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Hurst scrambler,you were "leading" the four wheeler too close, and you should have padded the pintle,shame on you! I believe x10 is a grade of steel truck shop uses for frame work.

Great looking "binder" Love the long nose and their Hendrickson "brother" is there a side road you can practice on? You're empty,I'm guessing less than 20000,Put the aux. In its lowest gear,and see if you can run the main without splitting gears,see where it's governed at before you start out.Shift just below that so it doesn't lock up.It will be easier to use the clutch til you get used to it later.It should drop in around 1500,each double clutch of course.That tranny should be worn in enough to shift easily.When you hit 5th ,run thru the aux to over just like a 4 speed, downshift the same way, watch your temp gauge! I'd check the grease level in the tranny and differential before you leave,good luck!

 U1st a few comments then a few questions! Even if they(whoever they are) perfect bio fuel,or biodiesel, which I'm pretty sure they have,statistically it would take every inch of arable land in America to grow enough product to fuel all the vehicles in America.consequently the land used for fuel competes with the land used for food! Part of the answer lies in using the waste products from agriculture to produce biofuel. Corn,soybeans,and sugar cane, are three crops that make good biofuel (the actual crop,not it's byproducts)Perhaps if we eat less refined sugar we could use the excess sugar grown for biofuel lol I'm not a tree hugger or a knee jerk liberal,but you'd have to be a drooling cretin to not see how were f.....g up the earth! Ok now to the military multi fuel trucks.We're they basically a diesel that could run on most petroleum based fuels?,such as kerosene,jet fuel filtered cooking oil etc?I've seen them when I was in the army,but never worked on one.Do they automatically  compensate for the octane of the fuel?.is there an adjustment on the injector pump for each grade of fuel? Maybe one of you worked in the motor pool. There was a teenager who converted an old Mercedes diesel sedan to run on used cooking oil,drove coast to coast on free used cooking oil. One of the problems as someone mentioned is the fat clogs up the system and freezes in winter.Just like the wax that gives #2diesel it's power in winter.Another problem is used cooking oil isn't free anymore.McDonald's claims to be using recycled cooking oil to power part of it's truck fleet.I see this as a big b.s. political move to promote sales,I don't trust corporate America or the bought and sold legislators that run America,but I trust you guys(and gals,sorry teamster grrrrl) gimme some input on this subject!

Lotta cool.trucks! My favorite is the 36 Cabover You can see where they took a conv. Cab and raised it up filled the firewall and put the standard grille below it,like those 50's cornbinders,giving me an Idea!

I represent that remark, and I'll bet Hat City does too!! Lol But I'll admit they have 6 toed cats in Key West and a few other "unusual" species as well!Never been as far south as Key West, but I did deliver the 1st plastic underground gas station tank in Key Largo.

Welcome Arnold you'll like it here!

Nice "stick hauler" scarecrow, that photo is an optical illusion, At 1st I thought  it was a single axle pulling a short three axle trailer.After closer scrutiny I realize It's a full screw straight truck with a steerable tag in front and one in the back! Heard a rumor that back in the day when the coal haulers in Wva and Ky were running mostly 2 stick Spicers and Mack quads when dad was teaching his kid to drive he'd sit in the co drivers seat with his tire thumper and every time the kid went for the clutch he'd smack him in the knee with it! Lol I've delivered new Ford's to almost every dealer in Wva and quite a few in  Ky I have the greatest respect for you coal haulers and stick haulers in those hills!

Sweet mh Paul I consider them one of the finest cabovers ever built.Do they sell Black Magic detailing products in Australia?They make a wheel cleaner that would make short work of cleaning bugs n stuff off your kangaroo guard.Probably wouldn't work on kangaroos!lol

Outstanding bulldog Des,thanks for posting!

And you will still be learning on the day you either do something else or retire! Sadly for you folks  you just hit upon my favorite subject!! I started hauling cars on a 6car(including the headlamp) single axle tractor,40 ft single axle trailer Ford gas job! My last rig was a Cottrell stinger steered 12car truck and trailer like yours only not as deluxe.Was Leaseway Motorcar out of Dundalk Md.Also owned Nu Car ,Arco,and Anchor Motor Freight. My 1st 12 car load took me 6 hrs to load!! One of my favorite stories involves  an o/o in the late 70's.Back when you were allowed to drop s.t.I. After hrs,he gets to the dealer in the middle of the night with 7 datsons.The gates are locked and he has a good load in the morning! Hmm. What would you do? Had a 7000 gmc with a low headlamp.He pulls up against the cyclone fence,drags his long skids,from the back throws them over the fence climbs up the headlamp,and drops into the dealers lot! Pins his skids climbs up onto the trailer and unloads the top which he had already untied. Throws one skid over the fence climbs up the other,throws it down.Drags the skids to the rear of the trailer,unloads the bottom,loads the top,repeats the deal with the skids,stows them back on the trailer, and leaves! Bet that dealer was scratching his head in the morning he told me.lol those datsons had a very short overhang you wouldn't get away  with that on most cars today. Next time folks...The missing bridge on rt 36 in pa,with no warning signs,and how do you straighten the quarter panel on a Datson you bent from tying it down too tight ! Obviously that's headramp not headlamp freaking spelchek!

That DR is a baaad motor skooter !!!

 Thank you underdog! I have seen them many times on the road,didn't know whet they were called.Overdrive showed a sequence of photos showing the whole process.....amazing! Reginald Denny the driver who was beaten In the LA riots was driving one,4200 Transtar.Just watched the tape on my granddaughters kindle!  Even more amazing a black trucker saw it on tv,went to the scene,And risked his life by driving Denny to the hospital in Danny's rig!

I heard there is an annual contest out west between dump truckers,especially the type where the 2nd  bucket  fits into the 1st after its empty (only 1 hoist) the ones with the really long tongue between the truck and trailer.It was in Overdrive yrs ago.Does it still exist? May have been in the Antelope Valley.

Knew the loggers used water cooled brakes, but thought they were custom made retrofit. What year is that Hayes and approximately what would it cost?Really cool piece of equipment!!

Looks like you got it home,I didn't vue the earlier pictures!

Great looking "binder" Love the long nose and their Hendrickson "brother" is there a side road you can practice on? You're empty,I'm guessing less than 20000,Put the aux. In its lowest gear,and see if you can run the main without splitting gears,see where it's governed at before you start out.Shift just below that so it doesn't lock up.It will be easier to use the clutch til you get used to it later.It should drop in around 1500,each double clutch of course.That tranny should be worn in enough to shift easily.When you hit 5th ,run thru the aux to over just like a 4 speed, downshift the same way, watch your temp gauge! I'd check the grease level in the tranny and differential before you leave,good luck!

Truck shop,what process do you use to weld hvy truck frames? I ran a mobile welding truck in the 70s and80s only had stick and propane and acetylene for cutting. I believe the bigger shops are using mig for steel and tig  for aluminum.My main customers were excavators and refuse contractors.I use mig for sheet metal and stick for 1/8 and above in my home shop.Also do you run in California? I was googling something else and read a post that California's new emissions laws are going to put 60 percent of small trucking companies out of business!! Not to mention the new laws coming nation wide! I can picture a backdoor support of  this b.s. by the NTA, wink wink,to get rid of the big companies competition! It will get curiouser,and curiouser,I predict! The EPA is already after NASCAR and NHRA. It will be the hobby trucks next! We should maybe join SEMA like my fellow street Rodders!

Truck shop,what process do you use to weld hvy truck frames? I ran a mobile welding truck in the 70s and80s only had stick and propane and acetylene for cutting. I believe the bigger shops are using mig for steel and tig  for aluminum.My main customers were excavators and refuse contractors.I use mig for sheet metal and stick for 1/8 and above in my home shop.Also do you run in California? I was googling something else and read a post that California's new emissions laws are going to put 60 percent of small trucking companies out of business!! Not to mention the new laws coming nation wide! I can picture a backdoor support of  this b.s. by the NTA, wink wink,to get rid of the big companies competition! It will get curiouser,and curiouser,I predict! The EPA is already after NASCAR and NHRA. It will be the hobby trucks next! We should maybe join SEMA like my fellow street Rodders!

First off,the guys are right,the loggers did water cool their brakes!! There are no Cat Scales in the forests of the Pacific Northwest.pretty difficult to guess the weight of those bark covered logs especially if they get wet! U can be sure they're not grossing 80000 !Out behind the bar,I remembered the name of the place out your way I used to sell wrecked cars to,was Leetsdale Auto wrecking.

Teamster grrrrl,I've never seen the Navistar version,but since most of the cereal companies are based in the Midwest,Navistar may have "farmed out" their conversion to the same fabricator that did the Stoops conversion.You wouldn't think there would be enough call for those trucks to warrant retooling one of their own plants.

The second I saw that drop frame mack I thought of the Stoops trucks.Stoops owned,and probably still does a Freightliner and also a Ford truck dealership in Kansas city.I don't know which one.They also had a trucking Company.They were running those Ford(9000 series I think) air ride cab,Cabover.The ones that on a curve looked like they were gonna turn over!! They pulled 53ft high cube flat floor Vans.They hauled empty containers.I forget for who.They had standard full screws,theMack has a Canadian spread.The Stoops drop frame and rear driveline unbolted from the cab and front frame. It appears the Mack frame is welded.I was driving an Mh like the one pictured,only a single axle. With a 50 ft drop deck "big shot" when Stoops express was  in business. I thought what a great hotshot Cabover those would make if you pulled the front drive and made it a single axle.Think what you could load on a53ft flat floor with a 10 ft spread! There was an article in one of the trucking publications about them.They were running double od.trannys,10spds I think.Great pics!

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Farmer 52, if you're from Canton you know where Louisville Oh. Is. I was delivering a load of new Ford's at the dealer there in 74, and a young Amishman kept driving by in his buggy.After I got about 3 units off I realized he was checking out the shiny new Ford's !! Didn't have any flat black ones however! Lol

Just thought of this could that UPS 4by4 be for use in Alaska? Do they run there? I've never been there.

If he had the skill to move that house ,he would have no problem building his own ferry from logs and empty 55 gallon drums. Then he could pull an outside dual and attach a pulley and leather belt from one of those old textile mills and add a brass screw from an old lobster boat !! Nuthin' to it!