Joseph Cummings

The 1241 Spicer is about my favorite part of the truck lol. Just curious, do you know any Evans, Yeagers or Rouchys from Mountaintop? Evans moved to Philly and opened a truck salvage. Yeager went to Morrisville and Hauled steel out of the Fairless Works, and Kenny Rouchey (SP) dealt in truck junk around Haz W-B area for years. They were all related. There was another one Poor George (George Smith) he was another relative that moved to Morrisville to haul Steel

Lots of times with industrial stuff there are no parts, None at all. Not in a salvage yard, not one to rob off of something in your yard, none anywhere. I had a sewage plant clarifier drive up in Maine that was a worm drive from like 1927. They ran it until teeth broke off and it jammed. I tried places that made gears for me before and they were giving me lead times of months, We were running a hot bypass on the clarifier, but that involves a lot of portable pumps, manual scum skimming, and lots of other work. What are you going to do, tell people to stop sh8tting so much? I just did what I had to do, I brought the gears back to our shop in Trenton, we had a really good Jamaican welder, and a really good Romanian machinist, and we got our heads together and welded it al back up and the Romanian "machined" the gear teeth with a grinder by hand with templates he made. Not saying it was as good as new parts, but the town could sh8t again. It lasted until we could get a retrofit drive manufactured and install it and that took at least a year. That is just one of many times I've had stuff like that dropped in my lap. Running away isn't an option. Blaming it on your supplier doesn't get the equipment up and running

This truck used to belong to my friend Jimmy, (J&J transport) he used it to haul large transformers. He had an O/O working for him that had one in a 77 W900 KW. They were both pretty impressive trucks. Big twin countershaft Spicer 4 speed aux trans in them too. And they were all mechanical injection, so easy to turn up a bit.

LMAO Bet it wouldn't stay pretty long. You should have seen Franklin Smelting / MDC Industries in Philly. Copper refining and sold the slag for abrasives. Dust everywhere that was not only abrasive, but electrically conductive. They had a big A Car dump in there with SUDD rears and I put 2 cabs on it in 3 months. Electrical fire burned the first one off of it, and like 2 months later I pull up to my shop and it's sitting on the street with the cab burned off it again. "Hey can you get another Cab? We parked it too close to the smelter" I put at least 2 motors in that truck too. The conductive dust would build up on top of the batteries, and drain them overnight. So they used lots of ether. And they always punched holes in the air cleaner duct to spray ether in. The did that to all their equipment. Made Shaft look like NASA

And when your equipment is down because you can't get the part? It's on back order, and maybe in 6 weeks. That's 42 days of not mining coal, or not harvesting wheat, or not delivering widgets. Not only does that downtime get expensive, but sometimes while you are jerking your bird to the shrine of "doing it right" your customers call somebody else. That is the problem with the new breed. They think working in industry is like working on Mrs. Smith's Toyota. Like it's perfectly acceptable to push it out the door and let it sit on the lot for 2 months waiting on parts. She can just ride with a friend or take an Uber

Well I'm high but still under reserve

I was actually thinking the 2412 would have to go. I'd take it out and sell it to someone that needed it for a big articulated loader, or a crusher something like that. Then put something more realistic in it like a 3408 or a KT Cummins in it. But I don't think it's going to go for the kinda numbers I'd want to pay. I'll bet the reserve is over 50

Not really. This one was built by Mining Machinery at their own shop after Mack and Carter Cat refused to do it

Damn somebody outbid me. LOL Think I should go for 20K?

I love these guys. Especially the way they upset all the tech school brainiacs that need 7 micrometers and 2 torque wrenches to replace a rocker cover gasket and it leaks worse when they are done. This is the problem with the new breed of mechanics, they just don't understand this simple statement,,, "That machine has to run tomorrow or we are royally Fu&%^ed". It's like they are more concerned about what they learned reading Big Rigger Magazine, and what the guys at the chrome shop told them. They are "going to do it the RIGHT way" because downtime isn't important Damn Millennials with their soft hands and their avocado toast and girl coffee 😠

LOL

How come no one is H1B this guy and his apprentice? https://youtu.be/D-NpIif-xlc?si=ELURE5Anq6QMqPQg

And another one,, WTF

Sitting here listening to Saga eating popcorn. She sings like a Beautiful Arian Angel. I spent damn near 50 years living and working in the Phila area. It's horrible there now. Look at Kensington for Gods sake. I remember when Kensington was a White working class neighborhood full of Irish and Poles.

Seems like those dual ignition fire truck heads were significantly different on the 707. Even different sides for intake and water manifolds Third picture is regular truck engine with updraft carb and single ignition

I had a mag failure on a Cherokee 180 flying home from Cape May NJ one time. The thing felt gutless. I might have been around 4000 max, and it felt like I was at 10,000 feet. Got on the ground and did a mag check and one was dead. I can't remember if it was left or right, but it was the one without the impulse mechanism, because I got it restarted and taxied over to the hanger

C train the dolly hooks up with 2 pintile hooks, so it can only articulate up and down, not side to side

I've never seen a C train of any type except in pictures, Here in Pa I only ever see A Trains

I was thinking at some speed, the wind buffeting, the speed of the tires rotating, and the frequency because of the short length of the converter dolly, and a few other things would be timed just right and,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Poor Joe is dead, if only we had loaded the gaylord full of rubber dicks in front of the pallet of Kotex pads. I'm sure it wouldn't have gotten all crazy unstable like it did

I wonder what doubles would be like at triple digit speeds lol

I was getting vertigo

I remember seeing it somewhere for sale back around 2000. It might have been TNT. I was thinking it was Pittsburgh Power, but I could be wrong

Gypsy asphalt paver special. Knocks on some old ladies door and says he ordered too much blacktop and bla bla bla "great deal" bla bla bla

Like one of those guys who puts a dump body on a freight tractor with air suspension and doubles the frame kinda half azzed up until doing that gets difficult so he stops somewhere around the back of the cab. Then tries to tell me it's done right