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                      Thank you 41, I was thinking there had to be a major problem somewhere. A company doesn't go from A- rated to crap overnight. It takes years of bad management.

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All most two months ago now, I ordered a 30,000 lb Warn XL-LP winch through Summit. I paid for it. The part was coming from the manufacture drop shipped with a date of 5-21 then it was changed to 5-22.

So when I saw there was no e-mail that it had been shipped I called Summit. Summit called Warn while I was on hold, they came back and told me Warn was shipping it on 5-23. I'm only 250 miles from 

Warn manufacturing in the Portland, Or area-nothing showed up today.

I called Summit they called Warn again and were told they were waiting on a main drive shaft for that winch which they would receive on 6-1. They lied plus they didn't even parts on hand to build it to 

begin with. Which also means if it breaks they have no parts to repair it. That is Bogus business practice at best. Summit was going to have Warn call me right away-never happened. Someone should have

called to let me know of the situation-Summit or Warn

Summit is refunding my credit card company then they will send me a check for 5,000. But if Summit had any balls from the top floor they would halt business with Warn. Warn lied to Summit and 

Warn lied to me on a product I had paid for in full.  Now I start over after two months.

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4 hours ago, Outbehindthebarn said:

What is a straw processing plant? And why would they need a boiler?

                                       Because there are thousands and thousands of acres of dry land wheat around here there is tons of straw. The plant actually will make pulp out of the straw for building materials

                                       and card board. The boiler is gas fired, there is a main line running right by there and they have rail for shipping and the Snake River for barges.

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Actually that's a Bull Snake people confuse them with buzz tails all the time. It was 24" and just looking for a place to hide.

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17 minutes ago, HeavyGunner said:

We’re the ibeams used to help spread the weight over that bridge so it didn’t collapse

                         That was the last bridge to cross and it was the oldest so the county had them span it.

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                           That load will be passing on the highway a 1/4 mile from my shop. I get to the shop every morning at 6:00 except Saturday and Sunday those days are 5:15. So I will be waiting coffee in hand.

                           Seven years ago company called Biggge  out of Tacoma, Wa came here and moved two transformers for wind mill projects, those loads grossed 480 ton each.

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                                           The slogan on the back of an old GMC septic pumper in my home town said { Your $hit is my bread and butter}. His stand by truck slogan was {Nobody has enough money to stop their's from stinking}

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https://portland.craigslist.org/clc/hvo/d/1952-seagrave-fire-engine/6589058416.html

https://portland.craigslist.org/clc/hvo/d/1942-seagrave-fire-truck/6589054764.html

                                 So sorry, good day's will return and all those wonderful memories.

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                                            H62-I see the two main job foreman were keeping an eye on the situation😊.

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                               That truck is not brokered. No rust, I guess someone could spend a ton of time and money fixing their cab that's rotted out or buy this for a lot less than a restore.

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https://portland.craigslist.org/clc/hvo/d/mack-water-truck-5118/6586564206.html

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                         That would have been a great by today's standards business class/ farm truck. Wish my dad had bought one of those for our dairy when I was a kid😊

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6 hours ago, HeavyGunner said:

What kind of mileage are you guys getting with the DD 15's? We average about 4-4.5mpg summer and 3.7-4mpg in the winter. Was never really that impressed with the mileage considering the old 3406E that I used to drive got closer to 6mpg and that was lots of pulling across the freeway in Wyoming where I could do 75 mph. 

Our DD15's with 13spd run around 5.8 with a DT12 automatic 6.7, the Series 60 averaged 4.8 to 5.2 depending on driver.

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                              This is where that Series 60 at the start of this thread landed. Through the last 6 years we've bought 29 gliders this the last one the company will buy. The other half of the fleet

                               are DD15's and 16's. From here on no more pre-emission engines, those old engines just don't get the mileage. She has a total of 40 miles from test drive.

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4 minutes ago, Rob said:

Yes, I've seen it advertised several times too. I'm always on the hunt for Western RL series trucks.

When I said I looked at it-I raised the hood and looked at it. If your looking for RL's I run into those all the time if I see something worth while i will let you know.

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                                          The east must be running dry of Macks.------------I looked at that one last fall shes pretty tired and used.

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                                   These rigs are owned by a logger named Bob Jacks in Jacksonville Ore. just west of Medford.

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5 hours ago, 41chevy said:

Same yard as the B model service truck?

                      No that KW is in San Luis Obispo, 

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