NY-B61

As though someone was reading my mind.

Fantastic work and attention to details!

Rows of stick-on lights and the chrome oil filter shells?

So much for 'absolute' auctions. Meanwhile, it sits in the rain.

Thank you. That's an interesting twist.

I'm working on a clock that keeps half-time because I have the same problem you do. You can borrow my prototype.

Thank you for the great pictures as you bring her back around!

Someone got a bargain to say the least. Hope they bought it with the right intentions.

Sounds like failing front wheel bearings.

I can almost see you jumping for joy now that there's no unknown repair bill hanging over your head! If you can't find an answer on this forum there isn't one. The shifting forks in my B61 stuck right after I paid money to buy it. I went inside convinced I'd killed the triplex while learning to drive it. It began to rain. The sky looked like an angry, dark repair bill. The lightning was a sign of a ruined transmission that was probably scrap metal. I logged in to BMT and typed in "stuck shifters". 10 minutes later, after a change of underwear, a pry bar and grease gun had me back on the road whistling a tune because all of a sudden the rain stopped and the sun came out. There might have even been birds chirping in there someplace.

Offer the truck's owner free parking at your place. You could admire it through a window while indoors and examine it whenever you wish while outdoors. It goes when it's time for it to go and everyone wins.

Were the Tall Boys sold at the auction you went to?

I wonder if this was one of the first instances of outsourcing for heavy truck body components? The phrase "Body by Fisher" is common with autos, but, besides sleeper components, I haven't heard of too much else associated with trucks beyond the usual. The styling on integrated The styling of Mack sleepers from that era is stupendous.

It's the magnetic properties of aluminum.

Fascinating use of the technology and materials available at the time. If so many scrap metal drives hadn't been necessary during WWII, I wonder how many of these marvels would still be working in some capacity today? You can't build anything easier to work on and it's not like the machines were made using solid-state electronics or a zillion different parts. By contrast, and there are examples near all of us, it's common to see a 10 year old piece of machinery (farm or otherwise - and trucks ) in a field someplace already obsolete, broken and rusting away. Or oozing plastic.

What a difference a few decades makes..... I borrowed these pics from an upcoming auction ad.

I always heard it was hard, back in the day, for paint applied to aluminum to last very long. Formulations have changed with time but many of today's commercial aircraft, for instance, are wrapped with polymer advertising condoms instead of paint. Same with commercial trucks except the condoms are square or rectangular.

You sure put in a full day's work when operating any one of those! The gears on the front of the dozer look massive for the machine's size. Was Hadfield-Penfield a forerunner of Bucyrus-Erie or was Bucyrus, Ohio just a hotbed for machinery manufacturers? With the weight of the grader's underslung engine over the drive wheels it could probably do some serious grading in its day!

The ladder is for sure but I don't know about the rest of this old warrior. Part of the frame and the fifth wheel look like they might be steel but a lot of the truck looked to be forged from aluminum. Couldn't get pictures of the co-pilot's side due to snow and vines. Hope everyone enjoys.

Once again, 15 minutes after I post a question......Thank you!

Like most of the things I post on here, but I appreciate your guys' patience.

I found this Oshkosh around 1:30 - 2:00 this afternoon, just as the sun was going down. What the heck happened to summer? I remember reading somewhere that the Oshkosh design (and parts interchangeability?) hasn't changed much beginning with models made after the early 1950's. I was trying to guess the age of this rust bucket but began to think it might have been constructed from different Oshkosh vehicles. The nose looks older but the emblems on what's left of the engine covers look newer. The wheels and tires look newer but the suspension spring assemblies look ancient. There's a Caterpillar engine, old or new I don't know. The cab has me stumped but I thought the small rectangular windows might offer a clue. Then there's the rounded chrome strips on the doors.... Thought I'd throw it out there and see what others think!

Nice!