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11-11-2015, 09:43 AM
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#21
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Moderator
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: NUNYA
Posts: 4,236
Year: 1995
Coachwork: Thomas
Chassis: 3800
Engine: DT408, AT545
Rated Cap: 23 500 gvw
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Quote:
Originally Posted by opus
Well I'll be. When did Cat get into this market?
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I think after all the truck manufacturers said they wouldn't use Cat engines and Cat said, "We'll show you and start building trucks!" See how well they are doing, even you knew about them...oh wait.
P.S. Nice bus.
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11-15-2015, 06:31 PM
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#22
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Skoolie
Join Date: Jul 2015
Location: Farmington, IL
Posts: 187
Year: 1990
Coachwork: Blue Bird
Chassis: AARE 3903
Engine: Cummins 6CTA 8.3
Rated Cap: 84
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It was getting too dark today to take a pic inside the bus, maybe tomorrow.
But here a pic of a load ready to go to the scrap yard...
And I'm not sure what I'm going to do with this pile...
Maybe burn it after dark... 
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11-15-2015, 07:54 PM
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#23
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Skoolie
Join Date: Jul 2015
Location: Farmington, IL
Posts: 187
Year: 1990
Coachwork: Blue Bird
Chassis: AARE 3903
Engine: Cummins 6CTA 8.3
Rated Cap: 84
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And then there's this, but you've all pretty much seen this before...
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11-26-2015, 06:26 PM
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#24
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Skoolie
Join Date: Jul 2015
Location: Farmington, IL
Posts: 187
Year: 1990
Coachwork: Blue Bird
Chassis: AARE 3903
Engine: Cummins 6CTA 8.3
Rated Cap: 84
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So the seats are out...
And the interior panels are starting to come down...
Punching the stems, drilling the heads and then punching the bodies through...
And this was the bonus find after sifting through all of the nastiness of the seat removal...
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11-26-2015, 07:07 PM
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#25
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Eustis FLORIDA
Posts: 23,764
Year: 1999
Coachwork: Thomas
Chassis: Freighliner FS65
Engine: Cat 3126
Rated Cap: 15
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Yep, that's what I had to do. Drive out the mandrel, drill, punch out the body of the rivet.
Felt like MILLIONS of the little suckers.
Looks like you scored a lot more kids' dropped lunch money than we did.
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11-26-2015, 07:48 PM
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#26
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Moderator
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: NUNYA
Posts: 4,236
Year: 1995
Coachwork: Thomas
Chassis: 3800
Engine: DT408, AT545
Rated Cap: 23 500 gvw
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Quote:
Originally Posted by wunderhut
It was getting too dark today to take a pic inside the bus, maybe tomorrow.
But here a pic of a load ready to go to the scrap yard...
And I'm not sure what I'm going to do with this pile...
Maybe burn it after dark...
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Please don't burn those seats. I'm not a tree hugger but if you were my neighbor and I saw you torching those seats, I would be calling the fire dept, police dept., EPA, the SWAT team and President Obama.
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11-26-2015, 07:53 PM
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#27
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Eustis FLORIDA
Posts: 23,764
Year: 1999
Coachwork: Thomas
Chassis: Freighliner FS65
Engine: Cat 3126
Rated Cap: 15
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burn em.
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11-26-2015, 08:53 PM
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#28
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Bus Nut
Join Date: Jun 2014
Location: MB
Posts: 279
Year: 1997
Coachwork: Tomas
Chassis: International
Engine: T444e
Rated Cap: 54
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I'll admit to burning garbage, however I don't have a dump pass. I deceided to throw the seats whole into the back 40 junk pile. I'm going to assume that because your permanent residence is in the country, your R.M. (County?) has a municipal dump you can use if you pay your taxes.
On the other hand, I've burnt plastic crap too, so go ahead!
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"...Baler twine tie downs goin' down the road
On two bald tires and an oversize load..."
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11-26-2015, 09:14 PM
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#29
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Mini-Skoolie
Join Date: Sep 2015
Location: Austin, TX
Posts: 50
Year: 1992
Coachwork: Blue Bird
Chassis: Freightliner
Engine: 8.3L Cummins Turbo
Rated Cap: 80
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I have the same seats, they work awesome as ground seats for my kids when we are camping around the fire pit!!!
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D&J
1992 Blue Bird All American
8.3 L Cummins
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11-26-2015, 09:27 PM
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#30
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Skoolie
Join Date: Jul 2015
Location: Farmington, IL
Posts: 187
Year: 1990
Coachwork: Blue Bird
Chassis: AARE 3903
Engine: Cummins 6CTA 8.3
Rated Cap: 84
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Quote:
Originally Posted by crazycal
Please don't burn those seats. I'm not a tree hugger but if you were my neighbor and I saw you torching those seats, I would be calling the fire dept, police dept., EPA, the SWAT team and President Obama.
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Well I do live within city limits so I can probably get the garbage truck to take them if I split them up over 4 or 5 weeks...
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11-27-2015, 02:05 AM
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#31
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Eustis FLORIDA
Posts: 23,764
Year: 1999
Coachwork: Thomas
Chassis: Freighliner FS65
Engine: Cat 3126
Rated Cap: 15
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They'd charge me something like $100 to haul em off... And burn them.
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11-27-2015, 02:05 PM
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#32
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Bus Crazy
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Montana
Posts: 1,626
Year: 1995
Coachwork: Blue Bird
Chassis: All-American R/E
Engine: 8.3 Cummins
Rated Cap: 72
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Oh boy, I wish I didnt get rid of all mine. That seat foam is very handy to have.
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11-27-2015, 03:41 PM
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#33
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Bus Crazy
Join Date: Nov 2015
Location: Billings, MT
Posts: 1,269
Year: 2003
Coachwork: Thomas
Chassis: HDX
Engine: Cat C7
Rated Cap: 84 passenger
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I took my 1400 lbs of removed seating to the local recycling yard. Got paid a whopping 1˘ per pound!
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11-27-2015, 03:47 PM
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#34
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Eustis FLORIDA
Posts: 23,764
Year: 1999
Coachwork: Thomas
Chassis: Freighliner FS65
Engine: Cat 3126
Rated Cap: 15
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Depending on how far you had to go, it sounds like you spent more on gas than the seats' steel scrap was worth.
Scrap prices are in the crapper.
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11-27-2015, 04:10 PM
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#35
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Bus Crazy
Join Date: Nov 2015
Location: Billings, MT
Posts: 1,269
Year: 2003
Coachwork: Thomas
Chassis: HDX
Engine: Cat C7
Rated Cap: 84 passenger
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Gas? In a DIESEL bus?
It bought lunch. The trip wasn't but a few miles.
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11-27-2015, 04:19 PM
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#36
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Bus Crazy
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Montana
Posts: 1,626
Year: 1995
Coachwork: Blue Bird
Chassis: All-American R/E
Engine: 8.3 Cummins
Rated Cap: 72
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Quote:
Originally Posted by EastCoastCB
Scrap prices are in the crapper.
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Scrap....crapper [giggles].
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11-27-2015, 09:50 PM
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#37
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Moderator
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: NUNYA
Posts: 4,236
Year: 1995
Coachwork: Thomas
Chassis: 3800
Engine: DT408, AT545
Rated Cap: 23 500 gvw
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Quote:
Originally Posted by EastCoastCB
burn em.
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Why don't you give him your address so he can come over and burn them on your front lawn. For the glory of satan of course.
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11-28-2015, 04:46 AM
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#38
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Eustis FLORIDA
Posts: 23,764
Year: 1999
Coachwork: Thomas
Chassis: Freighliner FS65
Engine: Cat 3126
Rated Cap: 15
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Its on the skoolie map... By all means, come on. But its wasteful to drive so far just to dispose of em.
That's why I burn em.
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11-28-2015, 04:48 PM
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#39
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Bus Nut
Join Date: Feb 2015
Location: Houston, Tx.
Posts: 403
Year: 1999
Coachwork: AmTran
Chassis: International
Engine: DT466E
Rated Cap: 84
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Looking forward to watching your build progress.
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12-03-2015, 04:38 PM
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#40
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Skoolie
Join Date: Jul 2015
Location: Farmington, IL
Posts: 187
Year: 1990
Coachwork: Blue Bird
Chassis: AARE 3903
Engine: Cummins 6CTA 8.3
Rated Cap: 84
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Well that's funny, considering they never had asked whether they were removed or not....
I obviously can provide proof that they have indeed been removed.
Oh well, I don't need insurance anyway, I can't even drive the thing for at least a year and a half!
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