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05-22-2016, 10:12 PM
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#1
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Bus Nut
Join Date: Mar 2016
Location: near Christiansburg VA
Posts: 692
Coachwork: Thomas
Chassis: Freightliner
Engine: Cummins 5.9
Rated Cap: 44 or 66? 11 rows
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Attention school bus drivers
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05-23-2016, 07:58 AM
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#2
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Bus Nut
Join Date: Dec 2014
Posts: 447
Year: 1988
Coachwork: Ward
Chassis: International
Engine: Navistar 5.9 Diesel
Rated Cap: A butt-load...
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I'm at work, otherwise i'd be laughing like an idiot...
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05-23-2016, 11:12 AM
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#3
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Feb 2016
Location: Willamina, Oregon
Posts: 6,409
Coachwork: 97 Bluebird TC1000 5.9
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That kind of makes those sight obscuring 8' tall junk yard fences ineffective. That does explain why they send so many buses to south america. It wouldn't be that hard to exceed scrap value.
Wouldn't you like to crawl through there and extract some parts?
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05-23-2016, 11:16 AM
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#4
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Bus Nut
Join Date: Jun 2013
Posts: 252
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There's your testimonial as to the strength of school buses - they're stacked 4 and 5 high but the ones at the bottom aren't being flattened by the weight. Try that with a motorhome!
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05-23-2016, 12:12 PM
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#5
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Bus Nut
Join Date: Dec 2014
Posts: 447
Year: 1988
Coachwork: Ward
Chassis: International
Engine: Navistar 5.9 Diesel
Rated Cap: A butt-load...
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Quote:
Originally Posted by jake_blue
There's your testimonial as to the strength of school buses - they're stacked 4 and 5 high but the ones at the bottom aren't being flattened by the weight. Try that with a motorhome!
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B....., Please!
A reg RV would pancake if you stomped on it!😂
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05-23-2016, 12:22 PM
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#6
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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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Quote:
Originally Posted by skoolie_n00bie
B....., Please!
A reg RV would pancake if you stomped on it!😂
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Merely being exposed to air seems to make them start to slowly crumble.
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05-23-2016, 12:53 PM
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#7
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Bus Nut
Join Date: Feb 2014
Location: The Valley - Arizona
Posts: 644
Year: 1999
Coachwork: Thomas
Chassis: Freight-shaker (Freightliner)
Engine: Cat 3126b 250 HP
Rated Cap: Only 1 seat
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I could just cry..........
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05-23-2016, 01:24 PM
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#8
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Bus Nut
Join Date: Jun 2013
Posts: 252
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Quote:
Originally Posted by skoolie_n00bie
A reg RV would pancake if you stomped on it!
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Funny you say that... My grandfather always owned an RV of one type or another, traded in for another one every ten years. He got the most use out of a Class B on a Chevy chassis, drove it to Alaska and back even. So when he traded it in, they did the deal and as he was leaving someone was on the roof of his trade-in and fell through the roof into the loft over the cab!
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05-23-2016, 01:57 PM
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#9
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Bus Nut
Join Date: Dec 2014
Posts: 447
Year: 1988
Coachwork: Ward
Chassis: International
Engine: Navistar 5.9 Diesel
Rated Cap: A butt-load...
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Quote:
Originally Posted by jake_blue
Funny you say that... My grandfather always owned an RV of one type or another, traded in for another one every ten years. He got the most use out of a Class B on a Chevy chassis, drove it to Alaska and back even. So when he traded it in, they did the deal and as he was leaving someone was on the roof of his trade-in and fell through the roof into the loft over the cab!
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Even nowadays, they look so....plastic-y....yes, that is a word
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05-25-2016, 07:28 AM
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#10
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Skoolie
Join Date: Mar 2016
Location: Hempstead Tx
Posts: 213
Year: 2000
Coachwork: Bluebird
Chassis: International
Engine: t444e
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Robin97396
That kind of makes those sight obscuring 8' tall junk yard fences ineffective. That does explain why they send so many buses to south america. It wouldn't be that hard to exceed scrap value.
Wouldn't you like to crawl through there and extract some parts?
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A junkyard I used to frequent had an interesting "backdoor" To get to the P30s you had to let them know you were there, walk about a mile around the outside down a traintrack, hop a barbed wire fence, then crawl up through the engine compartment of a P30 on top of another P30 then hop down out the back. Reverse to leave, with parts.
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05-25-2016, 07:50 AM
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#11
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Bus Geek
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Columbus Ohio
Posts: 18,848
Year: 1991
Coachwork: Carpenter
Chassis: International 3800
Engine: DTA360 / MT643
Rated Cap: 7 Row Handicap
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yeah just look at what happens to an RV when it crashes ... abnyone who drives I95 or I75 from or to south florida usually sees at least one smashed to bits..
i still rememebr seeing that video of a dfigure 8 school bus race where a little blue bird shortie must have rolled over 4 times and didnt crush...
then again the new school busses arent build as solid as the old ones.. esp the IC stuff.. look at the pics of the couple recent IC bus rollovers.. lots of smashed roofs...
-Christopher
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05-25-2016, 11:36 AM
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#12
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Feb 2016
Location: Willamina, Oregon
Posts: 6,409
Coachwork: 97 Bluebird TC1000 5.9
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Yeah that figure 8 racing is bus abuse, plain and simple. Let's start a society for the prevention of cruelty to buses. SPCB.
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05-25-2016, 11:44 AM
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#13
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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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Quote:
Originally Posted by Robin97396
Yeah that figure 8 racing is bus abuse, plain and simple. Let's start a society for the prevention of cruelty to buses. SPCB.
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http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/...sheriff-office
A decade or so ago our local sheriff was involved in one of those school bus figure 8 races. He somehow fell out of the bus while driving it and was run over and killed.
These races aren't good for anyone!
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05-25-2016, 01:27 PM
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#14
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Bus Geek
Join Date: Feb 2016
Location: Willamina, Oregon
Posts: 6,409
Coachwork: 97 Bluebird TC1000 5.9
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That's very sad.
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05-26-2016, 11:30 AM
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#15
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Bus Nut
Join Date: Dec 2014
Posts: 447
Year: 1988
Coachwork: Ward
Chassis: International
Engine: Navistar 5.9 Diesel
Rated Cap: A butt-load...
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Drove by this in the AM...
... terrible...
This is why i chose the skoolie route: because the safety of my family is more important than granite countertops while i drive.
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05-26-2016, 01:15 PM
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#16
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Bus Nut
Join Date: Mar 2016
Location: near Christiansburg VA
Posts: 692
Coachwork: Thomas
Chassis: Freightliner
Engine: Cummins 5.9
Rated Cap: 44 or 66? 11 rows
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Quote:
Originally Posted by skoolie_n00bie
... terrible...
This is why i chose the skoolie route: because the safety of my family is more important than granite countertops while i drive.
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Sobering. Mercifully quick for the car's driver, but rough on the passenger and the bus driver. I would be distraught, too.
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05-26-2016, 02:21 PM
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#17
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Bus Geek
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Columbus Ohio
Posts: 18,848
Year: 1991
Coachwork: Carpenter
Chassis: International 3800
Engine: DTA360 / MT643
Rated Cap: 7 Row Handicap
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Quote:
Originally Posted by skoolie_n00bie
... terrible...
This is why i chose the skoolie route: because the safety of my family is more important than granite countertops while i drive.
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or.. you can have safety AND have granite countertops with a custom Skoolie conversion like you are building
-Christopher
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