grill...

Texasgordo · Jul 13, 2025

Deere hunter said: ↑

Well I've seen people flip windows and put the shade on the bottom. I just didn't know what it was called. I bought a 359 from a Cow hauler in Brownwood and he would do that all the time.
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Do you have pictures of the 359? Please share if you do.

JolliRoger · Jul 13, 2025

High Stepper said: ↑

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Speaking of knives, I found this one open laying in a CVS parking lot on my way to the gym this morning. It looks like they sharpened it with a bench grinder but the blade is still straight.

I'm not complaining, it's free. Hope everyone has a good Sunday, this outlaw life has to be put on pause for church.
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Whet rock, spit, and lotta elbow action. Work their ground edge into shape.. Is the rivet still tight on the blade?

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