Brother I walked the dog for a few year’s hauling coal in the mountains of SE Ky, beautiful scenery and taught me some real driving skills. One mess up could be the last on those roads. The coal business dried up but I still miss it, 17 and driving that big ol DM800✌️🇺🇸
Used to drive a MR model packer with that 237 and the extended range 6 speed. Great set up, ran the same empty or loaded to the gills. 0 to 60 in about 5 minutes
I drove a lot of these 237s, 250s, and 300s! Drove a lot of the old thermadine engines with the douplex trans, triplex and quaderplex 18speed. I love the old Macks!!!
Heck yeh we ran a 300 plus in a 76’ DM800 Tri-Plex 15 spd #65,000 bogies, she was a real truck. Hauling coal in SE Ky those mountains broke many a lesser truck. 👍🇺🇸
The camera never does a hill justice, that ol girl is pulling hard, that’s a good little grade right there. I can’t wait for more vids like this where they work hard.
One of the best videos on TH-cam of an R model pulling hard! Anyone that has ever stared at a Bulldogs ass has scrapped a gear on those up shifts on hills because you can’t wait on the revs to fall before you lose your road speed! Good job!
@@roscoepcoltrane5499 the roads this guy is on is where I learned, tiny steep shit, scared me a few times. Coming down dozer road off a strip job and it started raining, I had my door open ready to do a dismount lol.
@@deborahchesser7375 LOL!!! sounds to familiar, although these Mack R models WELL THE ONES WITH THE 237 were under powered so i never really got up to speed before the next light changed hahahaha! how ever i drove a Kenworth for a towing company for a short time, the first time ever i was towing a dump truck, the K whop had more power than i was used to, i would say i was thinking the same as you.
What a hill ! Wow. Real nice little narrow country lanes too ! Not exactly user friendly when you're in a big truck ! Love this video. Great country roads and scenery plus a nice truck working hard too !
Is that a em6 237 there great million mile engines drove many configurations all Mack models R-DM 685-686 5 speed 6 spd mud stick and 7 speed you ain’t gonna go fast but they got a lot of low end grunt great engine great sound also
I thought this might just be your average NPC trying to drive a mack but he rode it out on the grade didn't try and upshift and totally crap the bed..... at a boy.. he knows the secrets of the Bulldogs his kungfu is good!
This is super highway compared to some of the places I’ve been in a Mack coal truck, look up “hauling coal in SE Ky” you don’t make too many mistakes and live driving those mountains.
@@sonicboomer859 my kin live in Knox Co, a pretty good ways down there. I grew up riding coal trucks on those little roads in a DM800, I sure miss it and my and my uncle Charlie. Love that Bulldog brother
Nothing is as iconic as the bulldog leading the way
Brother I walked the dog for a few year’s hauling coal in the mountains of SE Ky, beautiful scenery and taught me some real driving skills. One mess up could be the last on those roads. The coal business dried up but I still miss it, 17 and driving that big ol DM800✌️🇺🇸
@@deborahchesser7375 MACK👍
Used to drive a MR model packer with that 237 and the extended range 6 speed. Great set up, ran the same empty or loaded to the gills. 0 to 60 in about 5 minutes
I drove a lot of these 237s, 250s, and 300s! Drove a lot of the old thermadine engines with the douplex trans, triplex and quaderplex 18speed. I love the old Macks!!!
Heck yeh we ran a 300 plus in a 76’ DM800 Tri-Plex 15 spd #65,000 bogies, she was a real truck. Hauling coal in SE Ky those mountains broke many a lesser truck. 👍🇺🇸
The camera never does a hill justice, that ol girl is pulling hard, that’s a good little grade right there. I can’t wait for more vids like this where they work hard.
Hey Deb, is this the same Deb that used to drive for Bull? This is JR! If it is, a Hi to you!
I agree
Nothing like the sound of a good old Mack working
One of the best videos on TH-cam of an R model pulling hard! Anyone that has ever stared at a Bulldogs ass has scrapped a gear on those up shifts on hills because you can’t wait on the revs to fall before you lose your road speed! Good job!
Double clutch the shit out of it and hold her on the wood lol
OH HOW I MISS THAT SOUND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DROVE ONE FOR SOMETIME.
Me too, a DM 800
@@deborahchesser7375 DROVE A 1972 R600 for RI BUSSE in chicago in the late 90s....EPA shut him down....sigh....
@@roscoepcoltrane5499 EPA=$ in government pockets, nothing more
@@roscoepcoltrane5499 the roads this guy is on is where I learned, tiny steep shit, scared me a few times. Coming down dozer road off a strip job and it started raining, I had my door open ready to do a dismount lol.
@@deborahchesser7375 LOL!!! sounds to familiar, although these Mack R models WELL THE ONES WITH THE 237 were under powered so i never really got up to speed before the next light changed hahahaha! how ever i drove a Kenworth for a towing company for a short time, the first time ever i was towing a dump truck, the K whop had more power than i was used to, i would say i was thinking the same as you.
What a hill ! Wow. Real nice little narrow country lanes too ! Not exactly user friendly when you're in a big truck ! Love this video. Great country roads and scenery plus a nice truck working hard too !
Oh hell yeh I could listen to that all day and did for many years 👍🇺🇸
Sounds beautiful running against the pump.
Great video 👍 love the sound of those old Mack R model would like to see more videos on this truck and now more on it thanks again
Is that a em6 237 there great million mile engines drove many configurations all Mack models R-DM 685-686 5 speed 6 spd mud stick and 7 speed you ain’t gonna go fast but they got a lot of low end grunt great engine great sound also
Ran a '97 DM 16ft tri axle For Alvin Haynes &Sons in Lexington 2000 to 2002. Thes new kids will never know the JOY.
Nothing like going down a one-lane, two-way, curvy country road in a truck.
Sounds incredible
I remember this sound growing up. R and U Models everywhere smoking up everything. Cats and Macks always had an aggressive sound to them.
Wow, did that bring back memories! Great job
Best dump truck ever made
I thought this might just be your average NPC trying to drive a mack but he rode it out on the grade didn't try and upshift and totally crap the bed..... at a boy.. he knows the secrets of the Bulldogs his kungfu is good!
Once you can maintain speed its best not to disrupt it
One thing about the older macks ,there turning radius is horrible. But the power and style is legendary💪👏
Any idea why the turning radius was so poor? Was it the wheelbase or steering angle and if the steering angle why so narrow?
Believe in it,,,
It will always
Stand.
Fkn power .
Plz post more, a lot more !
cool video
Smokey ol’ Macks
Very Nice!
Good operator.
THANKS FOR SHARE
Mack Attack!😎👍
I don't think folks get that Mack rated their engines at the wheels, not at the flywheel. So a 237 was more like 300hp.
I never new that
Could you do in cab shifting gears
Tiny roads In Kentucky 🧐
This guy needs too take a class on how to shift a seven speed transmission 😏
no ay nada mejor que el macho Er D 600
소리 너무 좋다~!
hell yah
I was just wondering what you were hauling, because you can tell the trailer is loaded by the way the truck is pulling.
straight dump truck hauling dirt
Motor is singing. What part of Kentucky is this
Crittenden ky
Where are there roads like this?
This is super highway compared to some of the places I’ve been in a Mack coal truck, look up “hauling coal in SE Ky” you don’t make too many mistakes and live driving those mountains.
I agree. Quite a grade. He would be in low gear surely ?
Where do u live that has roads that small
Kentucky
@@sonicboomer859 my kin live in Knox Co, a pretty good ways down there. I grew up riding coal trucks on those little roads in a DM800, I sure miss it and my and my uncle Charlie. Love that Bulldog brother
What engine is that? A cat? E6? Sounds amazing
Literally says in the title. ENDT-675 Maxidyne, 237 HP.
@@yaboileeroy3038 Yup best sounding and one of the most reliable engines ever made. Those things were tanks!
@@crazymixture57 absolutely true, we ran the shit out of em.
@@crazymixture57 the 300 plus was a damn good one too
@@deborahchesser7375 only found one video of the 300+ on this site. Damn shame as I’ve heard so much but seen and heard so little!
That hood looks like a DM and not an R. I spent 10 years lookin over the hood of DMs but they all had quad boxes.
MACK EM6 237