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Bullheaded

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  1. My favorite truck next to the old Mack's. I used to run a 6X6 Paystar 5000 like this building logging roads. And I owned an 05 Paystar 5600i. I also wonder about the specs of these I saw on the internet. Only info I could find is it was called Kong and was a 100 ton rotator.
  2. I miss spokes. There was always a sense of pride when you competed with your buddies on who could put their wheels on the straightest. LOL
  3. Larry Shinoda designed for White Trucks too Maxidyne? I did not know that. Any idea what models he worked on?
  4. Ya, hate to break the news to you AZB....but all your beloved American tractor brands are full of Japanese components, LOL John Deere has Yanmar power, Massey compacts are Iseki, New Holland/Case IH compacts were Shibaura but are now Korean LS. And Japanese is a hell of a lot better than Chinese and Korean tractors. Sorry I'm not more patriotic.....I just go with the winning team. And under 70 horsepower that is Kubota. Over is John Deere. Besides Kubota orange looks good parked beside my antique Allis Chalmers orange.
  5. That one here of H67ST's looks like it would be a nice one to put away and hand down to the kids.
  6. I wonder if they will ever become desirable antique tractors like the others years from now? I keep mine in good shape and don't think I will ever get rid of them. Would be nice to find one of the first early ones when they started selling them in North America.
  7. Right on. Thanks for the info Mike. What's it got for motor and trans? Pretty rare the way they dropped the frame to keep the trailer height normal. I hope you find a good home for it. Hate to see that go to waste.
  8. I have seen that site. I have saved quite a few pics and brochures from there. But thanks for posting. I wish there were more pics or history to be found from the Chatham Ontario Canada plant.
  9. My friend sent me this. I assume it is on facebook? He had no other details than this with the picture: Still waiting for the right person to adopt my one of 12 built, only one known left MH6122. Anyone know anything about this? What it was spec'd for?
  10. I had never seen or even heard of those.
  11. I really like the styling of those and the little Loadstar's. If I had the talent and money I wish I could put one of those old Loadstar bodies on my F550 chassis.
  12. Cool cranes. And great pictures Hurstscrambler! That blue Pinnacle tractor is pretty sharp looking too. Your picture looking down reminds me of something. My father was an iron worker and he was one of the ones that worked on the CN Tower with no safety harnesses back in the day. And built the super stacks at the mines in Sudbury. I couldn't follow in those footsteps. I didn't inherit the gene of being fearless of heights, LOL Good thing I fell in love with trucks the minute I was born, LOL I remember helping him build a couple mini-malls in town when I was young. They were only single ot 2 story. That was enough of that for me, LOL
  13. Welcome Shaggy. Are you just looking for what you need to know for your inspection/air brake endorsement stuff? Don't have any diagrams, but I'm sure we can point out the items to you that the testers and inspectors want you to know.
  14. The steel mill in the town nearest me caught someone that tested positive going through the gate. An outside contractor. The detectors at the security gate actually picked up his fever. And a mine north of me that my friend works at (and the one I was going to quit trucking and go work for) just started calling guys back to work a couple weeks ago and sure enough....now they found someone with corona working there. I already have asthma and lung problems. I'm staying home!! LOL
  15. Well, I know I now come to the BMT site for all my news and knowledge now! No BS, just real working men that make this world go around.
  16. Sweet! Here is the old one we had. 290 Cummins.
  17. Ya, who would have thought eh? Good way to disguise your Chrysler testing anyway.....use a Ford, LOL Beau Boeckmann bought the car at auction for $225,000 or something like that, with no motor in it. But they found the motor. I also didn't know Gale Banks was friends with Carroll Shelby and he is the one that did the turbo work on this car. Pretty interesting history.
  18. Anyone see this show called Driven on tv? I'm watching it right now. The Ford Pantera Carroll Shelby used when he was at Chrysler, to develop the Viper. Lee Iaccoca gave him a Chrysler 360 nascar engine and they put twin turbo's on it.
  19. No Snowdog. I have been by that mill because I used to work for Fowler's for a few years with my dump truck. But when I hauled wood I pulled walking floor and did bark, logs, slabs and hog fuel between the Sault and Thunder Bay, Chapleau, Sudbury and as far south as Alban, Noelville and Monetville. And chips and shavings I hauled from all over Michigan to the Sault.
  20. Oh ok. I only have Kubota, so that was all I was sure about. And my Allis Chalmers have oil bath. But I agree, it is a good idea. Back in the late 90's and 2000's I hauled wood chips. That job was brutal on air filters.
  21. You got that right. I have a LOT of friends that got their deletes and programs from that biggest, most famous delete outfit that does all the advertising. And they ALL blew up.
  22. Which is why I like my Kubota tractors. They have an inner and outer element. You change the outer and the inner is there to catch anything that may fall in when you remove the outer. But even on the big trucks, I am more careful than most dealers would be. When I remove my filters I shop vac the cans out and wipe out the intake elbows as far as I can reach. Same with greasing. I wipe the fittings off BEFORE I grease. It irritates me when I see people just push the grease gun on and start pumping the dirt in with the grease.
  23. Another thing people don't think about. When I was still running Cat motors I used to use Cat's SOS engine oil sampling at every change (I changed my oil and filters at 300 hours as it was on/off road vocational use) Anyway one winter I started getting higher than average sodium levels in my oil. I went to my local Toromont Cat and asked the service manager about it. He said "that is the winter road salt getting in through your air filters when you are running in the wet mist." After that I started replacing my filters every spring. And I am not a fan of those gradual lockup filter restriction minders. My new Stars, I get the gauges that read restriction real time. I find them way more accurate.
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