Popular Post gearhead204 Posted October 23, 2016 Popular Post Share Posted October 23, 2016 loaded some straw next to this old school house (highlands school) this just west of banks lake in central Washington, this next picture is the south side of chief Joseph dam (notice the fresh hydro seeding) the third pic. is the west view of the dam ( chief joe is the next dam down river from Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia River) the 4th. pic is the hwy.17 bridge at Bridgeport Wa. the north side of the river is Okanogan county the south side is Douglas county the dirt work you see in the distance is Gebbers Farms making more orchard ground. 5th. pic is my last load of wheat straw for the year (cow bedding and supplemental feed) 6th. pic is my last load of honey crisp waiting to go to Selah Wa. for storage and packing. this 7th. pick is Bill Harwood's 53 Kenworth trailer tooter, I used to work with bill when I was road building in the Columbia basin, he farms just south of Quincy after he retired he shorted up his spud truck and this is the result. 13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j hancock Posted October 23, 2016 Share Posted October 23, 2016 Fine looking mobile office! 2 Quote JimIt doesn't cost anything to pay attention. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlotpilot Posted October 23, 2016 Share Posted October 23, 2016 next time you see bill give him a pat on the back for takin such good care of that kw then give yourself one for spit shinin the superliner 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gearhead204 Posted October 23, 2016 Author Share Posted October 23, 2016 Here's a few more pics from bills place an Autocar rat rod 460 powered and the rear view of his 53 KW 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyT Posted October 23, 2016 Share Posted October 23, 2016 I saw your hay wagon Gearhead and was reminded of some I saw in California's central valley in the late eighties.They were mostly cabovers,Pete's,KW's and Freightliners.from the late fifties to the seventies all spotless and we'll maintained! Some were truck and trailer like yours, others were single axle with two flatbed " pups". I remembered thinking of them as class eight " street rods" Hay haulers in general seem to take great pride in their equipment. Looks like a sixties or early seventies Freightliner next to the autocar. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlotpilot Posted October 24, 2016 Share Posted October 24, 2016 you`re right as rain on the spotless hay haulers from the valley those guys used to do they`re level best to out shine each other.sadly the last time i was in ca. i did not see a single one of them 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlotpilot Posted October 24, 2016 Share Posted October 24, 2016 gearhead a young farmer friend here wants to know how the hell do ya handle those bales 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaPatentman Posted October 24, 2016 Share Posted October 24, 2016 In the 6-th pic it looks like a nice CF Mack Fire Truck to the right of your rig, please get a pic of it if you are there again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j hancock Posted October 24, 2016 Share Posted October 24, 2016 I don't know about that..... He will have to walk out into the yard for a CF picture! 1 Quote JimIt doesn't cost anything to pay attention. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post gearhead204 Posted October 24, 2016 Author Popular Post Share Posted October 24, 2016 Billy T: I didn't check but I think the freightliner is a mid 70's it has a spud box on it, there are some nice clean hay haulers that run around the central basin here, however I don't get down that way too often with spare picture taking time. Carlot: seen a u tube vid. a few months ago, one of the good ole boys had passed and the procession was about a mile long of assorted hay haulers (nice rides) as for how we handle the bales well we don't!...........I let the tractor do it ! they avg. 1200 pounds each. I have some slip on bale spears the attach to the loader bucket on my 580k backhoe. VaPatentman: here's a before during and after photo of the 76 cf600 its a local truck that I reworked and its going back in service! 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyT Posted October 24, 2016 Share Posted October 24, 2016 Speaking of spuds, any of you "Empire State" guys ever see the unloading platform Frito Lay has by the pilot t.s. on11 where you pull a whole rig on the platform and tie it down and it dumps the potatoes into a bin! Fascinating! In Binghamton N.Y. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gearhead204 Posted October 25, 2016 Author Share Posted October 25, 2016 never seen one for spuds, just belt bottoms but Tree Top had one for dumping "juice apples" sounded like they only had a few wrecks, one was a trailer and pup the dolly jackknifed and part of the lead trailer went over the side , the other was a driver left the truck running ......it wasn't when it came down! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyT Posted October 25, 2016 Share Posted October 25, 2016 iGH 204,I wouldn't want to be in the thing when it's dumping! Have had a few bizarre unloading scenarios! Dropped a dry van in the Port of New Orleans with bales of cotton. They had a yard tractor with a dump hoist under the fifth wheel raised the 53 ft trailer till it was on its last axle was unloaded in two minutes! By far the strangest,I got to customer with a loaded 48' van looked really tight! Guy says "drop it here" Got out from under it and the largest fork lift I've ever seen picks up a 48' trailer in the middle and disappears around the building!! Comes back in a half hour with an empty trailer! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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