Joseph Cummings

Yeah I guess those restrictions are kind of hard to live with in 2024. You know they were hauling clean dirt from excavation jobs in NNJ all the way here and dumping it in an old strippinng hole. They told me it was cheaper to haul it here than to follow all the regs to dump it in Jersey. And I'm talking massive amounts. Sometimes trucks lined up 1/4 mile up the street and running 24/7. Paying 25 a ton to dump

I don't like them. They look like something a Democrat or some kind of other Socialist/Marxist would drive

I'd like to see what the guy looks like that paid 41K for a 1970 359 with frame cracks from rust jacking and a small cam cummins Even the 4 way aux is only rated for about 8000 ft lbs input

Doesn't a "Constructor" Code 41 registration get you around that?

What The Truck!.html2What The Truck!.htmlWell The blue one belonged to his half brother "Gus". We grew up in the same neighborhood and went to school together. I remember when he got it like 40 years ago all in primer. When we were like 16 he got a DM800 dump and quit school to run it doing subway construction in Philadelphia. He was operating the salt pier up in Fairless Hills Pa next to the steel mill. Whole operation, unloading the ships and all. Right after new year 2014 he was running a loader and the salt pile collapsed on him. I believe he died from suffocation. RIP Gussie Here are some of his other toys http://www.guspropper.com/whatthetruck/index.html What The Truck!.html 2What The Truck!.html

You know he has Gus Policino. B81 don't you? It's red now

After watching the news I now understand. The guy in this picture wearing a funny hat. was a far right, white supremacist, Islamophobe, xenophobe, cis male, homophobic and transphobic. So he ran his car into a crowd of Christians celebrating the birth of Jesus, because he hated Muslims so badly. Now it all makes perfect sense

You are forgetting about all the fluids spilled, and holes dug to bury anything they needed to get rid of. Going back 30 plus years ago everybody operated like slobs. I can think of a few guys cutting up utility transformers to get the copper and just letting the oil run on the ground. Lead acid batteries got broken, mercury switches got smashed, all kinds of shit went on the ground without a thought

Mike Nugent used to have a lot of heavy spec B model stuff in trailers from Gus Sr. I kind of remember seeing some of that stuff at A&A truck parts in Jersey. Maybe Deerfield down in South Jersey. Have you talked to Tony Desandro at Ace auto parts in Bensalem, he might know somebody. Let me know if you can't find it. I know some places up here that were still running stuff like that in the mines not too long ago

All too far away for me to even think about. The only thing I'd even be interested in would have been the LT. But not for that price. I'm really more into the heavy spec L cabs

Pictures look nice, I'd definitely look underneath it before I bid though. Sometimes the structure and suspension are nightmares

And that Wrecker. I know where there is a late 70's 359, 400 cummins, 750 Holmes with a Kemp conversion. Running driving truck, the guy is using it. Only thing I saw is it needs some suspension bushings. And I could have it for less than 20K. A 750 with a Kemp conversion is still a serious recovery truck, they were tough as nails

IU think this guy was hitting the crack pipe or doing acid. Not even any desirable components. 335 small cam WTF?

What a load of crap, the media tries to spin everything. I guess all those Germans rammed his car with their bodies and then died

Starting at the lower right and ending with the upper left (I know its kinda Chinese or something) is how a power transmission shaft tries to distort as you hit each critical speed. Think of an out of balance tire. You hit a speed and it's bouncing, speed up and it smoothes out, then you hit another bouncy speed and so on

When I was in school we didn't have "driveshaft calculators". We had to do the math with a pencil and paper and a slide rule. I had to walk there in torrential rain wearing a yellow rubber rainsuit and galoshes. Uphill both ways

Yeah I remember going over that in school. Thinking they were called "nodes". When you hit the first one it tries to turn the shaft into a banana, and the next one tries to turn it into a sine wave shape. Somewhere here I still have a big textbook about power transmission shafting

0.74 ish has been common ever since I can remember. A TRQ7220 was 0.66, a 2050 was 0,60. I think that "High Hole 2 stick based on a TRL107 was like 0.66, and the RTOO9513 in that A Car with the 2 speed Eatons was like 0.62. I'm a firm believer in low axle ratios, but then again I've always been a more or less local guy. i never had any desire to run OTR where a little bit of fuel milage can put you in the red. As my grandmother used to say "I'd rather pick shit with the chickens"

Or lots of overdrive in the trans. Gear it in the 9's and put a Spicer 1241 in it backwards, then you can run that motor as slow as you want lol

I just like to have the torque multiplication as close to the work as possible. Ideally like planetaries, but they can get kind of heavy

I borrowed a 4 axle tractor to do moves a couple of times that had a 460 in it. I wasn't very impressed. I think my juiced up Big Cam IV would give it a good run. It was a nice enough truck, but it wasn't what I expected out of something that was a 460

I bought a big Vac truck off of Occidental chemical one time that was like 15 years old with 5000 miles on it. Never even titled, but a ton of hours on it running the pump. I don't think that is all that unusual in this application

Yeah, these were all 13 double overs with two speed rears. Easier on the driveline, and easier on the frame and engine/transmission mounts. None of that driver's side steering tire coming off the ground on a hard pull.

eah I saw that late last night and thought Oh God. Lots more info needed. Not to mention, that 18 speed Eaton better be cheap or free