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Dusty MI 
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Posted: 25 Aug 2019 at 8:53am |
Anyone on here do the Big-Mac bridge crossing? Looks like I will be doing it this year with my D-10. It's always the first Fri. after Labor Day. Anyone that wants can walk Big Mac-Labor Day.
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john(MI)
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Posted: 25 Aug 2019 at 5:17pm |
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Always wanted to but the logistics seem overwhelming to me! Do you still need a permit? Does it still have to be thru a recognized club?
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Dusty MI
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Posted: 25 Aug 2019 at 8:54pm |
You need to be long to a participating club, register ahead of time. They are only allowing 1500 this. Also your tractor must be at least 40 years old. Mine is a 1965.
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Posted: 25 Aug 2019 at 9:23pm |
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Curious as of what this is ? Whats the Big Mac , a bridge ?
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Posted: 26 Aug 2019 at 10:58am |
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Curious as of what this is ? Whats the Big Mac , a bridge ? |
A bridge....or as we refer to it around here "The Bridge."
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Posted: 26 Aug 2019 at 12:44pm |
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Oh ok thanks for the info
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Posted: 26 Aug 2019 at 1:01pm |
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Suppose to be 5 miles across joining the lower and upper Michigan, I`ve been over it hundreds of times and have walked it a few times, but it is getting to be a too much of a real hassle for an old man.
Edited by weiner - 26 Aug 2019 at 1:05pm
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Posted: 26 Aug 2019 at 3:47pm |
The folks in the Upper Peninsula refer to us folks in the lower as trolls, since we live below the bridge! 
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Posted: 26 Aug 2019 at 5:04pm |
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I've always wanted to, but their restrictions prohibit me
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Posted: 26 Aug 2019 at 7:49pm |
I asked one time at the toll booth going north across the bridge if she wanted to see our passports.
Cracked her right up!
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Posted: 27 Aug 2019 at 7:51am |
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Man I've taken some white knuckle trips over that bridge! That water in that picture is sooooo calm......For those of you who have never seen it, trust me it ain't always like that! When you come up on it from the North, and you have to use your windshield wipers because the waves are crashing over the roadway, you know you'll have your hands full!
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Posted: 27 Aug 2019 at 2:30pm |
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and when it's like that they might make cars and cars with campers drive beside a semi to break the wind. I have heard they won't let dogs walk across the bridge
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Posted: 27 Aug 2019 at 5:42pm |
On Labor Day Morning, people are allowed to walk Big-Mac. I've walked it one or two times.
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Posted: 27 Aug 2019 at 6:12pm |
tadams(OH) wrote:
and when it's like that they might make cars and cars with campers drive beside a semi to break the wind. I have heard they won't let dogs walk across the bridge |
Hmmm...that is not my experience. In fact, they will close it to trucks while cars still cross from my memory. All those hairy trips were in the 80’s so perhaps things have changed. I know I have made it across mere minutes before they closed it and I was never directed to ride with a semi. There’s only a booth on the north end, so how would they do that? I don’t think that’s correct. Maybe it’s cuz of your Ohio plate!!!
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Posted: 29 Aug 2019 at 11:58am |
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I went over it once with my boss with a large oxygen cylinder properly secured in the back of a pickup. Coming from the south when we got to the booth we were direct over to the side where this short fat man that was all mouth proceeded to rake him over the coals because he did not get an escort to escort him and his oxygen across. I actually thought we were going to jail. Of course coming back with an empty cylinder we were escorted back across at 25 MPH.
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Posted: 29 Aug 2019 at 12:33pm |
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Dusty I was going to put a post out there to see if anyone from this forum was going to do the Mackinac Bridge crossing. Last year was my first one and it was a great day. Looks like this maybe an annual thing. I belong to the Jackson Area tractor club and will be driving a CA. Maybe I'll see you there.
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Posted: 29 Aug 2019 at 5:41pm |
Ken R. I think they have a minimum speed for crossing. B etter check before hauling all thay way.
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Posted: 29 Aug 2019 at 6:21pm |
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There is a 10Mph minimum - last year I had no problem keeping up with the group - there were times I had to slow the CA down. I just hope we have good weather like last year.
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Posted: 29 Aug 2019 at 7:53pm |
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This is on my list of thing to do and I think I have found the right tractor to do in.
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Posted: 30 Aug 2019 at 10:03pm |
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I did it the first year on my model A, once was enough for me, crossing the bridge was great but the before and after was a real pain, and my left leg was killing me for about two days after. I was just up there yesterday and they were doing escorted convoy crossing of trucks and campers, on the northbound side, they slow everyone down in one lane and flag the restricted vehicles into the right lane to await the escort. Once they get about twenty or thirty, they escort them across. I really feel bad for the people who get stuck out there in the winter putting convoys together when it's about minus 15.
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