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I have an opportunity to buy this 1962 Chevy C60. Body and engine are solid but needs lots of little stuff. Needs new rubber for around windshield, side window felts, rear view mirrors, wiper arms, tires, and the plunger for the two speed rear axle is broke. The brakes also don't work. Are parts still available or will this nickel and dime me? The flatbed has a hoist and it works. It has a 292 inline six and 4 speed. How were those 292's? Will it be a pig on gas? My plan is to just do it up to haul my 1955 Allis Chalmers CA farm tractor to the local shows. No big long distance trips. Sadly, that IH 9670 Eagle Cab over that I posted previously that I gave up on due to the amount of work they wanted me to do to safety it.....instead of the guy working out a better deal with me, he sent it to scrap for a third of the price. What a waste of an absolutely perfect interior and a solid cab.

Coming from a Canadian that knows tough logging conditions....that thing looks impressive. How are Iveco engines? That is what Case IH and New Holland use now in their big articulated row crop tractors. i think they are up close to 700 h.p. now.

mrsmackpaul Do you know of the Upton tractor? I was just reading an article about Carl Upton and his big 2WD tractors in my latest Antique Power magazine. Pretty interesting story, and he sounded like a very smart man when it came to designing one of the worlds biggest 2WD tractors that proved to out pull 4WD's of the time many times during tests. I liked how he used straight pipe exhaust on the Cummins NTC 350 so that it could "crack" LOL. Pics "borrowed" from Google images.

Not a good pic, but we got one of hell of a crane working on one of the blast furnaces at the steel mill in our city. It's towering high above the furnace. It belongs to Sterling Crane. They have a yard right on the mill property.

They never caught on here on the Canadian side, but I used to see them all the time on the Michigan side.

Interesting. Thanks for that and the pic. Bet she handled that load like it wasn't even there.

I have a pic somewhere of a DM painted the same as this. Was in a Mack brochure I have.

Well there's something I have never seen, nor even heard of. Thanks for posting more interesting stuff kscarbel2

Very nice. Thanks for posting. All sweet machines.

OMG!!!! I want that dump truck!!!!

Fitting. And a good play on word's, LOL. I like that era of Cat loader too. I ran both a 988 like that and a 992.

Western Star is bad for that too. The cab filters are a pain in the ass to replace. You need to pull a plastic push pin (that usually breaks) then remove a torx head bolt to remove the dash panel. Then you need a 10 mm socket to remove a bolt that holds the cover on the filters. Then they you have to slide one in the slot, then try and lift it perfectly straight and hold it there so that you can slide the second one in. And the worst part is they are useless to begin with. I much preferred the aftermarket Cab Fresh filters I used on my Mack CH and International 5600i and 9900i. They filtered everything out and were easy to service.

More shameless self promotion, LOL. Don't have a Mack to post any more so this will have to do.

I like the stainless panels in the cab where your boots would rub.

Another of the ready mix trucks. A DMM, a DM and a Granite.

JoeH, I've been out of forestry for a few years now, so I can't remember about the chip trailers for volume, but my Titan 5 axle walking floor was 135 cubic yards. I once scaled in at the local flakeboard mill at 189597.55 pounds gross of hog fuel. Luckily I never got caught with that one, LOL. That load was with the 2000 Mack CH E7 460. Those are just culverts they are unloading Mack Tech.

Yes, wood chips. That style is called a possum belly. And the ones I pulled into Michigan needed 7 or 8 axles to legal the same weight, so they just have a well down the center of the trailer.

I pave with Air Liner and no issues. The local contractor I haul for has new Mack's and Star's with the PAX air ride and also no issues. Air ride will get you better traction in sand and won't wash board the dirt haul roads up. But mechanical suspensions are still superior when you have a lot of articulation. When I'm off road with my air ride, the suspension dump valve and the diff locks becomes your best friend. You get a knack for knowing when and how to deflate and inflate your suspension as you go to keep traction.

So there has been some DD talk and some MP10 talk here so thought I'd post this to hear what you all think. We all know Volvo pulled the plug on the 16 litre engines here. So yesterday I was at my dealer and salesman asked me if I was still impressed with my new DD13 505/1850. So again I told him it is way better than my previous DD15 505/1650. I said "I don't know why Detroit still makes the DD15, because they have derated it a few years back to max out at 1650 torque (it is now back up to 1750), but the DD13 is now way stronger and engine braking is just as good." I also told him I would have no issue in running this DD13 in a highway truck. So long story short, he said the DD15 is still the jewel at Detroit Diesel. They lowered the torque a few year back because they wanted you to buy the DD16. But he said sales volumes of the DD16 are very low and Detroit has been putting all their effort into the DD15 and DD13. He said he spoke to the Detroit rep and there was some mention that Detroit may also abandon the 16 L and bump the DD15 ratings back up to where they used to be.

Just a few locals I saw today.

There seems to be many versions of this story, but I have read many articles back in the day in a few trucking trade magazines that John Deere had a part in the development of the 60 Series. And this discussion on the ATHS web site. G.M. was concerned about Detroit Diesel's loss of market share in the early 80's. The 2 cycle's day had pretty much passed for highway truck service. Deere was making noises about entering the truck diesel field. So, Detroit and Deere cooperated on a new 4 cycle diesel, the 60 Series. The 60 was going to be manufactured and sold for truck use by Detroit Diesel, and for construction/agriculture/industrial use by Deere. Supposedly, early 60's had Deere casting numbers on them. G.M. starts testing the 60 in '84, and in '86 offered the 60 in GMC Generals and Brigadiers. At this point, though the 60 Series was showing a lot of promise, GM wanted to sell Detroit Diesel. The plan supposedly was the Detroit was going to be merged with Deere, and Deere was also going to supply existing Deere diesels for GM medium duty trucks. I believe a few were built with Deere diesels in the late 80's (I saw parts listed for Deere powered mediums in GM parts calatlogs at the time). Also, the new 1990 Topkick and Kodiak trucks were designed to take Deere engines. Something happened. Maybe because GM decided to merge their class 8 truck line with Volvo-White, maybe because they got a great offer from Penske, who knows. But, Detroit went to Penske, the 1990 Topkick and Kodiak went with Caterpillar (and they got their own exclusive diesel, the 3116), and the class 8's went to Volvo.

John Deere played a big part in the design of the Series 60.

Why would you replace a Mack V8 with a Detroit though?????

I LOVE THAT TRUCK!!!

I used to go see Tyrone's shows all the time when he came up to Canada. I have all kinds of pics and videos somewhere. Those V12 Detroit race trucks sure sounded wild! Tyrone was very nice to talk to. But some of his people were a little odd, LOL.